Smithsonian

20 Jun 2009

Sherman Cymru, will be visiting Washington next week to join forces with the award-winning Studio Theatre to present readings of on some of the best contemporary Welsh plays in a project called Welsh Words: Theatre from Wales.

Welsh Words: Theatre from Wales will be on at The Studio Theatre, Washington over the course of two weekends (Saturday 27 - Sunday 28 June and Saturday 4 – Sunday 5 July) and is part of Wales Washington Cymru 2009, a diverse programme of cultural activity running alongside Wales being the featured nation at this year’s Smithsonian Folklife Festival.

Chris Ricketts, Director of Sherman Cymru, said:

‘We’re delighted to be involved in this project and to be collaborating with The Studio Theatre, especially given all it has done to support great plays from the UK over the past 30 years.  Playwrights from Wales have made a distinctive contribution to UK theatre over the same time, and the much admired Peter Gill is a figurehead of modern theatre writing.’

Sherman Cymru will present readings of established Welsh playwright Gary Owen’s The Drowned World and promising new Welsh playwright Tracy Harris’s the cloak room.

The Studio Theatre will present five readings, including Ed Thomas’s House of America, which was made into a film in 1997 featuring Brothers and Sisters star Matthew Rhys and Ian Rowlands’s Marriage of Convenience, which is set on the day of the Royal wedding between Charles and Diana, where a young man attends a Republican picnic on the top of a mountain whilst his mother and step mother attend the street party in the valley below. 

The Studio Theatre will also be producing Meic Povey’s Indian Country, Catherine Treganna’s Art and Guff and Peter Gill’s Cardiff East.  A full schedule of events can be found below.

For more details about the Smithsonian Folklife Festival, go to Folklife

For more details about The Studio Theatre, Washington, go to Studio Theatre.

Full Schedule – Welsh Words : Theatre from Wales

Saturday 27 June 
Midday - Cardiff East by Peter Gill (Presented by The Studio Theatre)
5pm - the cloak room by Tracy Harris (Presented by Sherman Cymru)

Sunday 28 June 
Midday - Indian Country by Meic Povey (Presented by The Studio Theatre)
5pm - Marriage of Convenience by Ian Rowlands (Presented by The Studio Theatre)

Saturday 4 July 
5pm - House of America by Edward Thomas (Presented by The Studio Theatre)

Sunday 5 July 
Midday - Art and Guff by Catherine Tregenna (Presented by The Studio Theatre)
5pm - The Drowned World  by Gary Owen (Presented by Sherman Cymru)