Cerys Hafana
BunkHouse 93 St Mary Street, Cardiff, Cardiff, United KingdomCerys Hafana is reinventing perceptions of the Welsh triple harp, an instrument rarely played across the country, let alone in the manner taken by this unique harpist. The Machynlleth-based artist produces folk music that bridges old and new, notably on their second album, 2022’s Edyf. Here, with help from the Welsh national archive, they combed …
Clwb Comedi
Aberystwyth Arts Centre Aberystwyth University Penglais Campus, Aberystwyth, Ceredigion, United KingdomBooked by showbiz hard workers Little Wander, local lad Carwyn Blayney is joined by Louise Young and host Rajiv Karia.
Still Here
Porter's Barrack Lane, St David's Centre, Cardiff, Cardiff, United KingdomWritten by Mari Lloyd, produced by Julia Stubbs’ 20 South Street company and told from the viewpoint of two teenagers on the cusp of adulthood in a small ex-mining town, Still Here’s March tour visits several such towns. Rhys and Yasmin are both 18; Rhys wants to be a boxer and his father wants to …
Dinner
Royal Welsh College Of Music & Drama Cardiff, South Glamorgan, UKProduced by the RWCMD’s in-house Richard Burton Company and directed here by Max Harrison, Dinner dates from 2002 and was written by Moira Buffini – a late-80s graduate of this college, although she studied as an actor rather than a playwright. It’s a black satire on the mores of types who throw celebratory dinner parties. …
3Drama
Galeri Doc Victoria, Caernarfon, GwyneddThree new Welsh-language dramas created through a project, Sgen Ti Syniad, and touring extensively. Ceri Ashe’s 99’er, Carwyn Blayney’s Wisgi and Cai Llewelyn Evans’ Dishgled ‘da Del visits Pontio, Bangor (Tue 25 and Wed 26 Mar), Galeri, Caernarfon (Thurs 27), Nauadd Dwyfor, Pwllheli (Fri 28) and Theatr Twm O’r Nant, Denbigh (Sat 29), then nine …