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Propwash Theatre |
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| e-mail address | e-bost | info@propwash-theatre.co.uk |
| web site | wefan | www.propwash-theatre.co.uk |
| director cyfarwyddwr |
Robert Pleasance, Writer: Tim Davies |
| artistic
policy polisi artistig |
Named after the wind created from the propeller of a plane Prop-Wash is a new company is dedicated to bringing to the audience those little known stories about Wales and its people - both in Wales and through-out the world. Which we feel are never fully represented and told within Wales. Prop-Wash is also a small-scale touring theatre company. The company is led by its co-founders ROBERT PLEASANCE and TIM DAVIES who are natives of Blackwood and Cardiff after 10 year successful experience in their fields of producing and writing in Edinburgh and Wales |
| selected
past productions rhai cynhyrchiadau'r gorffenol |
LEVITICUS: Which looks at a female view on modern day life and how it can become one's own personnel Divine Comedy The play opened on Friday 23rd September 2005 at The main theatre at Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff. In modern day life we are bombarded with advertising for style, food, the body beautiful and ideas of what is perfection. Leviticus will explore how the ideals of perfection for people through time have been represented and manipulated. The play takes us into one person's own version of a modern day Dante's hell. It also highlights the many issues of beauty, eating disorder and body Image throughout time, right up to the use of plastic surgery and the questions of Genetics. The Butcher Bird: Reveals an insight into a little known piece of Welsh history which changed the course of World War 2. The Tour takes place in and around the Llanelli area, details are listed below. By 1940 the R.A.F. had won the Battle of Britain ? just. However, by the end of 1941 a new German fighter The Butcher Bird had appeared. This aircraft was superior to anything available to the R.A.F. Once again, the tide of war started to turn against Britain. The Butcher Bird was invincible. Attempts by the R.A.F. to shoot it down led to disastrous losses in aircraft and pilots ? by summer 1942 the R.A.F. was losing 100 pilots a month. Something had to be done. The audience will discover from formerly classified events how a top-secret German plane became part of Welsh history. The performances will also coincide with the 60th anniversary of D-Day Train of Tears: A new production, following a work-in-progress at Chapter earlier this year, that explores one man's observations and involvement in transporting people to the Nazi death camps. the play observes Dieter and his rise out of the 1920s depression to his decline through the Second World War. A raw and divergent view of the holocaust and its consequences upon one man and his family as he wrestles with his conscience. Performed by local actors with video projection. |
| future plans
cynlluniau at y dyfodol |
Leviticus by Robert Pleasance Builders-Yard-Digital's upcoming multi media piece for 2007 "A Modern Man's Bird Cage" This work will become a multi media video/film piece created by Robert Pleasance & Aaron Graham. The work will look at the images and sounds associated with the male body, as well as the place the masculine role now holds in society. ? Prop-Wash Theatre's upcoming play for 2008 "No Peace in the Land" The story of the change face of the valleys and the loss to Wales of the brain drain from the country. |
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