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MY MIX(ED UP) TAPE, Dirty Protest Theatre in association with RCT Theatres
TOURING
Written and performed by Katie Payne
TAITH MIS HYDREF / OCTOBER TOUR 2022
Director: Catherine Paskell
Cast: Katie Payne
DJ: Glade Marie
Integrated BSL Interpretation: Sami Dunn
Design: Ruth Stringer and Bethan Thomas
Lighting Design: Dave Beever
Sound Design: Dan Lawrence
Technical Design and Captions: Jorge Lizalde
Creative Captions: Nic Finch
Visual Vernacular: Brian Duffy
Integrated Access Dramaturg: Jonny Cotsen
BSL Consultation: Heather Williams
Production and Stage Management: Dave Beever
Assistant Producer: Kyle Stead
PROGRAMME - ENGLISH - CLICK HERE
RHAGLEN - CYMRAEG - CLICIWCH YMA
GWYBODAETH TAITH/ TOUR INFO
Theatr y Parc a'r Dâr/ Park & Dare Theatre Treorci/Treorchy
Iau/ Thurs 13 - 7.00 pm
My Mix(ed Up) Tape trailer
Gwener/ Friday 14 - 7.00pm
Sadwrn/ Saturday 15 - 7.00pm (Dehongliwyd BSL / BSL interpreted gan/by Sami Dunn)
Redhouse Cymru Merthyr Tudful/Merthyr Tydfil
Mawrth/ Tuesday 18 – 7.30pm
Le Pub Casnewydd/Newport
Mercher/ Wednesday 19 - 7.30pm (Dehongliwyd BSL / BSL interpreted gan/by Sami Dunn)
Pafiliwn Y Grand/The Grand Pavilion Porthcawl
Iau/ Thursday 20 – 7.30pm
Y Neuadd Les/The Welfare Ystradgynlais
LIun/Monday 24 - 7.30pm
Duffy's (Pontypridd Ex-Servicemen's Club) Pontypridd
Mercher/ Wednesday 26 – 7.30pm
Y Ffwrnes Llanelli
Iau/ Thursday 27 – 7.30pm (Dehongliwyd BSL / BSL interpreted gan/by Sami Dunn)
Theatr Torch / Torch Theatre Aberdaugleddau/Milford Haven
Sadwrn/Saturday 29 - 7.30pm (Dehongliwyd BSL / BSL interpreted gan/by Sami Dunn)
SPECIAL 2-4-1 THEATRE EVENT AT THE TORCH!
MILFORD SCRATCH NIGHT - INCLUDED WITH YOUR ‘MY MIX(ED UP) TAPE’ TICKET!!
Six short plays performed in 60 minuets by local writers & performers!
These six short plays have been written in one week and rehersed in one day.
Scratch night - 6-7pm Gallery space
Followed by the performance of:
My Mix(ed up) Tape - 7.30pm Studio
When you purchase a ticket for My Mix(ed up) Tape you will automatically gain entrance to the scratch night. What a night of amazing West Wales talent!! You will not want to miss it!
My Mix(ed up) Tape is a new play written and performed by Katie Payne, with live DJ set by Glade Marie.
Phoebe is being made to go to Cousin Caroline's wedding back home in Pontypridd. WHY? There's people she would rather not see. Family and friends she grew up with, even Jamie Richards who licked her neck once. I know. Who does that?
Through the wedding soundtrack emerge the usual likely suspects, including Dai One Shoe and Leather Bag Face Linda, who Phoebe will do her best to not eye-roll at - but this trip home feels different, is different. Will Phoebe be able to work out how she can survive the night before it all catches up with her?
Come on a wild night out in the South Wales Valleys. Told with a live DJ, this new comedy drama about leaving and coming back to your hometown will make you laugh, cry and dance in your seat.
Content warnings:
Swearing and sexual language, references to: sex, bullying, physical violence, domestic abuse/violence, abortion
My Mix(ed up) Tape – drama newydd wedi'i hysgrifennu a'i pherfformio gan Katie Payne, gyda set DJ byw gan Glade Marie.
