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Morfydd Clark In her titular theatrical role, “Blodeuwedd” By Theatr Genedlaethol Cymru

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Morfydd Clark (as Blodeuwedd) THE WOMAN MADE OF FLOWERS Saunders Lewis' play of the Welsh folktale BLODEUWEDD (2013)

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NEWYDDION! Bydd Colorama, Plu A Bendith yn chwarae dan yr un tô mewn dau gyngerdd sbesial ym mis Ebrill nesa!! Da ni wir yn edrych mlaen. Bydd y sioe gynta yng Nghaerdydd ar dydd Gwener y 13eg o Ebrill yn Theatr Reardon Smith yn yr Amgueddfa Genedlaethol. Bydd tocynnau ar gael o fan hyn o fory ymlaen:

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NEWS! Colorama, Plu AND Bendith will be playing under one roof in two special concerts next April! We truly can’t wait. The first show will be in Cardiff on Friday the 13th of April at the Reardon Smith Theatre in the National Museum. Tickets will be available from tomorrow at the link above.

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5 must-see shows at Pontio, Bangor this Autumn!

Autumn is fast approaching, and we have a season of delights waiting for you at Pontio over the coming months!

Here our our top 5 must-see shows!

Gŵyl Goncrit 10.09.2022

A whole day of event for the whole family - come and enjoy free performances in the public spaces, a circus workshop, E.T in the cinema, A Shed Load of Comedy, Qwerin, Yws Gwynedd gig and more!

See full programme and tickets here

Catrin Finch & Seckou Keita 14.10.2022

Multi-award winning duo Catrin Finch and Seckou Keita tour the UK in 2022 to celebrate the release of their third album ECHO, the tender triumph of an extraordinary musical partnership that combines Wales and Senegal, harp and kora, the classical and traditional, different cultures and common humanity.

Book your tickets here

Tylwyth 28+29.10.22

A Theatr Genedlaethol Cymru and Sherman Theatre production

Ten years on from the trail-blazing and award-winning Llwyth, Aneurin, Rhys, Gareth and Dada are back in this witty and compelling new play by Daf James. Taking an irreverent look at love, family and friendship, Tylwyth is a provocative commentary on contemporary Welsh life.

More information and tickets here

SHOWSTOPPER! The Improvised Musical 18.11.2022

Spontaneous musical comedy at its absolute finest - direct from the West End and now heading to Pontio!

With twelve years as an Edinburgh Fringe must-see phenomenon, a BBC Radio 4 series, a critically acclaimed West End run and an Olivier Award to their name, The Showstoppers have delighted audiences across the globe with their ingenious blend of comedy, musical theatre and spontaneity.

Tickets available here

Rich Hall: Shot From Canons 16.12.22

Montana’s transatlantic messenger returns with new rants, knife-edge observations, thrilling musical interludes and an ever-formidable knack for laughs on the fly. You’ll pay for the whole seat, but you’ll only need the edge of it. 

Tickets are going fast! Book now to avoid disappointment!

Fancy something else? We have a whole range of events on this Autumn including, Ballet Cymru, Mared Williams, N'Famady Kouyate, Shôn Dale-Jones, family shows and more! Go to pontio.co.uk to see all our events, including cinema screenings and art exhibitions.

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NATIONAL THEATRE WALES, THEATR GENEDLAETHOL CYMRU AND AUGUST012 JOIN FORCES TO CO-PRODUCE THE MULTILINGUAL SPACE ODYSSEY, PETULA

NATIONAL THEATRE WALES, THEATR GENEDLAETHOL CYMRU AND AUGUST012 JOIN FORCES TO CO-PRODUCE THE MULTILINGUAL SPACE ODYSSEY, PETULA

Concept and direction by Mathilde Lopez, based on the play by Fabrice MelquiotPetula is a surreal comedy about love, loss and the struggles of growing upTouring throughout Wales in spring 2022 Wales’s two national theatre companies, National Theatre Wales and Theatr Genedlaethol Cymru, are teaming up to tour Wales in spring 2022 with a brand-new production of Fabrice Melquiot’s extraordinary…

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Coronavirus: Arts and culture given £53m from Welsh Government

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Picture caption Theatres, galleries and song venues could well all wait on from the cash

The arts and culture sector is to be supported by £53m from the Welsh Govt.

