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=0C8>=0; C740CA4 F0;4B C74 34E8; 8=B834 78< 1H 9>7= >B1>A=4 r .": p /&8 5)&"53& p $"3%*'' =0C8>=0;C740CA4F0;4B>A6 3&(*45&3&% $0.1"/: /0 $)"3*5: 3&(*453"5*0/ /0 $07&3 %&4*(/ #: &-'&/$06, $07&3 1)050(3"1): #: %"/ 8*-50/ “THEY’VE BEEN KILLING THE INSIDE OF ME EVER SINCE I CAN REMEMBER. IS IT WORSE TO MURDER A BODY OR A SOUL?” Buried secrets and hidden passions erupt during one life-changing night. Written by the original angry young man of British theatre, this long lost play is a call to arms for all young men out of step with their world. Huw is a butcher’s assistant and budding poet, too full of passion and wild visions for pious society. When the village turns on him one dark night, is the devil in the hunter or the hunted? John Osborne is best known for his trail-blazing work, Look Back in Anger. This earlier play was produced twice in the 1950s and then buried in the archives of the British Library until it was rediscovered in 2009. National Theatre Wales presents the world premiere of the uncut version of this lost classic of British theatre. THE DEVIL INSIDE HIM Elen Bowman BY JOHN OSBORNE / DIRECTED BY ELEN BOWMAN / DESIGNED BY ALEX EALES LIGHTING DESIGN BY MALCOLM RIPPETH / COMPOSER SIMON ALLEN Director CAST JAMIE BALLARD / JOHN CORDING / STEVEN ELLIOTT / HELEN GRIFFIN From my first reading of The Devil Inside Him, I was propelled DEREK HUTCHINSON / RACHEL LUMBERG / IWAN RHEON / CATRIN STEWART back to my childhood in Swansea as a young chapel-goer. The chapel and its congregation certainly did not have the THURSDAY 6 – SATURDAY 8 MAY PREVIEWS ....................................................................7.30PM extremist fervour of Osborne’s fire and brimstone, but his question about religion and the inner spirit reflected my own SUNDAY 9 MAY PREVIEW ...............................................................................................................4.00PM TUESDAY 11 – SATURDAY 15 MAY ....................................................................................7.30PM questions about the true meaning of why we gathered sometimes three times on a Sunday. As a child I knew that THURSDAY 13 & SATURDAY 15 MAY ................................................................................2.30PM what Jesus said made great sense, but as Huw Prosser THURSDAY 13 MAY CAPTIONED PERFORMANCE ...........................................................................2.30PM experiences, the traditions and ritual of the day could fade the SATURDAY 15 MAY TOUCH TOUR .................................................................................................1.00PM core meaning of what it was to truly ‘love one another’. I was SATURDAY 15 MAY AUDIO DESCRIBED PERFORMANCE ................................................................2.30PM gripped by Burn’s battle cry for a religion that could be found on the hillside and not in a ‘small cold chapel’, and realised that somehow I still cared about that possibility – a religion that could embrace the ancient messages of the Bible THEATRE IAITH SAESNEG O SAFON, A’I GWREIDDIAU YNG NGHYMRU, WEDI’I GWNEUD I BAWB unhindered by religious dogma. The cast spent time experiencing their characters’ belief systems as inspired by the Old Testament. They spent time absorbing the era of the play, National Theatre Wales is the new English-language theatre company producing world-class work across Wales. This creating the pictures in the imagination of Osborne’s post-war project is part of the launch year programme – 12 shows over 12 months, one a month, plus one spectacular finale – in Britain, and also getting to know the man himself. One of amazing places and unique spaces across Wales. Here is your rare opportunity to see an incredible John Osborne play Osborne’s other titles for the play was Cry for Love, something produced in its original setting, by a pioneering new company, with a stellar Welsh cast. that seemed tragically clear in his autobiography and in this heart-rending play. A murder mystery of the 1950s rep theatre tradition turns into a deeply challenging story, written before its time. Over 60 years later, Osborne’s play provokes us to consider the soul that is damaged by fear and repression, and VENUE CORE FUNDERS PARTNER SPONSOR YEAR ONE SPONSORS perhaps highlights how society still creates ‘devils’ who are Iwan Rheon as ultimately seeking ways