Mae Phoebe yn cael ei gorfodi i fynd i briodas ei chyfnither Caroline nôl adref ym Mhontypridd. PAM? Mae yna bobl y byddai'n well ganddi beidio'u gweld. Teulu a ffrindiau o'i phlentyndod, hyd yn oed Jamie Richards a lyfodd ei gwddf unwaith. Wi'n gwybod. Pwy sy'n gwneud y fath beth?
Trwy gerddoriaeth y briodas daw'r hen wynebau cyfarwydd i'r amlwg, gan gynnwys rhai y bydd Phoebe yn gwneud ei gorau i beidio rholio ei llygaid atyn nhw, megis 'Dai One Shoe' a 'Leather Bag Face Linda'. Fodd bynnag, mae'r daith yma adref yn teimlo'n wahanol. Fydd modd i Phoebe weithio mas sut i oroesi'r noson cyn i'r cyfan ddod yn ormod?
Dewch ar noson mas wyllt yng Nghymoedd De Cymru. Wedi'i pherfformio gyda DJ byw, bydd y ddrama gomedi newydd yma ynglŷn â gadael a dychwelyd i'ch tref enedigol yn gwneud i chi chwerthin, crio a dawnsio yn eich sedd.
Rhybuddion cynnwys:
Iaith gref a rhywiol; cyfeiriadau at ryw, bwlio, trais corfforol, cam-drin/trais yn y cartref, erthyliad
Double Drop by Lisa Jên Brown
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2021: presented at MultiStory; outdoor stage infront of Edinburgh Castle in a collaboration with Traverse Theatre, Gilded Balloon, DanceBase and ZOO.
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2022: part of the This Is Wales international showcase, supported by Pontio, Bangor, Wales Arts International and Arts Council of Wales, presented at Summerhall.
It's North Wales in 1995. The rites and ceremonies of the Eisteddfod collide with the communion and transcendence of rave culture.
Lose yourself in this mind-bending play with music. Esmi is caught between the English-speaking rave scene in abandoned slate quarries, and the traditional Welsh-speaking culture of druids, clog dancing and poetry recital. Join Esmi as she tries to find her tribe with the help of the founder of modern Welsh culture: an opium-addicted fraudster from the 1700s.
Presented by Welsh new writing company Dirty Protest Theatre. With original music by BBC Radio 2 Folk Award winners 9Bach.
★★★★ The Stage
★★★★ Three Weeks
★★★★ The Wee Review
“Catherine Paskell’s gutsy production on the outdoor MultiStory stage, an unforgiving venue that would knock the stuffing out of many a play but is well suited to the amplified beats of the rave and the large-scale gathering of the Eisteddfod. With Brown herself taking on the supporting roles and original music by 9Bach, Double Drop is a lively celebration of youthful rebellion and community spirit, with an added festival kick.” - The Guardian
“a truly entrancing piece of theatre” - the indiependent
“The two worlds – old and new, tradition and trance, bards and beats – come crashing together hilariously over an energetic, exuberant hour, set to original music by 9Bach. Mirain Haf Roberts gives a tremendous, tub-thumping central performance, as does Brown herself, multi-rolling as everyone from Esmi’s anxious mother to the Opium-addled Eisteddfod founder Iolo Morganwg. Exactly the sort of show that would usually have the Roundabout hopping every evening.” - The Stage
Cast: Mirain Haf Roberts & Lisa Jên Brown (2021). Mirain Haf Roberts & Emmy Stonelake (2022)
Writer: Lisa Jên Brown
Dramaturgs: Tim Price & Catherine Paskell
Director: Catherine Paskell
Design: Ruby Brown
Lighting Design: Dave Beever
Sound Design: Dan Lawrence
Movement Direction: Sarah Mumford
Assistant Director: Hannah Noone
Assistant Designer: Bea Viña
Production Assistant: Siobhan Waters
Assistant Producer (2021): Tom Bevan
Assistant Producer (2022): Bobby Harding
Stage Management and tech provided by ZOO venue staff including Dave Beever and Aaron Sayers (2021)
Stage Manager and technician (2022): Ieuan Watkins
Photography (Bangor): Iolo Penri
Photography and video (Edinburgh): Jorge Lizalde
Kill Me Now by Rhiannon Boyle
Developed with support from Galeri, Caernarfon (2019 - 2020)
Produced at Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Summerhall Digital Online Programme 2021
Cast: Hannah Daniel (2020). Mali Tudno Jones (2021).
