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 5:12am on September 20, 2017☆⚑

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 7:43pm on December 19, 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 the st…

SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 7:33pm on September 25, 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 wilde…

SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 7:51am on July 1, 2015☆⚑

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, in the mult…

SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 6:44am on August 10, 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, director J…

SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 3:59am on July 31, 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 7:00pm on May 13, 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 6:22pm on April 18, 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 7:44pm on February 28, 2012☆⚑

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 2:42am on December 4, 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 tim…

SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 9:19pm on October 23, 2011☆⚑