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STC Musical Society will present a Welsh amateur premier of Andrew Lloyd Web- ber’s Aspects Of Love, being staged be- tween Tuesday 26th May 2015 and Friday 29th May 2015 at the Dolman Theatre, Newport. Tickets are £10. and available from Peter Hourahine : 01633 841452 / 07854848749DolmanTheatre: 01633 263670. Online: www.dolmantheatre.co.uk or vis- it : www.stcmusicalsociety.com


ScI-FI MUSIcAL: Mark Newnham and Greg Last in Return To The Forbidden Planet Picture ©Nobby clark


THE adored and criti- cally acclaimed Olivier Award-winning Sci-Fi rock spectacular Return to the Forbidden Planet comes to Cardiff New Theatre on its 25th anniversary tour next week.


Inspired by Shake-


speare’s The Tempest and packed with classics such as I Heard It Through the Grapevine, Young Girl and Good Vibrations, the show


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features stunning special effects and a brilliant cast of actor musicians. “Its fun, lively and it’ll


make you laugh” Mark Newnham, who plays Cookie in the show, tells Andy Howells. “If you’re a fan of music


you’ll just go absolutely nuts for the music and great sci-fi effects as well, it’s a great night out.” Mark describes his char- acter as a “love-lorn low


status character” that has parallels with Cinder- ella’s Buttons. “He falls in love with Miranda who is the love interest when we crash-land on Prospero’s planet,” he says, “She doesn’t love him back and falls in love with the cap- tain of the ship, the char- acter gets a lot of empathy from the audience.” Mark, who is an accom- plished musician ,will be performing a rendition of


a 60s classic in the show. “My big number is She Not There by The Zombies. We put a little twist on it because this is the point in the story when Cookie realises Miranda has fall- en for the captain and not him. He does this anxious version which has a big four-minute-long guitar solo in it.” Mark, who also played a


young John Lennon in the musical Lennon at Liver-


pool’s Royal Court, is a big 1960s fan and is currently relishing his role in the musical. “To play guitar, sing, make people laugh and speak some wonderful Shakespeare verse – it’s a dream job!” Return to the Forbidden Planet runs at Cardiff’s New Theatre between Monday April 20 - 25. Visit newtheatrecardiff.co.uk for details.


Get your play in soon


SHERMAN Cymru has launched an opportunity for fresh home grown talent to work with the company. The TAITH initiative will


provide new and emerging writers with the opportunity to get advice and feedback on their scripts and hone their writing skills, as well as see their work on the stage. Twice a year, ShermanCym-


ru will invite submissions for 10-minute plays, in Welsh or English, on a specific theme, style or subject – challenging the writer to showtheir talent concisely. Sherman Cymru’s script- reading panel, made up of a range of established Welsh and Wales-based profession- als will be reading all of the submissions and the Sherman Cymru creative team select- ing the final three. The panel will be looking for bold, inventive and original


writers who can appeal and connect to modern audiences. The three that show most po- tential will then be developed with Sherman Cymru’s crea- tive team. The final three chosen scripts will then be per- formed on June 26, with an open discussion with the au- dience after. The first theme for TAITH


is taken from Gary Owen’s new play Iphigenia in Splott, which will be produced by Sherman Cymru from May 8-16, and in light of the forth- coming General Election. Use the theme of Social Up- rising as the spark the imagi- nation. Send Sherman Cymru your bold, exciting and engag- ing 10 minute plays forTAITH by noon Monday on email only to literary@sherman- cymru.co.uk. More details are availabley atwww.shermancymru.co.uk


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