Welsh performance News archive for 2012
We have been scouring the media, and keeping our noses to the ground ,
for news stories related to welsh theatre dance and performance.
Below are the 27 main stories for 2012 in our database
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| Bringing urban Welsh fiction to stage 26 January 2012 |
A Welsh stage adaptation of one of Wales’ finest contemporary fiction books will be touring Wales this spring (28 Feb – 28 March) with the premiere performance at Aberystwyth Arts Centre on Tuesday 28 February.  |
| CAPE TOWN OPERA (Cymraeg) 25 January 2012 |
| Perfformiad cyntaf y Mandela Trilogy yn Ewrop |
| CAPE TOWN OPERA 25 January 2012 |
| European premiere of the Mandela Trilogy at Wales Millennium Centre |
| Opening night for Butterfly Kiss 24 January 2012 |
| The senior members of Gwent Young People’s Theatre (GYPT) present a premier performance of Butterfly Kiss, at the Borough Theatre, Abergavenny |
| BRITISH DANCE EDITION LONDON 2012 24 January 2012 |
| National Dance Company Wales and BBC National Chorus of Wales showcase Welsh artistic talent at the UK’s leading dance event |
| NOFIT STATE CIRCUS & NATIONAL THEATRE WALES’ MUNDO PARALELO TAKES TO THE ROAD 23 January 2012 |
| Theatr Mwldan, Cardigan, Friday 10 February 2012, 7pm. Saturday 11 February 2012, 2pm & 7pm |
| The Echo Chamber --a new performance from THE LLANARTH GROUP- 20 January 2012 |
| Four innovative and award-winning creators from different strands of theatre have come together to produce a poetic/spatial meditation on time, science, and our place in the universe.
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| Lleisiau Pobl Go Iawn Mewn Drama Newydd Gymraeg 20 January 2012 |
| Fe fydd drama Gymraeg gair am air newydd sydd yn defnyddio storďau pobl yn eu geiriau ei hunain yn dechrau ar daith o amgylch Cymru y mis nesa. |
| Voices of Real People In New Welsh Language Play 20 January 2012 |
| A Welsh language verbatim play that uses real stories, as spoken by real people, will begin a tour of Wales next month. |
| Actors working with Trinity Saint Davids students on new production 19 January 2012 |
| Over the coming weeks, professional actors will be working alongside Welsh-medium graduating students from the School of Performing Arts Trinity Saint David on a production and short tour of Torri Gair |
| Actorion yn cydweithio â myfyrwyr 19 January 2012 |
| Dros yr wythnosau nesaf bydd actorion profiadol yn gweithio ar y cyd â myfyrwyr cyfrwng Cymraeg Ysgol y Celfyddydau Perfformio - Prifysgol y Drindod Dewi Sant - ar gynhyrchiad teithiol o’r ddrama Torri Gair |
| AGOR DRYSAU – OPENING DOORS 2012 – TWO MONTHS TO GO! 19 January 2012 |
| In exactly two months time the seaside town of Aberystwyth will be full to the brim with artists from all corners of the world as we start a whole week of fun and performances in the 7th AGOR DRYSAU – OPENING DOORS FESTIVAL! |
| AGOR DRYSAU – OPENING DOORS 2012 – DAU FIS I FYND! 19 January 2012 |
| Dau fis i heddiw bydd tref glan mor Aberystwyth dan ei sang wrth inni groesawu perfformwyr o bob cwr o’r byd i berfformio yn 7fed Gŵyl AGOR DRYSAU – OPENING DOORS! |
| U.Dance 2012 19 January 2012 |
| U.Dance 2012 is a national celebration of youth dance, with performances in venues throughout the UK in 2012. |
| WORLD PREMIERE RECORDING OF PHILIP GLASS OPERA "IN THE PENAL COLONY" 16 January 2012 |
| Music Theatre Wales’s UK premiere production of Philip Glass’s one-act opera, In the Penal Colony is released on CD on February 20, 2012. |
| PETER GILL RETURNS TO CARDIFF TO DIRECT HIS BRAND NEW ADAPTATION OF CHEKHOV’S A PROVINCIAL LIFE 16 January 2012 |
| One of Wales' greatest writers and directors, Peter Gill, returns to his native city with a portrait of provincial life in 1890s Russia. |
| Welsh Writers’ Plays Selected for Royal Shakespeare Company Project 13 January 2012 |
| Plays by two writers from Wales have won a competition to be staged at Newport’s 400-seat Dolman Theatre – with the possibility of going on to be performed at Stratford as part of the World Shakespeare Year celebrations. |
| Spring 2012 season at the New Theatre Cardiff announced 13 January 2012 |
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| SIMON STEPHENS’ STARK AND SHATTERING 7/7 PLAY GETS WELSH PREMIERE IN 2012 12 January 2012 |
| Following the sell–out, critically acclaimed staging of Caryl Churchill’s Serious Money in 2011, Waking Exploits return with Simon Stephens’ beautiful yet chilling award winning play Pornography. |
| “Script Call Out” 12 January 2012 |
| It’s My Shout Productions open applications for new scripts for the 2012 Television training scheme |
| PUBLIC TO CHOOSE PROJECTS FOR NATIONAL THEATRE WALES’ NEW 2012 ASSEMBLY PROGRAMME 12 January 2012 |
| National Theatre Wales is transforming its innovative Assembly programme into bespoke, democratically-elected creative arts projects which will take place across Wales. |
| National Dance Company Wales Spring Tour 2012 11 January 2012 |
| An international programme of bold and exciting dance |
| International Conference on the relationship between literature and the media in Small Nations
09 January 2012 |
| CALL FOR PAPERS |
| Cynhadledd Ryngwladol ar berthynas llenyddiaeth â’r cyfryngau mewn Cenhedloedd Bychain
09 January 2012 |
| GALWAD AM BAPURAU |
| BAFTA award winning costume designer Ray Holman is back in Cardiff for one night only. 09 January 2012 |
| BAFTA award winning costume designer Ray Holman whose recent work includes BBC’s Silk, Torchwood, Doctor Who, Law & Order and Sherlock is coming to the Kuku Club in the Park Plaza Hotel, Cardiff on Friday 3rd February. |
| Special charity performance of Aladdin in aid of the Swansea Valley Miners Appeal Fund 03 January 2012 |
| Swansea Grand Theatre, Sunday 8th January 6.00pm
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| Robin Hood at Aberystwyth Arts Centre 02 January 2012 |
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