The cash is to motivate other americans and organisations contend with the coronavirus pandemic.

In June the UK authorities said it used to be giving £59m to Wales as phase of a £1.57bn enhance package it unveiled for the arts.

Custom minister Lord Dafydd Elis-Thomas said the fund used to be in step with “big and unprecedented challenges”.

But Plaid Cymru and the Welsh Conservatives occupy questioned why no longer the final extra cash used to be being feeble to motivate the sector.

Theatres, galleries, song venues, heritage sites, museums, libraries, archive, festivals and cinemas are among these home to wait on.

Lord Elis-Thomas said: “We recognise the big and unprecedented challenges the pandemic is having on the very cloth of Welsh life and we applaud the resilience and creativity on snarl.

“This package will motivate enhance many in the sectors in responding to the pressures and challenges coronavirus has placed on them.”

Arts Council of Wales chief executive Slash Capaldi said the cash used to be “the signal of enhance that the arts in Wales has been anticipating”.

He added: “With many arts organisations going by arrangement of the imminent likelihood of insolvency, and freelancers struggling to take a examine when they are going to stable their next paid work, these funds ease the instantaneous likelihood of a fall down in the ingenious sector.”

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Picture caption The Lion King used to be one amongst the exhibits postponed or cancelled on the Wales Millennium Centre

He had previously warned arts and cultural organisations in Wales were losing £1.4m per week as a results of Covid-19 closures.

He estimated the Wales Millennium Centre in Cardiff by myself could well lose £20m over the most fresh financial year. The centre has warned 250 jobs are at likelihood after being forced to cancel all exhibits until next year.

Inventive director for Theatre Genedlaethol Cymru, Arwel Gruffydd, said that while the funding used to be decrease than they in the initiating anticipated, it used to be urgently wanted. “It is miles urgently wanted, as there are staff participants who’re for the time being going by arrangement of redundancy,” he told BBC Radio Wales. “We are about to lose staff from the sector that withhold inside of them a wealth of abilities, and after getting misplaced which occupy, as soon as it leaves the arts, then it goes into other sectors. and we significantly wish to protect these jobs now, earlier than we lose them.”

‘Commit to bigger differ’

Before the total lot of July the UK authorities launched a £1.57bn coronavirus enhance package for the arts sector.

This resulted in £59m extra funding for Wales, with Welsh ministers home to reach to a determination how the cash would be spent.

Plaid Cymru’s Siân Gwenllian, who had referred to as for the final consequential cash to be spent on Welsh arts, said: “What has came about to the £6m – inside of the home of a month, £59m has been diminished to £53m and no longer a penny has reached the sector.

“The Welsh Govt must now work to distribute this cash as soon as that you possibly can name to mind and for that, they wish to be optimistic on how the sector can say for these funds, and the explicit timetable. Time is ticking.”

Welsh Conservative David Melding said the arts had been “rapid changed” by ministers.

“Given the grave bag 22 situation the sector is in, the Welsh Govt desires to reverse its determination and gather obvious the beefy quantity reaches Wales’ arts and culture sectors to motivate protect both afloat,” he said.

The Welsh Govt highlighted £18m of emergency funding which had previously been made available.

About half of that went to the arts and culture, the relief to sport.

The fund will be delivered collectively by the authorities and the Arts Council of Wales.

Its terms embody a “cultural contract” requiring applicants to commit to magnificent work and pay and sustainability.

There will also be requirements along with dedication to bigger boardroom differ and the enhance of initiatives allowing the arts to be prescribed as smartly being treatment.

No timescale on supply of the funds has been given and there ought to no longer but main facets on how you possibly can say.

Whereas the fund launched today is price £53m, the Welsh Govt screech that extra than £59m is reaching the arts and culture sector. The press unlock talks about £18m that used to be given earlier in the pandemic. But that £18m involves cash given to sports actions organisations too. Spherical half that quantity – roughly £9m – went to the arts, and that used to be largely (if no longer all) made up from re-purposing existing funds. As an instance, it included spherical £5m of lottery funding that would in every other case had been available to arts organisations in long-established instances.

