SKINS' writer and one of the UK's rising theatre stars Lucy Kirkwood will make her Welsh debut as Dirty Protest Theatre takes to the stage at Cardiff's Clwb Ifor Bach next month. (Dec 12) The famous nightclub, more used to sets from legendary and up-and-coming bands, will host live theatre for the first time. The night will see a revival of some of Dirty Protest's hits from the year and also a chance to catch some of the hottest young Welsh and English writing talent as they present a series of new specially commissioned short monologues with the theme of Settling Scores. Co-founder Tim Price said, "Dirty Protest is all about supporting Welsh writers and Welsh theatre. And one way of doing that, perversely, is to invite the best talent outside of Wales to come and take part alongside our best Welsh writers. We're lucky enough to have two of the best young voices in British theatre in Lucy Kirkwood and Matt Hartley. "Both writers have never had work on in Wales, so we're made up to be able to introduce them to a Welsh audience.' The party will round off a highly successful year for the theatre company which has included sold out nights in the yurt at Milgi, nightclub 10 Feet Tall and Sherman Cymru plus performances at Latitude Festival and a special Welsh language night at the Wales Millennium Centre. And more importantly it will round off a year that had proved that young people are just as keen to go and see new theatre as the latest hyped band - you just have to take the theatre to them and they will queue round the block. Dirty Protest has been keen to put on low-fi, accessible and edgy nights in pubs and clubs giving a platform to new writers and a different audience for established and award-winning playwrights. This line-up is one of the strongest the company has presented yet. Lucy's first play Tinderbox was staged at the Bush, she was one of the writers for the Bush's 50 Ways to Leave Your Lover, and is currently under commission to Clean Break theatre company. She is also a writer on Skins and her re-imagining of Ibsen's Hedda Gabler was critically acclaimed. Matt's play 16 Minutes was performed at Latitude festival, he is one of Paines Plough's Future Perfect writers, the founding member of the Sour Feast Theatre Company and also won the 2007 Bruntwood under 25s playwriting competition. The Welsh contingent include multi award winning playwright Gary Owen, novelist and Pobol y Cwm writer Geraint Lewis, Paines Plough writer Bethan Marlow, Bafta Cymru nominated writer Tim Price. Plays from previous Dirty Protest events are all to be recast and directed by Dirty Protest's own Mared Swain, True/Fiction Theatre's Matthew Bulgo and writer Kit Lambert. The plays revived will be Alan Harris's Geromino, Doctor Who and Torchwood writer Helen Raynor's play Anyone Out There, Stuart Allen's Hardcore Teen Mistletoe Seduction, Dr Ian Lewis's Buttoning Up The Bacardiagan in the Cold Antarctic Summer and Kit Lambert's Lunch Break. All plays will star Skins' actress Siwan Morris, Lee Mengo, Sion Pritchard and Ffion Williams. The night will end with the inaugural Dirty Protest awards and DJs including Carl Rylatt. *Dirty Protest: The Mixtape at Clwb Ifor Bach on Friday December 12 from 7.30pm till late. £5 |
| web site: www.dirtyprotesttheatre.co.uk |
| e-mail: info@dirtyprotesttheatre.co.uk |
Saturday, November 29, 2008 |
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