NEW '23 - A festival of new writing

25 May 2023 - 1 June 2023

Drama

Welcome To Royal Welsh College's annual festival of new writing.

Featuring four works from some of the UK's top playwrights:

Philip Ridley
Penelope Skinner
Mufaro Makubika
Rebecca Jade Hammond

As part of the festival, we present four short stories created by Royal Welsh College students - NEW VOICES.

25 May 2023 - 31 May 2023 Performance times: 07:00 pm 02:00 pm

NEW '23: Mad Margot

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Rebecca Jade Hammond’s new play charts epic events in young bodies, caught between childhood and adulthood in Bute Park, Cardiff.

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26 May 2023 - 1 June 2023 Performance times: 02:15 pm 07:15 pm

NEW '23: In The Forest of Starlight and Shrapnel

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Intimate yet expansive, fierce yet tender, Philip Ridley's new play weaves a startling and, at times, darkly comic tapestry of stories, exploring what happens when the suffering of war becomes the strangeness of peace.

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30 May 2023 - 1 June 2023 Performance times: 04:00 pm 09:00 pm

NEW '23: Flicker

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Can Jo confront the validity of what’s in her head before she loses those that she loves?

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25 May 2023 - 31 May 2023 Performance times: 02:00 pm 07:00 pm

NEW '23: Help Me I’m Falling

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On a group visit to England, an American college student goes missing. Amid the hunt to find her, her friends and random strangers try to make meaningful connections of an investigative and an emotional nature. Who is responsible?

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26 May 2023 - 1 June 2023 Performance times: 07:15 pm 02:15 pm

NEW '23: This is Not a Coup

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An international group of young democrats are working for an NGO called DEMOCRACY IN ACTION (DIA) in an African country in the run up to the elections.

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30 May 2023 - 1 June 2023 Performance times: 09:00 pm 04:00 pm

NEW '23: (un) Packing

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In a warm-hearted piece of storytelling, this one man show gives you a snapshot of the working-class experience through a mixed-race lens and leaves you wondering what it means to be British.

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27 May 2023 - 31 May 2023 Performance times: 09:00 pm 04:00 pm

NEW '23: The Taste of Healing

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You are what you eat, but is everyone swallowing her philosophy? An incredulous story of one person’s desperation for acceptance.

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27 May 2023 - 31 May 2023 Performance times: 04:00 pm 09:00 pm

NEW '23: Y?

Drama Richard Burton Company NEW '23

In this laugh-out-loud yet tender show, prepare yourself for some difficult questions: What happens after death? What is immoral? And, perhaps most importantly, what should you do if you forgot to check for toilet paper before you sat down?!

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NEW '23 - A festival of new writing

NEW '23 - A festival of new writing

NEW '23: Mad Margot

NEW '23: In The Forest of Starlight and Shrapnel

NEW '23: Flicker

NEW '23: Help Me I’m Falling

NEW '23: This is Not a Coup

NEW '23: (un) Packing

NEW '23: The Taste of Healing

NEW '23: Y?