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Geiriau Diflanedig – The Lost Words
Geiriau Diflanedig – The Lost Words
Touring exhibition relating to the popular book of the title and bringing together Jackie Morris' original artwork and the poems in English and Welsh, by Robert Macfarlane and Mererid Hopwood respectively. Closing date is currently spring 2024 TBC, and with work displayed simultaneously in Yr Ysgwrn, Trawsfynydd.
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Things I Know To Be True
Things I Know To Be True
Stalwart Cardiffian amateur theatre types A48 return for a week in this Canton spot, performing a play by Strictly Ballroom screenwriter Andrew Bovell and changing its setting from Australia to south Wales. It’s about a year in the lives of a married couple and their four kids as they go through varying stages of upheaval. …
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Bonnie & Clyde
Bonnie & Clyde
This all-American musical’s first ever UK tour is a big one, with week-long stops and very little time off until November – 15 years after its first ever production. British musical buffs and/or fans of the mythologised exploits of Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow, the bankrobbing law-evading young Depression-era couple, will be treated to a …
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Orchestra
Orchestra
Here as part of the UK-wide National Theatre Connections festival of plays, {Orchestra} – about a youth orchestra, and more specifically their quest for success and perfection – is written by Charlie Josephine, listed as ‘one to watch’ for 2024 in Buzz’s most recent Christmas issue and who has another production, {One Of Them Ones}, …
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Mickey Callisto
Mickey Callisto
The Iris Prize annual LGBTQ+ film festival are working with Newsoundwales on an exciting gig at Clwb Ifor Bach. Mickey Callisto is headlining, with BLED in support; all the profit …
Taking Back Sunday
Taking Back Sunday
One of only three UK dates for prototypical 00s emo-rockers Taking Back Sunday: I’m slightly surprised there are still tickets left at the time of writing (albeit this is mid-February), …
Dream State
Dream State
A listen to {Still Dreaming}, the new seven-song release by Swansea quartet Dream State, will affirm that they’re a band with skyscraping ambitions. Giant rock/metal hooks power songs built in …
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Wales Goes Pop! 2024
Wales Goes Pop! 2024
This indietastic annual Easter weekender took a bath in 2023 and is back this year at the Moon, venue of WGP!’s main organiser Liz Hunt. Basically it’ll be three alldayers in the city centre and here’s who’s confirmed so far: The Research, Cherym, The Popguns, Mammoth Penguins, The Loves, Dignan Porch, The Mudd Club, ¡Ay, …
Evolution Drone Light Show
Evolution Drone Light Show
The story of the universe, summarised within 27 minutes – yes, that is the very exact time given – above Glamorgan’s cricket ground. A procession of light-emitting drones will be flown in patterns depicting evolution from the primordial soup to the Jurassic age to the likes of you, I and the folk putting their opposable …
Gazelle Twin
Gazelle Twin
This evening is titled Congregate, is promoted by Cardiff art collective Tactilebosch and is headlined by English electronic folk sort Gazelle Twin, with Ya Yonder also playing live; DJ Evergreen, …
Jump The Underground
Jump The Underground
This band existed for a few years in late-00s Newport and played the sort of excitable laddish guitar pop that people now mystifyingly think was called “indie sleaze” at the …
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The Ultimate Bubble Show
The Ultimate Bubble Show
Science of sorts, but in a theatrical manner, courtesy of The Ultimate Bubble Show’s Ray Bubbles. Who says nominative determinism isn’t real? Ray, if that is his real name, creates huge and unusually shaped bubbles, one of which has a tornado inside it, another of which is a ghost somehow. Tickets: £12.50/£10.50 kids.
Jasper Blakeley
Jasper Blakeley
Jasper hasn’t had to grease any palms to get this weekend residency at Barry’s 20-seat Small Space theatre, because he owns the place – nevertheless, his show looks actually interesting. Titled Charlatan, it combines his own live magic trickery with a comedic spoken history of infamous, more nefarious tricksters down the ages.
The Selfish Giant
The Selfish Giant
Oscar Wilde’s fantastical children’s story is taken up by a coalition of two Bristol theatre orgs, Tessa Bide and Soap Soup, for a show aimed at ages three-plus and which tells its story – about a reclusive giant and her rare encounter with some kids – using puppetry and music. On at 11.30am and 2pm.
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The Little Prince
The Little Prince
Phenomenally successful French children’s fiction, translated into a million languages and a thousand media formats, comes to Cardiff via Aberdeen and Norfolk, with Lyngo Theatre and Norwich Puppet Theatre teaming up here. A timeless tale about companionship, imagination and getting one’s aeroplane fixed, The Little Prince is on at 2pm and 7pm each day here.
World Comedy Clash 2024
World Comedy Clash 2024
As best I can recall, these semi-regular comedy sessions at the Glee are showcases for the UK’s Black and/or BAME standup talent, and indeed this one has familiar faces in Slim and early 00s TV staple Richard Blackwood. It also has London’s Wilson Milton and south Wales’ Drew Taylor, both eminently Caucasian but undeniably from …
John Hegley
John Hegley
A month dominated by semi-famous poets concludes with proverbial earthy Yorkshireman John Hegley wending his way to this west Wales stately home to read pomes, crack jokes and sing songs, being as he is a guitar player with many strings to his bow, as it were.
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