⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️⭐️ Sir Anthony Hopkins was the latest of many Oscar winners with a Welsh connection, one in particular is often overlooked. The greatest film ever made is considered to be Citizen Kane, but it lost out on Best Picture in 1941 to a story about a family of Welsh coal miners. How Green … Continue reading Review How Green Was My Valley By Kevin Johnson
In the article below members of the Get the Chance team share why the work of Get the Chance is important to them and their lives. You can make a donation to support the work of Get the Chance here Guy O’Donnell, Volunteer Director Hi my name is Guy O’Donnell and I am the director … Continue reading “Get the Chance has not only given me a voice – it has given me the space, the opportunity and the confidence to use it.”
Ripples can be viewed online for two weeks, please note this review contains information about this production. Is it ever possible to overcome addiction? Ripples, a Sherman Theatre/RWCMD/National Theatre of Wales production is a story of 8 people who say they have succumbed to addiction as they journey through twelve weeks of group therapy. Owing … Continue reading Review Ripples – Sherman Theatre/RWCMD/National Theatre Wales, by Richard Evans
Ripples can be viewed online for two weeks, please note this review contains information about this production. National Theatre Wales and Sherman Theatre’s premiere of ‘Ripples’ by Tracy Harris was streamed live on Saturday night (May 2nd, 2020). This was the first NTW Network reading (the new digital programme) and was adapted and re-imagined for a virtual … Continue reading Review Ripples, Sherman Theatre/RWCMD/National Theatre Wales By Lowri Cynan
Here at Get the Chance, with opportunities to respond to live cultural events curtailed by the current crisis, it presents an opportunity to showcase talent instead. As country music is one of my greatest loves, here’s my shout-out to five Welsh artists who are worth checking out… Rosey Cale To many, Rosey may be more … Continue reading My Top 5 Showcase: Welsh Country Music Artists
Terry Gilliam’s three-decade-long struggle to bring Miguel Cervantes’ seventeenth-century novel Don Quixote to the big screen is an epic saga worthy of its knightly hero. Everything short of divine intervention seems to have scuppered the Monty Python alum’s numerous attempts, including lost financing, flash floods, legal disputes and personal injuries. The film took so long … Continue reading REVIEW The Man Who Killed Don Quixote (2018) by Barbara Hughes-Moore
After the fairytale grotesque of Series 1, writer Carys Lewis has done a far better job than her predecessors Mark Andrew and Ed Talfan, with this second slice of Snowdonian Scandi-Noir. The cinematography and direction, which was accomplished and stylish in the first outing, is now established, highly honed, consistent and heavy with painterly symbolism.The … Continue reading Review: Hidden (Craith) Series 2 BBC 1 Wales By Vic Mills
Behind ‘Rush’ lies a simple theme. This is my story. This is where I come from, this is why I came here. This is what life is like for me here. Here is my story told through the universal medium of music. We all have a story like this, and to a degree every story … Continue reading Review Rush,Theatr Clwyd By Richard Evans
Hi Andy great to meet you, can you give our readers some background information on yourself please? I’m a Welsh playwright currently living in Lincolnshire and studying an MA in Theatre at the University of Lincoln. I was born in Cardiff and raised in Penarth, where my love of drama and theatre was nurtured. I … Continue reading An interview with Playwright Andy Evans
Sian Thomas 1) getthechance.wales/2019/10/30/review-heartsong-by-tj-klune-by-sian-thomas/. I was so excited for this book to come out and it really delivered. It’s on one of my favourite series with an exceptional way of world building and atmosphere, and the way the characters act towards each other and their surroundings is incredible. It’s funny, loving, and full of action, and … Continue reading The Get the Chance 2019 Cultural Highlights
