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Series of short-play premieres


First time for circus festival


STAR: Claire Cage.


ÒRAN Mór and Sherman Cym- ru are delighted to announce the cast for their first A Play, A Pie and A Pint co-production, which sees the ground-break- ing series of short plays come to Wales for the first time this March. The world premiere of Matthew Trevannion’s Le- viathan is performed by an all-female cast starring Claire Cage, Siw Hughes and Gwawr Loader. Sherman Cymru’s Artistic Director, Rachel O’Riordan: “We’re thrilled to beworking in a co-production with Òran Mór. TheAPlay,APie andAPint se- ries is a hugely-successful and exciting way to present new work to audiences and make new plays happen. I am really proud we will be producing and presenting this world premiere in Wales.” Leviathan is a new play by


Welsh playwright, Matthew Trevannion (Bruised) about three generations of women in the Valleys. For full details and listings of shows please visit shermancymru.co.uk.


NEXT week The Riverfront Theatre is presenting the first of a series of performances as part of their first ever Circus Festival. All or Nothing’s Three’s a Crowd, PanGottic’s Logic of Nothing, and Mary Bijou Caba- ret’s HITCH, all make up this season’s festival.


Three’s a Crowd Thursday 5 March, 7.30pm


All or Nothing’s Three’s a Crowd brings together six su- perb performing artists in this breath-taking and touching look at human relationships, emo- tions and how we all affect each other. Told with stunning imagery, thrills, spills, heartbreak, happi- ness and the odd bit of humour. It’s an aerial dance theatre show involving harness flying, aerial acrobatics, circus, dance and theatre.


Logic of Nothing Thursday 26 March, 7.45pm


The award-winning PanGot-


tic welcome you to the curious and surreal world of Oscar Bof- fin, a slightly obsessive compul- sive inventor who will guide you through this Heath Robinson in- spired piece of non-verbal circus


Circus Festival


theatre. It’s an exploration into a rela-


tionship between man, circus and contraption using a blend of clown, juggling, magic and inven- tion.


HITCH Thursday 16 April, 7.45pm


“No one is innocent!” snarls


the compere. At a cabaret based on the work of Alfred Hitchcock, these are the only words we can trust. Walking the line between hi-


larity and horror, the cabaret includes a singing Mrs Danvers, extolling her beloved Rebecca, a vertigo victim walking a wire in high heels, Tippi Hedren on a Chinese pole, beset by Birds and Marlene Dietrich prowling the theatre looking for an accom- plice or victim. With music by Tom Elstob, Be-


than Cecil and Branwen Munn, the cast sing for their lives.


The Riverfront are offering a


Circus Festival Pass for all three performances for the combined price of just £20. For tickets call 01633 656757


Live Performances Comedy Shed


Friday 27 February, 7.45pm £12


Harnisch-Lacey: Tan/Spin Friday 27 February, 7.30pm £10, Reducions £8, Students £6


First Wednesday Wednesday4March, 1pm £5.50, Reducions £4.50


Of Mice and Men


Thursday 5-Saturday7 March £12.50, Reducions £10


Circus Fesival: Three’s aCrowd


Thursday5 March, 7.30pm £10, Reducions, £8


or £20 for afesival pass


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Strictly stars will Dance til’ Dawn


STRICTLY Come Dancing fa- vourites Vincent Simone and Flavia Cacace are currently celebrating the golden age of Hollywood in their brand new show Dance ‘Til Dawn, being staged in Cardiff. Former World Champi-


ons Vincent and Flavia have been dancing together for 20 years and stole the hearts of the British public with their breathtaking Argentine Tango on TV’s Strictly Come Dancing. Since the dazzling duo launched Midnight Tan- go in 2010, they have thrilled over half a million people across the UK both on tour and in London’s West End. Fusing musical theatre, dance, romance and comedy into a smash hit spectacle, Dance ‘Til Dawn transports audiences to the seductive age of Los Angeles in the 1940s. In the midst of a Hol- lywood film shoot, leading man Bobby Burns is mur- dered and a romance devel- ops between beautiful starlet


Sadie Strauss (Flavia Cacace) and handsome Tony DeLuca (Vincent Simone). As a plot to frame Tony DeLuca unfolds, the duo use their flawless footwork and spell binding choreography to Tango and Quickstep their way out of trouble and into each other’s arms. Dance ‘Til Dawn is an unfor- gettable evening of timeless sophistication, breathtak- ing world-class dance with stunning sets, glamorous costumes and a full live band performing timeless numbers such as Feeling Good, Moon River and Stand By Me. Dance ‘Til Dawn is at the


New Theatre until Saturday 28 February. Tickets are on sale now with prices from £11.00 to £37.50 and special prices for children. For fur- ther details about the showor to book tickets, visit newthe atrecardiff.co.uk or call the Box Office on (029) 2087 8889.


THE MAIN ATTRACTION: Scenes from The Riverfront’s Circus season Pictures: Joe Clarke


Win tickets to Three’s A Crowd show


ALL or Nothing’s Three’s A Crowd brings together six artists in this breathtak- ing look at human relation- ships. All or Nothing is Scot- land’s leading aerial dance company. We have a pair of tickets for the show at the


Riverfront Theatre, New- port on Thursday 5 March at 7.30pm. To be in with a chance of winning, just tell us where All or Nothing hail from: a) England; b) Ireland; c) Scotland. Enter by text. Start your message


with CROWD, leave a space and then send your answer, name and address to 80360. Messages cost 50p plus your normal charge. Terms and Conditions at southwale- sargus.co.uk/competitions. Closes 3rd March.


Wales’ identity seen in dance


CHOREOGRAPHER San- dra Harnisch-Lacey’s new double-bill TÂNis premier- ing at Newport Riverfront this evening as well as be- ing performed at The Met, Abertillery, on Thursday, March 12 at 7.30pm. Combining high-energy, fast-paced contemporary dance, breakdance and parkour, TÂN follows Wales’ journey to reclaim its cultural identity and a story unfolds where the past ignites our future. TÂN explores the politi-


cal and cultural awakening in Wales over the past cen- tury, taking an arson attack in the 1930s in North Wales as its centrepiece. On Sep- tember 8, 1936, the drama- tist Saunders Lewis, poet Lewis Valentine and novel- ist DJ Williams set fire to the RAF bombing school in Penyberth on the Llyn Pen- ninsula in North Wales, and gave themselves up at Pwllheli police station. The “three”, as they became known, were sentenced to nine months imprisonment in Wormwood Scrubs. This


CULTURAL: TAN


defining moment in Welsh history is used in TÂN to reflect onWales’ recent cul- tural journey. Setting the stage alight


with a moveable set, ar- chive footage and an origi- nal soundtrack by Bafta winner Tom Raybould, themes of identity, freedom and the power of transfor- mation are explored. Artistic Director, San-


dra Harnisch-Lacey said: “Wales has such a rich cul-


tural heritage and such a beautiful language, so I want this show to commu- nicate not only the burn- ing pain of loss, but also the hopefulness of reignit- ing a country’s future.” TÂNwill be complement-


ed by an extract of SPIN, a resounding success at the Edinburgh Fringe 2014. Tickets are £8 / £6 con- cessions and available on 01495 355800 or at blae- naugwentvenues.com


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