Entertainment & Events Terry Pratchett’s The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents • 23-25 Feb • The Gate


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Rats! They disarm the traps, widdle in the flour and charge a very reasonable price to leave town. That isn’t how it’s supposed to go of course, but then these are no ordinary rats. They are the Changelings, a group of rats who became smart after eating off a magical rubbish heap. With the guidance of the streetwise alleycat Maurice, the Changelings now run a very profitable business posing as a fake plague in unsuspecting towns. All they needed was stupid-looking kid with a pipe who leads them all out of town, for a fee… That is; until one last job in Bad Blintz, a starving town with a serious rat problem. They soon realise that this town is not quite as it seems and something darker is hiding underneath. Remember, there are bad things in the Dark Wood… Monstrous Productions have been bringing Terry Pratchett to the stage in Cardiff since 2012.


Keppoch Street, Roath, Cardiff, CF24 3JW Tel. 029 2048 3344 | www.thegate.org.uk


Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama The Wearable Art Show • 2 Mar •


Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring caused a sensation when it was first performed as part of Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes season in Paris, 1913. Our free-spirited designers


will present their


own stunning interpretation with a response to the music through costumes constructed from scrap materials. An avant- garde catwalk show, a stunning costume performance with dance, light and sound.


Castle Grounds, Cathays Park, Cardiff, CF10 3ER Tel. 029 2034 2854 | www.rwcmd.ac.uk


Don’t Dribble on the Dragon • 22 Feb • Taliesin Arts Centre


By Steven Lee, Directed by Nick Lane My brother has a dragon and he keeps it secretly


Within a box beneath his socks. He’s hiding it from me Tom is a toddler with a cool older brother, a secret dragon and a dribbling problem that just won’t stop! When Tom’s endless drooling threatens to tear the brothers’ friendship apart can their dragon’s amazing magic help


them put it back together again or will it only end up making things worse? Based on the fabulous new book by Steven Lee and with magic designed by the legendary Paul Daniels, this spectacular musical adventure about growing up and the importance of family is the perfect feel good show for big hearted adults and loving little ones alike. As an extra treat, Steven will be available to sign copies of Don’t Dribble On The Dragon which you can bring with you or buy in the theatre after the show. Swansea University, Singleton Park, SA2 8PZ Tel. 01792 60 20 60 | www.glee.co.uk/venues/cardiff/


Royal Ballet Live: Woolf Works • 28 Feb •


Memo Arts Centre Live broadcast via satellite from the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden The pioneering literary work of Virginia Woolf is the inspiration for multi-award- winning choreographer Wayne McGregor’s brilliant triptych for The Royal Ballet. McGregor has long been at the cutting edge of ballet, working with collaborators from across


the artistic world, and in this critically


acclaimed work he combines themes from three of Woolf’s landmark novels – Mrs Dalloway, Orlando and The Waves – with elements of her letters, essays and diaries. Acclaimed British composer Max Richter (Infra, Sum and Recomposed by Max Richter: Vivaldi, The Four Seasons) creates a specially commissioned score incorporating electronic and live music. Tickets £15.00 Full, £12.50 Concession


Gladstone Road, Barry, Vale of Glamorgan, Wales, CF62 8NA Tel. 01446 400111 | www.memoartscentre.co.uk


The Definitive Elvis Experience • 27 Feb • Blackwood Miners Institute


The show encapsulates all Elvis’ eras, from the ’56 explosion that sky rocketed his dynamic career, through to his gospel roots, Hollywood years and ’68 comeback all the way through to the later iconic concert years. Ben Thompson is one of few tributes that can replicate every era of Elvis, with the exhilarating pinpoint movement of the ’50s as well as the overwhelming charisma of the ’60s and ’68 NBC special, through to the phenomenal stage presence of the ’70s, with his superb vocal range emulating the greatest entertainer of all time.


High Street, Blackwood, Gwent, NP12 1BB Tel. 01443 670250 | http://your.caerphilly.gov.uk


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