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National Theatre Wales“Since its inception, National Theatre Wales have never been afraid to ask what theatre is and what it might be” The Guardian“Britain’s other national treasure” The Observer

Mametz photo: Mark Douet/National Theatre Wales.The Gathering/Yr Helfa photo: Joel Fildes/National Theatre Wales

National Theatre Wales was launched in November 2009 with an online community, and staged its first production in March 2010. Operating from a small base in Cardiff city centre, National Theatre Wales creates theatre across Wales, and each production has a unique relationship to local communities and audiences.

For its launch programme, the Theatre Map of Wales, running from March 2010 to April 2011, the company staged a new show each month: 13 productions in all, each one in a different location, and each using a different approach to theatre-making.

In Autumn 2011, National Theatre Wales began its second season of work, taking shows to village halls, major stages, nightclubs, aircraft hangars and forests. The company also set up WalesLab - an initiative for emerging theatre ideas using the Welsh landscape as an inspiration and laboratory.

The company’s third year of productions in 2013 was based around four in-depth residencies in locations ranging from Anglesey to Tokyo. At the same time, new experiments ranged from the company’s first touring live music gig to the takeover of our local castle!

In its fourth year, 2014, National Theatre Wales took audiences on four extraordinary journeys - on a trail around Laugharne as part of Dylan Thomas’ centenary, through a WWI battlefield recreated in Monmouthshire, along the foothills of Mount Snowdon with a flock of sheep, and by train from Bristol to Newport to explore the plight of migrants.

National Theatre Wales’ fifth year of work, performed from Spring 2015 until Spring 2016, will feature five large-scale productions on big themes – visit our website for more information about these shows soon.

Behind all of this activity lies a digital presence and an online community that has established the company at the forefront of digital thinking in UK theatre.

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