Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff Bay
Thurs 13-Sat 15 Dec
For most people, working, like death and taxes, is a fact of life. For the proud but disenfranchised and downtrodden, it can be incredibly monotonous, backbreaking and stressful. If you’re lucky, it can be something you love to do.
Working is one of the award-winning musicals from Stephen Schwartz, sandwiched in between Godspell and blockbuster Wicked. Based on Studs Terkel’s best-selling book of interviews with Americans, it portrays a wide variety of the workforce – the mason, the millworker, the phone operator, the schoolteacher, the waitress and the housewife – and more. Legendary songwriter James Taylor provides some tunes, and the show’s undergone several revisions since its 1978 Broadway debut and now includes two new songs by Lin-Manuel Miranda of Hamilton fame.
In London in 2017, Working had its European premiere to four and five-star reviews. Canolfan Berfformio Cymru (The Wales Centre For Performance) is presenting the piece with students from The University Of Wales Trinity Saint David’s BA Perfformio, BA Musical Theatre, MA Perfformio and MA Musical Theatre courses. “There’s a wonderful mix of songs and monologues,” says BA Perfformio and the Centre’s director Eilir Owen Griffiths, who’s directing the production.
Tickets: £10/£5. Info: 029 2063 6464 / www.wmc.org.uk (RLR)