Post Punk is a notoriously elusive label. Taken somewhat literally, it has been used to describe pretty much any music…
American Idiot, New Theatre
January 30, 2019I was born in 1990, and when Green Day’s album American Idiot came out in 2004, I was fourteen…
Clarissa!, Notional Theatre, Chapter Arts Centre
December 14, 2018Inspired by Picasso’s Guernica as well as a number of other reflections concerning the nature of art, artists, those that…
Beauty and the Beast, New Theatre
December 12, 2018Going to see a panto as an Italian, raised in a theatre culture that has truly nothing even similar to…
Fontaines D.C., Hotel Lux, The Moon
December 10, 2018As the recent period of great vitality of the rock and punk scene seems at last to be also reaching…
Matilda the Musical, RSC, Welsh Millennium Centre
December 8, 2018Roald Dahl is one of the most loved authors for childhood in the country, and his books have brought joy…
Cheer, Big Loop Theatre Company, The Other Room at Porter’s
December 1, 2018As the Christmas season inevitably approaches, and with it Christmas-themed shows are brought to the stage, there is a general…
Phantom Rides Again, Good Cop Bad Cop, Chapter
November 29, 2018Perhaps because of the overwhelming rhetoric depicting art as eternally persistent, the thought of lost art and lost artwork is…
The 4G Race (Cardiff Gang Show 2018), New Theatre
November 20, 2018There is a place for youth theatre that goes beyond simple item of interest for community news, and that speaks…
The Last Five Years, Leeway Theatre, Wales Millennium Centre
November 13, 2018Leeway Theatre’s production of Jason Robert Brown’s The Last Five Years, brought here to the stage by director Angharad Lee…