The Village Social Newspaper with Amendments NEW 17/10.Indd

The Village Social Newspaper with Amendments NEW 17/10.Indd

FREE PROGRAMME NTW15 NATIONALTHEATREWALES.ORG NTW15 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 Wales 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 Opera (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 Cardiff); 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. London 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). 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THE VILLAGE SOCIAL THE CREATIVE TEAM 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 (Soho Theatre / 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.

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