Writer: Rhiannon Boyle
Director: Catherine Paskell
Videography: Jorge Lizalde
Integrated Access Dramaturg: Jonny Cotsen
Integrated BSL Interpretation: Claire Anderson
Integrated Palantypist: Samantha Boyd
Assistant Director: Nia Morris
Producer: Tom Bevan
Press & PR: Chloe Nelkin
About coming to terms with grief, ‘Kill Me Now’ is a dark comedy by critically acclaimed Welsh new writing theatre company Dirty Protest and award-winning playwright Rhiannon Boyle. This funny and heart-wrenching piece was created specifically for a Zoom audience was livestreamed for Summerhall’s digital programme for the Edinburgh Fringe 2021.
Welcome to undertaker Anna Morgan-Jones’ live Zoom webinar. Her goal? To sell you the lucrative franchise model of her “end-of-life celebration” funeral business. But, can the self-confessed Grief Guru make it through her PowerPoint presentation – full of rainbow coffins, leopard print hearses and beer-can shaped scatter tubs – or will secrets, accidental truths and internet trolls cause her to unravel right before our eyes? After a year when many lost loved ones and many were touched by grief, Kill Me Now is about the healing power of connection.
This gently interactive piece gives audience members the autonomy to participate as much or as little as they wish throughout the Zoom. Created using and for the platform, ‘Kill Me Now’ offers a more holistic approach to digital theatre. It ensures a live experience which communicates directly with the audience; it is empowered by its format and contributes to the development of a new, increasingly accessible, forum for performance.
“Kill Me Now, which is both a sly satire of the ‘grieving industry’ and a tragicomic monologue, is a rarity in being a Zoom call actually worth attending. As a quirky, creative piece of drama (“thinking outside the coffin” as Anna puts it), Kill Me Now is a great showcase both for Dirty Protest Theatre and the Welsh presence at the in-person and virtual Fringe” - Wales Arts Review
“It’s a nice idea, and it is good to see a new writing company thinking about form and distribution, and also being inventive in the way its uses technology as a tool” - Lyn Gardner, StageDoor
“a fast paced, yet considered show” - Theatre Full Stop
“There was a real elation during the watching of this clever, extravagant think out of the box play, revealing this journey’s story but more measuring by its impact on us. The turn of a place of trust to a much truer place of great uncertainty was greatly examined and amplified. To that extent there was an explosion in our senses that blew wide open a largeness that is still hard to describe. Through simple footage and dialogue she achieved all of this and I was putty in her hands. Her Kill Me Now is an opportunity for self examination of turbulent times.” - Theatremumble.net
Sprinkles by Katie Elin-Salt, an alternative Christmas show
Produced by Dirty Protest with support from Awen Cultural Trust
Tour: Chapter, Cardiff; Blaengarw Workingmen’s Hall; The Met Abertillery; Aberkenfig Library
Cast: Charlotte Gray
Director: Eleri B. Jones (2021 tour). Catherine Paskell (2018 & 2019)
Design and Stage Management: Dave Beever
Sound Design: Dan Lawrence
Producer: Bobby Harding
Awen Production Support: Nicola Edwards, Joshua Robson
“Sprinkles… your behaviour in the grotto has been far from seasonally appropriate.”
Forget the boring office Christmas parties and feuding family get-togethers! Sprinkles is a grown up festive treat and antidote to all the tinsel and tantrums.
Sprinkles is an elf. She works in Santa’s grotto on St Mary’s Street, in between the sex shop and John Lewis. Seriously hungover, stuck on shift with Band Aid playing on repeat. That is until a surprise visitor to the grotto suddenly reminds her of a painful Christmas past … and a profound loss that has been buried inside for far too long.
