Zoom Cymru
The 2009 Zoom film Festival returns to venues across the south Wales valleys, from 20th - 23rd January 2009. Next Wednesday, 21st January, Zoom comes to Merthyr Tydfil College, for the Welsh premier of Special People (ages 13+) at 9.30 - 11am, then the film Unni: Life Is All About (ages 10+), will be showing from 11.30am - 1pm and the documentary Good Arrows from 1.30 - 3pm. There will also be workshops, including a taster animation session with Moonoo at 9.30am - 1pm and Green Screen reporting workshop with Merthyr Media from 1.30 - 3pm. Zoom will also include a Photoshop That! workshop with Octopus, from 9.30 - 11am, all on 21st January. Other venues will include the Beaufort Theatre, Ebbw Vale, Muni Arts Centre, Pontypridd, Blackwood Miners Institute, the Congress Theatre, Cwmbran and the YMCA, Hirwaun, all with a virety of films and workshops. Also by voting for the film you like best at the festival, by text, ballot or online, you could be in with a chance of winning a one off framed still of Welsh animation - Sion Blewyn Coch, kindly donated by the Calon team. For further information please visit www.zoomcymru.com or contact 01443 413622 jenny@zoomcymru.com.
Out Of This World Musical
Myfanwy Theatre at Merthyr Tydfil College proudly presents The Return to the Forbidden Planet Musical on 10th and 11th of March 2009 at 7:30pm. Return to the Forbidden Planet is a Jukebox musical originally directed by Bob Carlton. It is based on Shakespeare’s The Tempest and the 1950s science fiction film Forbidden Planet (which itself drew its plot loosely from The Tempest). The plot follows the crew of a routine survey flight under the command of Captain Tempest. Their spaceship is drawn mysteriously to the planet D'Illyria where mad scientist Doctor Prospero and his lovely daughter Miranda are marooned. The high energy show features a bevy of 1950s and 1960s rock and roll classics, performed on stage by the cast. The show's dialogue is largely adapted from well-known passages from Shakespeare. Tickets cost £5. For further information please contact Myfanwy Theatre on 01685 726000.
Merthyr Playwright Returns
This Is The Day is a new oratorio by Merthyr playwright Alan Osborne. The performance comes to Myfanwy Theatre at Merthyr Tydfil College on 18th March 2009, at 7:30pm. Alan Osborne was born in Merthyr Tydfil in 1942 and educated at Quakers Yard Grammar school. He boxed and swam competitively reaching National Youth Standard before studying at Newport College of Art.
His early career was devoted to education, he taught art and architecture in Oxford and London where he was involved in developing the Design and Technology syllabus. He returned to Wales in 1975 to teach at Afon Taf High School. His dramatic work began with Plans for The Great Trapeze Act and was followed by Terraces, Johnny Darkie and his first major work Bull, Rock and Nut which won the Play for Wales competition in 1981 and began his long association with The Made In Wales Stage company. In Sunshine and In Shadow followed in 1985 with performances in Wales and London. Redemption Song, the final play in The Merthyr Trilogy was first performed in 1987. He has also written a number of successful television dramas including The Whistling Boy (1994) and The Beach Inspector (1996). A full retrospective of his work was staged by Made In Wales and performed at the Sherman Theatre in 1993. He has composed music scores to many of his plays and Give us the Flowers Now for the BBC Symphony Orchestra and a choral libretto, Spirit of Our Distant Fathers in Wales which toured with Brecon High School in the United States. His art work has also revieved numerous exhibitions and is held in many private and public collections. This is The Day is an oratorio featuring the Dowlais Male Voice Choir and Kate Woolveridge Mezzo soprano. For further information please contact Myfanwy Theatre 01685 726000. Price: £10
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