Theatre
Hail Cremation! (2020)
Hail Cremation!' was a 'psychedelic musical odyssey' theatre production about Dr William Price for National Theatre Wales. It was in its tech run n Newbridge (near Caerphilly) in March 2020, but was cancelled due to the first Covid Lockdown.
Hopefully, as Dr Price and the goats sang, 'We will rise again.'
Hopefully, as Dr Price and the goats sang, 'We will rise again.'
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Creative Team
Jon Tregenna - Writer
Adele Thomas - Director
Emma Woods - Choreographer
Jac Ifan Moore - Associate Director
Rhiannon Matthews - Set and Costume Designer
Richard Melkonian - Musical Director
Nic Finch - Video Designer
Joe Fletcher - Lighting Designer
Brighde Penn - Costume Supervisor
Oskar Howells - Design Assistant
Blaze - Costume Maker
Catherine Embleton - Costume Maker
Tancred Ingram - Set Construction
Cast
Lee Mengo
Seren Vickers
Matthew Bulgo
Gruffudd Glyn
Dance Company
Elan Elidir
Iestyn Arwel
Ella Biddimore
Kyle Flaherty
Band
Steve Black - Guitar/Synth/Wind
Paul Jones - Keys/Synth
Aiden Thorne - Bass/Synth
Tom Cottle - Drums
'Dr William Price (1800-1893) was Welsh surgeon, radical, visionary, feminist, vegetarian and eccentric who became known as, 'The father of cremation'. Hail Cremation! is a psychedelic musical odyssey through the life of this complex and extraordinary man. It is a paean to the role of the eccentric in society and the boundary between genius and madness, as well as a celebration of this irascible legend.'
PRESS
Buzz Magazine article here (page 13)
Wales Online article here
GetTheChance interview here
Wales Online article here
Broadway World article here
What's On Stage article here
Jon Tregenna - Writer
Adele Thomas - Director
Emma Woods - Choreographer
Jac Ifan Moore - Associate Director
Rhiannon Matthews - Set and Costume Designer
Richard Melkonian - Musical Director
Nic Finch - Video Designer
Joe Fletcher - Lighting Designer
Brighde Penn - Costume Supervisor
Oskar Howells - Design Assistant
Blaze - Costume Maker
Catherine Embleton - Costume Maker
Tancred Ingram - Set Construction
Cast
Lee Mengo
Seren Vickers
Matthew Bulgo
Gruffudd Glyn
Dance Company
Elan Elidir
Iestyn Arwel
Ella Biddimore
Kyle Flaherty
Band
Steve Black - Guitar/Synth/Wind
Paul Jones - Keys/Synth
Aiden Thorne - Bass/Synth
Tom Cottle - Drums
'Dr William Price (1800-1893) was Welsh surgeon, radical, visionary, feminist, vegetarian and eccentric who became known as, 'The father of cremation'. Hail Cremation! is a psychedelic musical odyssey through the life of this complex and extraordinary man. It is a paean to the role of the eccentric in society and the boundary between genius and madness, as well as a celebration of this irascible legend.'
PRESS
Buzz Magazine article here (page 13)
Wales Online article here
GetTheChance interview here
Wales Online article here
Broadway World article here
What's On Stage article here
Raw Material: Llareggub Revisited (2014)
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The Guardian's Alfred Hickling's
Top 10 Theatre 2014 |
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Co-created with Marc Rees for
National Theatre Wales/BBC
'What Laugharne really needs is a play about well-known Laugharne characters – and get them all to play themselves.'
Dylan Thomas
A star-studded, multi-platform, site-specific reimagining of Thomas’s Under Milk Wood, featuring theatrical installations across the town of Laugharne, and pre-recorded performances from some of Wales’s best-known actors and singers.
'In its willingness to experiment, to ignore both the false wisdom of convention and the fabricated heaviness of expectation, and to challenge the po-faced dictators of popular taste, it was an unqualified success.'
Wales Arts Review
Press
The Guardian 18th December 2014
The Observer 11th May 2014
The Guardian 10th May 2014
Wales Arts Review 5th May 2014
Exeunt Magazine 5th May 2014
Telegraph 4th May 2014
BBC News Online 3rd May 2014
The Leonard Lapote Show WNYC 2nd May 2014
Independent 20th April 2014
Financial Times 3rd March 2014
Telegraph 20th February 2014
Guardian 4th February 2014
Wales Online 1st February 2014
Guardian 5th January 2014
National Theatre Wales/BBC
'What Laugharne really needs is a play about well-known Laugharne characters – and get them all to play themselves.'
