“Heb Hanes – Heb Hunaniaeth” “Without History – Without Identity”
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Oh! Oh! Antonio opens next week
Stephen J Preston’s new play opens at Theatr Soar on Tuesday 3rd November, then plays Pontypridd and Aberdare. All performances 7.30pm.
Sara Masry – An Actor on a Journey
I’ve enjoyed my time with Contemporancient Theatre immensely since first meeting and working with the company in the summer of 2023 on Sanctuary: The Secrets of the Gunter Mansion. I felt so welcomed by the team. Getting to know them and learning more about Wales and Welsh culture during that month spent in Abergavenny felt…
The Challenges of Seeking Refuge in the UK: Understanding the Past and Present
The United Kingdom has a long and complex history of providing refuge to those in need. From the Huguenots in the 17th century to the Syrian refugees in the 21st century, the UK has offered a home to countless individuals seeking refuge from war, persecution, and other forms of violence. However, the process of seeking…
New Company Directors join Contemporancient Theatre
We are thrilled to be able to announce that Stephen J Preston has formally joined the company as a Director and will be our MD, Composer, Musician and Actor as we go forward. There are lots of details about Steve’s varied and impressive career on our Meet The Team page. Steve is acting in our…
Busy behind the scenes: three new projects
We’ve been very frustrated as a new company over the last eighteen months – just like anyone else in theatre, pretty much all around the world. We have ideas, projects, and performances that we are longing to bring to the stage and to audiences but that just hasn’t been possible. That doesn’t mean, of course,…
New Poems – The Larkdown Suite
From Professor Kevin Mills. Click on the link below for a reading of the poems together with the text of the collection. Our Director, researcher and poet, Kevin has written a new sequence of poems based on traditional songs. In the past, events such as outbreaks of the plague, disasters and social crises were memorialised…
The Price of Change
The team is busy during lockdown on a new work based on telling the story of Dr Richard Price the philosopher, theologian, political thinker, revolutionary, preacher and mathematician from Llangeinor in the Garw Valley near Bridgend in South Wales. The team has engaged in research, collected oral histories from the Garw valley residents and begun…
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