Stef Dag & Gabby Bryan
Glee Club Unit 7A Mermaid Quay, Cardiff Bay, CardiffThis is billed specifically as a crowdwork-heavy show, with this NYC comedian duo attempting to “get into the minds and personal lives of audience members”. Fairly warned be thee, likewise by Stef Dag being best known for “the popular digital dating show, Hot And Single, in which I flirt with eligible singles all across the country.”
Haywire
The Cab 22 Cambrian Road, Newport, Newport, United KingdomThere have been a few bands called Haywire but these are from Boston, MA and play ignorant hardcore punk. Someone from Conservative Military Image, who played The Cab once and had a second show cancelled on account of, well, their conservative military image, is in the lineup. Moshing likely to occur, in short.
Kinky Boots
Wales Millennium Centre Bute Place, Cardiff, Cardiff, United KingdomComing at a time before theatres were saturated with movie adaptation musicals, Kinky Boots sits in that sweet spot that British films like The Full Monty occupied in the decade …
Snapped Ankles
Clwb Ifor Bach 11 Womanby Street, Cardiff, CardiffAt the end of March, Snapped Ankles release their sixth studio album, Hard Times Furious Dancing. Primitive and feral, its first single Raoul is an ode to dancing in the face of unrelenting existential threat. The absurdity of modern life is sometimes overwhelming, and while technology and its abstract societal implications stir paranoia, Snapped Ankles …
Park & Daring
Three consecutive nights aimed at local developing theatremakers etc. On Wed 19 Mar it’s a Scratch Night, with six artists sharing brief excerpts of material; Thurs 20 is Pitch Pot, with presentations by Sylvia Strand & Jonathan Gregory, Bethan Nia and Rebecca Smith-Williams, and on Fri 21 you can hear from Harriet Fleuriot and Rhys …