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Name of the first season announced!
Dec 3 2014

Name of the first season announced!

Life in Close-Up.

Are you ready for your close-up?

Three plays that bring you face to face with the extremes of human experience...

Our opening season will take worlds that we are used to seeing at a distance, and show them in close-up; stories that we are used to seeing behind glass, and put them within a few feet of us. It will take people we would rather not believe in, and bring them so close we can hear them breathing.

The three plays of our opening season all render ideas and experiences that it would be easy to feel disconnected from. Their beauty as plays stem from their capacity to make the strange familiar, the abstract visceral.

The shows will be revealed on January 8th, and we'll be teasing them on facebook and twitter throughout December. Get guessing!

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We're Making Some Changes to SEEN
Mar 9 2022

We're Making Some Changes to SEEN: We’ve had some feedback from our community of artists about our monthly scratch platform, SEEN, and we really valued what they had to say. So, we have decided to throw out the old SEEN rulebook and try something new. Although exciting efforts are well underway, how The Other Room will exist in the future is still unclear. All we know is, The Other Room and Porter’s are a home for brave and bold artists who are passionate about positive change and good nights out. SEEN started as a way of lifting the lid on the writing process, what we want it to be is the gateway for discovering new voices and a platform to testing new ideas. So, we have made some changes to our upcoming SEEN programme, and we will be allowing it to evolve for the rest of the year, so when the next chapter of The Other Room begins in 2023, the hope is that SEEN will be the scratch night that Cardiff needs! To help us do this, we're open to suggestions. Let us know your thoughts, feelings, ideas and vision for what SEEN is and can be. Check out our website for more information on what changes we are making in the short term and to find out how to submit your suggestions: https://www.otherroomtheatre.com/en/get-involved/jobsopportunity/seen/ One Elephant in the room that’s worth addressing is working for free. We know there’s an industry-wide issue with creatives being asked to give their time and talents for free, especially for scratch and rehearsed reading. The difficult truth is, keeping an organisation like The Other Room alive and resourced at the moment is like forcing a square peg into a round hole. We wish we could do more to offer artists fees for SEEN, and in the future, that is our intention. But in the current climate it’s a bit out of our reach. We just wanted to be up-front and honest about that. As a registered charity we will always rely on volunteers, but we know there’s more work to do to ensure that it’s the right people volunteering. You can help us find the right way forward by engaging with the event and sending us your suggestions.

Farewell to our Professional Pathway Programme
Jun 1 2020

Farewell to our Professional Pathway Programme: Today we say farewell to our Professional Pathway Programme participants.

Blue Sky Online
Apr 2 2020

Blue Sky Online: Blue Sky Online is The Other Room’s season of creativity, wellbeing and connection in response to the ongoing Covid-19 Crisis