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Dateline: 7th July, 2002 Welsh LanguageYouth Theatre in Manchester The Welsh language Youth Theatre group Y Gweithdy have devised a brand new show called Dwli. The show will be performed in the Contact Theatre, Manchester,as part of the Contacting the World project at the Commonwealth Games Cultureshock Festival this July. The vision of the Contacting the World project is to celebrate youth culture and involves collaboration between twelve theatre groups for young people from all over the Commonwealth. The Sherman Youth Theatre have been collaborating (via mail, email, the web) with a group of young people from Sri Lanka to create a brand new piece of theatre. Dwli is the result of this collaboration. Y Gweithdy members have chosen to represent their heritage through the use of traditional tales. Gelert and Branwen are just some of the tales that will be retold in a contemporary context. Dwli will be performed in Welsh in an accessible way, which non-Welsh speakers will be able to understand. The acclaimed Welsh writer, Roger Williams, nominated for a BAFTA for his work on Tales from the Pleasure Beach (BBC 2), is leading Y Gweithdy through this process. This news item comes from the Theatre in Wales website. Please note that all three Archive indices are very long and will therefore take some time to download.
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