Theatre in Wales

Theatre Supplement NWR 81

 

 

 

 

 

Theatre Supplement NWR 69 [3mb PDF file]

Yn y ty tato
In the potato shed
Site and Place in Eddie
Ladd's Unglucklicherweise
Roger Owen

A Complex Experiential Map:
22 Tormentil
Simon Whitehead
Dawns Dyfed
A Response to Time and Place
Margaret Ames

Theatre Supplement NWR 68 [2mb PDF file]

trace: Installaction Artspace
Debra Savage

Latino America
Aparna Sharma

Aparna Sharma reflects on her participation in a three-week workshop earlier this year run by Argentinean choreographer, Andrea Servera, at Chapter Arts Centre as part of their Latino America season.

'Circus with Heart': New Circus and NoFit State
Jeni Williams

Theatre Supplement NWR 67 [1.2Mb PDF file]

The Play's The Thing
Jeni Williams on English-language publishing and the theatre in Wales

Llanybydder Mart: Gary Owen

Out on the Margins: Lewis Davies
Parthian’s Publishing Director, Lewis Davies, reflects on the role of theatre publishing in contemporary Wales.

 

Theatre Supplement NWR 66 [1.2Mb PDF file]

Tomorrow ’s Stars
The National Youth Theatre of Wales - Kate Frost

What makes a monster?
The creation of frankensteins monster
Phil Mackenzie

Frankensteins
Sherman Youth Theatre
A review by Josh Green

‘My problem sometimes ’
Sera Moore Williams

Theatre Supplement NWR 65 [ 875kb PDF file]

Ghost City in New York
Simon Harris
Gary Owen has been widely acclaimed as one of the most exciting new playwrights to emerge in Wales in recent years. Earlier this year, Sgript Cymru took his latest production, Ghost City, to 59E59 in New York – a recently established theatre with a focus on the staging of new writing. New Welsh Review asked Sgript Cymru’s Artistic Director, Simon Harris, to keep a performance diary.

Corsica,Cardiff
Ed Thomas
Ed Thomas’s new play, Stone City Blue, opens at Theatr Clwyd this autumn. In this piece, he reflects on the process of writing his first play in six years, following the widespread success of his previous work, which includes House of America and Song From A Forgotten City.

Why can ’t it happen here?
Roger Williams
This spring, Roger Williams was invited to take his latest play, Lingua, to New Zealand. The reception that the play received there, in the context of a theatre scene interested primarily in new writing and a cultural variety of voices, prompted him to reflect on the situation in Wales.

Have I the write?
Sam Boardman-Jacobs
Radio Scriptwriting, edited by Sam Boardman-Jacobs, has just been published by Seren Books. In this autobiographical piece, he reflects upon the process of learning and teaching the art of scriptwriting. His extensive experience in the field includes his current post as Reader in Theatre and Media Drama at the University of Glamorgan.

Theatre Supplement NWR 64 [2.4 Mb PDF file]

Music theatre
A radical aesthetic rather than a form
Rian Evans

Scene-changing and scene-stealing
WNO’s new Eugene Onegin
Dewi Savage

Giving Voice, Taking Flight
Working with the International Voice in Wales 1980 – 2004
Antony Pickthall

Theatre Supplement NW 63 [2.2 Mb PDF file ]

Irreducible Diversity
Roger Owen

‘A massive challenge to re-build an audience that has become dormant’
Lisa Lewis interviews Lyn T. Jones

So what’s this National Theatre debate?
Amidst discussions about the value and scope of the newly established Welsh-language national theatre company, Theatr Genedlaethol Cymru, debates about the need for an English-language National Theatre for Wales have recently been rekindled. David Adams summarises the key issues involved and questions the value of a such a National Theatre.
David Adams