Dirty Protest Theatre
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Dirty Protest Theatre is a young, vibrant Welsh theatre company which specialises in putting established and brand new writers on the same stage.
Dirty Protest was founded by Bafta Cymru nominated writer Tim Price, journalist Claire Hill and director/assistant producter Catrin Rees in August 2007. Based in Cardiff, Wales the trio wanted to see their peers at theatre nights and decided the only way to do that was to make plays more attractive to the MySpace generation. That meant going to the bars and clubs that young people frequented, keeping the ticket price either free or the price of a pint and advertising it all on social networking sites.
The first Dirty Protest night was held in the Yurt in Milgi, Cardiff. Five writers and one cherrypopper (a novice writer) were given the same topic, a four week deadline and were told to write a new play no less than three minutes long and no more than 10 minutes. Multi award winning writer Ed Thomas was one of the writers to take up the challenge. Starring actors Alys Thomas, Siwan Morris and Lee Mengo, the night was a sell out. Kit Lambert's play was then commissioned to be turned into a short film and newcomer Rhiannon Boyle won an offical theatre commission after the night
After sell out nights in December and January, the company welcomed director/actress Mared Swain and stage manager Ellie Carter into the company and brought three fully staged plays to the Sherman Cymru as part of the Springboard Festival. Plays The Whole Truth - Tim Price, In The River - Samuel Bees and Carnival - Colette Kane were staged
In May, 2008 they borrowed Phil Porter's play Repeat (commissioned by London new writing company DryWrite) and gave six Welsh directors the freedom to interpret the short piece by any means necessary. The night was staged in Cardiff nightclub TenFeetTall
In July 2008 the company will take three plays to Latitude Festival in Suffolk to perform In The Woods. The play is The Whole Truth. The first part of the play (Friends) was written by Tim Price and staged at the Sherman. Dirty Protest then asked for submissions from writers for Part Two (Lovers) and Part Three (Killers). The best two will be taken to Latitude.
Upcoming events include a Welsh language new writing night for Cardiff's Eisteddfod to be held in the Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff on August 8-9
Spin Offs - The students from Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama have started their own spin-off night. Dirty Student Protest, using three plays from previous Dirty Protest events and three brand new plays penned by students
Dirty Protest Writers
Ed Thomas
Rhiannon Boyle
Kit Lambert
Alan Harris
Branwen Davies
Gareth Potter
Gary Owen
Mared Swain
Stuart Allen
Tom Cullen
Matthew David Scott
Dr Ian Lewis
Helen Raynor
Othniel Smith
Tracy Harris
Joel Horwood
Eifion Rees
Tim Price
Samuel Bees
Colette Kane
Phil Porter
Dirty Protest Actors include
Lee Mengo
Siwan Morris
Alys Thomas
Mark Flanagan
Rhian Blythe
Catrin Stewart
Nia Roberts
Gareth Milton
Aled Pugh
Caryl Morgan
Ashley Hunt
Dan Curtis
Steve Meo
Eiry Hughes
Matthew Bulgo
Dirty Directors
Catrin Rees
Mared Swain
Matthew Bulgo
Adele Thomas
Gareth Bale
Kit Lambert
Julie Barclay
Simon Harris
British Theatre Guide on Dirty Directors
The Western Mail on Dirty Directors
The Western Mail review of Dirty Protest @ Sherman Cymru
British Theatre Guide review of Dirty Protest @ Sherman Cymru
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