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By Ben Lewis and Dafydd James

The village hall. What is it for? A place for the Because beneath even the most respectable Sometimes it’s good to remember, even to Music is at the heart of this. There’s no rational people of the community to gather together in exterior will lurk some strange impulse, some celebrate, the fact that we are, after all, just explanation to why we like listening to music. It shared activity: to celebrate, commemorate, debate, irrational craving, some inappropriate imagining. another type of animal. We just happen to wear interacts with some mysterious part of our brains. learn about local history, to sing, dance, exercise, Even Mary Whitehouse must have had the odd fruity blouses and operate heavy machinery. Maybe And, like nothing else, music can work its way in to be entertained, to entertain? But what if it dream or let out the occasional stinker, whether sometimes it’s perfectly healthy to give vent to our there like a virus. It can make you cry, make you became a place where all the darkest secrets, the she liked it or not. None of us are completely in irrational impulses, submit to our inner craziness, feel ecstatic, passionate, angry, turned on, queasy. unconscious desires of that community of ordinary control of our bodies, even less our minds and the run into the woods and howl at the moon, scream And sometimes, it can just about drive you out people were unleashed? What would that be like? surprising, embarrassing, shameful, disgusting, from the terraces, let rip in the mosh pit. Just so of your mind. intoxicating thoughts that sometimes pop unbidden long as we don’t hurt anyone else and are prepared to the surface. to tidy up after ourselves. THE VILLAGE SOCIAL THE CAST

From left: Gwydion Rhys, Darren Lawrence, Carys Eleri, Sue Roderick. Rebecca Harries, Oliver Wood, Orchard / National Theatre Photograph: Warren

CARYS ELERI (YVONNE) REBECCA HARRIES (LISA-JEˆN) DARREN LAWRENCE (LAWRENCE)

Theatre credits include: Rebecca trained at Aberystwyth University and East 15 Acting School. Darren trained at the Central School of Speech and Drama. Romeo a Juliet, Plas Drycin, Hen Rebel, Tyˆ ar y Tywod, Dominos, Tyˆ Bernarda Alba (Theatr Genedlaethol Cymru); I Sing for a Maiden Theatre credits include: Theatre credits include: (Chapter/Harmonium Productions). Stage shows for S4C; Amdani, Dosbarth, (Script Cymru); Dan y The Passion (National Theatre Wales); Romeo & Juliet (Mokitagrit); Wenallt (Theatr Gwynedd); Chatsky (Almeida), Hobson’s Choice, Elegies For Angels Punks, Raging Queens (Black Box Belfast); The Television credits include: Metamorphosis (Birmingham Rep). Beach (Cockpit Theatre); Dick Whittington (Leeds City Varieties); Pobol y Cwm (BBC); Teulu (Boomerang). Erogenous Zones, Saturday Night Forever, All’s Fair (Sherman Television credits include: Theatre); Butterflies Are Free (The Mermaid); Nothing To Pay (Thin Film credits include: Ar y Tracs (Tidy Productions); Belonging, Pobol y Cwm, Language Theatre Company); The Marriage (Three Legged Company); Merlin and the War of the Dragons, Dragon Crusaders, The Asylum. The Bench (BBC); Con Passionate (Apollo); Teulu (Boomerang), The Beggars (Wilton’s Music Hall). Indian Doctor (Rondon). Radio credits include: Television credits include: Rhacsym Sam Snape, Dim Ond Un, Radio credits include: Days That Shook The World, Broken Glass, various voiceover work for animation on S4C. 3 Diwrnod yn Abertawe, Sal, Ponty (Radio Cymru); Lipstick On Your Collar (BBC) Nuts & Bolts (HTV Wales). numerous voiceovers and cartoons for S4C and the BBC. Radio credits include: The Throne Room (BBC Radio 4).

GWYDION RHYS (DION) SUE RODERICK (JEAN) OLIVER WOOD (DAVE)

