| A Guide and Look-back |
At National Theatre Wales |
| National Theatre Wales: 14 Years of Productions , All Points Wales, Edinburgh, Tokyo , December 30, 2025 |
The National Theatre of Wales made its debut at the Blackwood Miners Institute on 10th March 2010. Its final performance was at the Sherman Theatre 22nd March 2024. The company did activities beyond productions of theatre: art installations, comedy nights, radio plays, literary readings, a puppet show, documentary films, video items, children's play events. discussion events, social activities. The company combines them all to report all as productions. So too are a production that was rehearsed but not performed and an event that was performed, albeit a work-in-progress. A theatre productions requires an actor and an audience. The following lists all the productions by National Theatre Wales in chronological order of performance. "A Good Night Out in the Valleys" 14 March 2010, 16 March 2010, 27 March 2010, 29 March 2010 "Shelf Life": 11 April 2010 "The Devil Inside Him": May 19, 2010 "For Mountain, Sand & Sea": 28 July 2010, 01 July 2010 "The Persians": 27 August 2010: 17 August 2010, 16 August 2010 "Love Steals Us from Loneliness": 13 October 2010, 20 October 2010 "The Dark Philosophers" : 13 November 2010, 16 November 2010, 25 November 2010 * * * * "The Soul Exchange": 28 January 2011 “Mundo Paralelo” 21 March 2011 "The Passion at Port Talbot": 24 April 2011, 23 April 2011 "The Village Social": 11 November 2011, 29 October 2011 * * * * A Provincial Life" : March 9, 2012, 7 March 2012 "Little Dogs": 25 May 2012: 12 May 2012 "Coriolan/us" 12 August 2012: 20 December 2012 "Branches: the Nature of Crisis": 12 September 2012 "Little Dogs": 25 May 2012: 12 May 2012 “In Water I'm Weightless”: 8 October 2012 * * * * “De Gabay”: 5 March 2013 “The Opportunity of Efficiency”: 18 March 2013 “Praxis Makes Perfect”: 02 May 2013 "Things I Forgot I Remembered": 23 June 2013 "The Radicalisation of Bradley Manning": 16 August 2013, 22 August 2013 "Tonypandemonium" : 19 October 2013 "Silly Kings": 22 December 2013 * * * * “Raw Material: Llareggub Revisited”: 8 May 2014 “Mametz": 1 July 2014 "Yr Helfa": 19 September 2014 "Bordergame": 30 November 2014 * * * * "Crouch Touch Pause Engage" : 24 February 2015 “150”: 02 July 2015 “Iliad” 26 September 2015 “The Insatiable, Inflatable Candylion”: 20 December 2015 * * * * "Before I Leave": 1 June 2016 “Wonderman”: 12 August 2016 , 14 September 2016 "City of the Unexpected": 18 October 2016 * * * * “Lifted By Beauty: Adventures in Dreaming”: 4 April 2017, 2 April 2017 "We're Still Here": 19 September 2017 * * * * “Storm 1: Nothing Remains The Same”: 18 February 2018 “Storm 2: Things Come Apart”: 28 March 2018 "Cotton Fingers": 7 June 2018 “English”: 17 June 2018 “As Long as the Hearts Beats”: 24 July 2018 “ECZEMA!”: 28 July 2018 "Come Back Tomorrow": 29 July 2018 "For All I Care”: 25 July 2019 “The Stick Maker Tales": 11 July 2018 "Touch": 28 July 2018 "Love Letters to the NHS": Survey Review 31 July 2018 "The Tide Whisperer": 21 September 2018 “Storm 3: Together and Alone”: 28 March 2019 * * * * “Wild Scenes at Cardiff”: 1 July 2019 “Mission Control”: 29 September 2019 "On Bear Ridge": 10 January 2020, 25 September 2019 “Peggy's Song”: 7 October 2019 * * * * "Possible": 25 November 2021 * * * * “Petula”: 19 March 2022 “Circle of Fifths”: 22 June 2022 “A Proper Ordinary Miracle”: 29 November 2022 * * * * “The Cost of Living”: 24 March 2023 * * * * “Feral Monster”: 7 March 2024, 26 April 2024 * * * * The productions in the company's first era were accompanied by one-off hybrid events; these comprised part-performance and part community discussion. The following were reviewed: "Food for Thought": Assembly Event 10 June 2012 "Eich Parc, Eich Dweud!: Your Park, Your Say!": Assembly Event 29 July 2012 "Who Controls the Drones in My Sky?": Assembly Event 31 March 2014 * * * * A promenade event took place in Aberystwyth. It had no actors. "Outdoors": 4 April 2011 * * * * An art installation was reviewed. "The Weather Factory": 14 December 2010 * * * * The United Kingdom Government commissioned a twelve-item festival to mark leaving the European Union. The Unboxed Festival became subject for an investigation by the National Audit Office. National Theatre of Wales led the event in Wales. The budget was £6,500,000, the principal medium television. The event was of a relentless banality. The event, and its aftermath, are discussed 10 November, 17 November, 19 November 2022. Picture: cast "the Persians" 2010 |
Reviewed by: Adam Somerset |
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