Colored: The Unsung Life Of Claudette Colvin
Wales Millennium Centre Bute Place, Cardiff, Cardiff, United KingdomThe latest virtual reality installation in the Wales Millennium Centre’s BOCS series, {Colored} is based on a 2014 essay by Tania de Montaigne, later remade as a graphic biography, and itself based on the defiant, epochal and largely unheralded story of Claudette Colvin. A 15-year-old Black girl in Montgomery, Alabama, Colvin was arrested in March 1955 …
Rebus: A Game Called Malice
New Theatre Park Place, Cardiff, Cardiff, United KingdomThat’s John Rebus to you, and also to hit crime novelist Ian Rankin who came up with the detective character. This stage adaption is set in an Edinburgh mansion, with a dinner party based around a murder mystery game. But! Just because it’s all pretend doesn’t preclude there being real-life skulduggery afoot among the participants. …
Eric Ngalle Charles: Tales By The Moonlight
Two two-hour sessions (from 11.30am-1.30pm) hosted by Eric, a Cameroonian writer who left that country in his teens and ended up in Wales after a few intense years as a refugee. Add to that his grounding in Africa’s griot oral tradition and it’s no wonder he can tell a good story – and teach others …
Red Richardson
Glee Club Unit 7A Mermaid Quay, Cardiff Bay, CardiffA comedian named ‘Red Richardson’ should really be performing in 1950s New Jersey nightclubs and having to give half his fee to the Mafia, but somehow he’s an English guy in his thirties who does podcasts and is married to Rik Mayall’s daughter. This is his debut UK tour and the show’s titled Bugatti.
Ms. Lauryn Hill & The Fugees
Utilita Arena Cardiff Mary Ann Street, Cardiff, Cardiff, United KingdomThere’s a non-negligible school of thought out there which cites Lauryn Hill’s first and to date only studio album, The Miseducation Of…, as the greatest of all time. Not necessarily folks who are especially invested in the hoary old Rolling Stone/Mojo/whatever canon, although it’s pretty strong currency round that way too. Oftentimes, in fact, you’ll …