Originally developed and produced by Dirty Protest in 2018, with Charlotte Gray (The Crown) in the starring role – this brand-new version of this hilarious and moving Christmas tale is a much needed festive treat for the grown ups.
How To Be Brave by Siân Owen
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2019 and touring
British Council Showcase 2019: Recommended Show
Paines Plough’s Roundabout @ Summerhall
Cast: Laura Dalgleish
WHEN KATIE WAS LITTLE, SHE WAS BRAVE: CLIMBING TREES AND RIDING BIKES TOO FAST. NOW KATIE’S A MUM, SHE MUST BE BRAVE IN A NEW WAY. DETERMINED HER DAUGHTER WILL KEEP THE FIERCE MAGIC SHE ARRIVED INTO THE WORLD WITH, KATIE SETS OFF ON A MISSION AROUND NEWPORT WITH THE HELP OF A STOLEN BMX, A POLICEWOMAN WITH BAD HAIR, AND A PIGEON IN A BAG.
Siân Owen’s one-woman play, produced by the company behind fringe hit Sugar Baby, is about what we’re made of and learning to be brave when your world’s falling apart.
Press Reviews:
“… the greatest bedtime story a scared little girl could hear.” – Broadway World
“Owen wrote the play for her Mum and Gran, but it’s a hymn for women everywhere and a love letter to Newport.” – British Theatre
"There's no denying that it's highly refreshing seeing a story about the realities of motherhood." – WhatsOnStage
"Owen's storytelling seamlessly slips between past and present, and if there are a few narrative contrivances, they serve to underline the point that Katie, under great pressure though she may be, is not alone. Men are largely absent from the narrative; this is a story about women drawing strength and courage from one another in difficult times." – British Theatre Guide
"[...] one of the most striking things about How To Be Brave is that it plays like a tribute act. Newport landmarks bookmark important plot scenes and Katie is as Newport as they come. Love for the city bleeds through every scene, which is remarkable when the main plot surrounding her is so charming." – Buzz Magazine
"Heart-busting, funny, profound" – The Philadelphia Inquirer
How To Be Brave performed in village hall setting for Coffee ‘n’ Laughs, Community House Maindee
Dirty Protest presents: Sugar Baby by Alan Harris
"The packed audience loves it. " ★★★★ The Scotsman
"Theatrical tour de force.” ★★★★ The Times
"Stonking good fun” ★★★★ The Stage
"Nobody writes more sweetly or with such comic compassion about low-life than Welsh playwright Alan Harris." The Guardian, Edinburgh Festival 2017: The Shows We Recommend.
"Dirty Protest succeed again in making fun, original, exciting theatre and do an outstanding job representing Wales at the Fringe.” Wales Arts Review.
Alan Harris is the winner of the Bruntwood Prize for Playwrighting Judges Award (2015)
Cast: Alex Griffin-Griffiths (2017). Adam Redmore (2018)
Writer: Alan Harris
Director: Catherine Paskell
Lighting Designer: Ace McCarron
Sound Design: Daniel Lawrence
Assistant Producer: Glesni Price-Jones
Stage Managers: Dave Beever & Emily Butler
In partnership with Chapter
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2017 & 2018 and international touring
British Council Showcase 2017: Recommended Show
Paines Plough’s Roundabout @ Summerhall
Press Reviews:
'Enormous fun… the beauty of the script lies in Harris's loving recreation of the city, from its seedy underbelly to the more salubrious enclaves. The clarity of the writing allows us to feel as though we are walking Marc's journey with him'
The Times
'A great laugh, a chaotic comedy caper set on the streets of Cardiff with a cast of petty criminals and small-time drug dealers. There's a frank dose of socio-political comment squirted in too… stonking good fun'
The Stage
'A comedy cartoon caper that feels a little like Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels set in Wales... Alan Harris offers a farcical, heightened view of provincial life, petty crime and never leaving the town you've grown up in'
Scotsman
'The jokes come thick and fast… thoroughly entertaining, provocative'
The Arts Desk
'A piece of theatre that revels in its own ability to entertain'
Exeunt Magazine
★★★★ THE TIMES
★★★★ THE SCOTSMAN
★★★★ THE STAGE
★★★★ BRITISH THEATRE GUIDE
Being a small-time drug dealer in Cardiff and living up to your family’s expectations is tough. Marc avoids his mum, disguises his cannabis plants with fake tomatoes at the allotment, and now has to bail his old man out of £6,000 owed to local loan shark Oggy. When he meets Lisa for the first time in years, things get even messier. Oggy wants Lisa. Lisa wants Marc. Marc wants to survive the day.
