Friday, 25 February 2011

SXTO/SEXTING

Rehearsals have finished and we are all excited about venturing out with this subject matter to Secondary Schools over the next 5 weeks. During our 2 weeks of preparation for these Forum Theatre session's discoveries and realisations were sought and made, but more importantly a genuine appreciation with regards to how easily it is to get sucked in to this new phenomenon, and how and uncomplicated press of a button can lead to some horrendous and life changing encounters.
If we were to take a Polaroid picture of ourselves naked, there would be at least 4 different opportunities for us to THINK and DECIDE as to whether this is the right thing to do.
1- when we take the picture
2- when you put that picture in the envelope
3 - when you write a recipients address on that envelop
4 - during the long walk to the post box
5 - just as we go to post that picture.
5 moments to contemplate, way up, scrutinise your decision. You just would not do it!!!
All this time is taken away when we introduce the humble mobile phone into the equation. It's a simple case of out of sight out of mind, until that fateful day when we realise that everything we send into cyberspace is retrievable and will inevitably come back to haunt us.

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Sunday, 23 January 2011

SEXTING

Arad Goch will be commencing on a brand new project called “Sexting” in 2011. This project deals with the contemporary issues that derive from “sexting”– the sending of messages or photos of a sexual nature by text – by combining live performance, chat and discussion with resources and further development “on-line”. It is a three year project, so who knows what technologies and the world wide web will lead us to next? Destruction??????

Directed by Angharad and written by Bethan Gwanas, this project is already underway and in the early stages of development.

www.aradgoch.org





Monday, 3 January 2011

My Grandmother and Me


I will be running the Llanelli Half Marathon on the 6th of March to raise money for a cause which is very close to my heart, 'The Alzheimer's Society'.
As I'm sure you have guessed I am indeed trying to drum up as much support and donations as possible, so apologies if you have already seen this on the dreaded 'Facebook' and 'Twitter'!

I have attached a link below with all the information needed, a little info as to why I am running for this cause, and very much hope that you will be able to donate as little or as much as you can:-

http://www.justgiving.com/ANGHARAD-REES

Thank you very much.

Thursday, 14 October 2010

Welsh Review- Cwrw Chips a Darlith Deg.



Adolygiad Cwrw, Chips a Darlith Deg Cyhoeddwyd Hydref 12, 2010 gan Cyfranwyr Gwadd. Myfyrwraig yn Aberystwyth, Miriam James sy’n adolygu drama gomedi newydd Theatr Arad Goch…

Fel myfyrwraig, apeliodd y ddrama yma ataf o’r cychwyn cyntaf gyda’r teitl hwyliog ‘Cwrw Chips a Darlith Deg’. Profiad newydd i mi oedd gweld drama un-dyn ac felly roeddwn i’n edrych ymlaen yn eiddgar i weld sut y byddai’n gweithio. Drama gomedi yw hon am y glas-fyfyriwr –Gary Jones –o’r cymoedd sy’n wynebu chwalfa emosiynol wrth fentro o’r nyth a byw bywyd annibynnol. Wedi gadael yr ysgol, mae gan Gary Jones obeithion mawr ynglŷn â bywyd fel myfyriwr, ond mae’n cael tipyn o sioc wrth geisio ymdopi â’r her o setlo yn y Brifysgol yn ogystal â chymhlethododau bywyd adref.

Yn amlwg mewn drama un-dyn, mae’r ffocws i gyd ar yr unig gymeriad hwnnw a’i fywyd, ond cefais syndod mor dda yr oeddwn yn dod i adnabod cymeriadau eraill drwy ddynwaredu cofiadwy yr actor o’i deulu, ei ffrind gwladgarol ‘Glyn’, a rhai o ferched y coleg megis ‘Teleri, Eleri a Meleri’. Elfen ddifyr iawn o’r ddrama oedd yr amrywiaeth o acenion y cymeriadau yr oedd Gary yn eu dynwared.


Er fod Gary yn profi nifer o wahanol emosiynau wrth i ni ddilyn ei dymor cyntaf yn y coleg, nid yw’r ddrama hon yn rhy ddwys, ond yn hytrach yn llawn hiwmor ysgafn sy’n peri i ni gydymdeimlo â chymeriad lletchwith Gary Jones. Wrth i’r perfformiad ganolbwyntio ar un cymeriad, fe’m tynnwyd yn ddyfnach i’r ddrama wrth ddod i adnabod y cymeriad hwnnw, ac fel myfyrwraig fy hun, gallwn ddeall Gary a’i brofiadau er nad oeddent oll yn berthnasol i mi, diolch byth!

