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BRUISED 10 – 26 May 2012
Written by Welsh actor Matthew Trevannion, Bruised is a fierce, funny and beautiful play about family, courage and the legacy of violence.
"Going somewhere are we? Anywhere nice? I hear Thailand’s lovely. Here, now don’t you worry about those two while you’re away, alright? I’ll look after your girls. And when you go this time, do us a favour will you? Just stay. Stay there."
Pontypool, South Wales. Shane has built a good life for himself in the Williams’ household. He sells drugs from the flat, his young girlfriend Stephanie is pregnant and her mother has become the mother he never had. On the eve of Stephanie’s twenty-first birthday, Noah Williams returns home for the first time in a decade. Battered and bloodied, he arrives to find his sister pregnant and his brother Adam confined to the shadows as his fragile mother papers over the cracks. Everything about Shane appals him, but does he have a right to reclaim the family he abandoned?
Written by Welsh actor Matthew Trevannion, Bruised is a fierce, funny and beautiful play about family, courage and the legacy of violence.
Directed by Clwyd Theatr Cymru Associate DirectorKate Wasserberg following her acclaimed production of Roots by Arnold Wesker and her recent success with Dancing at Lughnasa by Brian Friel and Gaslight by Patrick Hamilton.
Age guidance 15+
7.45pm Saturday Matinees/Sioeau prynhawn Sadwrn 2.45pm
Talkback 24 May
Pay What You Can and Teen Tickets available.
Described Performances 17 May 7.45pm & 26 May 2.45pm
£12.00, Gallery £10.00. Concessions £2.00 off (excluding Saturday evenings).
Previews and First Night £10.00 Gallery £8.00, no concessions
Schools & Students/Groups/Disabled persons and an escort – please check with the Box Office for best available
MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG 03 May – 02 June 2012
Music and Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim
Book by George Furth
Based on the original play by George S. Kaufman & Moss Hart
Original orchestrations by Jonathan Tunick
Originally directed on Broadway by Harold Prince
Originally produced on Broadway by Lord Grade, Martin Starger, Robert Fryer & Harold Prince in association with Ruth Mitchell & Howard Haines.
Frank, Charley and Mary met at college in the late 1950s, becoming best friends. Merrily We Roll Along traces their extraordinary adventures together, starting in the mid-1970s, travelling backwards through time to those days when friends were inseparable, love was forever and life was brimming with optimism. This life-affirming musical play explores the challenges of friendship and the high price of success, set against the backdrop of one of the most turbulent periods in America's fascinating history.
Merrily We Roll Along contains some of Sondheim's most beautiful, moving and exuberant music.
Stephen Sondheim won a Pulitzer Prize for Drama and has also received eight Tony and eight Grammy awards. In a career spanning more than five decades he has written lyrics for the classic musicals West Side Story and Gypsy and music and lyrics for a string of hit shows including Sweeney Todd, Company, Follies, Sunday in the Park with George and A Little Night Music.
This new production of Merrily We Roll Along reunites regular collaborators Nikolai Foster, Morgan Large (Design), Nick Winston (Choreography) and Ben Cracknell (Lighting), with new orchestrations by George Dyer.
Director Nikolai Foster returns to Clwyd Theatr Cymru for the first time since his acclaimed production of A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams in 2005.
7.30pm, Saturday matinees 2.30pm
Talkbacks 24 & 31 May
Pay What You Can and Teen Tickets available.
Described Performances 19 May 2.30pm & 24 May 7.30pm
Captioned Performance 26 May 2.30pm
Ticket Prices £19.50, £16.50, £13.50, £10.00. Concessions £2.00 off top two ticket prices (excluding Saturday evenings) Previews and First Night £15.50, £13.50, £10.00. Concessions £2.00 off £15.50 tickets only (excluding Saturday evening)
Schools & Students/Groups/Disabled persons and an escort – please check with the Box Office for best available prices
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CLWYD THEATR CYMRU’S CELTIC FESTIVAL OF NEW WRITING 2012
11 April – 26 May
***See all 3 productions in the Celtic Festival and pay for only 2
when booked at the same time ***
The Celtic Festival is a celebration of new writing from the Celtic nations, featuring three of the best new plays from Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales.
Flagship theatre companies – Glasgow Citizens, The Lyric Theatre, Belfast and Clwyd Theatr Cymru - will perform under one roof in a new festival in Mold which will become an annual event.
The Celtic Festival takes place over seven weeks in the Emlyn Williams Theatre during April and May.
Citizens Theatre
THE MONSTER IN THE HALL
Wednesday 11 – Saturday 21 April
(SCOTLAND)
The festival opens with the Citizens Theatre, Glasgow, production The Monster in the Hall by David Greig, a comedy musical about a girl on the verge of a nervous breakdown. The play is performed with just 4 actor-musicians and the production style is stripped back to reveal storytelling fuelled simply by great writing, direction and striking performances. The Monster in the Hall has already been critically acclaimed, following performances on tour and at the Edinburgh Festival.
‘A tightly drilled ensemble, passionate, playful…, gripping us one minute, cracking us up the next, before melting our hearts’ **** The Guardian
The Lyric Theatre
WHITE STAR OF THE NORTH
Tuesday 24 April – Saturday 5 May
(NORTHERN IRELAND)
The Lyric Theatre, Belfast come to Mold with White Star of the North by Rosemary Jenkinson.
This is a new play to mark the most famous year in Belfast’s history, 1912 – the year of the Titanic and the Ulster Covenant, signed in the city in protest against the third Home Rule Bill
to establish a parliament in Dublin.
This poignant drama examines political tensions which led to emigration to America
and blows apart the myth of heroism on the Titanic.
Belfast born Rosemary Jenkinson is an acclaimed short story writer, playwright and poet.
Clwyd Theatr Cymru
BRUISED
Thursday 10 – Saturday 26 May
(WALES)
Clwyd Theatr Cymru present Bruised, a new play by Welsh playwright Matthew Trevannion,
directed by Kate Wasserberg.
Set in Pontypool, South Wales Bruised is a fierce, funny and beautiful play about family,
courage and the legacy of violence.
Clwyd Theatr Cymru Associate Director Kate Wasserberg has recently directed Roots
by Arnold Wesker, and Pieces, a new play by Hywel John (in Mold and New York).
"a tremendous production" ***** The Guardian on Roots.
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Clwyd Theatr Cymru
Mold
Flintshire
CH7 1YA
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Administration 01352 756331
Box Office 0845 330 3565
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