DYLAN THOMAS CENTRE
PROGRAMME
September - December 2012
WELCOME Ever wondered what would happen if Captain Cat began tweeting? We’ll be exploring this on National Poetry Day, so join in the conversation @DTCSwansea. Elsewhere, we launch brilliant first collections from two exciting young poets, Anna Lewis and Alan Kellermann, welcome back Carol Ann Duffy and Gillian Clarke, and look forward to a fabulous Dylan Thomas Festival, featuring Paul Durcan, Graham Hunter, Stan Tracey and much more. For more festival news, visit www.dylanthomas.com or www.facebook.com/DylanThomasFestival Jo Furber, Literature Officer
BOX OFFICE: 01792 463980 Online booking is available: please visit www.ticketsource.co.uk/dylanthomas F PTL
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Saturday 8 September, 1pm THEATRE-IN-FOCUS:
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CARYL CHURCHILL’S NOT NOT NOT NOT NOT ENOUGH OXYGEN A tower block, a few years hence. Mick and Vivian live protected from the violence and pollution outside where groups of “fanatics” roam. Caryl Churchill’s wise and perceptive script demonstrates her brilliantly innovative use of language to convey dramatic tension. All Theatre-in-Focus presentations are script-in-hand and are preceded by a talk about the playwright. ALL TICKETS: £5
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Friday 14 September, 7pm DYLAN THOMAS FESTIVAL PREVIEW EVENT
BOOKLAUNCH: ALAN KELLERMANN AND ANNA LEWIS Wednesday 12 September, 7.30pm
THE ROAD TO PORT OF BARRY BY ROBERT GOULD AND CHRISTOPHER ORTON A black comedy that’s irreverent, edgy, profane, violent - and incredibly funny. It’s set entirely inside a dirty caravan on an ostrich farm in south Wales, where two young men argue and play Monopoly until the sinister Man In A Suit arrives and mayhem ensues. ALL TICKETS: £4 www.dylanthomas.com
Love, lust, loss, art and myth find their way into Alan Kellermann’s stylish You, Me and the Birds. The worlds of America and Wales collide, the sacred and the profane sit side by side and the paintings of Tony Goble are startlingly animated. Anna Lewis’ engaging first collection, Other Harbours, is populated with characters who move through the liminal space between departure and arrival. These accomplished poems introduce us to worlds on the margins of our received history. Alan and Anna will be in conversation with their editor at Parthian, Kathryn Gray. TICKETS: Free entry and wine
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GRAHAME DAVIES
JASMINE DONAHAYE
Tuesday 18 September, 7.00pm
Thursday 27 September, 7.30pm
WHOSE PEOPLE? WALES, ISRAEL, PALESTINE
POETS AT THE DTC:
Thursday 4 October, 10am – 5pm
GRAHAME DAVIES
NATIONAL POETRY DAY
Grahame Davies is an awardwinning poet, novelist, editor and critic. His books in Welsh and English include The Chosen People, a study of the relationship of the Welsh and Jewish peoples, and The Dragon and the Crescent, a study of Wales and Islam. His first volume of English poetry, Lightning Beneath the Sea (Seren), has just been released. Plus open mic. TICKETS: F £4 C £2.80 PTL £1.60
UNDER MILK WOOD TWITTER EXCHANGE
Jasmine Donahaye talks to Jon Gower about her latest book, published by University of Wales Press. TICKETS: F £4 C £2.80 PTL £1.60 Wednesday 26 Sept, 7.30pm
SCIENCE CAFÉ Professor Lyn Evans of CERN discusses the Large Hadron Collider. Free entry 4
Extracts of Under Milk Wood as you’ve never seen them before, as some of Llareggub’s bestloved characters interact over Twitter. Follow us @DTCSwansea to find out more.