A one-man comedy from critically acclaimed writer Alan Harris (Paines Plough, National Theatre Wales) and award-winning Welsh company Dirty Protest.
Supported by:
Chapter and originally presented at Edinburgh Fringe 2017 as part of Wales in Edinburgh with the Arts Council of Wales, Wales Arts International, Welsh Government, National Lottery and British Council Wales.
Lightspeed from Pembroke Dock by Mark Williams.
Dirty Protest in co-production with/mewn cyd-gynhyrchiad gyda Chapter & Torch Theatre
Wales Tour: 4 April - 5 May 2018
Cast: Jack Hammett, Keiron Self, Dick Bradnum, Sian Davies
Writer: Mark Williams
Director: Catherine Paskell
Designer: Cadi Lane
Lighting: Ceri James
Sound: Dan Lawrence
Stage Manager: Halla Karadottir
Producer: Jennifer Lunn
Assistant Director: Jac Ifan Moore
‘Charming and well-made family theatre’ - Wales Arts Review
Dirty Protest’s flagship show during our 10 year celebrations as a company.
1979. When Star Wars superfan Sam discovers that the Millennium Falcon is being built in his home town, his life is turned upside down. Determined to get inside the cockpit; his only obstacle is his stepdad Mike, guardian of the secret hangar where the legendary ship is being built in Pembroke Dock.
2014. Sam’s daughter Lizzie goes missing, forcing him into a desperate hunt to bring her back to safety before it’s too late.
Never mind saving the galaxy, sometimes you just have to save your own world. Lightspeed from Pembroke Dock explores what happens when Hollywood’s best-loved spaceship lands on your doorstep. This is a story of hope, courage, and how to be a family when it seems the universe is against you.
A new English language play from writer Mark Williams (Jason & the Argonauts, Horrible Histories: The Frightful First world War, Horrible Science) and critically acclaimed company, Dirty Protest (Sugar Baby, Last Christmas, Parallel Lines, Protest Fudur). Supported by the Arts Council of Wales, Welsh Government and the National Lottery.
1979. Pan fydd arch-ffan Star Wars Sam yn darganfod bod y Millennium Falcon yn cael ei hadeiladu yn ei dref enedigol, caiff ei fywyd ei droi wyneb i waered. Yn benderfynol o gael eistedd yn sedd y peilot, ei unig rwystr yw ei lys-dad Mike, gwarchodwr yr hangar cyfrinachol lle bo’r llong ofod chwedlonol yn cael ei hadeiladu yn Noc Penfro.
2014. Aiff merch Sam, Lizzie ar goll, gan ei orfodi i ymgymryd â thaith frys i chwilio amdani a’i chludo i ddiogelwch cyn ei bod hi’n rhy hwyr.
Does dim ots am achub y bydysawd, weithiau mae’n bwysicach o lawer i achub eich byd chi eich hun. Mae Lightspeed from Pembroke Dock yn trafod yr hyn sy’n digwydd pan fo hoff long ofod Hollywood yn glanio ar stepen eich drws. Dyma stori am obaith, dewrder, a bod yn deulu pan fo’r bydysawd yn cyniwair yn eich erbyn.
Drama newydd iaith Saesneg gan yr awdur Mark Williams (Jason & the Argonauts, Horrible Histories: The Frightful First world War, Horrible Science) a’r cwmni mynych ei glod gan y beirniaid, Dirty Protest (Sugar Baby, Last Christmas, Parallel Lines, Protest Fudur). Gyda chefnogaeth Cyngor Celfyddydau Cymru, Llywodraeth Cymru a’r Loteri Genedlaethol.
