Agent 160's Fun Palace: what's on when

Hoping to see you at our Fun Palace at the Wales Millennium Centre this weekend! Here is what's happening, hour by hour.

Saturday 4th October

	Desg Docynnau \  Ticket Desk	Bar ffresh \ ffresh Bar	Pabell Fun Palace \  Fun Palace Tent
10am – 1:10pm	Purple and Green gan \ by Katie O’Reilly Canllaw Oed \ Age Guide: 14+	An Extraordinary Woman gan \ by Vittoria Cafolla	Shidan gan \ by Sharon Morgan Canllaw Oed \ Age Guide: 14+
	Custard Slice Eaters gan \ by Sam Burns Canllaw Oed \ Age Guide: 14+	Red Heart gan \ by Poppy Corbett Canllaw Oed \ Age Guide: 14+	Unarmed \  Heb Arf gan \ by Marged Parry Canllaw Oed \ Age Guide: 14+
	Inge gan \ by Claire Duffy Canllaw Oed \ Age Guide: 14+	Llond Bol gan \ by Branwen Davies Canllaw Oed \ Age Guide: 14+	This Time I Win gan \ by Samantha Ellis Canllaw Oed \ Age Guide: 14+
1:10pm – 2pm	Sunday Morning, Dandelion Seeds gan \ by Lindsay Rodden
2pm – 4pm	Poo Karma and Arctic Exploration gan \ by Sandra Bendelow	Frequency Hopping with the Ecstasy Girl gan \ by Shannon Ye	Little Mermaid gan \ by Sarah Grochala
	A Mother’s Heart gan \ by Lisa Parry	Nissa’s Waiting Over There gan \ by Katie McCullough Canllaw Oed \ Age Guide: 14+	John Grace gan \ by Abigail Docherty Canllaw Oed \ Age Guide: 14+

Sunday 5th October

	Desg Docynnau \  Ticket Desk	Bar ffresh \ ffresh Bar	Pabell Fun Palace \  Fun Palace Tent
10am – 12:10pm	Purple and Green gan \ by Katie O’Reilly Canllaw Oed \ Age Guide: 14+	An Extraordinary Woman gan \ by Vittoria Cafolla	Shidan gan \ by Sharon Morgan Canllaw Oed \ Age Guide: 14+
	Custard Slice Eaters gan \ by Sam Burns Canllaw Oed \ Age Guide: 14+	Red Heart gan \ by Poppy Corbett Canllaw Oed \ Age Guide: 14+	Unarmed \  Heb Arf gan \ by Marged Parry Canllaw Oed \ Age Guide: 14+
	Inge gan \ by Claire Duffy Canllaw Oed \ Age Guide: 14+	Llond Bol gan \ by Branwen Davies Canllaw Oed \ Age Guide: 14+	This Time I Win gan \ by Samantha Ellis Canllaw Oed \ Age Guide: 14+
12:10pm – 1pm	Sunday Morning, Dandelion Seeds gan \ by Lindsay Rodden
1pm – 3pm	Poo Karma and Arctic Exploration gan \ by Sandra Bendelow	Frequency Hopping with the Ecstasy Girl gan \ by Shannon Ye	Little Mermaid gan \ by Sarah Grochala
	A Mother’s Heart gan \ by Lisa Parry	Nissa’s Waiting Over There gan \ by Katie McCullough Canllaw Oed \ Age Guide: 14+	John Grace gan \ by Abigail Docherty  Canllaw Oed \ Age Guide: 14+

4pm: Women: Do You Know What You Are Angry About: a discussion about anger, activism and feminism in the spirit of Joan Littlewood and Shelagh Delaney, in the Japan Room. On the panel are Agents Samantha Ellis, Sharon Morgan and Lisa Parry, Wales Millennium Centre's Fern George, and writer and feminist activist Sian Norris.

5pm: Consequences play: over the weekend, we invite you to write a line for a play which will be written as a massive game of consequences. At 5pm, come to the Centre foyer and see it performed.

Thank you!

We're so thrilled to have Arts Council Wales' support for our Fun Palace. And we're also chuffed to bits to have had so many donations via our Kickstarter campaign. We're currently in rehearsals and we simply would not be without the support of the following people:


Gráinne Close
Lionheart-theatre.com
Dominic Lindesay-Bethune
Godfrey the Cat (and Nicola & Heather)
Jax Lovelock @ ReBloom
Othniel Smith
Sian Owen
Erica Miller
Sara Beer
Miranda Bertram
Laura Drane
Robert Harper
Angharad Thomas
Lucy Christopher
Derek Martin
Lauren
Morgan Lloyd Malcolm
Megan Price
Orla Nicholls
Claire and Anthony Burns
Mrs J S Parry
Steven Keevil
Alison Smith
Valerie O’Riordan
Beverley McCullough
Matthew Bulgo
Anastasia Catris
Keith Burgess
David Bishop
Stephanie Ressort
Amanda Reed
Jonathan Wakeham
Ginny Osborne
Mr M J H Burns and Mrs S M Burns
Pie Corbett
Linda McLean
Dr Catrin Huws


Thank you everyone!