Gwydion trained at Trinity College, Carmarthen. He was the Winner Theatre credits include: Oliver trained at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama. of the Richard Burton Prize for Acting in 2009. Servant of Two Masters (Wales Theatre Company); 3 Minute Hamlet (Looking Glass Theatre); Granny Annie (Grass Roots); How the Other Theatre credits include: Theatre credits include: Half Loves, SAP, Under Milk Wood (Welsh Drama Company); the A Good Night Out In The Valleys (National Theatre Wales); Rude Fresh Apples / Fale Surion (Cwmni’r Fraˆn Wen); Cwrw, Chips pantomimes Cinderella and Wizard of Oz (New Theatre); Bloody (Give it a Name Theatre Company); Shadow Of A Boy, Waves In The A Darlith Deg (Arad Goch); Iesu (Theatr Genedlaethol Cymru); Wedding (Almeida); Desire Lines (Sherman Cymru). Chatroom, (Sherman Cymru); Cinderella (Torch Theatre); Farewell Fair Cruelty, A Simple Twist Of Fate, Woyzeck (whilst Fiddler On The Roof (Aberystwyth Arts Centre); Sleeping Beauty training at Trinity College). Television credits include: (New Wolsey Theatre); Electricity (West Yorkshire Playhouse); Ista’nbwl, Caerdydd, Pobol Y Cwm, Licyris Olsorts (S4C); Streets Merchant Of Venice, Twelfth Night, Cymbeline (New Theatre, Musical credits Include: of Gold, Trip Trap, Oliver’s Travel, The Life of Eliza, Casualty, The ); The Owl Service (Theatre Royal, Plymouth) Clymau and Heb Ei Fai performed whilst training at Trinity College. Lifeboat, Selected Exits, Penny For Your Dreams (BBC); Mortimer’s and Romeo and Juliet (English Touring Theatre). Law, Satellite City, Max Boyce Show (BBC Wales); A Mind To Kill, Television credits include: The Committee, To Each His Own (HTV); The Bill, Coronation Street, Television credits include: Zanzibar, Marcaroni a’r Lwli Lw (S4C). End of Season (ITV); The Angry Earth (Channel 4). Crash, Belonging, High Hopes (BBC Wales); Green Green Grass (BBC), Tati’s Hotel (ITV). Film credits include: Patagonia, Twin Town, Morphine & Dolly Mixtures, Film credits include: Rebecca’s Daughter and Hedd Wyn. Boulevard (G K Films).

Radio credits include: Radio credits include: Tree of Liberty (BBC Wales), Burnt (BBC Radio 4); Pavement Stars, Truth Or Dare, Running Away With Born in Rhymney (BBC Radio Wales). The Hairdresser, Steel Stitches (Radio 4). NTW15

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DAFYDD JAMES BEN LEWIS CAI DYFAN COLIN GRENFELL Co-creator / Musical Director Co-creator / Director Designer Lighting Designer

Dafydd is an award-winning composer, writer and Ben is a writer, director and performer. With Cai was born an raised in the heart of Snowdonia, Theatre credits include: performer. He won the Total Theatre Award for Dafydd James, he co-created and directed My North Wales. There, he lived with his family in Macbeth, Canary (Liverpool Playhouse / UK Tour); his show ‘My Name is Sue’, which he co-wrote Name Is Sue ( / touring, Total an old watermill, on the edge of a deep forest. The Caretaker (Liverpool Everyman / Bath Theatre with Ben Lewis. He studied English Literature Theatre Award 09). He is co-Artistic Director of Perhaps it was these these dramatic surroundings Royal / Trafalgar Studios); Unprotected (Liverpool at Edinburgh University, trained at the London award-winning theatre company Inspector Sands, that influenced him to pursue a career in creating Everyman); Black Watch, Men Should Weep, The International School of Performing Arts (LISPA) jointly creating their shows, If That’s All There Is expressive spaces for performance. Since