Friday, October 25, 2019
Various locations, MoldA brass band, choir and cast of more than 100 gathered for a heartfelt re-enactment of a dark day that left four people dead
Performed in the town’s streets and squa…
Linked From The Guardian at 11:06AMThursday, October 24, 2019
Sherman theatre, CardiffComplex women are imprisoned in a world of male buffoons in this rich and remarkably modern staging of the seminal drama – but only Hedda can escape
Having recently…
Linked From The Guardian at 08:12PMMonday, October 21, 2019
Various venues, BirminghamAided by hula hoops, raw chicken and animatronic dogs, the performers in this six-day series of shows embarked on a quest for emotional connections
Communion, empat…
Linked From The Guardian at 07:42AMWednesday, September 25, 2019
Sherman, CardiffEd Thomas’s lyrical new play situates its characters in a post-cataclysmic, Beckettian nowhere in which words are all they have left
Bear Ridge Stores, a family-run butcher…
Linked From The Guardian at 07:12AMFriday, September 13, 2019
Schaubühne, BerlinVirginia Woolf’s promiscuous poet flits between the past and the present in this rousing and spectacularly elaborate show
The titular character in Virginia Woolf’s 192…
Linked From The Guardian at 08:03AMWednesday, June 12, 2019
Chapter, CardiffChris Carnell fuses his own story with that of the classic thriller to create a lyrical study of grief and family
On a hot August day in 1968, while watching a televised broa…
Linked From The Guardian at 07:42AMWednesday, May 15, 2019
Sherman theatre, CardiffKatherine Chandler’s potent new play about hedonism, violence and toxic bantz confounds expectations at every turn
Yaz doesn’t want to work in a nail bar for the …
Linked From The Guardian at 08:03AMThursday, April 25, 2019
Birmingham RepEvan Placey transforms the lead characters into women in a provocative version embraced by a brilliant young cast
Calling Birmingham Rep’s production of Jekyll & Hyde “…
Linked From The Guardian at 09:30AMWednesday, April 17, 2019
Birmingham RepEllam’s poem about a basketball-star demi-god and his goddess-mother fighting celestial beings gets a stunning out on the stage
The Half God of Rainfall tells the story of De…
Linked From The Guardian at 10:49AMWednesday, March 27, 2019
Theatr Clwyd, MoldDavid Judge fuses poetry and exquisite theatricality into a lovingly delivered personal monologue
David Judge is the writer and performer of this autobiographical monologue…
Linked From The Guardian at 04:00PMFriday, March 15, 2019
Theatr Brycheiniog, BreconKaite O’Reilly’s play challenges societal expectations of deaf and disabled women and tick-box exercises in inclusivity
Alfa, Beaty and Coral are three deaf and…
Linked From The Guardian at 07:53AMWednesday, March 6, 2019
Sherman theatre, CardiffJo Clifford’s inventive and playful production gives the characters new conflicts, complexities and genders
Notwithstanding its running gags at the expense of acade…
Linked From The Guardian at 11:00AMFriday, February 8, 2019
Chapter, CardiffA damaged Carmarthen family are shaken by a newcomer in this smart and superbly acted riff on the American classicIf Amanda Wingfield and her children had lived on the coast …
Linked From The Guardian at 08:06AMWednesday, January 9, 2019
Birmingham RepAndy Smith and Amund Sjølie Sveen imagine a future of radical equality and freedom in a performance that comes with its own manifestoBilled as a “performed conversation”, …
Linked From The Guardian at 06:32AMTuesday, December 18, 2018
Birmingham RepThis thrilling Oz of racial diversity, gender reversal and voguing androgyny is more current – and vibrant – than the MGM musicalEncountering the Birmingham Rep’s playful…
Linked From The Guardian at 07:32AMThursday, November 29, 2018
Chapter Arts Centre, CardiffGood Cop Bad Cop present a wry, playful and genre-defying show based around the work of an early film director Phantom Rides Again! is the first in what promises …
Linked From The Guardian at 09:12AMMonday, October 22, 2018
Theatr Clwyd, MoldTwo friends raised in care meet after many years in a complex drama featuring some deeply committed performancesTowards the climax of Katherine Chandler’s Thick As Thieve…
Linked From The Guardian at 10:06AMMonday, October 15, 2018
Sherman theatre, CardiffA couple stranded in an unsettling rural landscape are haunted by the past in Meic Povey’s richly poetic drama Defi (Wyn Bowen Harries) and Mair (Morfudd Hughes) ar…
Linked From The Guardian at 03:18PMTuesday, September 25, 2018
An open letter signed by 40 Welsh playwrights criticising NTW doesn’t take into account audiences’ responses to the company’s recent showsLast week, Wales Arts Review published an open…
Linked From The Guardian at 05:24AM 
