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Wales raises curtain on £3m national theatre

Source: The Guardian

Nov 05, 2009

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Michael Sheen among homegrown stars in ambitious stage project

There will be Aeschylus in the Brecon Beacons, a passion play in Port Talbot starring Michael Sheen and games on the beaches of north Wales. After being talked about for decades, a National Theatre of Wales was launched today with a tiny budget but enormous ambitions.

The first programme announced features productions, month by month, from Bridgend to Barmouth.

Like the National Theatre of Scotland, there will be no permanent theatrical home for the Cardiff-based organisation and it promises to stage productions in unexpected and unusual places.

Getting to the launch has been a long journey. Dai Smith, the chairman of Arts Council Wales, said: "We have been putting our toes in the water for too long. It was inexcusable, outrageous, that we did not have a national theatre for Wales. It may be 100 years late, but better late than not at all."

He said it will be international, but rooted in Wales and its people.

The most striking example of a straight, theatrical event in the programme is a lost John Osbor

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