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Wednesday, September 20, 2017

We're Still Here, National Theatre Wales review - powerful protest and heartfelt theatre-making by Dylan Moore

Port Talbot steelworkers take a stand against the ravages of global capitalismPort Talbot (population 38,000) is a town on the south Wales coast famous for two things: steel and actors. The …

SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 05:12AM
Saturday, December 19, 2015

The Insatiable, Inflatable Candylion, National Theatre Wales by Dylan Moore

While Christmas is the season when traditional theatres trot out the tired clichés of panto, the ever-innovative National Theatre Wales have decided, in their wisdom, to stage a surreal, ps…

SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 07:43PM
Friday, September 25, 2015

Iliad: War Music, National Theatre Wales by Dylan Moore

Iliad is the third collaboration between National Theatre Wales and “the two Mikes”, directorial duo Pearson and Brookes. The pair have been responsible for two previous highlights of th…

SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 07:33PM
Wednesday, July 1, 2015

{150}, National Theatre Wales by Dylan Moore

The brackets around {150} are ambiguous, almost apologetic. The one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of Y Wladfa (The Colony), the semi-legendary ‘oasis of Welshness’ in the Patagonian w…

SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 07:51AM
Friday, August 10, 2012

Coriolan/us, National Theatre Wales/RSC by Dylan Moore

National Theatre Wales like the word “us”. It was there in Michael Sheen’s Passion of Port Talbot – its film adaptation was called The Gospel of Us – and it is here, prominently, i…

SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 06:44AM
Tuesday, July 31, 2012

In Water I'm Weightless, National Theatre Wales by Dylan Moore

Adrian Burley MP would probably call In Water I’m Weightless “leftie multicultural crap”. I’d like to bestow similar praise. In common with Danny Boyle’s Olympic opening ceremony, …

SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 03:59AM
Sunday, May 13, 2012

Little Dogs, National Theatre Wales/Frantic Assembly by Dylan Moore

Ever since the Polish photographer Maciej Dakowicz documented the debauchery of South Wales nightlife in a series called Cardiff at Night, there has been a kind of perverse glamour in images…

SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 07:00PM
Wednesday, April 18, 2012

The Radicalisation of Bradley Manning, NTW by Dylan Moore

Looking at CCTV footage of a school hall in Cardiff through Adobe Flash Player in the corner of a webpage and listening to the attendant interference, bells, buzzes and bleeps might not soun…

SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 06:22PM
Tuesday, February 28, 2012

Interview: Director Peter Gill by Dylan Moore

There is a simple explanation to why Cardiff-born Peter Gill has never directed in his home city, despite the fact that many of his own plays are set in the Catholic, working-class Cardiff o…

SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 07:44PM
Sunday, December 4, 2011

theartsdesk in Kerala: Making Hay in God's Own Country by Dylan Moore

Thiruvananthapuram, capital city of the state of Kerala in the far south-west of India, is as crowded with people as its name is with syllables. By mid-November, most of the monsoon rains ha…

SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 02:42AM
Sunday, October 23, 2011

The Village Social, National Theatre Wales by Dylan Moore

As autumn turns to winter and we enter “the dark half of the year”, National Theatre Wales opens its second season with a 16-show tour of village halls around the Principality. This is a…

SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 09:19PM

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