then, Bacchae, 365 (National Theatre of Scotland); and is about to complete his doctoral thesis (Edinburgh International Festival Award 09, Lyric Cai has graduated from the Royal Welsh College When the Rain Stops Falling, Through a Glass in performance at Warwick University. He has Hammersmith / Traverse Theatre) and Hysteria of Music and Drama and has been fortunate Darkly (Almeida); For Improbable: 70 Hill Lane recently translated ‘Spring Awakening: The (Total Theatre Award 06, Southbank Centre/ enough to work on a huge variety of projects, (UK / US tours), Animo (UK / WAC Minneapolis), musical’ for the Theatr Genedlaethol Cymru and BAC), both of which have toured extensively to from big budget films, to devised site specific Lifegame (UK tour, National Theatre, Jane Street written a play for young people titled ‘Click’, countries including China, Russia, Germany and theatre. Recently, Cai designed for Paines Plough Theatre NY), Coma (UK tour), Spirit (UK / US tour, a co-production between Mess up the Mess; most recently to the Brits Off Broadway Festival & Birmingham Rep’s production of ‘Wasted’ by New York Theatre Workshop), The Hanging Man Australian Theatre for Young People, the Hong in New York. Kate Tempest, ‘Your Last Breath’ for Curious (West Yorkshire Playhouse,UK / US tour), Theatre Kong Academy of Performing Arts and the Directive, and ‘The Passion’ for National Theatre of Blood (National Theatre), Panic (UK / US / Strangers Project, Nelson. He has also written The company are currently developing their third Wales and Wildworks. Recent film work has been Sydney Opera House); The Thief of Baghdad (Royal two episodes for the second series of ‘Gwaith/ show, Mass Observation, with the Southbank an internship on Tim Burton’s forthcoming stop Opera House); Riflemind, Alex, 2Graves (West Cartref’ (Fiction Factory). His critically acclaimed Centre, the Almeida and the National Theatre motion animation feature ‘Frankenweenie’, and End); Touched (Salisbury Playhouse); Single Spies play ‘Llwyth’ was co-produced by Sherman Cymru Studio. Other work includes, as a writer, two working for the Greens Team on ‘Pirates of The (Bath Theatre Royal); Out of Time (Dublin Festival, and Theatr Genedlaethol Cymru as part of this radio plays, Tiny and Blue Sky Thinking, both for Caribbean- On Stranger Tides’. Madrid); The Two Faces of Mitchell and Webb year’s British Council Showcase, at the Edinburgh BBC Radio 4. He also co-founded comedy theatre (Tour); Separate Tables, Kes (Royal Exchange, Festival. He is now developing the screenplay. company People Can Run, co-creating their shows Manchester); Tick Tick…Boom! (Menier Chocolate Aruba (Pleasance / UK tour / Ohio Theater, NYC), Factory); Kosher Harry, Body Talk (Royal Court); Past scores include: Fish Story (Pleasance / Ohio Theater, NYC), The Heavenly (Frantic Assembly); Missing Reel (West The Hunting of the Snark (Stephen Joseph Ushers (Pleasance / UK tour) and the short film Yorkshire Playhouse). Opera includes extensive Theatre, Scarborough; Cameron Mackintosh Award Happy Birthday (Just For Laughs Comedy Film work for Opera Holland Park; Fidelio (OTC Dublin); winner); Whatever! The Musical (C Venues); Ghost Festival, Montreal). Ben trained at LAMDA. La Bohème (ETO); Falstaff Mid-Wales Opera; Shirt (The Tron, ); Pinocchio (Northampton Piccard in Space (SouthBank Centre). Royal Playhouse); Apocalypse Wow (The Venue, London); Woof Woof Kerching! (BAC, London); Under Milkwood (Northampton Royal) and Snowchild (Sherman Cymru/Theatr Iolo). NTW15

