Five writers, five new plays and five different takes on the Christmas Party Recession cancelled your Christmas drinks? Can't face another year of the boss drunkenly yammering at you while you drink cheap warm white wine and Iceland party platters? Then Dirty Protest Theatre company have the answer with a night of new plays based on the annual embarrassing office night out. The not-for-profit theatre company will be taking over four business on City Road this Christmas to give an alternative view to Christmas parties. From the kebab house, the Conservative club, the local hairdressers and a yurt actors, writers and 120-audience is set to invade Cardiff for a night of new writing. Award-winning writer Duncan Macmillan to Welsh writers Beth Granville, Alan Harris, Aled Roberts and Marged Parry, have all been given the same challenge to write plays for the different venues. Pobol y Cwm Assistant Script Editor Marged Parry’s play will focus on how one person using the Christmas season to take advantage of others as the wine begins to flow. The plays will be directed by Mared Bryn, Matthew Bulgo and Julia Wyndham. And joining the Dirty Protest collective will be Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama student Poppy Armitage (The Passion, set design on RWCMD shows like Pornography, The Odd Couple, The Importance of Being Ernest) and Royal Welsh stage management graduate Bethan Dawson (The Passion with National Theatre Wales, The Tempest to Edinburgh Festival with Squeaky Door Production Company). Various locations around City Road, Cardiff including aftershow in Milgi - Matt the Hat DJing Thursday December 1, 7.30pm Email: press@dirtyprotesttheatre.co.uk for info |
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Saturday, November 19, 2011 |
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