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Dateline:
20th September, 2007
Autumn at Sherman Cymru
The much anticipated new Welsh company, based in Cardiff and formed
from the merger of what Director Chris Ricketts described as "two
giants in contemporary Welsh drama", (the Sherman Theatre and Sgript
Cymru), has announced its first season.
Ricketts explained that the new company's name, Sherman Cymru, "has
been chosen to both mark change and reflect our commitment to being
a national company."
Ricketts was announced as Director of the new company in November 2006,
and brings twenty years experience in theatre, including four years
as Director of Wales Arts International, as well as senior roles in
Theatr Clwyd Cymru and the Liverpool and Merseyside Theatre Trust.
The Sherman Cymru plans an official launch and a re-branding early
in the new year, but already their autumn season offers a tantalising
glimpse of what is to come, with a mix of in-house work, new Welsh writing,
sustained links with established Welsh companies such as Clwyd Theatr
Cymru and Theatr Genedlaethol Cymru, and a host of acclaimed artists
and performers from around the UK, including, this season, the National
Theatre, Out of Joint and The Bush, and Eddie Ladd, with a ballet originally
commissioned by ROH2 at the Royal Opera House.
Ricketts said, "As part of how we develop our programme we really
want to build relationships with some of the UK's leading companies
whose work is rarely seen in Wales, and offer audiences a programme
that both inspires and entertains".
The season opens, aptly enough, with a new Welsh language play, Maes
Terfyn, by poet and musician Gwyneth Glyn, which tells the story
of a young Welsh business woman who returns home to Wales from London,
in order to re-learn the Welsh language.
This season's productions are:
19 - 22 September
Meas Terfyn
By Gwyneth Glyn
Directed by Arwel Gruffydd
A Sherman Cymru production
26-27 Septmember
16 Northcott Avenue
Five Writers, Five Directors, Five Stories
Hide Productions
A Sherman Cymru's Young Artists Development Programme initiative
25 - 28 September
Porth y Byddar
By Manon Eames
Directed by Tim Baker
A Clwyd Theatr Cymru & Theatr Genedlaethol Cymru production
28-29 Septmember
The Long Way Home
By Charles Way
Directed by Louise Osburn
Hijinx Theatre
3 October
Ardal O'Hanlon
Mick Perrin Productions for Just for Laughs Live
4 October
Roger McGough & Brian Patten: 40 Love
McGough and Patten celebrate National Poetry Day at the Sherman Cymru
9 October
Goon Bandage: An Evening with Harry Secombe
By Helen Giffin and Christian Patterson
Directed by Phil Clark
Taliesin Arts Centre Production
13 October
Two Quartets
Siobhan Davies Dance
11 & 15 October
Scriptslam
Five new ten minute pieces, from five new writers.
(The winning piece will be staged in April 2008)
A Sherman Cymru initiative
16 October
Russell Howard Adventures
Avalon Promotions
18-19 October
Invisible Bonfires
The Brittoniono Brothers adaptation of Forkbeard's 2006 RSC Complete
Works commission, Rough Magick
A Forkbeard Fantasy production
18-20 October
Flight Path
By David Watson
Directed by Naomi Jones
Out of Joint & The Bush Theatre Productions
23-27 October
Chatroom/Citizenship
By Edna Walsh/Mark Ravenhill
Directed by Anna Mackmin
National Theatre Production
1 November
Sean Hughes
Mick Perrin Productions for Just for Laughs Live
2-3 November
Lisa's Sex Strike
By Blake Morrison
Directed by Conrad Nelson
A Northern Broadsides & the Octagon Theatre, Bolton production
2 - 3 November
The Devoted Friend
By Oscar Wilde, Adapted & Directed by Phil Clark
A Sherman Cymru production
6-7 November
Shades of Brown
Written & performed by Rani Moorthy
Directed by Linda Marlowe
Rasa Productions
9-10 November
Eddie Ladd: Muscle Memory
Commissioned by ROH2
13-17 November
A Toy Epic
By Emyr Humphreys, adapted for stage by Manon Eames
Directed by Tim Baker
Clwyd Theatr Cymru production
21- 22 November
God is a DJ
By Oladipo Agboluaje
Directed by Paul J. Medford
A Theatre Centre production
30 Nov - 12 Jan
Beauty and the Beast
By Charles Way
Directed by David Bond
A Sherman Cymru production
Reporter: Allison
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