About The Last Five Years
An introduction to Leeway Productions The Last Five Year by Jason Robert Brown. Touring Wales November 2018
About the Music of The Last Five Years
An insight into Jason Robert Brown’s outstanding musical The Last Five Years. Production by Leeway Productions, touring Wales November 2018. Filmed by Jonathan Dunn
Banana Chips
Beautiful
10MM Trailer- English
10MM Trailer – BSL
Sioeau Cerdd Cwta 60sec Cym
10 Minute Musicals in Rhondda Cynon Taf- part of the QueerWay project
Bank of Mum & Dad
10 Minute Musicals is an innovative development programme to support writers, composers, musicians of all genres in Wales and Internationally who are keen to write musical theatre.
Written by Andy Shore and Andrew Linham, this wonderful musical explores the hilarious twists and turns of the parents who have recently seen their offspring flee the nest.
Circles of the Moon
10 Minute Musicals is an innovative development programme to support writers, composers, musicians of all genres in Wales and Internationally who are keen to write musical theatre.
Circles of the Moon is a Dark and Tragic Love Story between a Greek Boatman called Kairos and the Celtic Crow Goddess, Morrigan – set on the shores of the River Styx, where Lost Souls are collected and ferried to The Underworld. Written by Peter Cox and Matthew Holmquist, with collaborators Megan Llewelyn and Gwydion Rhys.
Shelf Life
10 Minute Musicals is an innovative development programme to support writers, composers, musicians of all genres in Wales and Internationally who are keen to write musical theatre.
Written by Llinos Mai and Kizzy Crawford ‘Shelf Life’ gives a cheeky insight into the World of one of our front-line workers and is a beautiful reminder that love can be found and lost in any aisle.
So Many Things
10 Minute Musicals is an innovative development programme to support writers, composers, musicians of all genres in Wales and Internationally who are keen to write musical theatre.
‘So Many Things’ is written by Benji Mowbray and Emily Garside. A collaboration which get us thinking about what we keep, what we throw away, and what’s really important to us.
You You You and Me
10 Minute Musicals is an innovative development programme to support writers, composers, musicians of all genres in Wales and Internationally who are keen to write musical theatre.
You and You and You and Me, written by Melanie, Tobias and Dafydd explores a humorous exaggeration of a young woman’s tentative steps towards adulthood.
Audience and Press responses to The Last Five Years
Just some of the positive feedback for our thrilling production of Jason Robert Brown’s The Last Five Years. Wales tour November-December 2018
Leeway’s Last 5 Years
Porth y Cwtsh: The project/Y Prosiect
Porth y Cwtsh: Town Crier / Criwr y Porth
Porth y Cwtsh: Llwyncelyn
Porth y Cwtsh: Stryd Hannah Street
Porth y Cwtsh: Griffin
Porth y Cwtsh: Llwyncelyn 2
Porth y Cwtsh: Kemps Pond
Porth y Cwtsh: Art in the derelict
Porth y Cwtsh: Gardd Llwyncelyn Garden
THEATR SOAR, THEATRE UNCUT AND SHERMAN THEATRE ANNOUNCE LIVE PREMIERE OF THE MERTHYR STIGMATIST BY LISA PARRY TO BE PRESENTED IN MERTHYR TYDFIL
Tickets for The Merthyr Stigmatist can be purchased here
Performance dates:
Wednesday 5th October – 7.30pm
Thursday 6th Oct – 2.30pm and 7.30pm
Llwybr Mellt: Pennod 6
Ela sees something magical in the River Teifi as she returns to her grandfather.
Payday Party Trailer
Food prices up. Fuel prices up. Water bills up. National Insurance up.
In a cost-of-living crisis, what do you do to survive? Eat, heat, or throw a Payday Party? Five artists share their real-life stories (and talents) in the hope of getting paid by the audience. Common Wealth and Darren Pritchard took Payday Party to the Edinburgh Fringe 2022 as part of ‘This is Wales’ the Arts Council of Wales’ showcase.
We’re Still Here Trailer | National Theatre Wales & Common Wealth
“It gives you a funny feeling, right here in your solar plexus, when people come together to speak up for themselves.”
