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headline slot – or bespectacled sage Mark Watson, Ivo Graham going on incessantly about being posh, or Tom Davis, Maisie Adam and Rhys James doing their thing.
ALISON SPITTLE + STUART LAWS
Rhostio, Cardiff, Mon 17 July Tickets: £7. Info:
jokepit.com. More Edinburgh Fringe previews! (The second such comedy night at Rhostio this month, actually, following Burt Williamson and Eva Bindeman on Mon 3 July.) Alison Spittle, recently touring a show titled Wet, has a new one named Soup – liquid comedy surely in the offing – and Stuart Laws calls his Is That Guy Still Going?
TOM GLOVER + DANI JOHNS + EMMA COYNE + CHRIS RIO
FABULOUS ANIMALS Aberystwyth Arts Centre, Thurs 6 July; Dance Blast, Abergavenny, Fri 7 Tickets: £8-£14. Info:
aberystwythartscentre.co.uk /
dance-blast.org
Joon, a community-minded dance theatre company split between Pembrokeshire and Cardiff, are the people behind this new show, which considers the free-spirited ways of the animal kingdom and wonders if homo sapiens might be able to learn a few things. Themes of rewilding and other ecological matters also lurk in their choreography. Fabulous Animals will be performed in Aberystwyth Arts Centre’s Performance Studio, and the following day at Dance Blast, which is located in Abergavenny’s Melville Centre for The Arts.
usual slot on the second weekend of July, tends to have an impressive bill of eclectic dance/cabaret/theatre performers. They’ve not said who any of them are at the time of writing, but check the website if you’re keen on this sort of activity.
YES, PRIME MINISTER
Y Ffwrnes, Llanelli, Wed 12-Sat 15 July Tickets: £12. Info:
theatrausirgar.co.uk. This production, Llanelli Little Theatre’s take on an early-2010s stage play, is based on the 1980s sitcom which satirised the fudge and waffle of Parliamentary process in the high-Thatcher era. Written by Anthony Jay and Jonathan Lynn, as was the TV series, it depicts an economically straitened Britain looking to balance the books with Middle Eastern oil money.
LAST TANGO IN LITTLE GRIMLEY + INTERIOR DESIGNS
Theatr Clwyd, Mold, Thurs 13 + Fri 14 July Tickets: £12. Info:
theatrclwyd.com. ATwo plays, at about 45 minutes apiece, from the Phoenix Theatre Company. David Tristram’s Last Tango... combines two enduring theatre tropes, the ‘play about a play’ and ‘regular citizens go risqué’, when an an-dram society performs a sex comedy; Jimmie Chinn’s Interior Designs depicts three women fighting over the same suitor.
MARK THOMAS
Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff, Fri 14 July Tickets: £15. Info:
chapter.org. You won’t often catch Mark Thomas in a room this small, unless perhaps he’s trying out new material, as is the case here. England And Son is a new one-man play, written for Thomas by Ed Edwards and based on the experiences of both; this is a work-in- progress performance, so might include some reading from scripts and that.
THE SMEDS AND THE SMOOS Festival Of Comedy - Milton Jones THE COMEDY INN
Quay Street Studio Apartments, Cardigan, Thurs 13 July Tickets: £16. Info:
facebook.com/ quaystreetstudios. This venue is basically a bunch of flats in Cardigan town centre that also hosts events somehow, including regular standup nights. If it’s not raining they do them in the garden space at the back, too. Neat. Sean Percival and Jake Baker are the two main comics for July, with Drew Taylor the host MC.
New Theatre, Cardiff, Sat 15 + Sun 16 July Tickets: £17/£15 kids. Info:
newtheatrecardiff.co.uk. July in the New Theatre is largely given over to shows for children, and that’s where the canon of Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler comes in. The Smeds And The Smoos, in which two young aliens from conflicting backgrounds embark on a Romeo & Juliet-esque forbidden affair, is just one of their many books to be adapted thusly.
