Available onlineShôn Dale-Jones’s autobiographical show tells the story of his lockdown through texts, WhatsApp group chats and Zoom calls with loved ones Like the denizens of Love Island…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:42AMTheatr Clwyd, MoldRhodri Meilir is brilliant as a beleaguered pizza topper inspired by the Finnish film-maker in Alan Harris’s black comedy Originally due to be staged in spring 2020, Alan…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:48AMSherman theatre, CardiffA pair of piercing performances give real depth to Lisa Parry’s smart two-hander about faith and community It is the end of the school week and precociously self-po…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:12PMSherman theatre, Cardiff Daf James follows up his sensational 2010 play Llwyth with a return to its characters a decade on Daf James’s Llwyth (Tribe), first staged in 2010, was a sensation…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:24AMSophie Stone stars in Kaite O’Reilly’s show which celebrates the forgotten women of the second world war with a powerful visual language Sophie Stone extends her right arm and lets her h…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:02PMBirmingham HippodromeSign language, speech and physical storytelling come together to interrogate history – and theatre itself Devised from 40 hours of interviews with members of the deaf …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:12PMVarious 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…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:06AMSherman 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…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:12PMVarious 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…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:42AMSherman, 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…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:12AMSchaubühne, 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…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:03AMChapter, 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…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:42AMSherman 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 …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:03AMBirmingham 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 “…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:30AMBirmingham 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…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:49AMTheatr 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…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:00PMTheatr 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…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:53AMSherman 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…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:00AMChapter, 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 …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:06AMBirmingham 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”, …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:32AMBirmingham 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…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:32AMChapter 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 …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:12AMTheatr 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…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:06AMSherman 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…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:18PMAn 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…
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