What's on Now
We have information on 10 productions that are currently, or will be in the near future, showing or on tour in
Wales by welsh companies. Not included here are productions by visiting companies.
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Mae Cwmni Theatr Bara Caws yn falch o gael cyflwyno ‘100’ fel ein cynhyrchiad nesaf, Tachwedd/Rhagfyr 2010.
Addaswyd y gwaith arloesol yma i’r Gymraeg gan Elin Jones, merch y nid anenwog Wil Sam Jones o’r darn a greuwyd gyntaf gan Neil Monaghan, Diene Petterle a Christopher Heimann. Mae’r ddrama sydd yn gymysgedd rithiol o symud a syniadau yn rhoi ail gyfle i’r cwmni fwynhau ei berthynas a Cai Tomos y coreograffydd a chwaraeodd ran mor bwysig yn llwyddiant ‘Llyfr Mawr y Plant’. Bydd 5 actor yng nghynhyrchiad ‘100’ a’r cyfarwyddwr yw Tony Llewelyn.
Dychmygwch fod yn rhaid i chi ddewis un atgof yn unig o’ch bywyd – bydd y gweddill yn diflannu am byth. Dychmygwch mai’r atgof hwnnw yw’r unig beth fydd yn gwmni i chi’n dragywydd. Dychmygwch mai dim ond awr sydd gennych i’w ddewis …. 100….99….98
Dewiswch rywbeth o blith y cyfan a wnaethoch ac a brofoch, a feddylioch ac a deimloch …. pa beth yw’r trysor drytaf?
Mae’r cymeriadau yn ‘100’ yn cael eu gorfodi i ddewis ac i ail fyw'r eiliadau hynny o atgof gan ddefnyddio dim ond eu cyrff a’u cyd actorion. Cludir ni o swyddfa yn Llundain, i ras feiciau modur, o ddyfnder coedwigoedd yr Amazon i ymyl dibyn bodolaeth wrth i’r unigolion geisio cipio un gêm werthfawr o flerwch eu byw a’u bod.
Performances: 09 November 2010 to 04 December 2010
Dan Gysgod Rhyfel - Gwent Theatre
Dan Gysgod Rhyfel will be performed twice at the National Eisteddfod, on Sunday, August 1st at 11:30 a.m in the Drama Pavilion and again on Tuesday, August 3rd, also at 11:30 a.m.Dan Gysgod Rhyfel was the recent highly acclaimed Welsh language play performed by Theatr Gwent, in association with Theatr Iolo and Spectacle Theatre, to transfixed school audiences in an area from Bridgend to Chepstow and From Merthyr Tydfil to Monmouth.
Here’s the ideal opportunity for the general public to see it, if they missed it at the Melville Theatre, Abergavenny or Llanover Hall in Cardiff.
It related the experiences of three children evacuated to South Wales during WWII. Don’t miss it! This will be your last chance to see it.
Fydd Dan Gysgod Rhyfel yn cael ei berfformio dwy waith yn yr Eisteddfod Genedlaethol yng Nglyn Ebwy, ar y Dydd Sul a’r Dydd Mawrth am 11:30 y.b. yn y Pafiliwn Drama.
Cafodd Dan Gysgod Rhyfel ganmoliaeth wych ym mhob ysgol lle ei berfformiwyd. O Ben-y-bont i Gas-gwent ac o Ferthyr Tyful i Drefynwy roedd plant ysgolion Gymraeg wedi eu cyfareddu.
Dyma’r cyfle delfrydol i bobl mewn oed ei weld os collasant y siawns i’w weld yn Theatr Melville, Y Fenni neu Neuadd Llanover yng Nghaerdydd.
Mae’n adrodd hanes a phrofiadau tair plentyn ifaciwi a ddaeth i Dde Cymru yn ystod yr ail Ryfel Byd. Peidiwch a’i cholli! Dyma’r cyfle olaf i’w weld!
Performances: 01 August 2010 to 03 August 2010
Nicholas Cleobury, the eminent conductor and Mid Wales Opera’sbrand new Artistic Director, presents Verdi’s Falstaff with a fine
ensemble of talented singers, blending experience with youth,
accompanied by the Mid Wales Opera Chamber Orchestra.
Martin Lloyd-Evans and Bridget Kimak return (La Bohème 2007,
The Marriage of Figaro 2009) to direct and design Falstaff in our
new and exciting production.
Full of boisterous vulgarity, yet nobly magnificent Falstaff
inspires the passionate admiration of opera lovers everywhere.