We’re Still Here was a site-specific play inspired by – and featuring – the people behind Port Talbot’s ‘Save Our Steel’ campaign to save Port Talbot steelworks, one of the last heavy industries in Wales, where generations of steelworkers carry their craft. Staged in a disused tinworks, an immersive and promenade piece with song, rich lyrical text and an electronic sound score created from solenoids that played the architecture of the building.
Llwybr Mellt: Pennod 5
Ela makes a surprise discovery in the Sargasso sea.
EPIC FAIL
What if failure was a virtue, to be cherished like success is? If it was, would we all feel better?
Kid Carpet, Common Wealth and the school children of Llanrumney have been talking, creating, playing and getting things wrong. They created rubbish robots, sung songs, worn fake moustaches and (unfortunately) invented fizzy milk. They co-created a performance made with and for young people and their families. EPIC FAIL – It doesn’t have the answers but it does have the best songs, nonsense telly adverts and umbrellas for your shoes.
Llwybr Mellt: Pennod 4
Where in the world are Hari and Ela? The two friends get caught in a sand storm and find their first clue. Off we go to the desert!
Common Wealth
Common Wealth make site-specific theatre events that encompass electronic sound, new writing, visual design and verbatim. Our work is political and contemporary – based in the present day – the here and now. We make work that is relevant and addresses concerns of our times. We seek out places to stage our work that […]
Y Llwybr Mellt: Pennod 3
Ela and Hari tumble into a devastated forest.
Llwybr Mellt: Pennod 2
The next episode of Y Llwybr Mellt is ready and Hari takes Ella to the coldest part of the world in search of an answer. Let’s watch Chapter 3 The Freezing Cold North.
Llwybr Mellt: Pennod 1
Ella meets Hari the flying hare and begins a journey of discovery.
Cawl Cerrig
Enjoy Cawl Cerrig! Through shadow puppetry and expressive narration, viewers will enjoy this Persian folk story about the value of sharing.
Small World Theatre has created a new collection of Welsh storytelling performances for children. Sharing stories with puppetry beginning 18 August with Cawl Cerrig and releasing Llwybr Mellt episodes on 5, 8, 12, 16, 19, 22 September. In partnership with AM. This project is supported by Arts Council of Wales.
Operation Julie (New Trailer)
Theatr na nÓg are delighted to be working with Aberystwyth Arts Centre to present one of the most jaw-dropping true stories ever to come out of Wales… OPERATION JULIE.
It was hardly a typical drugs bust. When police from around the country swooped before dawn on Tregaron one morning in 1977, dozens of the 800 officers working the case looked like unshaven, long-haired hippies plucked from the audience of a Led Zeppelin gig. And the vast LSD co-operative they were targeting was, if anything, even more unconventional. Its leading members included doctors, scientists and university graduates – motivated, they insisted, by an evangelical drive to transform human consciousness itself.
An anarchic play with music from the 70’s prog-rock that tells the incredible story of the undercover operation that smashed one of the most extraordinary drug rings the world has ever seen.
Operation Julie is going on tour!
Theatr Brycheiniog: 24-26/08
The Lyric: 31/8 – 2/9
Giant Saint David led a Pilgrims Welcome
Giant St David led a Pilgrims Welcome on 8 May 2022 at 3pm in Pembrokeshire’s smallest city of St Davids.
Crowds joined the procession led by a giant Saint David, Small World Theatre’s new articulated puppet, and welcomed into St Davids Cathedral’s grounds by choirs singing music with an international flavour arranged by Span Arts. The party greeted the Ancient Connections’ Creative Camino artists as they complete the last leg of their pilgrimage journey.
The Ancient Connections project is a cross-border partnership between Pembrokeshire County Council, Wexford County Council, Pembrokeshire Coast National Park Authority and Visit Wexford. The partners are working collaboratively on an exciting arts, heritage and sustainable tourism project funded by the European Regional Development Fund through the Ireland Wales co-operation programme.
Small World Theatre will co-create two outdoor events, bringing theatre and spectacle to this unique, collaborative project.
Film makers credit: Richardson Media Wales
Parade ‘Dadeni’ Eisteddfod 22
Elephant puppet and Diwali celebration, Wales
Small World Theatre’s elephant puppet led a Diwali celebration in the grounds of Aberystwyth Arts Centre 2019.
Trysor Gwent 2022
As part of the Year 6 to Year 7 Transition scheme Ysgol Gyfun Gwent Is Coed, the schools within the cluster have been working together to create a Musical Show about our area and our habitat.
