DYLAN THOMAS CENTRE
2013 Autumn PROGRAMME
WELCOME These are exciting times for Swansea. We’re approaching the centenary of Dylan Thomas’ birth in 2014, when numerous individuals and organisations will join us in celebration. The year will also present a wonderful opportunity to create new work and showcase contemporary writers: it’s going to be a great adventure, and we look forward to your company! BOX OFFICE: 01792 463980 Online booking is available: www.ticketsource.co.uk/ dylanthomas F Full Price C Concessions PTL Passport To Leisure 2
Wednesday 25 September, 7.30pm
SCIENCE CAFE Watch our website www.swan.ac.uk/ science/swanseasciencecafe/ for details of this month’s speaker. Wednesday 23 October, 7.30pm
RICHARD COBLEY ‘NANOTECHNOLOGY ARE WE THERE YET?’ In association with the Royal Society of Chemistry. Wednesday 27 November, 7.30pm
ROGER FALCONER ‘THE SEVERN BARRAGE’ Free entry to all Science Cafes Autumn Programme
George S Kaufman
Emily Berry
Saturday 7 September,1pm
fluellen THEATRE PRESENT
GEORGE S KAUFMAN’S IF MEN PLAYED CARDS LIKE WOMEN George S Kaufman was one of the greatest comic writers of the twentieth century, responsible for major stage plays such as The Man Who Came To Dinner and celebrated screenplays for, among others, The Marx Brothers. His superb satire, If Men Played Cards Like Women, is an hilarious comment on male/female stereotypes. All Theatre-in-Focus presentations are script-in-hand and preceded by a talk about the playwright.
Thursday 26 September, 7.30pm
POETS AT THE DTC WITH
EMILY BERRY Dear Boy is Emily Berry’s dramatic and inventive debut from Faber, which was recently shortlisted for the Forward Prize. These characterful, intelligent and darkly witty poems explore lives lived strangely in unusual worlds, through a series of deft and seductive soliloquies. Includes open mic. TICKETS: F £4 C £2.80
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ALL TICKETS: £5
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Thursday 3 October, 7pm
Saturday 5 October, 1pm
NATIONAL POETRY DAY: fluellen THEATRE PRESENT GWYN THOMAS POETRY ON DEMAND
A CELEBRATION A poetry night that takes requests! Four Swansea poets – Richard To mark the centenary of Gwyn James Jones, Sarah Coles, Alan Thomas’s birth, we celebrate the Kellermann and Emily Vanderploeg - works of the Cymmer-born writer. will take cues from the audience on this ‘Gwyn Thomas – A Celebration’ year’s National Poetry Day theme, features scenes from his major plays ‘water’, and turn it into poetry. It’s an and excerpts from his wonderfully evening in which writing poems is as acerbic prose. much a part of the performance as All Theatre-in-Focus presentations are reading them. script-in-hand and preceded by a talk FREE ENTRY about the playwright. ALL TICKETS: £5
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Autumn Programme
27 October to 9 November
Festival Sue Hubbard
Thursday 17 October, 7.30pm
POETS AT THE DTC WITH
SUE HUBBARD Sue Hubbard is an art critic, novelist, poet, lecturer and broadcaster. A Hawthornden Fellow and twice winner of the London Writers’ competition, she was the Poetry Society’s first-ever Public Art Poet commissioned by the Arts Council and the BFI to create London’s biggest art poem. She will be reading from her latest collection, The Forgetting and Remembering of Air (Salt). Includes open mic. TICKETS: F £4
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Highlights include the launch of a new Dylan Thomas centenary commission from Gillian Clarke; Doctor Who Day, a celebration of Doctor Who’s fiftieth anniversary with talks, events, special guests including Louise Jameson, workshops and Daleks. We’ll present an evening on The Killing, featuring two of the biggest names writing about it: crime and mystery novelist David Hewson and Emma Kennedy, author of The Killing Handbook. Fluellen offer a preview of their production of Rebecca’s Daughters, John Goodby discusses his new critical study of Dylan’s poetry, and there will be readings from Dylan’s work in his old local, The Uplands Tavern. And don’t miss a special event when the Festival and Bluestocking Lounge join forces to present ‘Wordy Shapes of Women’: a night in which burlesque collides with Dylan’s poetry. The full programme will be available at www.dylanthomas.com 5
Howard Brenton
Thursday 28 November, 7.30pm
POETS AT THE DTC WITH
JANE YEH Saturday 23 November, 1pm
fluellen THEATRE PRESENT
HOWARD BRENTON’S THE SALIVA MILKSHAKE Howard Brenton has proved to be one the enduring political heavyweights of late 20th century theatre. The Saliva Milkshake is a powerful and thoughtprovoking play about terrorism and the plight of a liberal intellectual caught in the crossfire. All Theatre-in-Focus presentations are script-in-hand and preceded by a talk about the playwright. ALL TICKETS: £5
Jane Yeh was born in America and educated at Harvard, Iowa, and Manchester Metropolitan. Her first collection, Marabou (Carcanet, 2005), was shortlisted for the Whitbread, Forward, and Aldeburgh poetry prizes. Her latest collection, The Ninjas, was published by Carcanet in 2012. Her poems have appeared in The Guardian, The Independent on Sunday, The Nation, and other journals, as well as in anthologies including The Best British Poetry and The Forward Book of Poetry. She is a judge for this year’s National Poetry Competition and teaches creative writing at Kingston University. Includes open mic. TICKETS: F £4 C £2.80
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Autumn Programme
Thursday 12 December, 1.30pm
CHRISTMAS IN WALES Fluellen Theatre Company perform their celebrated adaptation of Dylan Thomas’ A Child’s Christmas In Wales, with Delyth Jenkins on harp. Running time: approximately 30 minutes ALL TICKETS: £4 Thursday 12 December, 7pm
CHRISTMAS IN WALES
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Fluellen Theatre Company’s magical celebration, in words and music, of Christmases past and present, the second half of which is their adaptation of Dylan Thomas’ A Child’s Christmas In Wales, with Delyth Jenkins on harp. TICKETS: F £6.50 C £4.50 which includes a glass of mulled wine or juice in the interval
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Friday 13 December, 5.00pm and 7.30pm
CAROL ANN DUFFY AND GILLIAN CLARKE Join us for one of the highlights of the year when we present two readings from National Poet of Wales Gillian Clarke, and Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy. As both are patrons of the Dylan Thomas 100 Festival, this is a wonderful event to end 2013, and look forward to Dylan’s centenary in 2014. TICKETS: F £12 C £9 Gillian Clarke
DYLAN THOMAS CENTRE
Carol Ann Duffy
SOMERSET PLACE, SWANSEA SA1 1RR
01792 463980
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Photo credits: Sue Hubbard by Derek Adams Jane Yeh by StageShots London Carol Ann Duffy by Bernard Mitchell Gillian Clarke by Adrian Pope Howard Brenton by Eamonn McCabe
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Whilst every effort is made to ensure that the details of this programme are accurate, the City & County of Swansea reserve the right to alter any part of the programme without notice.