APRIL/EBRILL 2018
4-7 Chapter, Cardiff/Caerdydd
17 Soar Centre/Canolfan Soar, Penygraig
18 Ffwrnes, Llanelli
19 Taliesin Arts Centre/ Canolfan Y Celfyddydau Taliesin Swansea/Abertawe
21 The Riverfront/Glan Yr Afon, Newport/Casnewydd
23 Halliwell Theatre/Theatre Halliwell, Carmarthen/Caerfyrddin
24 Pontardawe Arts Centre/Canolfan Y Celfyddydau Pontardawe
25 Borough Theatre/Theatr Borough, Y Fenni/Abergavenny
26 Blackwood Miners’ Institute/Sefydliad Y Glowyr Coed Duon
27 Galeri, Caernarfon
28 Aberystwyth Arts Centre/Canolfan Y Celfyddydau Aberystwyth
MAY/MAI
2 Theatr Brycheiniog, Brecon/Aberhonddu
4-5 Torch Theatre/Theatr Torch, Milford Haven/Aberdaugleddau
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Pembroke dock celebrates
To celebrate the wonderful town at the heart of the play’s story, Dirty Protest organised a community led three-day festival ‘Pembroke Dock Celebrates’, sponsored by Valero and created in partnership with the town council.
‘Pembroke Dock Celebrates’ involved a series of workshops and creative community activities that culminated in a locally-led festival on the weekend of ‘May the Fourth’ (unofficially celebrated worldwide as Star Wars Day), celebrating the area’s unique history and future.
See the video below for more.
LAST CHRISTMAS
TRAVERSE THEATRE, EDINBURGH
Written by Matthew Bulgo
December 2016
Traverse Theatre Company presents a Dirty Protest Production
Director: Kate Wasserberg
Cast: Sion Pritchard
Returning home for Christmas, Tom is confronted with the ghosts of his past. Forced to face his demons, will he be able to rescue his family and his future in time?
A hit at the Edinburgh Fringe festival and Soho Theatre, award-winning Welsh theatre company Dirty Protest bring you this funny, heartbreaking and uplifting play. Forget panto and the dreaded office Christmas party, this one-man show from Matthew Bulgo will make you laugh, cry and leave the theatre wanting to call your loved ones.
Dirty Protest's first national tour was a new conception and total re-write of the 2013 production of Parallel Lines by Katherine Chandler.
Director: Catherine Paskell
Cast: Jan Anderson, Sara Lloyd Gregory, Lowri Palfrey, Gareth Pierce
parallel lines
national tour
Written by Katherine Chandler
October - November 2015
Venues: Chapter, Cardiff; Pontardawe Arts Centre; Aberystwyth Arts Centre; Galeri, Caernarfon; Llanelli Ffwrnes; Hafren, Newtown; Soar Centre, Penygraig
“Dirty Protest have reworked what was already a good play into a great one. The strength of this production is its simplicity of staging with such a complex subject. The style of this production has an eerie physicality to it, as at times it feels as if you are watching it in slow motion adding to the palpable tensions on stage. The compositions that director, Catherine Paskell, creates are positively photographic and some of the images may haunt you as you feel the pain of the characters piercing through the pictures. Paskell has shown a singular vision here that has aided Chandler’s complex script to thrive. What she has staged here is excellent. An extremely thought provoking production skillfully executed.”
“***** (5 STARS)”
last christmas
edinburgh festival
soho theatre
wales tour
Written by Matthew Bulgo
August - December 2014
WINNER: BEST PLAYWRIGHT, THEATRE CRITICS OF WALES AWARDS 2015
Director: Kate Wasserberg
Cast: Sion Pritchard
Returning home for Christmas, Tom is confronted with the ghosts of his past. Forced to face his demons, he attempts to rescue his family and his future. Will Tom be able to save it all in time?
