Beefy Jenkins, the colossus of Cwmaman, died 18 years ago not long after he turned 40. He had osteogenesis imperfecta – or brittle bone disease and wasn’t expected to live more than four months let alone four years. He packed more into those forty years than most of us manage in one – including more […]
Read more...Rainbow Chaser is Larry Allan’s next play, currently in development with Blackwood Miners’ Institute. It’s a story of gambling, football and rock ‘n roll and hinges on Cardiff City’s perennial dream of repeating their FA Cup triumph of1927 and one group of local punters’ annual bet of it actually happening. This 1927 Club is challenged […]
Read more...Our latest project takes us back to Africa, where the idea for Chainworks was forged during the Mzansi Cymru collaboration. Among the many people we worked with in Wales and South Africa none have been more constant in our journey than Newport photo journalist Glenn Edwards. He made a beautiful and evocative photo recording of […]
Read more...I spent the summer with The Changang toiling on the second part of the trilogy WE LIVE. It was supposed to be called Reason To Believe but wriggled onto the stage at The Factory as Gimme Some Truth. All around us things were changing but everything stayed the same. There was a General Election when […]
Read more...A new departure working in partnership with Dr. Robert Fokkens
Read more...Don’t miss this new play written and directed by Laurence Allan, opening in Aberdare Coliseum on Thurs 23rd – Fri 24th April 2015 and touring Wales until 16th May. Dreams made real https://www.facebook.com/events/362476797291767/ In 1895, before the Tour De France and before the Modern Olympics, Wales and Aberdare could claim its first cycling world champion when […]
Read more...Sadly, sometimes, some things are too good to be true – like Lance Armstrong. But Saturday’s opening performance of Gladiator at The Factory in Porth really did beggar belief. But it was all true. We put together a show in three days. People turned up. And kept turning up. And more and more kept […]
Read more...The Forgotten Hero – Arthur Linton – Welsh World Champion I have been riding a bike seriously for twenty years and up until recently it has been seen as the pursuit of the mad, sad obsessive. But suddenly cycling is the new black and the MAMIL (middle aged man in lycra) is the new mondeo […]
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