Theatr Clwyd reopens its doors to four world premiere productions in 2021
Theatre Clwyd’s Artistic Director Tamara Harvey and Executive Director Liam Evans-Ford have announced their 2021 season, which will run from 12 June to 6 November.
The exciting new season will open with Alan Harris’ For The Grace of You Go I with James Grieve directing Remy Beasley, Darren Jeffries, and Rhodri Meilir, running from 12 June to 25 June. It will be followed by Curtain Up, a three-week season of fifteen new plays from Welsh playwrights - Meredydd Barker, Matthew Bulgo, Katherine Chandler, Amy Bethan Evans, Ciaran Fitzgerald, Rebecca Jade Hammond, Tracy Harris, Ming Ho, Mari Izzard, Jennifer Lunn, Samantha O’Rourke, Lisa Parry, Kristian Phillips, Mali Ann Rees and Alun Saunders.
Artistic Director Tamara Harvey will then direct Isla by Tim Price, co-produced by the Royal Court, running from 16 October to 6 November. Completing the season will be Missing Julie by Kaite O’Reilly, freely adapted from August Strindberg’s classic Miss Julie. It will run from 16 September to 9 October.
Particularly exciting is Curtain Up, billed as “30 Actors. 15 Writers. 3 Weeks. 1 Season” with the promise of five new, short plays being performed each week with the audience deciding who plays who, their props and costumes!
The Outdoor Stage will also return from 10 June to 11 September with a to-be-announced festival of theatre, dance, music, comedy and family shows. As The Stage’s 2020 Regional Theatre of the Year, Theatre Clwyd is continuing to support local and emerging artists with an open call for Missing Julie in partnership with #OpenHire.
Commenting on the upcoming season, Tamara Harvey said: “Working with some of the most exciting writers, creatives and actors from across Wales and the wider UK, we are bringing these amazing stories, new and old, to life on our stages. Theatres in Wales are finally, for the first time in 14 months, able to open. So right now, we know we can share this brilliant season with our audiences here in our building. If there’s a moment when that becomes impossible, we’ll find new and different ways of sharing these stories across the miles. But whatever happens, we will make theatre.”
Tickets can be found here.
