A student of Swansea Metropolitan University's HND technical theatre programme has joined the stage management team for the National Theatre of Wales' inaugural production, ‘A Good Night Out in the Valleys'.
Second-year student Sarah Morgan, from Swansea, will be the assistant stage manager for the production, which will be touring to several venues across South Wales throughout March.
Head of the School of Performance and Literature at Swansea Met, Dr Richard Knapp, said: "This new link between Swansea Met and the National Theatre of Wales provides an excellent opportunity for our students to apply their training in the real world."
‘A Good Night Out in the Valleys' has been influenced by the Valley communities as the play's Director, John E McGrath, and writer, Alan Harries, spent a month visiting the Miners' and Workingmen's clubs of South Wales, listening to the stories of the characters they met.
Dynevor Campus
The long-awaited English-language national company starts it opening year with the ambitious aim of producing thirteen performances in 2010 alone. One such show is a collaboration between the Swansea Met-based Volcano Theatre Company and the Welsh National Opera, called ‘Shelf Life'. It will be performed within Swansea's former central library - a unique, circular room located on Alexandra Road, now home to the University's Welsh School of Architectural Glass.
Swansea Metropolitan University - 4 February, 2010
The world's only purely architecturally based glass department is based at Swansea Met's Alexandra Road campus. Click here for more interesting facts about Swansea Met.
