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Statements After an Arrest Under the Immorality Act Gan | by Athol Fugard Cyfarwyddwr | Director Nicholai La Barrie CWMNI RICHARD BURTON COMPANY STATEMENTS AFTER AN ARREST UNDER THE IMMORALITY ACT Gan | By AthoL FUGard Cyfarwyddwr | Director NichoLai La BarriE Tocynnau | Tickets £5 Gwyliwch Ar-Lein | Watch Online www.rwcmd.ac.uk CYFRES MEWN CAMERA IN CAMERA SERIES Gan | By Lleoliad | Venue Athol Fugard Online Cyfarwyddwr | Director Filmed at the Sherman Nicholai La Barrie Studio in autumn 2020 Ffilmiwyd yn Stiwdio Sherman Iau 21 Ionawr yn ystod hydref 2020 Thursday 21 January 7.30pm STATEMENTS AFTER AN ARREST UNDER THE ImmoRaliTY ACT It’s South Africa under an Mae’n De Africa o dan apartheid government. The lywodraeth apartheid. Mae’r Immorality Act of 1957 prohibited gyfraith yn gwahardd rhyw sex between a white person and rhwng person gwyn a pherson a non-white person. sydd ddim yn wyn. A coloured* man and a white woman’s Mae perthynas dyn lliw* a menyw wyn relationship is in a fragile state. They meet mewn cyflwr bregus. Mae nhw’n cwrdd in secret, in the back of a library, until yn cyfrinachol, yng nghefn llyfrgell, nes they are spotted by a neighbour who ei bod nhw’n cael ei ddal gan chymydog. reports them. Exposed and vulnerable, Nawr yn agored i niwed, mae arolygwr an inspector shines a spotlight on their yn disgleirio golau ar ei berthynas nhw, relationship, and we see their fight for ac rydyn ni’n gweld ei frwydr am barch, respect, dignity and freedom. urddas a rhyddid. This is a powerful and moving play Mae hwn yn ddrama pwerus am about love, heartbreak and fragility. gariad, galar a breuder. *Coloured, as defined in the script, refers to an ethnic *Mae lliw, fel y’i diffinnir yn y sgript, yn cyfeirio at grŵp yn group in South Africa who are composed primarily of Ne Affrica sy’n cynnwys yn bennaf bersonau o dreftadaeth persons with multiple heritages - also sometimes known luosog - a elwir weithiau hefyd yn Cape Coloureds. as Cape Coloureds. #richardburtoncompany www.rwcmd.ac.uk CAST Frieda Errol Detective du Preez Katherine Devlin Blair Gyabaah Stuart Quigley TÎM CYNHYRCHU Cyfathrebydd Cynllunio DioLch I PRODUCTION TEAM Design Communicator With our thanKS TO Aleksandra Klos Cynllunydd Set a Gwisg Cynorthwyydd Cynllunio G and Monkey – Set and Costume Designer Design Assistant SU Shop and Bar Livia Jones Fenna Dejonge Lee Douglas Cynllunydd Goleuo Artistiaid Golygfaol Lighting Designer Scenic Artists James Holden Aidan Biddiscombe Cynorthwyydd Goleuo Mollie Cheek Lighting Assistant Fenna Dejonge Mattia Giubasso Xiaoyuan Hou Cynllunydd Sain Aleksandra Klos Sound Designer Ruxin Lyu Lauren Moir Alina Soare Is-Reolwr Cynhyrchu Bethan Wall Assistant Production Manager Ning Xian Kanoko Tobe Technegwyr | Technicians Rheolwr Llwyfan Joseph Lenehan Stage Manager Jess McGarry Emily Howard Technegydd a Dirprwy Reolwr Llwyfan Gweithredwr Sain Deputy Stage Manager Technician & Sound Op Elizabeth Hole Alexandra Douglas Is-Reolwyr Llwyfan Goruchwylwyr | Supervisors Assistant Stage Managers Ian Barnard Blaithin McReynolds Ailsa Bonner Jack Porter Elanor Higgins Laura Martin #richardburtoncompany www.rwcmd.ac.uk STAFF CBCDC RWCMD STAFF Actio A THEatr GErdd CYnhYrchu A Uwch DÎM RHEOLI ActinG & MuSicaL CHYNLLunio SEnior ManaGEMEnt THEatrE Production & DESIGN TEAM Jonathan Munby Rorie Brophy Professor Helena Gaunt Vivien Care Rob Clarke Mark Davies Louisa Clarke Sean Crowley Sean Crowley Jamie Garven Allie Edge Jonathan