Nation●Cymru

Jon Gower To judge this book by its cover, and with the imprimatur of its title, you might not expect it to be an easy read.  Yet it is a testament to the clarity of the writing by the 35 contributors that you can read it much as one would […]

A £50,000 appeal fund has been set up to erect a statue in memory of the Formula 1 ace Tom Pryce in his hometown of Denbigh. The official launch was timed to coincide with what would have been the local hero’s 70th birthday (Tuesday, June 11) and just weeks following the […]

Emily Garside National Theatre Wales are celebrating 70 years of the NHS in 2018 with a series of plays about the institution and what it means to us. One of those, ‘Cotton Fingers’ by Rachel Trezise, returns with a tour of Northern Ireland and Wales before heading to the Edinburgh […]

Lynda Tunnicliffe, Director of Rily Publications 2018 was the worst year of my life. My wonderful Mam died of stomach cancer. It was so sudden – she found out she was ill one month and was gone the next. The shock of her loss made me realise how vital the […]

Emily Garside As we move towards summer it’s worth taking a look around some upcoming highlights in the Welsh Theatre scene. From family-friendly works to international collaborations and homegrown musicals. For Young People, Theatre Iolo in collaboration with The Riverfront is Transporter a play for young people aged 11 and […]

A new free online magazine for Wales’ teenage girls will be launched today. The website for Lysh Cymru will be launched on the Urdd Eisteddfod field in Cardiff at 12pm at the Tipi Syr Ifanc with a performance by the band Gwilym. The site’s editor Llinos Dafydd said that it […]

 An author hopes to bring Welsh mythology alive to the children of Wales in an adaptation of the best-selling The Wizards of Once book series. The Welsh-language adaptation, Yr Hudlath a’r Haearn, will be available to but on the Eisteddfod yr Urdd Maes in Cardiff Bay this week. Author Ifan Morgan Jones said […]

Emily Garside Rhod Gilbert is back on tour after six years. And it’s been an eventful six years. ‘Strap in Cardiff’ he says after listing that, among other things, the show will be about; his Mum’s death, his Dad’s heart attack, his stroke and infertility. So far so cheery right? […]

 Emily Garside Katherine Chandler, Sherman Theatre’s playwright in residence presents the premiere of her newest play ‘Lose Yourself’. On the surface a look at hedonism, and a contemporary need to disappear into oblivion however that comes. More than that a look at celebrity, on a minor and major scale, […]

Emily Garside Sarah Kane’s work is that of true experiment in writing. It’s always fascinating when a writer’s work becomes so quickly enshrined that examination of what makes it so is almost forgotten. But the right production will also make an audience interrogate the text as much as the performance. […]