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Our 50th episode! And we celebrate in style by getting in a double bill of Welsh Language theatre from Theatr Genedlaethol Cymru

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Sibrwd / Whisper#Cymraeg #Welsh #dysguCymraeg @cymraeg @learncymraeg @AwrYDysgwyr @yrawrgymraeg @mentrauiaith @MudiadMeithrin pic.twitter.com/4asKo1TgU4

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Hefyd, Sibrwd yw'r enw ap gan Theatr Genedlaethol Cymru, sy'n esponio beth sy'n digwydd yn ystod perfformiadau Cymraeg, fel Y Tad.

Also, Sibrwd is the name of an app by Theatr Genedlaethol Cymru, that explains what's happening during a welsh-language performance, like Y Tad.

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Y Fenyw a Ddaeth o’r Môr

Ar Ddydd Llun y 16eg o Fawrth, 2015 am 7.30yh, roedd perfformiad o ‘Y Fenyw a Ddaeth o’r Môr’ sef y ddrama wreiddiol gan Ibsen ‘The Lady from the Sea’ yn Theatr y Ffwrnes, Llanelli. Cyfieithiad Cymraeg o ddrama Ibsen gan Menna Elfyn a pherfformiwyd gan Theatr Genedlaethol Cymru.

Pan eisteddwyd yn fy set i ddechrau gwylio'r perfformiad, roedd y set yn wag ond roedd yna ddefnydd o liwiau megis glas a gwyn. Lliwiau nid yn unig oedd yn cyfleu’r môr ond hefyd yn ychwanegu rhyw ddirgelwch cyn dechrau'r perfformiad ac yn sicr yn ychwanegu ias i'r gynulleidfa o’r hyn oedd i ddod.

Drama ydyw yn sôn am ddyhead Elida Wanger sef merch i geidwad y goleudy am gael rhyddid. Mae’r ddrama wedi ei leoli o amgylch tiroedd Norwy.  Roedd yr actio yn wych gan Heledd Gwynn a wnaeth portreadu'r cymeriad yn dda iawn. Mae Elida yn gaeth mewn priodas ac yn gweld ei hun yn gorfod dewis pa fywyd fyddai orau iddi, bywyd syml gyda’i gwr neu ddewis bywyd llawn cyffro ar lan y môr.

Yn sicr, roedd yn berfformiad hynod o drawiadol ac roedd yn sicr wedi dangos sut awdurdod oedd gan Elida i wneud y penderfyniad dros ei hun ond hefyd wrth ei wylio yr oeddwn fel cynulleidfa yn gallu cymryd agweddau o gymeriad Elida ai perthnasu gyda menywod eraill o fewn cymdeithas.

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Morfydd Clark In her titular theatrical role, “Blodeuwedd” By Theatr Genedlaethol Cymru ◼ Morfydd Daily

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Merch Yr Eog- Review

Merch yr Eog is a production by Theatr Genedlaethol Cymru and Teatr Piba (a company from Brittany) and in partnership with Aberystwyth Arts Centre. The play is performed in three different languages such as French, Britton and welsh, Merch Yr Eog is a multicultural play, where its spoken in three different languages Welsh, Breton and French. It is set in Wales and Brittany. The play was developed by two theatre companies Theatr Genedlaethol Cymru and Teatr Piba from Brittany.

Mair is called home to a funeral, and feelings of guilt and responsibility are brought to the surface. She starts to question her values and the happiness she thought she had found in Brittany with her partner Loeiza. At the opening of the play, she has returned from Brittany, where she is based with her Breton partner Loeiza to the family farm in her native Wales for the funeral of her aunt. Due to the death of her aunt and the struggles her family are facing on the farm she starts to question her place in the world. The play itself explores the ideals and struggles of life as an immigrant and the challenging consequences of those emotions. It depicts the life of how an immigrant struggles living away from home and feelings of guilt of being happy when their family are suffering back home. In terms of set it also explores how a change in scene can be determined or shown through a simple prop.

So, does it succeed in this? Some aspects yes it does succeed because it does show the internal struggles Mair has to deal with and how that affects her relationship with her family and her partner, however the main point of the play was struggles to come across not because of the language barrier but I felt at times that it didn’t quite make sense and when Mair’s neighbour came on with the fish a symbol of hope and to reach out to her which at first I believed to be the main focus of the play I  felt was undermined by a simple plotline. However, it does succeed in showing the use of props because I thought it was effective using the prop to change scene and be the focus point of the set on stage.

