A reception school teacher, two comedians, a Scottish playwright who this year adapted Marriage of Figaro, a My Family actor, Eisteddfod drama winner and musical writer will all be writing for the next Dirty Protest Theatre night. Following December’s sellout Christmas party which saw more than 120 theatre goers taken around Cardiff’s City Road to see new plays performed in a Conservative Club, a hairdressers, a kebab shop, a bus stop and a yurt, Dirty Protest are back. This time they are challenging a new group of writers to create a unique theatre experience for audiences to watch plays while sitting on beds and baths and with a beer in their hands. Ahead of their first major production of a full length play, Dennis Kelly’s After the End to be staged at the Sherman, in July, Dirty Protest Theatre is back with another night of new short plays. The drill is simple take a group of established writers and one newcomer, the Cherrypopper and give them a challenge - write a new play. And this time the Cherrypopper who has taken up the challenge to write her first play is teacher Lowri Owen. For Lowri who teaches the reception class at a Welsh language primary school in Caerphilly this her first piece of writing. Though she studied drama at Aberystwyth University the Cardiff mother-of-two is excited and nervous about writing her first play. She said, “This is my first piece of writing and I'm feeling really nervous about it - give me a class of screaming four year olds any day.” But Lowri has to undertake the same writing challenge as all of the professional writers. They need to each write a new play on a theme of our choosing. The plays need to be between 3-10 minutes long, written in four weeks and this time the maximum cast is one male and two females. Agent Debi Maclean has this time been given the task of curating the night, picking the writers and the theme. All seven writers will write short plays on the theme of May Day to be performed in the Bunkhouse, St Mary’s Street, Cardiff. Dirty Protest and Debi have pulled out all the stops to get a great group of writers for the night. They are writer and actor Jams Thomas (Mr Nice, Stella, Being Human), D. C. Jackson (award-winning Scottish playwright The Wall, My Romantic History, The Marriage of Figaro - adaptation), Ceri Elen (writer freelance author and playwright, and is a film producer for Boom Films), actor and writer Keiron Self (actor My Family and High Hopes, writer Mitchell and Webb Show, Theatr Na Nog and Mappa Mundi), comedian and writer Tudur Owen, comedian and writer Daniel Glyn (one of the writers of Yellow Snow starring Rhys Ifans) and teacher Lowri Owen (Cherrypopper). Their plays will all be performed in the Bunkhouse, a unique hostel and bar venue in centre of Cardiff. There’ll be old cinema streets, beds and padded baths to sit on to watch these new plays, directed by Matthew Bulgo and Sara Lloyd and starring a cast of professional actors. Dirty Protest hold staged readings of short plays by experienced, emerging and first time writers all on the same bill, in non-traditional spaces. So bars, clubs, yurts, forests, kebab shops, it’s always a unique and exciting experience. Dirty Protest Presents....May Day, Thursday May 10, 7.30pm The Bunkhouse, St Mary’s Street, Cardiff Tickets on sale now online £5 contact info@dirtyprotesttheatre.co.uk £6 on the door |
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Wednesday, April 25, 2012 |
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