The Wales Millennium Centre in Cardiff has announced its spring 2007
season:
Footloose
5 - 14 January
Max Boyce
28 January
Following Max Boyce's recent BBC TV series, A Lifetime of Laughter
there has been an unprecedented public demand from all parts of Wales
for an Evening with Max Boyce. This merely confirms this legendary
entertainer's enduring appeal and the affection in which he is held
by both young and old alike.
The Marriage of Figaro
By Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
11, 18, 28 February
Welsh National Opera
The Flying Dutchman
By Richard Wagner
17, 22, 25 February, 1 & 3 March
Welsh National Opera, with Bryn Terfel
This production is alrady sold out
Jephta
By George Frederick Handel
2 & 4 March
Welsh National Opera
Paco Peña - Flamenco in Concert
7 - 8 March
Paco Peña started his company of dancers, singers and guitarists
with the aim of presenting to the public the art of flamenco as it
really is, or as it was and remains for someone born and bred in the
middle of its development in Andalucia, southern Spain.
Edward Scissorhands
Chroegraphed by Matthew Bourne
14 - 18 March
The Mutuals
19 March
Charlie Chaplin entered movies in 1914 and in 1916 signed a contract
with the Mutual Film Corporation. Mutual built Chaplin his very own
studio and allowed him total freedom to make twelve, short two-reel
films. This evening will feature screenings of three of the best of
The Mutuals - Behind The Screen, Easy Street and The
Adventurer, to live musical accompaniment conducted by Carl Davis,
who has written new music for all of The Mutuals films.
Renegade presents Rumble
25 - 26 March
This is a hip-hop version of Romeo & Juliet by a very young,
very streetwise German dance company. The weekend will include locking,
popping and breaking workshops.
Lee Mack – LIVE
15 January
Little d-fects
Crush
7 March
Based on Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility, Crush
follows two sisters as they join the craziness of 1980’s London.
Little d-fects bring their “fresh easily accessible style”
to this classic tale, combining theatre, dance and music to make this
an exhilarating and extraordinary version of a well-loved story.
Ricochet Dance Productions present '
Man & Woman
9 March
International designer John Napier's sculptural set provides a shifting
surface for Fin Walker's choreography in a daring and emotional new
work for Ricochet Dance Productions.
Heaven Scent - The History of the Welsh Songstress
10 March £7/£5
Based on interviews with Women from across Wales who have been singers
and, or, songwriters from the 1930s onwards, Cheryl Beer introduces
us to a history that has remained strangely silent. In her unique
and inimitable style, she enchants the audience with song, story and
poetry.
India Dance Wales
Natya Kaia - The Art of Dance
11 - 12 March £10/£8
Natya Kala will be exploring the harmonisation of the two very different
art-forms of Bharata Natyarn (Classical Indian Dance) choreographed
by Kiran Ratna and Western music ensemble including Mezzo Soprano
Philippa Reeves.
Vincent Dance Theatre
Broken Chords
14 March
Following the sell out success of Punch Drunk, Vincent Dance
Theatre's new production, Broken Chords, is a reflection on
growing older and growing up for eight multi-talented performers.
Spectacle Theatre
Friends for Dinner
15 - 16 March
Written for children ages 5 - 7, Friends for Dinner is a colourful,
funny story that follows the adventures of three little aliens who
land on a strange planet.
Red Shift Theatre Co.
Get Carter
(Adult Drama)
17 - 18 March
Get Carter is a provocative, shocking, perfectly structured
tale of twentieth century sin, revenge and redemption. Red.Shift presents
Ted Lewis' brutal 70s story with a stunning soundtrack featuring classic
hits from The Rolling Stones, The Kinks and more. Jonathan Holloway's
adaptation will be the first stage version of the book that launched
the cult movie.
Earthfall
At Swim Two Boys
23 - 25 March
From Jamie O'Neill's award-winning novel about the developing love
between two boys
Huw Warren
This is Now!
6 April
This is Now! fuses jazz and new music in an unique, eclectic
and compelling exploration of modern Wales. With new text in welsh
by Aled Jones Williams, freestyling from Nobsta Nuts and the virtuoso
improvising of guitarist John Parricelli. This is Now! features an
all Welsh ensemble combining musicians based in the north and south
of the country.
Sue Perkins
Spectacle wearer of the year
7 April
Total sell-out Edinburgh fringe 2005. In the Autumn of 1988, Sue Perkins
got onto a stage to perform her first ever stand up routine. She was
interrupted, mid flow, by a girl called Mel. For the next seventeen
years this pair developed their unique comic formula: Shouting + bad
impressions + jumping up and down = Mel and Sue. Now, Sue comes to
the Weston studio to finish what she started that night.
The Children
By Edward Bond
8 April
The Mid Powys Youth Theatre and Theatr Powys embark on their fourth
and most extraordinary collaboration. Joe and his friends have left
home. They embark on a journey and find themselves in a landscape
of catastrophe. The children are the only ones who can save themselves
and replace revenge with justice; anger with care.
Sitting Pretty Theatre
Banshees
10 April 1
What is a Banshee? Is it a Jungian symbol of longing, lament and desire?
Or a sinister archetype perpetuated by a hierarchy. If so, to what
end? Sitting Pretty Theatre presents a vast, dark landscape in which
myth reigns supreme, leaving mere mortals to fend for themselves..
North Wales Stage
Theatr Fireuddwydion
11 - 12 April
This will be a musical based upon the journey of a group of Manchester
United fans from North Wales to Barcelona for the 1999 European Cup
final.
