What's On

Wednesday 9th - Saturday 12th February

Dancing at Lughnasaby Brian Friel, an Olivier award-winning play. Stars Daragh O’Malley (best known as Sgt. Harper in the Sharpe series). Set in Summer 1936 in a cottage in the remote Irish village of Ballybeg, the five Mundy sisters live a simple life in the shadow of the hills of Donegal, with their recently returned brother Jack, a missionary priest, seven-year-old Michael, and a wireless set called ‘Marconi’. Years later, the grown up Michael looks back at that fateful summer when the knockings of change finally caught up with the Mundy family.The play paints a vivid and life-affirming portrait of these brave women following their loss of love and opportunity, played out against the echoes of the twentieth century with a dark humour, raw energy and tenderness.

Tickets are priced £10 - £16.00 and it the play starts ar 7.30pm at Swansea Grand Theatre.

Saturday 12th February


Lunchtime Theatre: Fluellen Theatre Co present I Can’t Remember Anything by Arthur Miller Leonora, a wealthy New England widow, has dinner with her and her late husband’s best friend. She is disillusioned that civilisation is still mired in the brutality of their youth. What has their lifetime of liberal crusading achieved? This superb play from one of the greatest American playwrights asks many questions about the importance, or otherwise, of memory. All Lunchtime Theatre plays are script-in-hand presentations and are preceded by a talk about the writer’s life and work. All tickets £5 and it starts at 1pm at The Dylan Thomas Centre.

Wednesday 16th February

Reminiscences of Childhood. Adapted from the works of Dylan Thomas by Adrian Metcalfe, directed by Joe Harmson. Following its award-winning debut at the Edinburgh Festival, Adrian has performed this one-man show all over the world to considerable critical acclaim. It now begins a tour of venues in Wales, for the ultimate test.

Tickets are priced at £8.50 and £6.00 for concessions. The show starts at 7.15pm in the Arts wing of Swansea Grand Theatre.

Friday 18th January –Sunday 27th February


Exhibition: Judith Aronson: Likenesses.

The portraits in Likenesses attend to how people relate to one another. To settings and things, husbands and wives, actors and directors, parents and children, a set-designer and his crew, a poet in his landscape, a professor among his books: here are vivid and touching evocations of many notable writers, artists, theatre people, and educators, and their worlds. The pictures, taken over the course of thirty years in England and America, bring together Aronson’s work as a photojournalist and graphic designer, vividly capturing the cultural life of the age. The exhibition is at The Dylan Thomas Centre, for more information call 01792 463980.