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 05:12AMWhile 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 07:43PMIliad 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 07:33PMThe 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 07:51AMNational 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 06:44AMAdrian 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 03:59AMEver 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 07:00PMLooking 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 06:22PMThere 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 07:44PMThiruvananthapuram, 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 02:42AMAs 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…
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