Shakespeare’s Sir John, now very short of cash, pursues two
wealthy wives of Windsor for their money, but does not bank on
their determination to foil him. Their merry tricks lead to his
come-uppance, and to the chastisement of their own, too jealous,
husbands. Intertwined in all is a tender love story. Featuring one of the world’s greatest stage characters, Verdi created in his last opera a brilliant and joyful drama of young love and old foolishness, vividly underlined by a scintillating musical score.
Performances: 14 September 2010 to 13 November 2010
GWLAD YR ADDEWID - Theatr Genedlaethol Cymru
Cyflwr economaidd enbyd Cymoedd y De a’i effaith ar fywyd teulu a chymuned sydd heb waith, gobaith na moesoldeb yw cynhyrchiad Theatr Genedlaethol Cymru yn Eisteddfod Genedlaethol Blaenau Gwent fis nesaf.Cyfieithiad o ddrama angerddol Ed Thomas House of America yw Gwlad yr Addewid – drama dderbyniodd gydnabyddiaeth ryngwladol pan gafodd ei llwyfannu gyntaf yn ôl yn 1988. Gwaith Sharon Morgan yw’r cyfieithiad ac roedd yr actores amlwg hefyd ag un o brif rannau’r ddrama yn y cynhyrchiad gwreddiol.
“O ganlyniad iddi actio un o’r prif gymeriadau ar lwyfan mae gwybodaeth Sharon o’r ddrama heb ei ail ac roedd hynny’n ei gwneud yn gyfieithydd perffaith,” meddai Rheolwr Marchnata Theatr Genedlaethol Cymru, Elin Angharad Williams.
“Hwn yw cynhyrchiad proffesiynol cyntaf Gwlad yr Addewid,” ychwanegodd.
Cyfarwyddir Gwlad yr Addewid gan Tim Baker sy’n dychwelyd at Theatr Genedlaethol Cymru am y tro cyntaf ers ei lwyddiant ysgubol yn 2008 yn cyfarwyddo Porth y Byddar sef drama Manon Eames ar foddi Tryweryn yn y 1960au.
“Rwy’n eithriadol o falch bod yn ôl gyda Theatr Genedlaethol Cymru wrth i’r cwmni barhau i adeiladu ar gynulleidfa craidd ffyddlon,” meddai.
“Er i House of America weld golau dydd gyntaf dros 20 mlynedd yn ôl y mae’n parhau i fod a’i harwyddocâd i ni heddiw ac rwy’n edrych ymlaen i ddod â’r ddrama eiconaidd hon yn fyw i ddilynwyr y ddrama Gymraeg,” ychwanegodd.
Mae pump aelod o gast y ddrama’n cynnwys wynebau cyfarwydd i’r llwyfan a theledu megis Rhodri Meilir, Sarah Harris-Davies, Alun ap Brinley, Elin Phillips a wyneb cymharol newydd i fyd y theatr, Siôn Young.
Llwyfannir Gwlad yr Addewid yn Theatr y Met, Abertyleri, ar nosweithiau Mawrth, Mercher, Iau a Gwener, Awst 3-6, 2010. Bydd pob perfformiad yn dechrau am 7.30 o’r gloch am mae’r tocynnau ar gael yn Theatr Fach y Maes ac o’r Met (Ffôn: 01495 544600). Darperir bysiau i gludo’r gynulleidfa o Faes yr Eisteddfod ac o’r Maes Carafanau i’r perfformiadau yn Abertyleri.
Yn dilyn y perfformiadau yn yr Eisteddfod Genedlaethol bydd Gwlad yr Addewid yn teithio’n yr hydref o gwmpas rhai o brif prif theatrau Cymru gan ddechrau yn Theatr y Lyric, Caerfyrddin ar nosweithiau Iau a Gwener, Medi 9-10, 2010, cyn mynd ymlaen i:
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Galeri, Caernarfon, ar nosweithiau Mawrth, Mercher a Iau, Medi 14-16, 2010;
· Canolfan Celfyddydau Aberystwyth, ar nosweithau Mawrth a Mercher, Medi 21-22, 2010;
· Canolfan Celfyddydau Taliesin, Abertawe, ar nos Sadwrn, Medi 25, 2010;
· Clwyd Theatr Cymru, Yr Wyddgrug, ar nos Iau, Medi 30, a nosweithiau Gwener a Sadwrn, Hydref 1-2, 2010;
· Theatr Mwldan, Aberteifi, ar nosweithiau Mercher a Iau, Hydref 6-7, 2010; a
· Stowdio Weston yng Nghanolfan y Mileniwm, Caerdydd, ar nosweithiau Iau, Gwener a Sadwrn, Hydref 14-15, 2010.
Cefnogir Theatr Genedlaethiol Cymru gan Gyngor Celfyddydau Cymru.
