Party Games
New Theatre Park Place, Cardiff, Cardiff, United KingdomWritten by former Thatcher/Major adviser and unsuccessful Tory candidate Michael McManus, this is a play set in a hypothetical political landscape of the very near future with an ‘exaggerated for comedic effect… unless?’ air. A centrist party, One Nation, has formed a government in a hung parliament and now preside over a country circling the …
The Katie Price Show
Glee Club Unit 7A Mermaid Quay, Cardiff Bay, CardiffIn which this UK media personality and tabloid staple brings her podcast, {The Katie Price Show}, to Cardiff’s Glee Club as part of a six-venue tour. The podcast, which she hosts with younger sister Sophie, often features discussions of weddings, cosmetic surgery and home life, areas where you would expect the elder Price to be …
Richard Hawley
Neuadd Ogwen Bethesda, GwyneddHaving first found mid-90s success in Britpop band Longpigs, Richard Hawley is something of an elder statesman of Sheffield music – he even spent a brief period on guitar for Pulp – and drops his ninth solo album, In This City They Call You Love, the week after this unusually intimate north Wales gig (tickets …
Open Space: Rhian Elizabeth & Carrie Etter
Cardiff Central Library The Hayes, Cardiff, CardiffThis came in a little late to add to our ‘book-y events’ roundup elsewhere in the mag but happy to add it here. Two writers, south Wales’ Rhian Elizabeth and American in Bath Carrie Etter, have new poetry collections out – titled {Girls Etc} and {Grief’s Alphabet} respectively – and will be reading from, discussing …
Blodwen’s In Town
Miners Institute High Street, Blackwood, CaerphillyThis is a musical comedy with what sounds like something of a cabaret element from Emily Davis, whose character Blodwen leaves Wales for London and France in search of “adventure, love and friendship”. A review from 2022 notes the presence of a Tom Lehrer song in her repertoire, hopefully this is still the case.
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