Aaron Farrell La Cenerentola is an operatic Cinderella story, as told by the music of Gioachini Rossini, famed 19th century Italian composer. The Welsh National Opera’s La Cenerentola is layered with playful meta-humour, grand staging and a vivid colour spectrum (seemingly born in Terry Gilliam’s dreams) that drenches the […]
Aaron Farrell Saturday Night Fever is a film with cult status. To take its formula of iconography in Brooklyn, Travolta, and Disco then morph it in a stage production is a bold move by Bill Kenwright. Boldness often leads to brilliance, or at least a bloody good time. Whilst […]
Ifan Morgan Jones Ein Gwlad is a new Welsh political party that launched over the summer, with the aim of reenergising politics in Wales. This book looks at first glance like a party manifesto, or at least an explainer as to what this new political party stands for. As someone […]
Ifan Morgan Jones This book is a collection of essays, columns and speeches by Adam Price, bookended by his most recent calls to arms at Plaid Cymru’s 2018 spring and summer conference. But it also includes some of his greatest hits going back over ten years, back to the time […]
Lila Haines This is not a book about Britain, Fintan O’Toole insists in his introduction. Scotland and Wales are largely and deliberately absent from it because, he argues, “Brexit is essentially an English phenomenon”. It is, however, a book with something for the many – for puzzled citizens wondering how […]
Ifan Morgan Jones Iolo Morganwg seems to be in vogue at the moment. This book, which offers a “new and exciting portrayal” of the laudanum-soaked polymath comes hot on the heels of two novels, I, Iolo, and Saith Cam Iolo, both released within the past four years. Not that the […]
Ten years since the death of Ray Gravell, a book has been published full of some of the best stories about the Wales, Lions and Scarlets legend. The book’s editor, Welsh opera and classical singer Rhys Meirion, said that he was inspired by the fact that the giant from Mynydd […]
Aaron Farrell Wildlife is an earnest study of parenthood, childhood and how the coming-of-age and expectations of others never cease to exist. Following Joe (Ed Oxenbould on career-making form), a sweet, mild-mannered fourteen-year-old school, the audience witness the deconstruction of his parents marriage as wildfires close to the Canadian border […]
Aaron Farrell “It is my ideal that you can look in the audience’s eye and that they can look into yours,” preambles Sir Ian McKellen during the interviews and contextualisation of King Lear before the show. “I scream Brexit before every performance,” leers Sinead Cusack (Kent). Cusack acknowledging not only […]
Aaron Farrell Opening with an explosive heist botched so terribly that no one escapes alive, Widows sets its stall right away. This isn’t your glamourous amusing Heist movie or your action-packed caper of a Heist movie, its one that deals with the aftermath of those concepts, fittingly and timely, having […]