Performances: 14 September 2010 to 15 October 2010
Intimate Exchanges, - Torch Theatre
School Governors' Chairman and Headmaster's Wife in Potting Shed Love Tryst! The headlines say it all, as sexual confessions in a garden shed trigger a chaotic farce of marital mis-understanding. A tale of love, lust, poems and burnt trousers, this is A One Man Protest – one of two comedy dramas in Alan Ayckbourn’s groundbreaking series of plays, Intimate Exchanges, being performed by Milford Haven’s Torch Theatre Company this summer. [Wednesday 28 July – Saturday 28 August 2010]
Intimate Exchanges is a series of comedy dramas in which multiple potential outcomes for hilarity and disaster are determined by one character's decision on whether or not to light a cigarette…. this single decision will change the lives of everybody else, blowing them all in wildly different directions.
Set against a rural English backdrop of ‘tea, cricket and garden parties’, between them two actors bring to life an entire community: Toby, a cranky and regularly ‘tipsy’ headmaster; his neurotic wife, Celia; a nymphomaniac who is having an affair with the PE teacher; her mild-mannered husband, the Chairman of the Governors - who fancies the headmaster’s wife; Sylvie, the saucy but sweet home-help, and Lionel, a handyman of catastrophic inadequacy. It is Toby, Celia, Lionel and Sylvie who feature consistently in both ‘strands’ of the two plays that you will see in A One Man Protest and A Pageant, where there’s ‘handbags at dawn’ over the leading role in the village fete production!
Ayckbourn's ability to balance the comedy and pathos of people who balk at the confinement of their lives by making a mad lunge at happiness - only to find themselves trapped in several different kinds of hell - is astonishing.
Described as a piece of theatrical lunacy, with much miraculous and hilarious doubling as the partners pop up not only as two married couples but also as parents, home-helps, and other members of the school staff, the two dramas we have chosen from this ingenious collection of romantic shenanigans are brilliant, tender, savage and very, very funny.
Intimate Exchanges begins with A One Man Protest on 28 July. A Pageant, the second of the series, opens on 4 August. Each play is a full length comedy in its own right, to be enjoyed individually in any order and play in repertoire at Milford Haven’s Torch Theatre until Saturday 28 August. Tickets may be reserved online at www.torchtheatre.co.uk or by calling the Theatre Box Office on 01646 695267.
"You told me to give up everything second-rate in my life, so I'm giving up you!"
Performances: 28 July 2010 to 28 August 2010
drama newydd gan Aled Jones WilliamsMERCHED EIRA
Ar daith: MEDI 6 – MEDI 25, 2010
Actorion: Gaynor Morgan Rees, Martin Thomas ac Olwen Rees
Cyfarwyddwr: Bryn Fôn
Tyda ni ddim wedi ein gwneud ar gyfar paradwys…’ ar draeth euraidd yr oedden nhw i fod, nid yn crwydro mewn diffaethwch o eira. Mae’r cwbl yn ddryswch i Edith ac Edna - pam fan hyn a pham fel hyn? Ond gyda ‘hanas yn cyfarth fel hen gi pan ma’ hi’n nosi’ daw ambell i beth yn fwy eglur a gyda’r dadmar, y dadrithiad.
Henaint, unigrwydd a brad cyfrinachau bod sydd wrth galon drama ddiweddaraf Aled Jones-Williams. Unwaith eto ma’ ei huodledd cyhyrog yn ein harwain i fannau tywyll yn y ffyrdd mwya’ difyr, yn dal llusern gynnes ar ymyl y dibyn oeraf un.
Hon yw’r diweddaraf o ddramâu Aled i gael ei chyflwyno gan Gwmni Theatr Bara Caws ac fel ‘Beth Oedd Enw Ci Tin Tin’, ‘Lysh’ a ‘Sundance’ mae addewid o ddrama sy’n berwi o syniadau, o ddeialog disglair ac o weledigaeth eofn a digyfaddawd.
Wedi perfformio yn Theatr Beaufort (Glyn Ebwy) yn yr Eisteddfod Genedlaethol yng Nglyn Ebwy (Awst 2010) fe fydd y cwmni’n teithio’r ddrama o amgylch cymunedau Cymru o’r 6ed o Fedi hyd at 25 o Fedi, 2010
THEATR BARA CAWS
presents a new play by Aled Jones Williams
‘MERCHED EIRA’
(Director: Bryn Fôn)
‘We were not made for Paradise…’ They were headed for miles of sun drenched beaches, so how did they end up in this snow bound wilderness? Edith and Edna struggle to make sense of their predicament – why here and why like this? But with the past barking like an old dog at dusk, when the thaw comes what will they see?
