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THEATRE COMPANY, BASED IN NEWPORT, RETURN FROM EDINBURGH WITH 5 STARS AND A WELSH TOUR |
Flying Bridge Theatre and Seabright Productions in association with the Pleasance and Newport Live present NOT ABOUT HEROES by Stephen MacDonald Directed by Tim Baker - Designed by Oliver Harman Lighting by Kevin Heyes - Sound by Dyfan Jones Performed by Iestyn Arwel and Daniel Llewelyn Williams A professional theatre company, hailing from Newport, have returned from a month at Edinburgh Fringe Festival with a stack of 5-star reviews under their belt and are now set to take their show, Not About Heroes, across Wales. Flying Bridge Theatre are a relatively new professional company made up from well-known names of the Welsh Theatre scene. Tim Baker, of Theatr Clwyd historically directs the company in its latest production and Daniel Llewellyn Williams, also artistic director, stars as Siegfried Sassoon. Previous productions for the company include the acclaimed A Regular Little Houdini, and Between The Crosses, a touching real life account of life in Ypres during the First World War. Not About Heroes is an acclaimed production of a Fringe First winning play, which has just launched its world tour in Edinburgh, on the centenary of the meeting it depicts between celebrated WWI poets Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon. After being well received in Edinburgh the team are returning to Wales, to showcase it here. This extraordinary play is set at Craiglockhart Hospital in 1917, where two poets bonded over a mutual hatred of war and love of poetry. When staged by the same director at Theatr Clwyd, theproduction won Best Actor at the Wales Theatre Awards for Daniel Llewelyn Williams, who reprises his role as Sassoon alongside Iestyn Arwel as Owen. ‘Stephen MacDonald's beautifully structured play is given a fine production by Flying Bridge Theatre, this is a still, quiet haven of poetry and the pity of war, well worth catching.’ British Theatre Guide Playwright Stephen MacDonald was a British actor, dramatist, novelist and director. He was brought up and educated in Birmingham, where he trained as an actor, and subsequently worked extensively in Scotland as a theatre director. He was instrumental in reviving the fortunes of Dundee Repertory Theatre after which he was appointed the Artistic Director of the Royal Lyceum Theatre in Edinburgh in 1976. His other plays include All Ayre & Fire, Billy Budd, Jungle Book as well as an adaptation of Uncle Vanya. He died in 2009. Director Tim Baker has been the Associate Director of Theatr Clwyd since 1997 and Artistic Director of Theatr Clwyd Theatre for Young People. He has directed over 80 productions for Theatr Clwyd and two for the National Theatre of Wales. He is a member of the Gorsedd of Bards, for services to the arts in Wales and in 2014 was made an Honorary Fellow of Glyndwr University, again for services to the arts in Wales. Between 2008 and 2012 Tim was Artistic Director of the National Youth Theatre of Wales. This tour of Not About Heroes is possible thanks to incredible support and funding from the Arts Council of Wales. It is the first part of a major world tour for the show, beginning in England and Wales from September 2017, visiting over 30 venues this year alone. For more information about Flying Bridge Theatre Co. visit www.flyingbridgetheatre.co.uk or find more information on Social Media @FlyingBridgeTC, FB: Flying Bridge Theatre Company. For tickets please visit your local venues website, or call to book. LISTINGS INFORMATION Blackwood Miners Institute 20th September 2017 - 19.30 Blackwood Miners Institute box office ________________________________________ Savoy Monmouth 21st September 2017 - 19.30 ________________________________________ Borough Theatre Abergavenny 25th September 2017 - 19.30 ________________________________________ Pontardawe Arts Centre 26th September 2017 - 19.30 ________________________________________ Riverfront Theatre, Newport 28th, 29th, 30th September 2017 - 19.30 plus 10AM matinee on 28th ________________________________________ Park and Dare, Treorchy 3rd October 2017 - 19.30 ________________________________________ Taliesin, Swansea 5th, 6th October 2017 - 19.30 |
| Flying Bridge Theatre web site: www.flyingbridgetheatre.co.uk |
| Tahnee Chambers e-mail: tahneeflyingbridge@yahoo.com |
Monday, September 11, 2017 |
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