Play Titles and Quotes

With just 15 days to go, we're currently offering teasers from our scripts over on Twitter and Facebook, so keep checking our pages for insights! Rehearsals have begun, chats between writers and directors are taking place and we have a great design we can't wait for you to see!


We also have play titles which is really exciting. They're listed below next to our playwrights' names to whet your appetites still further. We can't wait for you to see our work.

• Poo Karma and Arctic Exploration - Sandra Bendelow
• Custard Slice Eaters - Sam Burns
• An Extraordinary Woman - Vittoria Cafolla
• Red Heart - Poppy Corbett
• LLOND BOL - Branwen Davies
• John Grace - Abigail Docherty
• Inge - Clare Duffy
• This Time I Win - Samantha Ellis
• Little Mermaid - Sarah Grochala
• NISSA’S WAITING OVER THERE - Katie McCullough
• SHIDAN - Sharon Morgan
• A Mother’s Heart - Lisa Parry
• UNARMED /HEB ARF - Marged Parry
• Purple and Green -  Kaite O’Reilly
• Sunday Morning, Dandelion Seeds - Lindsay Rodden
• Frequency Hopping with the Ecstasy Girl - Shannon Yee

Women: Do You Know What You Are Angry About?

When theatre legend Joan Littlewood directed Shelagh Delaney's first play, A Taste of Honey, critics disgruntedly said Delaney was just like the angry young men dominating British theatre. But Littlewood said no: Delaney was different because she knew what she was angry about. 

We at Agent 160 think this is still a valid question. Do you know what you are angry about? Do we? 

As part of our Fun Palace, we're going to have what we hope will be a fierce, fun conversation about anger, feminism and activism, not just in theatre but in our lives. We hope you'll come and join in.

Here's more about Delaney and her anger from Agent Samantha Ellis.

And here's Agent Lisa Parry on anger and feminism.

Our fundraising countdown has now turned from days to hours. We've tipped over the goal amount which is thrilling. If you know of anyone who still wants to pledge their support for this important project, then do pass on the link to our campaign. And thank you to those who made it happen for us!

Double announcement klaxon!

Well what a day. Not only have we confirmed our brilliant directors...

We've also hit our Kickstarter goal! 

We are:

chuffed

excited

happy

feeling fuzzy

jumping for joy

whooping for joy

ecstatic

thrilled

mega-mega-excited

overwhelmed

many more things

And it's all down to YOU.

We could not make our Fun Palace happen without generous good people like you. Thank you for your pledges, your whispers, your shouts, and your sharing. We're in an extremely fortunate (and very lucky!) position in that we have a week left before our campaign ends. This means we have the opportunity to raise more which would be a massive help, so if there are people out there still wanting to pledge, please do!

Now on to our directors. We welcome Angharad Lee and Julia Thomas on to our Fun Palaces team, so let's hear more about them...

Angharad was born and bred in Porth in the Rhondda Valley. Having trained as an actress at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, she then won a scholarship to train as a singer at the Royal Academy of Music in London. Having worked as a performer for over 10 years, the directing bug took hold. She turned her hand to directing with a short film; ‘Know your Enemy’, for Tornado Films, which was shown at Cineworld in Cardiff.

Some directing credits include The Magician’s Cat (WNO Max), The Elixir Project (Acting Out/Sherman Cymru/WNO Max), Bang Project (Hijinx Theatre), Read a Million Words (Arad Goch), The Calling of Maisy Day (Assistant Director) for WNYO, Script Slam (Sherman Cymru), Cwrw Chips a Darlith Deg (Arad Goch), We Need Bees (script development for Theatr na n’Og), The Journey (WNO MAX), SXTO/SEXTING (Arad Goch), Al ac Ant a’r Cler Hudol (Arad Goch), Nine Stories High (WNO), Gair ar Gnawd (WNO MAX), Dirty Protest, ABCDAD (BBC Wales/It’s My Shout), Jac a’r Goeden Ffa (RCT Theatres/Cwmni MG), Tan (Urdd Youth Theatre), Sinderela (RCT Theatres/Cwmni MG), Staff director for WNO’s Madam Butterfly in 2013, To Kill a Machine (Scriptography Productions), The Little Sweep (St George’s Bristol), Rasputin, Ripples to Revolution (in development).

Julia trained in Acting at Drama Centre London. Recent directing credits include blue/orange (Canoe Theatre, Sherman Theatre) On this Ground (Sherman Cymru, Young Writers) Sonata (WMC) and Marsha (Capital Fringe Festival, Washington DC). Julia has directed several projects for young people including Running Free (Pamplona), and A Bridge to the Stars (Llanelli Youth Theatre, NT Connections Festival). As assistant director, Julia has worked on Say It with Flowers and Peter Pan (Sherman Cymru), A Provincial Life (National Theatre Wales Emerging Director Opportunity) High Society (Music and Lyrics National Tour), and Diary of a Madman (Living Pictures). Julia is also a facilitator for the Night Out Young Promoters Project and leads educational tours throughout Europe, specialising in Italy for the American Council of International Studies. Julia set up Canoe Theatre in 2012 with the aim of bringing theatre from around the World to Wales.

We're off to have a well earned sit down (jumping for joy can take its toll) and a cup of tea. Thank you, thank you, thank you.