Munby Patricia Logue Ian Evans Kevin Price Kevin McCurdy Lucy Hall Tim Rhys-Evans Frances Newman Emma Hele Kate Stokes Davies Suzanne Packer Daz James Lucy Stout Eryl Huw Phillips Mike Robinson Brian Weir Pip Reeves Jen Rowlands Simon Reeves Bwrdd CYfarwYddwYR DIGWYddiadau Board of DirEctorS SwYddfa DraMA EVENTS DraMA OfficE Professor Helena Gaunt Laura Avery John Derrick (Chair) Heather Davies Tracey Bishop Manon Antoniazzi LVO Sian Jones Will Darke Mario Ferrelli Mitzy Wilson Chris Flavin Natasha Hale Naomi Griffiths Julie Lydon OBE Matt Jones Aled Miles Penny King Roger Munnings Leigh Kirk-Harris Jemma Terry Joanna Kyiet Nia Thomas Jo Marriott Brian Weir Steve McEvoy Lisa Morris Rebecca Rigby Matt Rogerson Janet Smith Cerys Wyn-Williams Gyda diolch i’r holl staff ar draws With thanks to all staff across the y Coleg sydd wedi cynorthwyo College who have assisted in the i lwyfannu’r cynyrchiadau hyn. staging of these productions. #richardburtoncompany www.rwcmd.ac.uk YnglŷN Â CHwmni RicHARD BURTon AbouT THE RicHARD BURTon CompanY The Richard Burton Company Cwmni Theatr Mewnol is the Royal Welsh College of Coleg Brenhinol Cerdd a Music and Drama’s own in-house Drama Cymru yw Cwmni theatre company. Richard Burton. It is made up of undergraduate and Mae’n cynnwys actorion, rheolwyr postgraduate actors, stage managers, llwyfan, cynllunwyr theatr a pherfformwyr theatre designers and musical theatre theatre gerdd israddedig ac ôl-radd. Fel performers. As one of Wales’ most un o theatrau cwmni mwyaf toreithiog prolific repertory companies, the Richard Cymru, bydd Cwmni Richard Burton Burton Company stages around fifteen yn llwfannu pymtheg cynhyrchiad bob productions each year ranging from blwyddyn, yn amrywio o ddramâu classic plays to contemporary drama, clasurol i waith cyfoes, ysgrifennu new writing and musical theatre. newydd a theatr gerdd. This amateur production of 'Statements After An Cyflwynir y cynhyrchiad amatur hwn o 'Statements Arrest Under the Immorality Act' is presented by After An Arrest Under the Immorality Act' drwy arrangement with Concord Theatricals Ltd. on behalf drefniant gyda Concord Theatricals Ltd. ar ran of Samuel French Ltd. www.concordtheatricals.co.uk Samuel French Ltd. www.concordtheatricals.co.uk. The videotaping or making of electronic or other Gwaherddir gwneud tapiau fideo neu recordiadau audio and/or visual recordings or streams of this electronig neu recordiadau sain a/neu weledol eraill production is strictly prohibited, a violation of United o ffrydiau’r cynhyrchiad hwn - byddai hynny’n torri Kingdom Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 Deddf Hawlfraint, Dyluniadau a Phatentau 1988 y and an actionable offense. Deyrnas Unedig ac yn drosedd gyfreithadwy. The Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama’s Cefnogir cyfnod preswyl Coleg Brenhinol residence at Sherman Cymru has been supported Cerdd a Drama Cymru yn Sherman Cymru gan by the Mosawi Foundation. Sefydliad Mosawi. Cefnogir drama yng Ngholeg The Carne Trust, The Hodge Foundation, Simon Gibson Charitable Trust, Leverhulme Trust, Brenhinol Cerdd a Drama Cymru gan: Gregory Nasmyth and the Hon. Samantha Rowe-Beddoe, Spielman Charitable Trust, Drama at the Royal Welsh College Peter and Janet Swinburn, the late Neil and Mary Webber, The Mosawi Foundation, of Music & Drama is supported by: Catherine Zeta-Jones CBE FRWCMD, Sean Mathias and the late Jackie Skarvellis. #richardburtoncompany www.rwcmd.ac.uk.
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