SEPTEMBER - DECEMBER 2012
JOSEPH CONRAD
NEIL BEBBER
Saturday 6 October, 1pm THEATRE-IN-FOCUS: fluellen THEATRE PRESENT
JOSEPH CONRAD’S ONE MORE DAY A real rarity - one of only three plays written by the great novelist Joseph Conrad. The eccentric Captain Hagberd awaits the return of his seafaring son with big plans for his future. All Theatre-in-Focus presentations are script-in-hand and are preceded by a talk about the playwright. ALL TICKETS: £5 www.dylanthomas.com
RONA LAYCOCK
Wednesday 10 October, 7.30pm
Thursday 18 October, 7.30pm
MOIST BY NEIL BEBBER
RONA LAYCOCK
“I had all the coke I could get up my nose, all the women that my hot tub would hold and more money than I’d ever be able to spend, and do you know what? I don’t miss any of it. But I’d give my right arm to have one more chance to stand up there and make people laugh again. And then, just maybe she’d come back to me.” Don’t miss Neil Bebber’s gripping monologue. ALL TICKETS: £4
POETS AT THE DTC:
Bangor-born Rona Laycock has lived and worked in many countries, all of which have influenced her writing. An event organiser, tutor, and editor of Graffiti Magazine, her work has been widely published. Haiku and haibun formed a significant part of her PhD at Swansea University, and her poetry collection, Borderlands, is published on CD. Plus open mic. TICKETS: F £4 C £2.80 PTL £1.60 5
Wednesday 24 October, 7.30pm
SCIENCE CAFÉ Professor Rory Wilson on Tracking Animals Free entry
FESTIVAL
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Sunday 11 November, 2.00 - 4.30pm
27 OCTOBER – 9 NOVEMBER
OTHELLO IN FOCUS
Those already confirmed include the Stan Tracey Quartet performing their acclaimed interpretation of Dylan’s A Child’s Christmas in Wales, readings from Paul Durcan, Samantha Wynne Rhydderch, Ros Barber, Roshi Fernando, and Kevin Barry, and launches by Menna Elfyn and Nigel Jenkins. We’ll also be joined by internationally renowned journalist, Graham Hunter, who’ll be discussing Barcelona FC and Swansea City FC. There’s more at www.dylanthomas.com and www.facebook.com/DylanThomasFestival
Fluellen Theatre Company`s new production of Othello will be performed at the Grand Theatre Arts Wing Swansea from 6-9 November. Director Peter Richards, together with actors from the production, invites you to a discussion/workshop on one of Shakespeare`s greatest tragedies. Suitable for all ages and abilities. ALL TICKETS: £5
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LYNNE REES
Saturday 17 November, 1pm THEATRE-IN-FOCUS: fluellen THEATRE PRESENT
NEIL SIMON’S THE MAN ON THE FLOOR It is Wimbledon fortnight and a couple of American tourists are distraught when they find that they have lost their tickets. But worse is to come! A gem from the Pulitzer Prize winning writer of great comedies. All Theatre-in-Focus presentations are script- NEIL SIMON in-hand and are preceded by a talk about the playwright. ALL TICKETS: £5 www.dylanthomas.com
Friday 23 November, 7pm
BOOKLAUNCH: KEN JONES AND LYNNE REES Ken Jones’ Bog Cotton is the latest collection from a writer and editor who has played a prominent part in pioneering the Western development of the ancient Japanese prose poetry genre, the haibun. Lynne Rees’ forgiving the rain is a multifaceted memoir of home. These contemporary haibun combine the narrative power of prose with the epiphanies of haiku poetry to question and explore where home is, how we recognise it, how we leave it and how we find our way back. TICKETS: Free entry and wine
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KEN JONES
STEVE GRIFFITHS
Saturday 24 November, 10.30am – 1pm
Wednesday 28 November, 7.30pm
READING & WRITING HAIBUN WITH SCIENCE CAFÉ Professor Peter Douglas discusses The Chemistry KEN JONES AND LYNNE REES Prose or poetry? Why not both? From its birthplace in Japan, the English language haibun is experiencing a renaissance on both sides of the Atlantic. It uniquely balances prose with poetry and lends itself to a variety of styles and forms: journalling, the lyrical essay, memoir, nature and travel writing. We’ll read some haibun for inspiration and have a go at constructing our own. TICKETS:
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Thursday 29 November, 7.30pm POETS AT THE DTC:
STEVE GRIFFITHS Steve Griffiths’ sixth collection of poems, Surfacing (Cinnamon Press), was published last year. He has recently returned from a successful series of readings in New York. Surfacing begins underground, in an abandoned place, but soon there are stirrings, occasional explosions into an inexplicably dazzling light, an insistence on miracles of optimism and flashes of humour. Plus open mic. TICKETS: F £4 C £2.80 PTL £1.60 SEPTEMBER - DECEMBER 2012
CAROL ANN DUFFY AND GILLIAN CLARKE
Friday 7 December, 5pm & 7.30pm
LUCINDA COXON
Wednesday 12 December, 7.30pm
CAROL ANN DUFFY I AM ANGELA AND GILLIAN CLARKE BRAZIL BY LUCINDA By popular demand, we present COXON two sessions from The National Poet of Wales and the Poet Laureate. We celebrate the publication of Ice, Gillian Clarke’s latest collection from Carcanet, and the awarding of the Pen/Pinter Prize for outstanding literary merit to Carol Ann Duffy. TICKETS: F £12 C £9
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An acclaimed play that challenges and twists the illusion of theatre via a fortysomething male figure who is, and is not, Angela Brazil. ALL TICKETS: £4
Thursday 13 December, 7pm
CHRISTMAS IN WALES Fluellen Theatre Company’s magical celebration, in words and music, of Christmases past and present, featuring a complete performance of their celebrated adaptation of Dylan Thomas’ A Child’s Christmas In Wales, with Delyth Jenkins on harp. TICKETS: F £6.50 C £4.50 Ticket includes a glass of mulled wine or juice in the interval.
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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. Photo credits: Jasmine Donahaye by Keith Morris, Gillian Clarke and Carol Ann Duffy by Bernard Mitchell. Carol Ann Duffy - University of Manchester Library
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