The Welsh Play

The 10th anniversary of the opening of the Wales Millennium Centre (WMC) in Cardiff Bay gives me a reason to tackle a topic I’ve not yet properly covered on this …

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 …