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Plays to See: ‘Hot Chicks’ at the Swansea Grand
County lines is undoubtedly a worthy subject to explore on stage, particularly if, like Rebecca Jade Hammond, your intention is to bring something new to the conversation...
Review | 14.04.2025
Nation Cymru: Rebecca Jade Hammond on her new play ‘Hot Chicks’
Rebecca Jade Hammond’s new play ‘Hot Chicks’ explores how organised crime groups abuse, manipulate and exploit young people through the practice of County Lines...
Feature | 01.04.2025
Nation Cymru: Calamity Jane at Wales Millennium Centre
Surely, I’ve seen Calamity Jane before? It’s a classic, after all. The movie is a staple of Hollywood’s Golden Age. It’s Doris Day for crying out loud...
Review | 14.03.2025
Nation Cymru: Ghost: The Musical at Wales Millennium Centre
Making a musical adaptation of a classic movie seems like a no brainer. You have a story that is tried and tested. You have ready-made fans who don’t need an awful lot of persuasion to buy a ticket...
Review | 09.03.2025
Nation Cymru: The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe at Wales Millennium Centre
Narnia seems to have fallen out of favour in recent years. Whilst pop culture endlessly reveres Hogwarts and Hobbits, C.S Lewis’ world of...
Review | 13.02.2025
Chortle: Should you be watching G'wed?
G’wed has been a tremendous success for ITVX. Sold as Gen Z’s answer to The Inbetweeners, it spawned healthy reviews, a pleading feature in The Guardian declaring it to be...
Feature | 06.02.2025
Plays to See: A Christmas Carol at Sherman Theatre
Gary Owen’s adaptation of ‘A Christmas Carol’ was first revived and rejigged by director Joe Murphy in 2021, but as you may have guessed...
Review | 16.12.2024
Nation Cymru: Gary Owen on reimagining A Christmas Carol with a Welsh twist
Whether he’s transporting Euripides’ Iphigenia to Splott, Chekhov’s Cherry Orchard to Pembrokeshire or Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet to...
Feature | 10.12.2024
Nation Cymru: Hefin Robinson on his new horror play Pontypool
When I first heard that Wales Millennium Centre were producing a new horror play set to premiere across Halloween, I was eager to hear more. But I soon discovered that the more you learn...
Feature | 03.11.2024
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