Co-creators, Ben Lewis and Dafydd James Orchard / National Theatre Wales Photograph: Warren

ELENA PEÑA TESSA SILLARS-POWELL JACOB LLYR DONNA REEVES Sound Designer Set & Costume Supervisor Production Manager Deputy Stage Manager

Elena began her theatre career with Paco Peña’s Having recently graduated in Theatre Design Jacob has worked with National Theatre Wales Theatre credits include: Flamenco Dance Company touring to major from RWCMD, where she developed her skills a number of times. He also has most recently The Passion (National Theatre Wales); Barkin’ international venues, from the Sydney Opera designing and making set, costume and puppets, been involved with Freedom Theatre, a cultural (Grassroots Productions); The Breath of Life; House to London’s Royal Festival Hall. Tessa is excited to be back on her second show organisation working in a refugee camp in Palestine. True West, An Enemy of the People, The Cherry for NTW, after being part of the design team Orchard, The Caretaker, The Long and the Short Sound credits include: on The Passion. Tessa enjoys working with a and the Tall, Promises Promises, Gladiator Festival of Firsts, Summer Collection, Helen variety of materials to create unusual bespoke Games, Don Carlos, Fen, A Chorus Line, World Chadwick’s Dalston Songs and Voices Across the costumes, and has had great fun doing so on Music, Macbeth, Kick For Touch (Crucible Theatre, World, Linbury Theatre. The Village Social. Sheffield); Alice Through the Looking Glass, Around the World in 80 Days (the egg / Theatre Sound design credits include: Royal Bath); Dial M For Murder (West Yorkshire Building Babble (Attic People); Fish Story CATHERINE PASKELL FIONA CURTIS Playhouse and Fiery Angel); All the Fun of the (People Can Run); Punch and Judy Redux Community Promoter Stage Manager Fair (Alan Darlow Productions in association with (Dissentertainment); If That’s All There Is the Bromley); The Revenger’s (Inspector Sands - Associate Sound Designer); Catherine is a former Creative Associate of This is Fiona’s fourth production with National Tragedy, The Flags (Royal Exchange, Manchester); The Internationalist ( – Assistant National Theatre Wales between 2009-2011. Theatre Wales as Stage Manager. She most of all, The Almond and the Seahorse (Sherman Cymru); Sound Designer); Unbroken (Gate Theatre); She is also a theatre director originally from enjoyed running around the beach in Prestatyn Victory, Look Back In Anger, Waiting for Godot Plasticine (); The House of Cardiff. At National Theatre Wales she directed for ‘The Beach’. She trained at Hope Street in (Peter Hall Company / Theatre Royal, Bath); Yes (Birmingham School of Acting); Under Milk The Beach, and interactive theatre game and Liverpool as an apprentice and enjoys challenging Betrayal (); Don Carlos Wood (Northampton Royal Theatre); Gambling the company’s fifth production of their first year outdoor theatre and site specific projects. Other (, ACT Productions); To Kill A (Raz Shaw – Soho Theatre); The 13 Midnight programme of twelve shows. She also directed companies she has worked with include Volcano Mockingbird (Clwyd Theatre Cymru); Peter Pan Challenges of Angelus Diablo (RSC); Mass The Assembly, a participatory programme where and Wired Aerial. ( and Plymouth Theatre Royal Observation (Edinburgh International Festival); local artists and communities debate and for Qdos Entertainment Ld); Fly Me To The Moon Quimeras (Edinburgh International Festival, respond to what matters to them. She’s also (Stephen Joseph Theatre, Scarborough and Hull Playhouse); Love & Money (ArtsEd); One Night In the conduit for the New Critics programme, Truck Theatre Co); The Owl Who Was Afraid of the Iran (Oran Mor); A Mini Mass Observation Project designed to train theatre critics in Wales and Dark (Bristol Old Vic); The Faery Queen (Gabrieli (Royal Festival Hall South Bank Centre); 3rd Ring jointly run with Literature Wales. She trained on Consort and Players); Gwyneth and the Green Out (Metis Arts – Associate Sound Designer); the MFA Theatre Directing course at Birkbeck Knight, The Lighthouse (Music Theatre Wales) Bette & Joan: The Final Curtain and has a degree in American Studies from (Foursight Theatre / ). Nottingham University. Before working for National Theatre Wales, Catherine directed new work for theatres and companies including Unity Theatre Liverpool, Oldham Coliseum, Lyric Theatre Hammersmith, Trafalgar Studios, Contact Manchester, People Show, Dende Collective, Theatre 503, The Finborough, Tara Arts, Haddo House Opera, Baron’s Court Theatre and the Octagon Theatre Bolton, where she was also Resident Assistant Director. THE VILLAGE SOCIAL

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NTW19 LITTLE DOGS In partnership with Frantic Assembly COMING SOON… Patti Pavilion, Swansea BOOKING OPENS DECEMBER 2011 May 2012 Across the city, hearts are beating and the mating ritual has begun. In NTW16 the nightclubs, the bus shelters, the back streets and the sand dunes, daring girls and reckless boys engage MUNDO PARALELO in a desperate dance while the less fortunate observe and pretend it doesn’t In Theatres across Wales hurt. Created by Frantic Assembly, and staged in Swansea’s richly atmospheric February 2012 Patti Pavilion, this production is inspired by the Dylan Thomas story An angel touches a woman on her ‘Just Like Little Dogs’ and the furtive shoulder, and daily life is transformed NTW18 hours so many of us have spent into a place of magic and passion. With searching for kindness and warmth in circus artists from around the globe THE RADICALISATION the shadows of the city. at the centre of this extraordinary spectacle, in Mundo Paralelo, NoFit OF BRADLEY MANNING State Circus brings its unique sense of danger and mystery into the theatre. Haverfordwest and beyond NTW20 March / April 2012 IN WATER I’M NTW17 Bradley Manning, the 23-year-old WEIGHTLESS held responsible for the release of A PROVINCIAL LIFE thousands of US embassy emails to An Unlimited Commission Wikileaks is currently in the brig in for the London 2012 Cultural Sherman Cymru, Cardiff Virginia. Many people believe he is being tortured. He may face the death Olympiad. March 2012 penalty. But just a few years ago he was a teenager in Wales. How does July / August 2012 his story impact on the people he left One of Wales’s greatest writers Award-winning writer Kaite O’Reilly and directors, Peter Gill, returns to behind. And who is responsible for his ‘radicalisation’? has lived all of her life with a visual Chekhov’s Russia with his adaptation of impairment. For this poetic, provocative this intriguing story, exploring how lofty and sometimes grotesquely funny piece ideals can decay into frustration and of theatre, she has taken inspiration hatred. “We are living among animals. from the experiences, attitudes and Let them bite out each other’s throats.” imagination of disabled and Deaf people from across the whole of the UK. Working with choreographer Nigel Charnock, designer Paul Clay, NTW’s artistic director, John McGrath, and a powerful cast of Deaf and disabled performers, Kaite’s unique texts will explore the endless possibilities of human difference.

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