National Theatre Wales
National Theatre Wales has announced its first year programme (pdf):
National Theatre Wales is all set to create invigorating theatre in the English language, rooted in Wales, with an international reach... Twelve new shows, one each month, plus one spectacular finale – in amazing places and unique spaces across Wales.
As Mark Brown reports in The Guardian, getting to the launch has been a long journey:
Dai Smith, the chairman of Arts Council Wales, said: "We have been putting our toes in the water for too long. It was inexcusable, outrageous, that we did not have a national theatre for Wales. It may be 100 years late, but better late than not at all."
Guild member Gary Owen is among those commissioned for the launch season - his new play, Love Steals Us From Loneliness, will premiere in Bridgend in October 2010.
The National Theatre Wales website has a community section which operates as an online social network for anyone with an interest in their work.
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