Roedd y set gredadwy gyda holl hanfodion bywyd myfyriwr- gwely, desg, pot noodle, poteli cwrw, a’r coffi yn ychwanegu at y ddrama, ac roedd annibendod yr ystafell yn cyd-fynd ag anhrefn bywyd Gary. O’r un ystafell fechan hon, portreadwyd yn glyfar amryw o storïau a sefyllfaoedd ei fywyd yn y Brifysgol. Mae’r ddrama’n agor gyda’r cymeriad yn hanner codi hanner syrthio allan o’i wely a’i ben i waered, yn gwisgo adenydd tylwythen deg! Ceir ambell elfen swreal sy’n ychwanegu at hiwmor y ddrama a sy’n cyfleu ei brofiadau gwallgo’.

Tyfu’n oedolyn, a’r cyfrifoldebau sy’n dod gyda hynny, yw thema ganolog y ddrama. Mae’r hiwmor yn y ddrama yn cael ei ddwysau gan y ffaith fod Gary yn unigolyn uchel ei gloch, ac er y ddelwedd galed, gwrol mae’n rhoi i ni, mae’r straen o setlo yn y coleg a phroblemau adref yn pwyso arno, a thrwy hyn gwelwn ochr dynerach i’w bersonoliaeth wrth iddo deimlo hiraeth am ei deulu a theimlo tosturi dros ‘Mari Monster’.

Nid drama sy’n procio na phryfocio yw hon, ond yn hytrach perfformiad sy’n rhoi gwen hapus ar wyneb y gynulleidfa, gyda’r boddhad o wybod fod Gary Jones wedi goroesi tymor cyntaf yn y coleg.


http://www.blog-golwg360.com/cyfranwyr-gwadd/adolygiad-cwrw-chips-a-darlith-deg/

Saturday, 2 October 2010

CWRW CHIPS A DARLITH DEG ARTICLES


WALES ON LINE
http://www.walesonline.co.uk/showbiz-and-lifestyle/theatre-in-wales/2010/10/01/one-man-show-is-a-real-class-act-91466-27375671/

BBC
http://www.bbc.co.uk/cymru/cylchgrawn/theatr/straeon/cwrw-chips.shtml

WEDI 3/ S4C
http://www.wedi3.com/Items/Default.aspx?id=3391

CWRW CHIPS A DARLITH DEG- Rehearsal week 3

Gwydion has some new best friends. They are called:
Bin
Headphones
Ruler
Box
Drawer
With this production being a one man show, they are his only source of entertainment and inspiration on that lonesome stage. Whereas some of these objects represent a character, a memory, others have become an extension of the characters themselves. Developing an emotional connection with some of these objects has been vital, and through the wonderful object exercises we have been undertaking, a whole new outlook to a complex scene has been born. Gwydion has developed a wonderful emotion memory and that memory is now fuelling and imposing itself on the associated scene.
Playing HIS perception of this scene, and to be more specific, his perception of how he would have liked this moment in his life to have been played out has brought a fantastic edge and rawness to his character.
It became very apparent, with over 15 characters to play, that this show could become a little monotonous with regard to its style and approach. Playing around with perceptions and the emotion memories that have been established will hopefully keep the hour and a half fresh and stimulating for Gwydion. If the whole journey and experience is motivating for him, the hope is that the whole experience will be just as entertaining for us.

http://www.aradgoch.org/

Saturday, 18 September 2010

CWRW, CHIPS A DARLITH DEG - Rehearsal week 1

Week One.
Friday.
PM.
Gwydion, our player, has a spaced out look about him. Hitting him over the head with a frying pan is an option, but logic says that maybe he has information overload having rehearsed non stop for five days on the development and staging of this one man show he is tackling, and indeed side stepping and defeating with considerable ease at the moment. Maybe the Welsh squad could pick up a few tips!?

So what to, what to do? Easy, I ask him to dance. "Hey Gwydion, dance your way through the show".

!!!!!!!!!, he says. But dance he did.

End of week one and we are half way through the script unbelievably. Having spent the first day outlining and defining most of the 15 or so characters he has to create and embody, the show now seems to be developing its distinct rhythm, with its accents and tone evolving quite organically, as if it has its own individual current rippling throughout. It's been quite a technical week for Gwydion. Repeating looks, glances and accents, transference of weight and gear changes, but twas all born from the exploration of the text and the wonderful world of Silent Etude. It is such a joy to mold and sculpt what Gwydion experiences and discovers during those instinctive moments, choreographing the whole thing into a little ballet. Funny, it just seems as though he is dancing! Wonderful.
"Hey Gwydion, are you dancing".
"Why? You asking?"