The most effective element was the set, the use of the rock which never left the stage was creative. It was really inspiring and creative of them to psychically move the rock as each scene changed which symbolised the scene changing and a new place or time which I have never seen before so I thought was creative.

I believe if the language was changed to just English or just Breton then the play wouldn’t be multicultural and the play would lose a lot of its originality and uniqueness.

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Merch Yr Eog

On Tuesday the 25th of October at the Wales Millennium centre located in Cardiff Bay a theatre group called Theatr Genedlaethol Cymru and Teatr Piba put on a production call Merch Yr Eog (The Salmon's Daughter). This play was performed in three different languages that you could listen to of your choice on a downloaded app called Sibrwd. The languages that you could follow the performance on were Welsh, Breton, French and English. You could listen to the performance with headphones while watching the production visually however this served as a distraction to the fluent welsh speakers in the audience because the wide range of dialects created a confusion between the different areas of Wales and the fact that other languages were included caused there to be a larger language barrier than necessary. The App itself while useful for those who understand none of the language used also served as a distraction from the performance itself as it was hard to keep up with was physically and visually happening in front of the audience.  However, despite the language barrier the performance itself was able to create an engrossing atmosphere for the audience into the personal life’s and emotions of the characters within the play despite the performance having a minimalistic set which allowed the audience to focus more on the characters and how they were reacting to the scene around them.

During this production, there was a specific centre piece through the whole performance. This was a large grey rock that was used as a prop and also part of the set. This structure stood out as a centre piece for the audience because it became a staple for the actor’s movements. This allowed them to explore the staging space.

The lighting for this production was very naturalised where as it fitted the scene that was happening on stage at the time for example when the main character called Mair and her girlfriend were at the Spa resort the lighting had a warm yellow glow creating a warm artificial sunlight. At certain points in this performance a small glass tank on a stand was wheeled on to the stage by one character. This gave off the impression of emptiness as each time the tank came on stage there was nothing in the tank despite a character of a man staring through it as if it was full of life. This peaked the audiences interest despite them subconsciously knowing there was nothing in the tank. They felt like they were looking at something animated. Although this performance had many interesting elements within its set design however these aspects disillusioned the audience away from the atmosphere the characters were trying to create as they were trying to concentre on the language and the app that was included that the set didn’t register highly on their radar.

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Merch yr Eog. 

​This image is a rare look into the process that it takes to create a piece of performance as you never really see the writing stages when it's yet to get onto it's feet. Website: http://theatr.cymru/portfolio/merch-yr-eog-merch-an-eog%E2%80%A8/?lang=en This image is taken from Theatr Genedlaethol Cymru website.

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5 sioe i weld yn Pontio, Bangor yr Hydref hwn!

Mae tymor yr Hydref ar fin cyrraedd, ac mae gwledd o adloniant yn aros amdanoch yn Pontio dros y misoedd nesaf!

Dyma'r 5 sioe y dylech ei weld y tymor hwn!

Gŵyl Goncrit 10.09.22

Diwrnod o ddigwyddiadau i'r teulu cyfan yn Pontio - dewch i fwynhau perfformiadau am ddim yn y gofodau cyhoeddus, gweithdy syrcas, ffilm E.T, A Shed Load of Comedy, Qwerin, gig Yws Gwynedd a mwy!

Manylion ac amserlen llawn yma

Catrin Finch + Seckou Keita 14.10.22

Bydd y ddeuawd gwobrwyedig Catrin Finch a Seckou Keita yn teithio’r DU yn 2022 i ddathlu rhyddhau eu trydydd albwm ECHO, buddugoliaeth dyner partneriaeth gerddorol hynod sy’n cyfuno Cymru a Senegal, telyn a kora, y clasurol a’r traddodiadol, diwylliannau gwahanol a dynoliaeth gyffredin.

Tocynnau ar gael, ond yn mynd yn sydyn! Yma

Tylwyth 28+29.10.2022

Cynhyrchiad Theatr Genedlaethol Cymru a Theatr y Sherman.