Following workshops in each school. We were extremely fortunate to be able to fund professional composers, directors and script writers to bring the children’s ideas to life for the stage. The poet and playwright Gruffydd Owen wrote the script and lyrics for the songs and the songs were composed by Dyfan Jones and the children brought the show to life on the stage.
The children were full of excitement learning new songs, performing together and getting to know children who will be with them in year 7 at Gwent Is Coed. The show was performed on the 8th of July at Riverfront Theatre and here is a recording of the performance for you to enjoy with your families.
Span Arts present outdoor Shakespeare at Lampeter House: A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Eleni, bydd y ‘Chwaraewyr Gŵyl’ yn diddanu cynulleidfaoedd gyda’u perfformiad o ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ yng ngerddi hyfryd Tŷ Lampeter, Llanbedr Pont Steffan, ger Arberth, Sir Benfro.
Mae #YPump yn dod i’r ‘Steddfod! 🎪
Ar nos Sadwrn ola’ ‘Steddfod, bydd actorion yn dod â straeon Tim, Tami, Aniq, Robyn a Cat ar y maes yn fyw mewn gig arbennig yng Nghaffi Maes B. Der i brofi wythnos yn Nhregaron yng nghwmni’r pump ffrind, gyda miwsig gan Eadyth a Lewys.
👀 Eisiau sneak peek o’r gwaith? Bydd awduron a chydawduron y gyfres yn cwrdd i weithio ar eu pennodau a darllen gwaith bob dydd am 18:30 ar Lwyfan y Llanerch. Bydd hefyd cyfle i ddarllen y gwaith gorffenedig mewn zine digidol gan Penglog yn ystod ac ar ôl y gig!
Anthem | Gorffennaf 20 – 30 July
Croeso i Anthem!
Dyma raglun sgleiniog! A fyddwch chi’n ymuno â ni yn y stiwdio?
Here’s a sparkly teaser of our new production! Will you be joining us in the studio?
Rydym Ni’n Tanio’r Dychymyg/We Fire Imagination: Hamed and Hessam Amiri
We caught up with brothers Hamed and Hessam Amiri to chat about their journey into the world of theatre production, and getting their family’s extraordinary story, The Boy with Two Hearts, from page to stage.
Following its sell-out opening season in 2021, the play is returning to Cardiff for one week only this September 2022, prior to its transfer to London’s National Theatre.
The Boy with Two Hearts is a Wales Millennium Centre production.
Anthem Trailer
Anthem
A Wales Millennium Centre Production
20 July – 10 July 2022
Written by Llinos Mai and composed by Llinos Mai and Dan Lawrence
Four regions. Four songs. One prize. With the land of song judging from their sofas, who will come out on top? Join us in the studio for the live final of Anthem, the nation’s biggest TV singing competition.
Watch the drama and hilarity unfold – both on and off air – as the finalists from every corner of Wales get ready to compete to bring the title home. Are they longing for fame? Acceptance? Or just another trophy for Mam’s dresser?
This new Welsh language musical comedy will leave a smile on your face long after the last note has been sung.
Performed in Welsh with English subtitles. Suitable for Welsh language learners.
Creu yn Gymraeg: Dyfodol Creu Theatr
Ysgrifennu, cyfarwyddo, creu, perfformio. Dewch i glywed gan rhai o’r gwneuthurwyr theatr ac adroddwyr stori Cymraeg fwyaf cyffrous am sut mae’r diwydiant yn datblygu.
Gethin Evans (Cadeirydd) – Cyfarwyddwr Artistig, Frân Wen
Steffan Donnelly – Cyfarwyddwr Artistig, Theatr Genedlaethol Cymru
Alice Eklund – Cyfarwyddwr/Dramatwrg
Hanna Jarman – Actor/Awdur
Llinos Mai – Awdur/Actor
Trefnwyd gan Ganolfan Mileniwm Cymru
10 Minute Musicals in Rhondda Cynon Taf- part of the QueerWay project
Leeway’s 2022 10 Minute Musicals, supporting LGBTQ+ identifying professional music creators.
Leeway’s 10 Minute Musicals programme during 2022, is a professional development programme supporting LGBTQ+ identifying professional music creators with a connection to Rhondda Cynon Taf to compose musical theatre.
Supported by PRS Foundation, RCT Theatres and Arts Council Wales