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Dateline: 28th November, 2004

Theatre News from Wales

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Theatre in Wales Awards
The Theatre in Wales website has launched its annual Awards. Nominations are being invited in the followig categories:

  • Best production (Welsh)
  • Best production (English)
  • Best dance work
  • Best male actor
  • Best female actor
  • Best new writing

There will also be the the James Westaway Award (sponsored by Parthian Books) for the actor aged 25 or younger who gets the most votes in the Best Male and Best Female categories.

Nominations should be made by using the form on the Feedback page of the site. A shortlist of five moninees in each category will be voted on from 1st January. The results will be announced at a special ceremony at Aberystwyth Arts Centre at the end of January.

Conservatives Call for Arts Outside Cardiff Funding
The Welsh Conservative Party has called for long-term, sustainable funding for the arts outside of Cardiff, saying that the Assembly's promise to spend £2m a year is already falling short, for only £250,000 will be available in the first yea and that they have been told by groups that lack of funding will force them to downscale future plans.

"You get a huge return for spending a relatively small amount of money on the arts in generating interest, especially among our young people," said Lisa Francis AM, the party's culture spokeswoman in the National Assembly. "It is essential we continue to encourage and support the work of regional dance, music and theatre groups."

The party has also annouced that it is opposed to the proposal to make the Arts Council of Wales a government department in what the First Minister (Labour) has called the "bonfire of the quangos".

The Conservative Party is the third largest group in the Assembly, after Labour and Plaid Cymru.

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©Peter Lathan 2004