Venue 13

Dazzlingly versatile, All That Malarkey’s repertoire spans operatic classics to R&B, musical theatre to cheesy pop, jazz standards to their own original material and much more besides. Classically trained at The Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, this supremely talented group comprises four singers: Amy…

Ordinary people living ordinary lives hauntingly echoes as the cast multi-role play their way through the 24 hours when tragedy struck in October 1966. A powerful and compelling play based on an historic Welsh mining disaster. This evocative and abstract piece plummets its audience into the thick black slurry of…

Cinderella. Revolution. Who knew two ideas could be so compatible? A young woman breaks a mould she didn’t realise she was confined to and finds a new way to tell the world’s most famous fairy tale. Aisling Kiely presents a funny, thought-provoking, sexily-skewed retelling of Cinderella. Feminist burlesque, it’s a…

Following the success of its performances in Cardiff, Wales and the rest of UK. ‘Robert Bowman's portrayal of the eponymous narrator of Gogol's story stood out. Here was acting of raw power and intensity that will long live on in my memory’ (Nick Capaldi, Chief Executive Arts Council Wales, in his 2011 review for the…

Dallin is turning 13, and no one comes to his party. His dad's out of town for work, his best friends are at a cooler kid's party - even his annoying older sister is away at soccer camp. Left by himself, Dallin takes flight through time, outer space, and his own memories – with help from an unexpected friend. A new…

On the Road meets Into the Wild in this story of three exiles trying to make good on their mistakes. Nick, Krissy and Davis make a pact to destroy their passports, burn their bridges and abandon the modern world to live out in the wilderness. With nothing more than Ray Mears’ Survival Guide to shepherd them on their…

A tight, vicious, and violent piece of multimedia theatre about the fragility of intimacy. Can you truly know someone without peering underneath their skin? Fred uncovers his wife’s infidelity within a few hours of discovering he can remove his face. When he peels back the layers of his skin, Annie sees something…

Certain relationships thrive on sex and arguments. When the sex expires … what's left? Upcoming Glaswegian writer Rehanna MacDonald created Relationshit whilst studying at RWCMD, where it received critical acclaim. This piece is an honest and challenging view of sexual politics. We follow one Glaswegian girl’s…

Tracy, a Tesco’s employee, is after world domination in the form of a promotion. Her work colleagues, Tom and Gina, aid her in her life-long quest for perfection on the supermarket shop floor. It’s hard. In our second year at RWCMD, we were asked to write and stage our very own production. I wanted to create a…

Whispering in the Dark is an experiment in video, sound, light and text. Based on true events, this is the story of Pauline Parker and Juliet Hulme, who committed matricide in 1950s New Zealand - only to meet 60 years later in the afterlife.

Thrive Theatre present a new play, written and directed by Alex Hope. A woman waits. She is about to give a set of details for the last time. But they are not her own. The Witness is a play of opposites: life / death, man / woman, high / low. Thrive Theatre present their second original play in their second Fringe…

In his centenary year 2013, we celebrate this often overlooked Welsh Victorian scientist, who’s curiosity as to why there are so many different varieties of species, was ignited during his formative years in Usk and Neath, and would later find the answer to the mystery of all mysteries. His findings would compel…