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. […]
Jon Gower An Arthur Machen epigram to this supremely confident debut collection of short stories tells of the unknown world which is “…in truth, about us everywhere, everywhere near to our feet; the thinnest veil separates us from it, the door in the wall of the next street communicates with […]
Emily Garside Powderhouse are Sherman Theatre’s newest company in residence, and Saethu Cwningod/Shooting Rabbits is their debut production. A bilingual company, they are Chelsey Gillard and Jac Ifan Moore. Both have a history with Sherman, having developed their careers in part via the Sherman Theatre’s sector-leading scheme the JMK / […]
Jon Gower Bravo. This road movie-come-documentary-come-homage to Welsh language pop is easily one of the best things I’ve seen on the box in many a long moon. Over the course of 90 minutes, self-styled music geek or anorak Huw Stephens took us on a musical journey around today’s dynamic scene, […]
M. Wynn Thomas, Professor of English and Emyr Humphreys Professor of Welsh Writing in English, Swansea University Today, a distinguished author celebrates his hundredth birthday. Is there any precedent for such in the very long history of Welsh culture? I know of none. So the celebrations on Monday, 15 April of […]
Aaron Farrell For The Love Of Mary What will you be doing when your 97 years old? The easy answer is nothing as humanity will rightfully be wiped out by climate cataclysms. If that miraculously doesn’t come to pass however, do you think you would be running a 7.6 mile […]
Jon Gower In 1966 Robert F. Kennedy made a speech in which he alluded to a possibly apocryphal Chinese curse, the one that runs ‘May he live in interesting times.’ Expanding on the theme Kennedy suggested that ‘Like it or not, we live in interesting times. They are times of […]
Fe gyflwynwyd nofel newydd Cefin Roberts, Os Na Ddôn Nhw… (Y Lolfa) i deulu Caerdegog, Ynys Môn ‘am ddal eu tir’. Caerdegog yw un o’r ffermydd sy’n ffinio â’r Wylfa, y pwerdy niwclear a adeiladwyd dros 50 o flynyddoedd yn ôl. Fe wrthododd y teulu Jones werthu 65 acer o dir y […]
