Wales’s Liveartshow in co-production with the Wales Millennium Centre will be touring their award-winning comedy drama, The Future For Beginners around Wales this November and December.The winner of the Musical Theatre Network Award at this year’s Edinburgh Fringe Festival, The Future For Beginners is an off-beat romantic comedy – with songs and a ukulele thrown in! Matthew and Jenny (Matthew Bulgo and Jennifer Adams) meet at a data-cleansers, spending their days correcting other people’s mistakes. Neither want to be where they are, neither want to be ordinary. They fall in love and want to grow old together. They plan the rest of their lives in great detail. But there’s a schism, a crack in their relationship that could bring their world tumbling down… The Future For Beginners examines the choices we make as a couple and the plans we have for old age. The hour-long show, a co-production with Wales Millennium Centre, is written by one of Wales’s leading writers, Pontypridd born writer Alan Harris (New National Theatre Tokyo/National Theatre Wales’s The Opportunity of Efficiency, National Theatre of Wales’s A Good Night Out in the Valleys, and Sherman Cymru’s Cardboard Dad) and contains original songs and even some grand opera music! Director Martin Constantine said: “We wanted to write a piece about that old couple who are sat next to each other on a park bench, know everything about each other, and yet are still completely in love. How do they get there when it’s so easy to trap the person you love with the image and ideas you have of them when you first meet?” What if we could design our lives – every minute, every second, every detail, to ensure that we got what and where we wanted: would we do it? Or is the unpredictability of the journey the essence of a life well lived? The Future For Beginners is a double hander performed by Swansea’s Matthew Bulgo (Theatr Iolo’s Adventures in Skin Trade, National Theatre Wales’s Praxis Makes Perfect, Traverse Theatre’s I'm With The Band, Sherman Cymru’s The Sleeping Beauties, Clytemnestra, A Christmas Carol and Canoe Theatre’s Blue/Orange) and Jennifer Adams, who is a soprano currently in her fourth year of undergraduate study at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama. This fresh faced singer is one to watch as was awarded the Carlton Male Voice Choir’s Music Maker’s Trophy and recently won all of her categories at the Mansfield Music and drama festival. This is her first professional debut on stage performing in a musical theatre piece. 
 This is the third collaboration from liveartshow’s Alan Harris, Martin Constantine and composer Harry Blake, following the award-winning dance opera Manga Sister (2012) and Rhinegold (2013) that included techno, dance and karaoke. The Future For Beginners won The Musical Theatre Network Award for Best Musical at this year’s Edinburgh Fringe Festival and was one of only a handful of productions supported by this years’ Wales in Edinburgh Award. This tour is supported by the Arts Council of Wales. In 2012 the company won the Peter Brook Award for Innovation. Wales’s Liveartshow and the Wales Millennium Centre’s The Future For Beginners will be at touring to Y Ffwrnes, Llanelli (Thursday 20 November), Aberystwyth Arts Centre (Friday 21 November), Swansea Grand Theatre (Friday 28 November), Clwyd Theatr Cymru (Tuesday 2 & Wednesday 3 December), The Welfare, Ystradgynlais (Thursday 4 December) and Y Stiwt, Wrexham (Friday 5 December). Suitable for ages 12+. For tickets and further information, please visit www.liveartshow.co.uk |
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Friday, October 10, 2014 |
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