Tom Payne ponders the future for National Theatre Wales, following a challenge from local playwrights – about a perceived low production rate and a lack of activity in Welsh – and a subsequent response from Artistic Director Kully Thiarai.
On 21 September, Wales Arts Review published a damning open letter from forty members of the Welsh theatre community (mostly playwrights) to National Theatre Wales (NTW). The letter fiercely criticises NTW for a perceived low in its production output relative to its annual Arts Council Wales’ funding of £1.5 million, and accuses the company of ‘taking pride in ridding itself of a theatrical identity and even its nationality’. The concerns expressed by the letter’s signatories, including the company’s former collaborators Gary Owen, Alan Harris and Rachel Trezise, relate to the two-year perio... Keep reading on Wales Arts Review
On 21 September, Wales Arts Review published a damning open letter from forty members of the Welsh theatre community (mostly playwrights) to National Theatre Wales (NTW). The letter fiercely criticises NTW for a perceived low in its production output relative to its annual Arts Council Wales’ funding of £1.5 million, and accuses the company of ‘taking pride in ridding itself of a theatrical identity and even its nationality’. The concerns expressed by the letter’s signatories, including the company’s former collaborators Gary Owen, Alan Harris and Rachel Trezise, relate to the two-year perio... Keep reading on Wales Arts Review