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At Dirty Protest |
| Dirty Protest , Theatre of Wales , April 12, 2024 |
Dirty Protest was active in Cardiff and Edinburgh. It was also in collaboration with National Theatre of Wales for “Tonypandemonium.” The company's application for revenue funding in the Investment Review by the Arts Council of Wales in September 2023 was unsuccessful. Reviews of productions by Dirty Protest below: "Double Drop Lisa" by Jên Brown : 26 August 2021 “Lisa Jên Brown’s 1990s-set two-hander, which focuses on a young girl, Esmi, torn between her Welsh roots and her love of ecstasy-fuelled rave culture. It all comes to a head one Eisteddfod, when Esmi’s singing talent earns her the honour of joining an august organisation of druids, but she would rather be popping pills on the dance-floor. “The two worlds – old and new, tradition and trance, bards and beats – come crashing together hilariously over an energetic, exuberant hour, set to original music by 9Bach.” "How to Be Brave" by Siân Owen: 23 August 2019 “Dirty Protest theatre have forged a strong identity for producing excellent work reflecting contemporary Wales and its people. How To Be Brave enhances that reputation, with Sian Owen’s brilliant play. Katie has gone from being a confident little girl who feared nothing to a single mum who worries about everything, and now lives back with her mum in Newport. On the day that her daughter has an operation to repair her heart, Katie flees throughout the town, unable to face the day.” "Lightspeed From Pembroke Dock" : 14 May 2018: 05 April 2018 “A fast-paced, quick-witted piece...cleverly defies the boundaries between genres by managing to be at the same time a light-hearted comedy and a piece of serious drama...never obvious, never preachy, showing in-depth investigation without offering easy answers..a clever and ambitious production.” "Seven Short Plays" : 18 November 2017 “One of Cardiff’s most innovative theatre companies is celebrating its tenth birthday. The wit and the theatrical command sparkle as strongly as ever. They are celebrating the occasion, very appropriately with a visit to the award winning The Other Room, another of Cardiff’s theatrical treasures.” "Sugar Baby" by Alan Harris: : 15 August 2018: 28 July 2018: : 23 May 2018: 14 August 2017 “Alex Griffin-Griffiths owns the stage”. director Catherine Paskell” wrote another “chooses to keep the stage bare but, thanks to superbly shimmering lighting design from Ace McCarron, it never feels empty. McCarron and sound designer Dan Lawrence bring technicolour to a show that could so easily work fine in a black box setting. Alan Harris returns with yet another quality piece of theatre. He sticks to the formula that has served him so well – throwing frighteningly realistic characters into absurd situations, all reined in with an irreverent and sweet sense of humour.” "Last Christmas" by Matthew Bulgo: 05 May 2013 : 08 August 2014 : 08 December 2014 “Last Christmas” is serious, but seriousness has nothing to do with earnestness. Tom observes another workmate who has mistakenly thought it to be a fancy dress event and arrived dressed as a saucy Christmas elf. A whip-round is proposed in reward for D J services. The D J services, he comments, have consisted of an iPod plugged into a pair of speakers. He recalls an episode when an old Swansea friend was rammed into a litter bin. His voice calling out through the slot turns him into R2D2. Another has the nickname of Spanner, apparently due to a far-off proficiency at school for design technology. But that's not it at all. “He's just a bit of a spanner really.” “Parallel Lines" by Katherine Chandler: 21 November 2013 “The designer has put up a proscenium arch – something not often seen in Chapter, Signe Beckman has given us a clean lined, Ayckbournish box set. The stage is divided straight down the centre with the kitchens of two houses on either side. On one side the room’s décor suffers from long neglect, there’s a single, unshaded lamp bulb hanging and the battered cooker doesn’t work.” "Dirty Protest Meets Artes Mundi" : 16 January 2013 “Porter's is in a piece of lonely, left-over Victoriana in the middle of the building gigantism that was fuelled by pre-Lehman Brothers money. Its roof is concreted over for car parking; it sits by four lanes of through-route. As a theatre venue, it is enough to give the most confident of actors the shudders. No dimmed lighting, no space, no hideaway for an exit. The laughter from drinkers comes through from one side, the occasional squeal of a train braking from the other. It is raw, rough, even ridiculous. And it is brilliant. It has intimacy and character, for a company concentrating on word brought to life in acting. Dirty Protest has found a venue to match.” "Dirty Protest Christmas Party" : 09 December 2011 “The Dirty Protest team certainly lived up to their promise and re-claimed the Christmas party, daring and attention drawing, an almost flawless night, any small delay between was negligible as the atmosphere buzzed and everyone got stuck in.” "The Bells of Shoreditch": 16 January 2009 “Quirkiness, excitement and enthusiasm are what drive this young company. Their first outing was in a Yurt in City Road, where several writers submitted short plays with actors and directors presenting them to packed audiences, from there they set up camp in a number of venues in the city and whilst appropriately they are now ensconced at Sherman Cymru, Wales’ designated new Writing Theatre, they seem content to remain strolling players.” Picture: "Last Christmas" |
Reviewed by: Adam Somerset |
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