Senility, loneliness and the casual treachery of everyday life drive this latest play by Aled Jones-Williams. Once again he leads us to the darkest places in the lightest way possible and swings a warm bright lantern over the edge of the coldest cliff of all.
The latest in a distinguished list of plays Aled has written for Bara Caws – ‘Merched Eira’ like ‘Lysh’,
‘Be Oedd Enw Ci Tin Tin’ and ‘Sundance’ before it, offers the same heady mix of sparkling dialogue, eternal themes and a uniquely uncompromising vision.
Following performances the Beaufort Theatre in Ebbw Vale (National Eisteddfod Week) Bara Caws will be touring communities throughout Wales from 6th September to 25th September, 2010.
Performances: 06 September 2010 to 25 September 2010
NoFit State Circus - Parklife in Pontardawe on 14th Aug. Pre show starts at 8.30pm with show at 9pm (finishes by 10pm) Tickets are free but you need to contact Pontardawe arts centre to reserve them (01792 863722). The performance takes place at the end of a week long community residency and will involve local performers from South Wales and a professional cast from NoFit State and music from Peter Swaffer Reynolds and the ImMortal OrchestraThis is the only chance to see the culmination of the Parklife project in Wales.
Performances: 14 August 2010 to 14 August 2010
“You will be collected from Cardiff Arts Institute. You will be driven in a blacked out vehicle.
You will be blindfolded.
There is soil on the floor.
Dust in the air.
It is Dark.
Scared yet?
Don’t be.
This is their home and you’re welcome inside...
Blindfolds off.”
From the breakthrough talent of Neil Bebber (Script Slam Winner '09) comes this dark, powerful and engaging play, brought to you by UNDEB THEATRE, one of the most highly acclaimed, new writing theatre companies in South Wales:
gBig ideas and thrillingly short attention span, for exciting,
unpredictable theatre they're one of the most promising acts around"
"Overspilling with creativity and as fresh as a simile, this is fast-theatre at it's finest"
STRAIGHT is Undeb Theatre's first full length play, directed by Co-Artistic Director, Tom Cullen. This gripping two hander, filled to the brim with tension and emotion is a theatre experience not to be missed!
Cast:
Hasan Dixon
Jolyon Westhorpe
When:
July 29th (7.00)
July 30th (7.00, 8.30)
July 31st (7.00, 8.30)
Tickets: £8
There are only 15 tickets per show, so book now in person at Cardiff Arts Institute so as not to miss out!
Performances: 29 July 2010 to 31 July 2010
The Lonely Morticians Guide to Myiasis - Tin Shed Theatre
The Lonely Mortician’s Guide to Myiasis tells an original story inspired by some of the most mysterious and disturbing murders in British history, not to mention more recent. Told from the perspective of a lonely coroner, this macabre tale teeters on the fringes of surrealism whilst reaping inspiration from the iconography of film noir. The plays concept was inspired by a title suggested in an online competition. As a company whose previous work has been quoted as being “surreal” “Chaplinesque”, “visually inventive” & “slap stick” our Fringe debut of The Lonely Morticians Guide to Myiasis presents an interesting challenge and a step in an alternative direction for the company. Tin Shed Theatre Co. is a devising/new writing company based in Newport, South Wales. The Company was formed in 2008 by Justin Cliffe, Georgina Harris & Antonio Rimola.
“Our work ranges from theatrical to immersive. Our performance style varied ““...from Vaudeville to the bug eyed madness of Marty Feldman.”” (Paul Conway, Playwrite). We write and devise stories which revolve around these weird, sometimes morose, often comical characters, who inhabit a quasi-world not quite like our own. A world that revolves in a universe that is uniquely Tin Shed. We want to introduce our self to strangers, be bold, brave and amaze with a tale that transports audiences to a place that although remains detached from the literal, can still enlighten our perceptions of the real world, all the same.”
Venue: Bedlam Theatre, Venue 49
Dates: 23 - 28 August 2009
Time: 4:00 (50min)
Ticket prices: £6.00 / concs £4.00
Venue box office: 0131 225 9893 / www.bedlamfringe.co.uk
Fringe box office: 0131 226 0000/ www.edfringe.com
Performances: 23 August 2010 to 28 August 2010
The Remnants of Once Fine Girls - Louche Theatre
Louche Theatre will be performing at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, the largest Arts Festival in the World, next month. We shall be presenting 'The Remnants of Once Fine Girls' by Stephen Todd from Monday 9th August until Saturday 14th August. Our venue is Greenside, (venue 231), Royal Terrace. Being a new play we qualify for a Fringe First Award, plus we are being considered as a nominee for Amnesty International's ' Freedom' Award. PLEASE see our web site www.louchetheatre.com for all the details.Performances: 09 August 2010 to 14 August 2010