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Dateline: 4th July, 2004
CTC Mobile to Tour Brassed Off Terry Hands is to direct a new Welsh version of Brassed Off, the first production in the Clwyd Theatr Cymru / Arts & Business Mobile Theatre.
The show will tour to five leisure centres in former coalfield communities in North and South Wales during September and October and then transfer into The Anthony Hopkins Theatre at Clwyd Theatr Cymru until mid November.
Brassed Off brings together the best of Welsh professional theatre and Welsh brass bands, performing in the heart of communities across Wales.
The 200 seat mobile theatre is a unique contribution to professional theatre touring within Wales. The fifth tour has been made possible by a £100,000 grant from the Welsh Assembly Government and sponsorship from LloydsTSB and Arts & Business Cymru.
At the press launch of the mobile theatre at the National Assembly for Wales on Wednesday 30th June, Alun Pugh, Minister for Culture, Welsh Language and Sport said, "Clwyd Theatr Cymru has wasted no time in putting its Arts Outside Cardiff grant from the Assembly to excellent use. The mobile theatre is a brilliant way to bring productions to communities that might otherwise not have ready access to professional theatre, and its Welsh version of Brassed Off is bound to resonate in the former coalfield communities where it will be performed. CTC should certainly not be shy of blowing its own trumpet."
The mobile theatre tour will use two forty foot articulated trailers which will carry £300,000 worth of capital equipment: stage sets, props, costumes, lighting rigs, technical equipment, seating, staging, fittings and effects for dressing rooms and front of house.
Brassed Off tour dates are:
Tickets for all dates are available on 0845 330 3565 (all calls charged at local rate). The action of the play has been transferred to Wales in 1994 and centres around the closure of the local pit and how the effects on the village are reflected in the colliery band. The setting up of the CTC Mobile Theatre, with the help of a grant of £100,000 from the Arts Outside Cardiff fund direct from the Welsh Assembly culture minister Alun Pugh, has not been universally welcomed in the Welsh theatre community. Feelings are running high on the Theatre in Wales forum: one member, commenting on the fact that the idea behind the mobile theatre is to bring theatre to areas of Wales which have no theatre provision easily accessible, wrote:
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