National Theatre Wales
National Theatre Wales announces its second seasonThursday, 26 May 2011
The inaugural year of National Theatre Wales included an immensely ambitious body of work which tested to the limit the definition of what a national theatre can and should be. In new venues and old, found spaces and open spaces, it staged several... Read more... |
The Passion of Port Talbot, NTW/WildWorksMonday, 25 April 2011
To begin at the end, this was an astonishing creation, a piece of street theatre of transcendental power which no one who was there at the death last night could or will ever forget. Those witnesses included what felt like the whole population of... Read more... |
In the Beginning Was the Word: The King James Bible 400thSunday, 17 April 2011
The King James Bible, that great monument in the biography of the English language, is 400 years old this year. To use its own wording, it is as old as the hills, as old as Methuselah. Contemporaneous with Shakespeare, it has given us as many of the... Read more... |
theartsdesk Q&A: Actor Michael SheenSaturday, 11 September 2010
Either it’s a bizarre accident. Or there’s something in the water. Port Talbot, the unlovely steel town in Wales where smoke stacks belch fumes into the cloudy coastal sky, has been sending its sons to work in Hollywood for decades now. Richard... Read more... |
theartsdesk in Cardiff: Birth of a National TheatreSunday, 08 November 2009
From seat 17 of Row 8, Block M35, Stair 14, Level 4, in a gathering of 75,000 spectators, almost all of them Welsh, it’s difficult to argue with the idea that Wales already has a national theatre. It’s called the Millennium Stadium (picture below).... Read more... |
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