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Thursday, March 10, 2016

Cosy, National Theatre Wales by Gary Raymond

Kaite O’Reilly’s new play is a dark dark comedy, a Chekhovian family saga on a mainly bare stage that handles its subjects of aging, death and family with a rich and grounded intellectua…

SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 06:19PM

Tuesday, March 24, 2015

Man to Man, Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff by Gary Raymond

There can be few modern plays as testing for a female actor as Manfred Karge’s Man to Man. When Tilda Swinton took it on at the Royal Court in 1987 and brought to the many roles of this on…

SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 01:51AM

Tuesday, February 24, 2015

Crouch, Touch, Pause, Engage, National Theatre Wales by Gary Raymond

For many the story of Welsh rugby star Gareth Thomas will be familiar. It has been told in many forms, and powerful and inspirational as it is, many times too. Thomas (known to all bar his m…

SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 01:03PM

Thursday, February 12, 2015

Richard III, Wales Millennium Centre by Gary Raymond

The casual theatre-goer may be forgiven for thinking that, in Wales at least, serious theatre is going through a phase of chronic disregard for the audience. Yvonne Murphy’s all-female Ric…

SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 05:16PM

Wednesday, December 17, 2014

Frozen Scream, Wales Millennium Centre by Gary Raymond

There are moments in this collaboration between performer and theatre impresario Christopher Green, and best-selling novelist Sarah Waters, where, rather like with a Stewart Lee stand-up rou…

SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 07:42PM

Tuesday, October 15, 2013

Tonypandemonium, National Theatre Wales by Gary Raymond

Henry James said, “Realism is what in some shape or form we might encounter, whereas Romanticism is something we will never encounter.” The 19th-century Realists believed that “ordinar…

SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 03:28PM

Saturday, May 18, 2013

Say It With Flowers, Sherman Theatre, Cardiff by Gary Raymond

There is a glaring irony in that a play about an all-consuming obsession with one thing (fame) has no real idea of what it itself is supposed to be. Say It With Flowers, a purported biograph…

SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 07:01PM

Saturday, May 4, 2013

Praxis Makes Perfect, National Theatre Wales by Gary Raymond

Almost before the dust settles on their globe-spanning collaboration with New National Theatre Tokyo, National Theatre Wales embark on a very different, if no less ambitious, partnership wit…

SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 09:54AM

Wednesday, April 24, 2013

Tir Sir Gâr, Carmarthenshire County Museum by Gary Raymond

The play is the thing, to quote one famous bereaved theatrical son, and in this new collaboration between Theatr Genedlaethol Cymru, artist Marc Rees and playwright Roger Williams, it is mos…

SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 07:00PM

Monday, March 25, 2013

The Bloody Ballad, Riverfront Theatre, Newport by Gary Raymond

If you’re one of those who always felt the opening credits of True Blood held more substance and delicious dark corners than the comic-book titillation of the programme that followed, then…

SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 03:54AM

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