In the article below a range of Welsh and Wales based creatives share with us a selection of cultural events they are looking forward to this year. Thanks to all of our contributors. Connor Allen, Writer and Actor. My cultural highlights for 2019 would have to include Betrayal at the Harold Pinter Theatre starring Tom Hiddleston and … Continue reading What to see in 2019!
Cheer by Kitty Hughes is a dystopian, anti-panto where Christmas is controlled by the elite and briefly experienced by the poor through the Christmas drug, ‘cheer’. We follow Jules (Alice Downing) on a journey of exploring her own morality. Jules sells illegal Christmas licenses, seeing herself as a Robin Hood figure, but operating more like Sports Direct, … Continue reading Review: Cheer at The Other Room by Gareth Ford-Elliott
The setting is a church hall for William Gaminara’s witty new comedy The Nightingales, on tour before coming in to the West End. Gaminara has taken the concept of a local acapella group at their weekly rehearsal in said church hall. Despite a few missed chords and the like the group, under the direction … Continue reading Review The Nightingales, New Theatre Cardiff by Barbara Michaels
The Mash Report – live audience Review by Judi Hughes I was fortunate to be allocated tickets to be part of the live audience at the Mash Report recording of Series 3, Episode 3. The ticket offer came as a bit of a surprise as I had applied to be part of a number of … Continue reading Review The Mash Report by Judi Hughes
The multi award-winning Mischief Theatre company, of The Play that Goes Wrong fame, returns to Cardiff with their new Olivier Award-nominated show: The Comedy About a Bank Robbery. Branded as Ocean’s Eleven meets the Marx Brothers, it follows the zany antics of a motley crew of would-be crooks as they attempt to steal a priceless diamond … Continue reading The Comedy About A Bank Robbery, New Theatre Cardiff by Barbara Hughes-Moore
Horror works best when the frightening moments are left in the blank spaces. We can have scream’s and see horrific sights but the elements that truly grip us are what we do not see or the things that go by unexplained and we are left to conjure the terrifying within our own minds. The Secret … Continue reading Review The Secret of Marrowbone by Jonathan Evans
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Last night I saw For All I Care, part of National Theatre Wales’ NHS70 Festival. Written by Alan Harris, it’s a one-woman show about Clara, a girl on the fringes of society, suffering from mental illness, and Nyri, a nurse struggling to keep her life, the NHS and Clara together. Yet again I was … Continue reading Review For All I Care, National Theatre Wales by Kevin Johnson
Mid-Wales Opera’s Eugene Onegin is a hugely commendable effort that provides quality singing to venues that are not usually associated with opera productions. Putting on opera is an expensive operation and that invariably results in high ticket prices to compensate for it. In order to make it financially viable, then productions are usually found … Continue reading Review Eugene Onegin at Theatr Brycheiniog by Roger Barrington
You know when you’ve been Tango’d* Of all the countless dance shows produced by Strictly pros over the years, Vincent Simone and Flavia Cacace’s are by far the finest I’ve seen (and I’ve seen quite a few). I even reviewed Natalie Lowe, Jay McGuinness and Louis Smith’s superb 50s spectacular Rip it Up for Get … Continue reading Review Tango Moderno, New Theatre by Barbara Hughes-Moore
Transformed into the Gatsby Mansion, the Dolphin Pub, Mold was an ideal setting for the immersive production ” The Great Gatsby.” I was fully prepared to take part ,down to my Mary Janes and headband. I knew, I would enjoy this type of performance but I wanted to get the perspective of someone … Continue reading Review The Great Gatsby : A Theatre Clwyd and Guild of Misrule co-production by Karis Clarke
