You
Missed It!
What
Am I Doing Here? . A
funny and disorientating interactive theatrical experience, all about
migration and suchlike. We bussed our audience to a mystery location
in Swansea, where we treated them Very Strangely Indeed. We think they
liked it though. Read all about it here.
New
Shows!
Unknown Pleasures -
a series of exciting experiments
in theatre brought to you by us, Taliesin Arts Centre and Swansea Metropolitan
University. This innovative partnership is bringing together Wales's
finest artists and its best emerging talents. Unknown Pleasures is a
new wellspring of vitality in contemporary theatre. You saw it here
first! The
first in the series is THRESHOLD, directed by Marc Rees.
Threshold ia a strange and beguiling artwork inspired
by the old Palace Theatre in Swansea.
i–witness
is the next Volcano touring show. We
have captured some interesting people and they are working on it in
a room somewhere very high above the city. Inspired
the extraordinary writings of WG Sebald,
we are making a show about connections, journeys, and what it means
to live in world full of the echoes and whisperings of the past.
A
Big Splash!
...
but no more dodgy puns, we promise. Volcano has been celebrating and
exploring WATER, the world's most important substance, with an extraordinary
performance in a strange and beautiful space. The show is off to Vancouver
in September 08. Watch this space for more info.
In a unique, mind-bending and environmentally
topical show, we explore the strange properties of water, its awesome
power, its fundamental role in maintaining life, its fragile purity
and its extraordinary beauty. Our purpose is to inspire people with
a sense of the preciousness of water - what it means to waste it, pollute
it or desecrate it and why people across the world might worship it,
cherish it, steal it or fight over it.
Alongside
the show, a specially-commissioned education programme for schools aims
to help children understand how intricately all these things are linked
and how they, individually and collectively, might make a difference
to how we understand and use the world's water.
A
Few Little Drops has been made possible by an Arts Ouside Cardiff
award from the Arts Council of Wales, and is produced in partnership
with five major Welsh theatres. It is sponsored by ENVIRONMENT
AGENCY WALES and the education programme is supported by DWR
CYMRU WELSH WATER. We have joined forces with some remarkable
and diverse talents including poet ROBERT MINHINNICK
and the award-winning SCIENCE MADE SIMPLE.
All this plus seven remarkable performers.
The
show has so far toured across Wales, and featured in the British Council
Showcase at the Edinburgh Fringe and at Drama Na h-Alba, Scotland's
international theatre festival in Inverness. Further dates will be posted
here, and the show also has its own website at
www.afewlitledrops.com, which
contains all kinds of watery usefulness.
Welshing...
is a new(ish) play
commissioned
by Volcano from controversial
Welsh playwright Dic Edwards.
Welshing is a tragi-comedy about identity, despair, betrayal, salvation
and white goods retailing. This has been simmering away for a while
now, and we hope to unleash it on the people of Cardiff in 2009.
Dic's
other work includes Manifest Destiny, The Pimp, Astrakhan
Winter and Franco's Bastard. Find out more at
www.dic-edwards.com.
