'The World Only Spins Forward' Someone said that to me last night, and that's how I'm choosing to look at 2019. I couldn't bring myself to write a 2018 reflective post this year. It would have been a pointless exercise in melancholy and anger. And really what's the point, when indeed, the world only spins … Continue reading The World Only Spins Forward-on to 2019

In addition to the usual 'top 10' theatre productions of the year which can be found here this year I had that many productions that had a profound impact on me, that I wanted to record that. So here, is the collection of 2018 productions that will be with me for a long time.  Cardiff BoyOriginal Review … Continue reading Shows I Can’t Shake 2018

10. Ten Plagues- Mark Ravenhill One that kind of snuck into consciousness and didn’t let go. Understandably given my research and theatrical passions this from Mark Ravenhill on parallels between the Black Death and AIDS struck a chord. More than that the sheer beauty of the production left a mark long after the event. 9. Lovecraft (Not the … Continue reading 2018 Top 10

The Other Room have established themselves as the Channel 4 of Christmas in Cardiff, with their alternative Christmas show. And this year, up and coming company Big Loop are resident with Cheer. It’s an entertaining enough piece of alternative Christmas, with just enough cynicism to feel like a grown-up alternative to the usual Christmas flair. … Continue reading Cheer- Big Loop Theatre- The Other Room

Shed ManBy Kevin JonesDirected by Siobhan Lynn BrennanAssistant Directed by Umalkyhar MohamedProduced by Steve BennettAssistant Produced by Lauren LloydDesigned by Cory ShippSound Designed by Josh BowlesLighting Designed by Louise SwindellShed Man is a play where a man builds a shed live on stage. That’s it, what more do you need? How often do you get … Continue reading Shed Man

  Cardiff boy – by Kevin JonesDirected by Matthew HolmquistCast- Jack Hammett Kevin Jones jumps straight into the 90s with Cardiff Boy. Forgetting for a moment the pub backdrop created in The Other Room, we’re barely a minute in before 90s tunes are blaring from a tape (yes a tape). Directed with intelligence, and a … Continue reading Cardiff Boy

Tim Crouch’s play ‘An Oak Tree’ uses the idea of suggestion, belief and how we find out the answers to questions, to explore the idea of grief. Here translated into Welsh by Invertigo (translation by Mared Llewelyn Williams) it becomes ‘Derwen’. The play is known for the fact that one of the two actors on … Continue reading Derwen- Invertigo Theatre