Dylan Thomas
A star-studded, multi-platform, site-specific reimagining of Thomas’s Under Milk Wood, featuring theatrical installations across the town of Laugharne, and pre-recorded performances from some of Wales’s best-known actors and singers.
'In its willingness to experiment, to ignore both the false wisdom of convention and the fabricated heaviness of expectation, and to challenge the po-faced dictators of popular taste, it was an unqualified success.'
Wales Arts Review
Press
The Guardian 18th December 2014
The Observer 11th May 2014
The Guardian 10th May 2014
Wales Arts Review 5th May 2014
Exeunt Magazine 5th May 2014
Telegraph 4th May 2014
BBC News Online 3rd May 2014
The Leonard Lapote Show WNYC 2nd May 2014
Independent 20th April 2014
Financial Times 3rd March 2014
Telegraph 20th February 2014
Guardian 4th February 2014
Wales Online 1st February 2014
Guardian 5th January 2014
Raw Material on The Space
Digital re-imagining launched 27th December 2014
Directed by Marc Rees. Written by Jon Tregenna
Click pic for website
Digital re-imagining launched 27th December 2014
Directed by Marc Rees. Written by Jon Tregenna
Click pic for website
Online concept developed by the Raw Materials Creative Team with Play Nicely and delivered for The Space by Play Nicely.
'This experience will take you on a journey through Laugharne – the place that inspired Under Milk Wood, and 'the strangest town in Wales' according to Dylan Thomas. Each year, the amateur dramatic company of the town, The Laugharne Players, re-enact Thomas’s famous play. But often their daily lives are as extraordinary as any of Thomas’s tales, and if you ask them about the past, they’ll tell you stories of murder, madness and mayhem. This site is a digital reimagining of a collaboration between National Theatre Wales and BBC Cymru Wales: Raw Material: Llareggub Revisited. The event happened in May 2014 and was part of the Dylan Thomas Poetry, Biography And Film Weekend, itself a part of the extended Laugharne Literature Festival and the Dylan Thomas 100 Festival, a year-long celebration of the writer’s centenary.'
Funded by Arts Council Wales and The Space, based on a collaboration between BBC Cymru Wales and National Theatre Wales.
More here.
'This experience will take you on a journey through Laugharne – the place that inspired Under Milk Wood, and 'the strangest town in Wales' according to Dylan Thomas. Each year, the amateur dramatic company of the town, The Laugharne Players, re-enact Thomas’s famous play. But often their daily lives are as extraordinary as any of Thomas’s tales, and if you ask them about the past, they’ll tell you stories of murder, madness and mayhem. This site is a digital reimagining of a collaboration between National Theatre Wales and BBC Cymru Wales: Raw Material: Llareggub Revisited. The event happened in May 2014 and was part of the Dylan Thomas Poetry, Biography And Film Weekend, itself a part of the extended Laugharne Literature Festival and the Dylan Thomas 100 Festival, a year-long celebration of the writer’s centenary.'
Funded by Arts Council Wales and The Space, based on a collaboration between BBC Cymru Wales and National Theatre Wales.
More here.
Other Stage Works
Buggerall
Feb 2016 An 'update' of Under Milk Wood Latest Performance Y Ffwrnes Llanelli by Llanelli Stage Company and Llanelli Youth Theatre Previously performed at the Laugharne Weekend 'A wonderful and inspiring play... I am aware of several attempts to update Under Milk Wood and this comes closest to capturing the original's eccentricity and clotted musicality. A good foil to Dylan Thomas' original' Peter Thabit Jones Press (from a different production) Wiltshire Gazette & Herald 4th July 2013 Wiltshire Times 14th October 2011 
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The Prince Of Wales
Nov 2017 Performed at Y Ffwrness, Llanelli by Llanelli Stage Company and Llanelli Youth Theatre West Wales Chronicle Review Jon talks about The Prince of Wales. Filmed by Robert Lloyd.
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Tir Sir Gar Book
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Tir Sir Gar
April 2013 This book accompanied the play created by Marc Rees, with the collaboration of writer Roger Williams. Commissioned by Theatr Genedlaethol Cymru. Performed in Carmarthen 15th - 27th April 2013 |