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Michael Sheen: a new Welsh hero
Michael Sheen is an inspiring example to all who care about Wales. With deeds not words the Newport-born, Port Talbot-raised actor is showing the limitless potential of our abused, supressed, …
Film review
Mr BurtonThis ‘true story’ biopic about schoolteacher Philip Burton (1904-1995) and his part in the metamorphosis of promising pupil Richard Jenkins into superb actor Richard Burton (1925-1984), is fatally flawed …
Nye
Last Saturday afternoon my partner and I went to the Wales Millennium Centre (WMC) to see Nye, a new play by Tim Price about Nye Bevan (1897-1960), founder of the …
National Theatre Wales
Following an investment review the Arts Council of Wales (ACW) has announced it will end the annual £1.6 million funding of National Theatre Wales (NTW) in 2024. Although NTW has …
They also were thespians…
Nine years have slipped by since I wrote about Wales and film, so I reckon it’s time to supplement that blog’s coverage of the most famous Welsh actors with this …
Token Wales
In September something most unusual happened: a group of Welsh people stood up for Wales. The action took the form of an open letter from 40 Welsh playwrights to National …
Wales and film
After more than a century in the maternity ward, a tangible Welsh film industry is yet to be born. Plenty of individual Welsh people have been important in film history, …
The last picture show
Cardiff, I suppose, is fairly well endowed with cinemas: there are four multiplex chains (Cineworld, Odeon, Premiere and Vue) showing an unrelenting rotation of whatever manipulative pubescent escapist tripe the mainstream …
The Soul Exchange
To the Wales Millennium Centre last week for the unmissable National Theatre Wales (NTW) production The Soul Exchange. We were bundled into a fleet of taxis six at a time and …