Experience bold writing from exciting new voices.
Our New Writing Showcase is the culmination of the work our writers groups have been doing over the last year.
16 writers took part, working in both the Welsh language (Cylch Sgwennu’r Sherman) and in English (Sherman Writers Group). The selected writers hail from across the country, from North to Mid Wales to the South, and represent a diverse range of lived experience.
Come and see fresh new writing in the Studio this February.
Showcase 1 (6:00pm)
Last Flight by Tess Berry-Hart
99er by Ceri Ashe
Clwb Malu C*chu by Rhiannon Williams
Transnewid by Kallum Weyman
The Last Drop by Dan Tyte
Sian De Bergerac by Emma Cooney
Chilli (beef or vegan) is available to pre-order for £7.50 when checking out your tickets. This will be served from 7.15pm-8.15pm between the two showcases.
Chill served with nachos and cheese:
Beef chilli
or
Vegan chilli (with vegan cheese)
£7.50
Chilli will be served between 7.15pm-8.15pm. If you wish to have your chilli before the first showcase (6.00pm) please contact Box Office to request this. To claim your chilli please present your receipt at the bar.
Chilli will also be available to order on the day.
Back in November 2021 the Sherman Theatre announced their Writers Group and Cylch Sgwennu brought together by the Literary Department; Branwen Davies and Alice Eklund. These 16 writers completed a nine-month long development programme in both Welsh and English. This major initiative nurtured and supported the writers as they developed their initial ideas for a play which they submitted at application stage to a final draft. Over the course of the nine months, the writers worked closely with the Literary Department, Artistic Director Joe Murphy as well as guest writers who ran sessions in person and online.
The selected writers hail from across the country from North to Mid Wales to the South and represent a diverse range of lived experience. The writers who took part in Cylch Sgwennu are: Ceri Ashe, Bethan Davies, Mari Izzard, Gareth Evans-Jones, Bethan Jones, Rhiannon Lloyd Williams, Wyn Mason and Kallum Weyman. The Sherman Writers Group comprised of: Tess Berry-Hart, Emma Cooney, Laura Dalgleish, Ciaran Fitzgerald, Paisley Jackson, Natasha Kaeda, Tom Price and Dan Tyte.
This initiative has brought us to a showcase event to present extracts from the plays created by those writers. Over the course of the evening you will hear 12 of the plays we developed over the project. There will be a mixture of Welsh, English and bilingual pieces. The pieces will be script in hand readings directed by Alice Eklund and Matthew Holmquist (Red Oak Theatre). Red Oak Theatre is the Sherman Theatre’s Company in Residence and you can read below about the installations that will be on display at the Sherman throughout the process.
In partnership with the Sherman Theatre Writer’s Group Showcase, Red Oak Theatre and RWCMD present a series of installations by designer Llew Morgan. The three installations are made in response to the plays that will be presented at the showcase and will sit in the Sherman’s Foyer in the build up to the event and after it. All of the installations are interactive and give audiences the opportunity to listen to extracts of the writers, encouraging the public to literally step into the world of plays and take it all in.