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Prize Draw

TWO FREE THEATRE TICKETS

National Theatre Wales is set to create bold, invigorating theatre in the English language, rooted in Wales, with an international reach. To celebrate their launch year we’re offering two free tickets to an event of your choice. There will be twelve new shows throughout the year, one each month, plus one spectacular finale – in amazing places and unique spaces across Wales.

For a chance to win this prize, New Welsh Review subscribers should write, phone or email admin@newwelshreview.com by the closing date of 14th May 2010.

The lucky winner can choose from any of the productions listed below:

MAY 2010
THE DEVIL INSIDE HIM
Venue: New Theatre, Cardiff
Written by John Osborne, directed by Elen Bowman, designed by Alex Eales
Written by the original angry young man, set in a young Welsh poet’s home over one life-changing night, this long lost play is a remarkable discovery.

JUNE 2010
FOR MOUNTAIN, SAND AND SEA
Location: Barmouth, Gwynedd
Conceived and curated by Marc Rees
Join renowned Welsh artist Marc Rees and an extraordinary collection of international performers as they inhabit the nooks and crannies of this seaside town.

JULY 2010
THE BEACH
Location: beaches of North Wales coast
In partnership with Hide and Seek
Created by Rhiannon Cousins, Bethan Marlow and Carl Morris
What would life be like without time to play? Three leading young Welsh artists will create an outdoor theatre adventure like no other.

AUGUST 2010
THE PERSIONS
Location: Cilieni Village, Ministry of Defence, the Brecon Beacons
By Aeschylus, in a new version by Kaite O’Reilly
Directed by Mike Pearson, conceptual design by Mike Brookes, Designed by Simon Banham, music by John Hardy
This extraordinary production is a hymn to all those who have suffered defeat. A once in a lifetime event.

OCTOBER 2010
LOVES STEALS US FROM LONELINESS
Location: Bridgend
In partnership with Sherman Cymru
Written by Gary Owen, directed by John E McGrath
In 2010 Gary Owen, one of Wales’s foremost playwrights, returns to his hometown of
Bridgend. The media have told us their Bridgend Story, but what will a writer who spent his own teenage years here have to say?

NOVEMBER 2010
THE DARK PHILOSOPHERS
Venue: The Riverfront, Newport
A new theatre production based on the stories of Gwyn Thomas. The great 1940s valleys storyteller becomes a dark hilarious, twenty-first century comedian, taking no prisoners and respecting no laws other than man’s right to survive.

DECEMBER 2010
THE WEATHER FACTORY
Location: Snowdonia
In partnership with Fevered Sleep
Directed and designed by David Harradine
Where does all the weather in Wales come from? This festive season, artist David
Harradine invites you to step inside his Weather Factory. Discover the real drama of the elements. A year’s worth of weather all in one magical place.

JANUARY 2011
THE SOUL EXCHANGE
Venue: The Coal Exchange, Cardiff
Devised by a team of international artists working with the communities of Butetown.
Take the taxi ride of your life through hidden corners of Cardiff. Hear the stories of sailors, millionaires, lovers and survivors. When you and a thousand guests arrive at your destination you’ll be part of a new piece of history.

FEBRUARY 2011
OUTDOORS (working title)
Location: Aberystwyth
In partnership with Rimini Protokoll, created by Helgard Haug, Stefan Kaegi and Daniel Wetzel
The first ever UK commission for Berlin’s Rimini Protokoll – international leaders in reality theatre.

MARCH 2011
MUNDO PARALELO
Venue: Torch Theatre, Milford Haven
In partnership with Nofit State Circus and Torch Theatre
What will happen when Wales’s internationally renowned touring circus packs up its tent and brings its skills and magic inside a traditional theatre? Can the stories and characters of Drama mix in a new way with the excitement and beauty of circus?

APRIL 2011
PASSION
Location: Port Talbot
WRITTEN By Owen Sheers, creative director Michael Sheen
Michael Sheen returns to his home town to lead an epic contemporary revival of the town’s Community Passion Play. Inspired by a year of story-gathering, poet Owen Sheers will give voice to the town’s tales of redemption, return, and faith in a three-day Easter event with the whole of Port Talbot as cast, crew and set.

For more information on any of the productions visit the National Theatre Wales website via the link below.

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