First performed at Sherman Cymru and Theatr Clywd - 2013
“***** (5 STARS) There’s a real humanity to Last Christmas, a truth in the writing and playing that makes it one of the best things on the Fringe this year. Don’t miss it. ”
parallel lines
chapter, cardiff
Written by Katherine Chandler
November 2013
BEST PRODUCTION: THEATRE CRITICS OF WALES AWARDS 2014
PREMIERE OF WALES DRAMA AWARD WINNING PLAY
FINALIST IN SUSAN SMITH BLACKBURN INTERNATIONAL PLAYWRIGHTING PRIZE 2015
Director: Catherine Paskell
Cast: Jan Anderson, Lisa Diveney, Gareth Pierce, Rachel Redford
Steph is 15 years old. Simon is her teacher. Both live in Cardiff but their parallel lives couldn’t be more different. When an accusation is made and their worlds collide, things aren’t as simple as they might seem.
Award-winning playwright Katherine Chandler explores truth, class and power in contemporary Wales in this gripping, uncompromising play.
“Katherine Chandler’s new play Parallel Lines reminds us how exciting and challenging Welsh drama can be.”
“Parallel Lines is a significant production in the history of Welsh theatre.”
plays in a bag
royal court theatre
June 2013
Plays in a Bag are portable plays that can be taken anywhere, in a bag
We commissioned Matthew Bulgo, Sandra Bendelow, Katherine Chandler, and Alun Saunders to write new 15 - 20 minute long plays which could be performed anywhere, out of a bag.
These plays were the first time a Welsh writer has been performed in the Royal Court within the last ten years.
The range and number of talents Dirty Protest have discovered in recent years would seem to indicate that an exciting era of dramatic writing is dawning in Wales, and these raw, idiosyncratic, though highly accomplished, Plays in a Bag, wholly vindicate the decision by the Royal Court to spotlight the exciting possibilities that lie ahead for Welsh theatre.
One of the most refreshing and satisfying aspects of Plays in a Bag, as a whole, is its interest in the lived experiences of so-called ordinary people - Wales Arts Review
“raw, idiosyncratic, though highly accomplished”
PLAYS IN A BAG 2
ALMEIDA THEATRE
An Almeida Festival Commission
July 2013
Plays in a Bag are exactly that, plays which can be carried anywhere in a bag!
We commissioned Sandra Bendelow, Lisa Jen Brown and Neil Bebber to creating lo-fi, high-drama short shows.
Cast: Ceri Murphy, Sara Harries Davies, Lisa Jen, Rebecca Harries, Lee Mengo, Christian Patterson.
Plays in a Bag are exactly that, plays which can be carried anywhere in a bag!
PLAYS IN A BAG AT LATITUDE FESTIVAL
July 2013
Writers Brad Birch, Alun Saunders and Katherine Chandler took their Plays in a Bag straight from London to the Latitude Festival.
This is the Welsh premiere of After The End, and the first full production from new writing company Dirty Protest.
Director -Mared Swain
Cast: Kezia Burrows, Gruffudd Glyn
after the end
Sherman Cymru co-production
July 2013
A nuclear attack on London leaves Mark and Louise fighting for survival in a fall-out bunker in London. In this masterful two-hander, award-winning playwright Dennis Kelly explores terrorism in its many brutal forms.
“Dirty Protest has spent the past five years building up its profile in Cardiff (and occasionally beyond) by staging readings of short plays in a number of non-traditional venues (some of them annoyingly uncomfortable), reaching out for new, young audiences, and giving much-appreciated exposure to dozens of writers (myself included, to declare an interest) and actors. The goodwill thus accumulated has resulted in full houses for their first full-scale production, mercifully in a real theatre—the Welsh premiere of Dennis Kelly’s 2005 apocalyptic tragi-comedy After The End.
This is a fine production of a disturbingly perceptive, painfully funny play, providing abundant evidence that the talented and highly ambitious Dirty Protest team will find little difficulty in continuing to make their mark in future.”
Kezia Burrows and Gruffudd Glyn performing After the End