pastshow

A Visit is about crime, justice and childcare and who takes care of the kids when a mum gets sent to prison. Fifteen year old Angharad is visiting her mum Ffion in a prison far away from their home in Aberdare. She’s been taken there by her Aunty Carys, who has been doing her best… A Visit

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A Night in the Clink is set in the Clink restaurant at HMP Cardiff. Three men, who are coming to the end of their prison sentence, cook and serve the audience their supper whilst sharing their stories and the dreams they have for their lives upon release. The stories emerged from a year long series… A Night in the Clink

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In Rhydymwyn Valley  lies a secret: it was once the centre of the race to build the atomic bomb. In 1940 two physicists, Otto Frisch and Rudolph Peierls (working at the University of Birmingham), calculated it was possible to build an atomic bomb but needed a suitable site in which to test out their theories;… Project Hush

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Day to Go: story and place weaved together in a magical bus journey… The production takes the form of a poetic bus journey through the town of Barry. Audiences listen to a soundscape of voices drawn from characters past and present which have been gathered through a year long series of workshops with communities from… Day to Go

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The Container, by Clare Bayley, tells the story of five characters stowed away in the back of a lorry journeying to what they hope will be a better life. The production was produced by the Welsh Refugee Council & shermantheatre.co.uk and performed inside a shipping container. The setting works tremendously well. Tom Raybould’s sound design… The Container

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