Open wounds: Sally Hales reviews Lisa Parry’s allegorical play about a “left-behind” Welsh town.
Cardiff
28 November 2019
Reviews • Cardiff • National
Review: Mission Control at Principality Stadium, Cardiff
22-24 November
By Lilith Wozniak
A faltering take-off: Lilith Wozniak reviews a haltingly staged sci-fi promenade show from National Theatre of Wales and Hijinx Theatre.
27 October 2019
Reviews • Cardiff • National
Review: Hedda Gabler at Sherman Theatre, Cardiff
18 October - 2 November
By Sally Hales
Surgical precision: Sally Hales writes on Hedda’s struggle ‘to be seen on her own terms’ in Chelsea Walker’s crystal-clear production.
27 September 2019
Reviews • Cardiff • National
Review: On Bear Ridge at Sherman Theatre, Cardiff
20 September - 5 October, then touring
By Lilith Wozniak
‘Cautious kindness’: Lilith Wozniak on the gentle hope of Ed Thomas’s rural, Beckettian play.
9 June 2019
Reviews • Cardiff • National
Review: Neither Here Nor There at Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff
7-9 June
By Ben Kulvichit
You and I, here and there: Ben Kulvichit responds to Jo Fong and Sonia Hughes’ participatory piece by setting a timer for six minutes.
8 June 2019
Reviews • Cardiff • National
Review: Cotton Fingers at Sherman Theatre, Cardiff
5-8 June, then touring
By Lilith Wozniak
Speaking out: Lilith Wozniak reviews a new play from National Theatre Wales about abortion and the dangers of silence, set between Ireland and Wales.
13 February 2019
Reviews • Cardiff • National
Review: BLUE at Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff
5-16 February
By Ben Kulvichit
A familiar family: Ben Kulvichit writes on Chippy Lane Production’s new play and its echoes of 20th Century American playwrights
23 July 2017
Reviews • Cardiff
Review: Chippy and Scratch Does The Diff at Chapter Arts, Cardiff
18 July 2017
By Rosemary Waugh
Homecoming: Rosemary Waugh reviews a night of four work-in-progress plays by Welsh playwrights.
24 April 2017
Reviews • Cardiff
Review: Escape The Scaffold at The Other Room, Cardiff
19 April – 6 May 2017
By Rosemary Waugh
“There’s no such thing as paranoia.†Rosemary Waugh reviews Titus Halder’s unsettling vision of what awaits after graduation.
18 May 2016
Reviews • Cardiff • National • Reviews
Review: In Parenthesis at Wales Millennium Centre
Wales Millennium Centre ⋄ 13th May - 1st July 2016
By Kate Wyver
Kate Wyver reviews the WNO’s staging of David Jones’s epic poem, but finds it lacks the required weight.
21 October 2015
Reviews • Cardiff
A Doll’s House
Sherman Cymru ⋄ 9th – 24th October 2015
By Jafar Iqbal
A woman of substance.
22 February 2015
Reviews • Cardiff • Performance
Playing ‘The Maids’
Chapter Arts Centre ⋄ 18th-21st, 27th-28th February 2015
By Natasha Tripney
Cruelty and tenderness.
23 April 2012
Reviews • Cardiff
The Radicalisation of Bradley Manning
14th - 28th April 2012
By Daniel B. Yates
Reviewing the online broadcast.
18 April 2012
Reviews • Cardiff
Wear it Like a Crown
Wales Millennium Centre ⋄ 11th - 14th April 2012
By Geraldine Giddings
Circus with a dark edge.