FESTIVAL OF COMEDY
Tredegar Park, Newport, Sun 16 July Tickets: £30. Info:
thegigglinggoat.co.uk. It’s not really a festival, more an outdoor comedy gig that starts slightly earlier in the evening than usual, but the lineup is pretty respectable for £30. That is, if you like the pun-centric barrage of Milton Jones, in the
Ignacio Lopez
Flute & Tankard, Cardiff, Thurs 20 July Tickets: £10. Info:
facebook.com/ dollychickencomedy. July’s edition of the monthly Dolly Chicken Comedy standup nights. Headliner Tom Glover was, it says here, runner-up at the Lastminute Comedy Club Comedian Of The Year awards. Three supports too, plus host MC Anita Shaw.
BRIDESMAIDS OF BRITAIN
New Theatre, Cardiff, Thurs 20-Sat 22 July Tickets: £24.50-£35. Info:
newtheatrecardiff.co.uk. Play written by Northern Irish comedian Diona Doherty and described on the poster as a “comedy parody” of the 2011 film Bridesmaids, although it doesn’t seem to be parodying it so much as using the same plot device: a mismatched group of women embark on a hen night, with hilarious results.
about some small mammals and amphibians I suppose, The Wind In The Willows is a regular feature of the open-air theatre season, and in this case is being performed by Quantum Theatre.
STOLEN STORIES
Sherman Theatre, Cardiff, Thurs 27-Sat 29 July Tickets: £9/£4.50. Info: shermantheatre.
co.uk. Stolen Stories is performed by members of the Sherman Youth Theatre and pays tribute to the Sherman’s 50th birthday, which is happening around now. It posits a scenario where stories have been made illegal, and fugitive theatrical types are keeping the form alive through clandestine performances…
MY LAND’S SHORE
Grand Pavilion, Porthcawl, Fri 28 + Sat 29 July Tickets: £15. Info:
grandpavilion.co.uk. An adaption of a musical, though a pretty new one, and homegrown to boot: My Land’s Shore takes a slightly fanciful approach to the story of 19th century Welsh revolutionary Dic Penderyn, and works in some tug-of-love type plotting in the process. Here in Porthcawl, it’s presented by The Performance House Seniors; Sat 29 has matinee and evening shows.
HAY PLAY IN A DAY
The Globe At Hay, Hay-On-Wye, Sun 30 July Tickets: £8. Info:
theglobeathay.org. The name of this event refers to its essential gestation period, with each of the many short plays to be performed during the evening having been created from scratch in the 24 hours prior. What will they be about? No idea! Can you get involved? Yes, if you email
hayplayinaday@gmail.com before Sat 15 July!
JAMES ACASTER
Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff Bay, Sun 30 July-Wed 2 Aug Tickets: £30 (sold out). Info:
wmc.org.uk. Four sold-out dates in the big room here: that’s comfortably in the arena realm, if you assume it’s not the same 2,500 people buying tickets for each night. Either way, this guy is really popular now huh. There’s a review on our website of him playing Clwb Ifor Bach in 2015. Fair play.
IGNACIO LOPEZ + LOUISE YOUNG
Theatr Clwyd, Mold, Sun 23 July Tickets: £10. Info:
theatrclwyd.com. Two more standup comedians (Lopez is from Cardiff, Young from Newcastle), two more shows (respectively titled Nine Ig Fails and Feral) using hapless Welsh audiences as guinea pigs before they’re taken, in finessed form, to the Edinburgh Fringe to be performed in front of the only audiences who matter.
PRIDE AND PREJUDICE
Oriel Plas Glyn-Y-Weddw, Pwllheli, Tue 25 July; The Kymin, Penarth, Thurs 27 Tickets: £12-£18.95. Info: illyriatourdates.
co.uk. Illyria’s summer tour of their theatrical adaption of Jane Austen’s meisterwerk includes north and south Wales dates. Quite unlike the costume drama you might expect, they say, their P&P apparently presents Austen at her “vibrant, bitchy best” and is suitable for ages 8+.
THE WIND IN THE WILLOWS
Pembroke Castle, Thurs 27 July Tickets: £16/£12/free under-3s. Info:
pembrokecastle.co.uk. A very outdoorsy sort of story, as you’d expect from a novel
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