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Sherman Cymru announces Spring/Summer 2012 programme ahead of theatre building reopening |
Sherman Cymru has today revealed the programme of work that will be presented in the newly redeveloped Sherman Cymru theatre building once it opens in February 2012. Ticket booking for priority bookers is now open, with general ticket booking opening on 28 November. Sherman Cymru Director Chris Ricketts said: “We are delighted to announce Sherman Cymru’s reopening programme, which will mark our return to the newly redeveloped building. The programme is a real setting out of the Sherman Cymru stall. It features a great mix of Welsh, UK and international companies and artists, and includes work we will be producing in-house, some fantastic writing that will be seen for the first time and work generated by our Creative Learning team. We think it’s a really strong opening season and hope it will allow people to delve into Sherman Cymru for the first time or to rediscover it anew. We’re very much looking forward to welcoming audiences back into our new home.” After an Open House weekend on 4-5 February, the first production in the building from 7-11 February will be Sgint by Bethan Marlow, a Welsh language co-production between Sherman Cymru and Theatr Genedlaelthol Cymru in association with Galeri, Caernarfon, which shares the voices of real people to take a fresh and honest look at the current economic squeeze and how it affects people from all walks of life. From 15-18 February, Sherman Cymru redevelopment campaign patron Sian Phillips performs in Frantic Assembly’s Lovesong, a beautiful, haunting play about lifelong love by Cardiff-born Abi Morgan, whose writing for the screen includes the flagship BBC TV drama The Hour and the BAFTA award-winning drama Sex Traffic (Channel 4). Dirty Protest co-founder Tim Price returns to Cardiff with his darkly comic new play For Once, presented by Pentabus Theatre in association with Sherman Cymru from 23 February – 3 March, which cuts right to the heart of a community turned upside down by tragedy. Award winning children’s theatre company Catherine Wheels present their Edinburgh Festival Fringe hit White from 17-21 April, a playful and highly visual show that is a perfect first time theatre experience. Clytemnestra, written by the First National Poet of Wales Gwyneth Lewis and produced by Sherman Cymru, runs from 18 April – 5 May and is a major new telling of an epic Greek legend driven by adultery, power and revenge. From 15-16 May, internationally acclaimed choreographer Hofesh Shechter returns to Sherman Cymru with Political Mother, his extraordinary dance work with 10 dancers, multiple musicians and the atmosphere of a rock concert. The season, which totals over 30 different productions in all, also includes Cerys Matthews, National Theatre Wales, Belarus Free Theatre, Grid Iron and Matthew Bourne. Priority ticket booking is now open with general ticket booking opening on 28 November. Tickets and full information about the reopening season are available from Sherman Cymru’s Ticket Office on 029 2064 6900 or online at www.shermancymru.co.uk |
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Thursday, November 17, 2011 |
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