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Dateline: 4th February, 2009
WTC to Close The Wales Theatre Company is to close after its next production, a musical version of The Thorn Birds (see our news story of 5th January), its artistic director Michael Bogdanov has announced. "A combination of circumstances resulting in dwindling funding from the Arts Council of Wales and the City of Swansea has led me to the reluctant conclusion that it is time to hang up the touring boots," he said. "We have had a rollercoaster six years, producing fourteen large scale pieces of work and touring throughout the UK to great acclaim. "I am happy to have provided high quality work for a large number of Welsh based artists and technicians, often under difficult circumstances, and I am grateful to all those who have supported the company, both behind and in front of the curtain. The Thorn Birds finishes its sixteen week tour at the Wales Millennium Centre (on 11th July) and it is my wish to exit on a high note rather than stumble on into an uncertain future." The company's first production, Under Milk Wood, toured the UK in 2004, and since then it has produced a wide range of work, from Shakespeare (Cymbeline, The Merchant of Venice, Twelfth Night, Romeo and Juliet and a version of Hamlet which played in both English and Welsh) to musicals, through Goldoni, yet more Dylan Thomas, and Charles Dickens.
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