Mmm… Nice

Under Chris Ricketts, Sherman Cymru is at last beginning to position itself as the contemporary performance house that many of us had been hoping for and working towards. The programme is beginning to become more coherent and the range of work is starting to reflect the high quality of touring work available that Cardiff, not to say [...]

What Are You Doing Here, Citizen Of The World?

Last Saturday, I rushed down to Swansea’s Taliesin Theatre in the rain for a mystery tour courtesy of Volcano Theatre. Having arrived, the audience was promptly shepherded on to a bus and driven to a warehouse in Landore opposite the city’s own Liberty Stadium. With convenient irony, liberty was confronted by its opposite in the [...]

Peter Doran, hero

There used to be an old Monty Python joke about Swansea being bombed in the war and how it caused three and a half pence worth of damage in old money. As I come from Swansea, I can’t officially find that funny. So any similar crack about bombs dropping on Milford Haven would be just as unworthy. [...]