Ddeng mlynedd ers y ddrama glodwiw ac arloesol Llwyth, mae Aneurin, Rhys, Gareth a Dada yn ôl mewn drama newydd, dyner a direidus gan Daf James. Gan daflu golwg grafog ar gariad, teulu a chyfeillgarwch, mae Tylwyth yn cynnig sylwebaeth feiddgar a phryfoclyd ar y Gymru gyfoes.

Bachwch docynnau yma

SHOWSTOPPER! The Improvised Musical 18.11.2022

Comedi gerddorol ddigymell ar ei gorau - o'r West End i Pontio!

Wedi deuddeg mlynedd fel ffenomen hynod boblogaidd yn Edinburgh Fringe, cyfres BBC Radio 4, rhediad y West End sydd wedi derbyn canmoliaeth uchel a Gwobr Olivier i'w henw, mae The Showstoppers wedi plesio cynulleidfaoedd ar draws y byd gyda’u cyfuniad dyfeisgar o gomedi a theatr gerdd digymell.

Peidiwch â cholli allan, tocynnau ar gael yma

Rich Hall: Shot From Canons 16.12.2022

Mae’r negeseuwr trawsatlantig o Montana yn ei ôl gyda rantiau newydd, sylwadau ffraeth, setiau cerddorol gwefreiddiol a’i allu aruthrol i wneud i chi chwerthin dros bob man mewn dim o amser. Byddwch yn talu am y sedd gyfan, ond dim ond ymyl y sedd fydd ei hangen arnoch. 

Gwerthu'n sydyn - archebwch nawr!

Y digwyddiadau hyn ddim yn mynd â'ch bryd? Mae llwyth ymlaen y tymor hwn gan gynnwys Ballet Cymru, Mared Williams, N'Famady Kouyate, Shôn-Dale Jones, sioeau i blant a mwy! Heb anghofio'r sinema ac arddangosfeydd celf. Ewch draw i pontio.co.uk i gael golwg!

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Live Performance Review; Merch Yr Eog

Merch Yr Eog based on the work by Owen Martell and Aziliz Bourges is a multilingual co-production by Theatr Genedlaethol Cymru, Teatr Piba, Brittany, in partnership with Aberystwyth Arts Centre exploring the issues that young people face in rural communities. The play is also open to interpretation, therefore your experience and opinion on the play could be completely different, but here is my take on it; the confusing and what seems to be only described as ‘what is going on’ play uses the imagery of a salmon, hence the title translated ‘The Salmons Daughter’, to show the main character Mair going against the normal ‘current’ or in reality, the norms of rural society; instead of staying and taking over her parents farm, she moved to Brittany but now she is faced with whether to return home and live her life or to stay put with her cosmopolitan life in Brittany with her partner. I found that the play used irrelevant design elements in order to try and draw the audience in, for example the use of strobe lighting and techno music whilst animals danced in high heels around the stage... I mean what was I even watching? It felt like they’d drugged the audience and I was hallucinating. It did not seem to relate to Mair’s struggles or help in making her decision, it just seemed to fill space with quirky lighting and music and try to entertain those who struggled with the language barrier as it was performed in Welsh, Breton and French. Some design elements however did seem effective in portraying the feeling of Mair going against the current, ‘the norms of rural society’ throughout the play, as there were 5 screens projecting shifting shapes of the sea and a salmon struggling to overcome them. I found this an engaging element as it seemed to be the only thing that made sense in the play when relating to the theme of family heritage and the decisions that come with this. The set also lead to inconsistency and confusion of the performance as the rock centre stage had various uses of a rock, a bedroom and a wall, it was overwhelming to figure out when the scene had changed due to a pillow and a book being added into the carved out rock to resemble a bedroom. I found it odd that they would use a rock to portray a bedroom, but at the same time I admire their creativity. I feel like there could of been more distinction between places/set and this would help the storyline to flow more. This play attracts a particular audience and for me and my peers, this play was not aimed at us. The language barrier made it hard enough to understand, let alone with the random dancing and obscure use of animal imagery. I would not put it at the top of my list of plays to see again.

(Lleuwen Steffan plays Mair in Merch yr Eog. Photograph: Kirsten Mcternan for The Guardian)

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Episode 46 - "Nyrsys"

We visit the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama for a bit of TLC, and feast our eyes, and ears, on some Welsh language theatre