"HAPPY BLOODY NEW YEAR!
HOOORAH!
2016 IS DEAD...
LONG LIVE 2017!"
... We all screamed at midnight as the clock struck 12. The metaphorical giant-sack-of-sh*t was momentarily lifted from our aching shoulders and we were able to sigh the sweet sigh of relief.
For me that final clock-tick marked not only the end of something terrible, but more so the opportunity to begin a new, reflect, learn, grow and experience. The opportunity to realise we're all gunna have to work damn hard to make things better, but also an understanding that all is not as bleak as it may seem.
This year we have vowed to write a blog at least once every month. It's just one of our many resolutions, but our others will be shared as we venture through this haphazard year together, trying to make things shine a little brighter, and make things taste a little better. We've been busy conjuring up lots of fantastic things for you to come and see and do with us, and over the coming months we will be shouting about them.
But for now, we'd like to take the time to shout about something else...
THIS
THE RIVERFRONT SPRING PROGRAMME!
I won't deny it, Tin Shed Theatre Co. has a pretty good relationship with The Riverfront, and I'll also admit that sometimes when we're wanting to celebrate the arts in Newport we're a little biased, pffft sure, whatever, who wouldn't be... So just trust me when I say; it is beside the point, because here, in this instance, we are just dealing with the facts...
We recon the 2017 Spring Season Programme at The Riverfront is one of the best seasons they've ever had. Don't believe us? Heres our handpicked highlights:
Seven
I've long been a fan of Tiff Stevenson, since we managed to see her in Edinburgh a few years back. She's awesome funny, this show is supposed to be great, she's coming to Newps, enough bloody said.
THURSDAY 2nd FEB
7.45pm
THE RIVERFRONT
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William Shakespeare's Long Lost First Play (abridged)
These pan-global-phenomenomons have been celebrating Shakespeare and making millions of people laugh for over three decades now, and this year (two thousand and bloody seventeen no less), they are coming to The Newport... "Hip hip, hooray" Willsy Bard.
THURSDAY 9 MARCH
7.30pm
THE RIVERFRONT
Photograph by Teresa Wood
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Dracula: The Bloody Truth
Having performed twice as part of Newport's Big Splash Festival these agents of misrule are returning with their new studio show, a retelling of Bram Stokers Dracula. From what we know and hear of this company they are well revered, well regarded and well worth checking out!
THURSDAY 27th APRIL
7.30pm
THE RIVERFRONT
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My Body Welsh
Invertigo are Pontio, Bangor's resident company and when they set themselves up in 2012 they won the Deutsche Bank Award for Creative Enterprises. In all honesty, we've not idea who this company is, or what the show might be like, just call it a gut feeling.
Heres the blurb:
One tall, skinny Welshman with an agenda of national importance: there’s a truth behind every good story.
Jones and Davis are fighting.
There's a skeleton in the well.
There’s more to being Welsh than having the accent, isn't there?
Accompanied by a live soundscape artist creating a river of sounds in front of you, join performer Steffan Donnelly on a watery lyrical thriller as he guides you through Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrob-wllllantysiliogogogoch and into his world of slippery small-town myth-making.
Pontio’s new associate company, the award-winning Invertigo Theatre (Y Tŵr,My People), and The Conker Group’s Tara Robinson, present My Body Welsh - a vibrant, part-bilingual piece of contemporary theatre that investigates the role storytelling plays in constructing national identity.
TUESDAY 24 JANUARY
7.45pm
THE RIVERFRONT
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MR & MRS CLARK
(F.E.A.R.)
Last up on our highlights are local theatre makers Mr & Mrs Clark. Before we go on, we yet again rush to assure you that bias hasn't kicked in here. We are bonded fans. Ever since we saw a piece of the couples work in an empty shop, in the centre of Newport city we have been enthralled and intrigued by all they do. Now, this spring, they stand here confidently, amongst heaps of new and far travelling talent as proof that although The Riverfront has branched out with this new programme it is still supporting local, home-made art, and rightly so, because it's sure to be awesome.
We missed (F.E.A.R.) on it's debate last year, and cannot wait to experience it on our home turf.
WEDS 22 - FRIDAY 24 MARCH
7.45pm
THE RIVERFRONT
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That's it for our picks of what we think will be wholly worth while trips to the brown-river-city, but trust me when I say there is HEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAPS more in the programme. Honestly from. Heaps. So make sure you visit The Riverfront website by clicking HERE or pop in and pick up a paper copy of the broacher.
As for our impending exploits, we'll have to keep you posted.
So until then,
Mucho,
TST
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