and means to express their injustice. Huw Prosser REGISTERED COMPANY NO. 6693227 / CHARITY REGISTRATION NO. 1127952 / COVER DESIGN BY ELFEN.CO.UK / COVER PHOTOGRAPHY BY DAN WILTON “THEY’VE BEEN KILLING THE INSIDE OF ME EVER SINCE I CAN REMEMBER. IS IT WORSE TO MURDER A BODY OR A SOUL?” Buried secrets and hidden passions erupt during one life-changing night. Written by the original angry young man of British theatre, this long lost play is a call to arms for all young men out of step with their world. Huw is a butcher’s assistant and budding poet, too full of passion and wild visions for pious society. When the village turns on him one dark night, is the devil in the hunter or the hunted? John Osborne is best known for his trail-blazing work, Look Back in Anger. This earlier play was produced twice in the 1950s and then buried in the archives of the British Library until it was rediscovered in 2009. National Theatre Wales presents the world premiere of the uncut version of this lost classic of British theatre. THE DEVIL INSIDE HIM Elen Bowman BY JOHN OSBORNE / DIRECTED BY ELEN BOWMAN / DESIGNED BY ALEX EALES LIGHTING DESIGN BY MALCOLM RIPPETH / COMPOSER SIMON ALLEN Director CAST JAMIE BALLARD / JOHN CORDING / STEVEN ELLIOTT / HELEN GRIFFIN From my first reading of The Devil Inside Him, I was propelled DEREK HUTCHINSON / RACHEL LUMBERG / IWAN RHEON / CATRIN STEWART back to my childhood in Swansea as a young chapel-goer. The chapel and its congregation certainly did not have the THURSDAY 6 – SATURDAY 8 MAY PREVIEWS ....................................................................7.30PM extremist fervour of Osborne’s fire and brimstone, but his question about religion and the inner spirit reflected my own SUNDAY 9 MAY PREVIEW ...............................................................................................................4.00PM TUESDAY 11 – SATURDAY 15 MAY ....................................................................................7.30PM questions about the true meaning of why we gathered sometimes three times on a Sunday. As a child I knew that THURSDAY 13 & SATURDAY 15 MAY ................................................................................2.30PM what Jesus said made great sense, but as Huw Prosser THURSDAY 13 MAY CAPTIONED PERFORMANCE ...........................................................................2.30PM experiences, the traditions and ritual of the day could fade the SATURDAY 15 MAY TOUCH TOUR .................................................................................................1.00PM core meaning of what it was to truly ‘love one another’. I was SATURDAY 15 MAY AUDIO DESCRIBED PERFORMANCE ................................................................2.30PM gripped by Burn’s battle cry for a religion that could be found on the hillside and not in a ‘small cold chapel’, and realised that somehow I still cared about that possibility – a religion that could embrace the ancient messages of the Bible THEATRE IAITH SAESNEG O SAFON, A’I GWREIDDIAU YNG NGHYMRU, WEDI’I GWNEUD I BAWB unhindered by religious dogma. The cast spent time experiencing their characters’ belief systems as inspired by the Old Testament. They spent time absorbing the era of the play, National Theatre Wales is the new English-language theatre company producing world-class work across Wales. This creating the pictures in the imagination of Osborne’s post-war project is part of the launch year programme – 12 shows over 12 months, one a month, plus one spectacular finale – in Britain, and also getting to know the man himself. One of amazing places and unique spaces across Wales. Here is your rare opportunity to see an incredible John Osborne play Osborne’s other titles for the play was Cry for Love, something produced in its original setting, by a pioneering new company, with a stellar Welsh cast. that seemed tragically clear in his autobiography and in this heart-rending play. A murder mystery of the 1950s rep theatre tradition turns into a deeply challenging story, written before its time. Over 60 years later, Osborne’s play provokes us to consider the soul that is damaged by fear and repression, and VENUE CORE FUNDERS PARTNER SPONSOR YEAR ONE SPONSORS perhaps highlights how society still creates ‘devils’ who are Iwan Rheon as ultimately seeking ways and means to express their injustice. 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