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Clubnights: Christmas Break
Please note that there will be no further clubnights now until 2012.
We trust that you all have a very Merry Christmas and a great start to 2012. The clubnight season will resume on Wednesday 11 January 2012.
In January, we will have further information on our festival auditions and audition packs will be available soon.
Congratulations!
A big congratulations to all the cast and crew of Good our latest production which has been performing to sell out houses at Chapter Arts Centre over the last week.
Today, we start our auditions for our next production- A view from the Bridge by Arthur Miller. It will take to the stage in March 2012 and be the first of our season of banned theatre to celebrate Everyman's 70 Birthday.
Our clubnight programme continues through to our Christmas party on Wednesday 14 December before we take a well-deserved break until Wednesday 11 January 2012.
Good: Review ****
IT was no surprise that there was a full house for the opening night of this powerful and challenging play by C P Taylor.
It is one of the National Theatre’s One Hundred Plays of the 20th century and has been praised as a work for the mind and heart which reveals man at his worst.
The Everyman Theatre Cardiff, under director Simon Futty, took this material and fashioned something fresh and memorable.
The use of music and song borrowed from Dennis Potter’s Pennies From Heaven, with singers, imagined by protagonist John Halder, crooning away as the action progressed, was superb.
Halder, played by Andreas Constantinou, is a liberal academic who gradually, through self deceit and moral cowardice, ends up as a member of the SS at the gates of Auschwitz. Much of the power of the play depended on the relationship and interaction between Halder and his Jewish friend, Maurice, played by Brian Smith.
Constantinou clearly relished his role and gave a virtuoso performance that allowed one to understand but never sympathise with Halder. Smith was equally strong in the role of Maurice, the panic-stricken Jew.
Taylor invited us to consider whether we would have reacted any differently to Halder, insisting that we saw him not as some monster, but as a man not entirely unlike ourselves.
The play runs until Saturday. Tickets on 029 2030 4400 or via www.chapter.org
Peter Collins (South Wales Echo. 17 November 2011)
Good continues its run on the main-stage at Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff until Saturday 19 November 2011. All performances start at 7:30pm. Tickets £10 (£8 concessions on Tuesday/Thursday performances) Book online at Chapter's Box Office or by calling (029) 2030 4400
This week's clubnight: A new play
An estranged family gather for Christmas dinner where dark secrets are revealed causing deeper rifts between family members. A mysterious stranger turns up who they invite into their home.
He opens their eyes to the meaning of family but once they discover his true identity, he vanishes- a new play by Christian Tipples.
This clubnight takes place on Wednesday 30 November 2011.
All clubnights take place in the Everyman Clubroom at Chapter Arts, Centre, Canton, Cardiff. Clubnights start at 8pm unless stated otherwise.
This week's clubnight: RSC Skills Exchange Showback 1
Members who attended the RSC Skills Exchange workshop in Cardiff in September 2011 will present what they have learned to the rest of the company.
This clubnight takes place on Wednesday 12 October 2011.
All clubnights take place in the Everyman Clubroom at Chapter Arts, Centre, Canton, Cardiff. Clubnights start at 8pm unless stated otherwise.