Archive

Life in Close-Up

'In a venue as intimate as this, it's sometimes as much as you can do to look at the stage' ★★★★ Guardian

17/02/2015 - 07/03/2015

Blasted

By Sarah Kane

'A real theatrical treat that should not be missed at any cost' ★★★★ Western Mail

24/03/2015 - 11/04/2015

The Dying of Today

By Howard Barker

'A fine conclusion then to that opening season and one you should get along to see.' ★★★★ Western Mail

28/04/2015 - 16/05/2015

A Good Clean Heart

By Alun Saunders

An evening of five ten minutes plays, rehearsed and performed by participants of our Young Artists Festival.

18/06/2015 - 20/06/2015

Young Artists Festival

By Participants

The first show from brand new Welsh company otherMother

01/09/2015 - 18/09/2015

Blud

By Kelly Jones

Four weeks of glorious activity celebrating the ambition and artistry within Cardiff and beyond.

05/10/2015 - 30/10/2015

Your Room

By lots and lots of artists.

Our Christmas show and first co-production with resident company difficult|stage

01/12/2015 - 19/12/2015

Alix in Wundergarten

By difficult|stage

'Directors Kate Wasserberg and Titas Halder have done something magnificent here' ★★★★, The Stage

19/01/2016 - 05/02/2016

Play/Silence

By Samuel Beckett/Harold Pinter

Don't forget about the little boy. On the swing.

16/02/2016 - 25/02/2016

Sand

By nick gill

When I was a boy, I was afraid of the dark... what was there.

01/03/2016 - 11/03/2016

St. Nicholas

By Conor McPherson

Place like this – you know this – place like this gets in your blood. Once it's in your blood, you can't get it out.

12/04/2016 - 07/05/2016

Constellation Street

By Matthew Bulgo

I want you to like me, I'm terrified you'll think I'm a t**t.

09/05/2016 - 14/05/2016

A Sunny Disposition

By Nicola Reynolds

The Young Artists Festival 2016: Performances

Come and watch the future of the industry for just a fiver!

14/07/2016 - 16/07/2016

The Young Artists Festival 2016: Performances

By Joel Horwood, Lisa Jên, Morgan Lloyd Malcolm, Nicola Reynolds and Alun Saunders

Edinburgh Previews: Alix in Wundergarten

'I'm not sure if it's just silly or deeply profound, but what it remains is quite brilliant' ★★★★★, The Western Mail

27/07/2016 - 30/07/2016

Edinburgh Previews: Alix in Wundergarten

By François Pandolfo

HEFIN knows he’s adopted - just not where from. JAY’s felt hiraeth for fifteen years. What the f*** is 'hiraeth'?

28/07/2016 - 30/07/2016

Edinburgh Previews: A Good Clean Heart

By Alun Saunders

Cardiff and London based company FIO bring Katori Hall's critically acclaimed play to The Other Room in a brand new production.

04/10/2016 - 15/10/2016

The Mountaintop

By Katori Hall

Walrus Theatre bring their Edinburgh smash, Sam Steiner's 'Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons' to The Other Room as part of a UK tour!

17/10/2016 - 22/10/2016

Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons

By Sam Steiner

Presenting a brand new production of David Harrower's unsettling modern classic.

25/10/2016 - 04/11/2016

Blackbird

By David Harrower

A brand new version of Phil Porter's critically acclaimed off-kilter love story. Presented equally across Cardiff and Swansea.

08/11/2016 - 18/11/2016

BLINK

By Phil Porter

Barrel Organ bring their Edinburgh hit to The Other Room as part of a UK tour!

21/11/2016 - 25/11/2016

Some People Talk About Violence

By the company, with text by Lulu Raczka

After last year's ★★★★★ triumph 'Alix in Wundergarten', difficult|stage take us back into the studio for another dose of anti-panto...

06/12/2016 - 23/12/2016

Looking Through Glass

By the company, with story by François Pandolfo

Sinners Club invites you to join live band The Bad Mothers as they record their latest album live in front of an audience. Based on the life of Ruth Ellis, the last woman to be hanged in the UK, the live recording of this concept album promises songs inspired by Ruth's short life washed down with a cocktail of stories about lives lost to sin.

07/02/2017 - 24/02/2017

Sinners Club

By Lucy Rivers

A chance meeting between two children on the streets of Edinburgh leads to a terrible reckoning, leaving Jenny and Tommy forever bound together by blood and fate.

14/03/2017 - 01/04/2017

Seanmhair

By Hywel John

Escape The Scaffold combines classic thriller elements with pitch-black humour and magic realism. The Other Room, Mongrel Thumb, and Theatre503 present the world premiere of a new play by Titas Halder.

19/04/2017 - 06/05/2017

Escape The Scaffold

By Titas Halder

Young Artists Festival: Performances 2017

Five ten minute performances at the culmination of The Other Room's third Young Artists Festival.

15/06/2017 - 17/06/2017

Young Artists Festival: Performances 2017

By Matthew Bulgo, Steffan Donnelly, Tim Foley, Siân Owen and Lucy Rivers

Missed the original run of Hywel John's 'striking new work' (★★★★, The Stage) Seanmhair? Catch it for 3 preview performances before it goes to the Edinburgh Fringe for all of August!

28/07/2017 - 29/07/2017

Seanmhair: Edinburgh Previews

By Hywel John

Seanmhair: Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2017

The Other Room are delighted to be presenting Hywel John's 'striking new work' (★★★★, The Stage) Seanmhair as a part of The Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2017.

04/08/2017 - 28/08/2017

Seanmhair: Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2017

By Hywel John

When his sons start to ask questions he had hoped never to have to answer, a father is forced to confront the shocking consequences of one extraordinary decision.

13/02/2018 - 03/03/2018

A Number

By Caryl Churchill

When teenager Kai, breaks into the home of pensioner Owen, the two are sent on a journey through time, love and loss.

27/03/2018 - 14/04/2018

All But Gone

By Matthew Trevannion

During a trial for a new pharmaceutical drug, Tristan and Connie fall madly in love, but soon realise that their feelings aren't necessarily their own.

24/04/2018 - 12/05/2018

The Effect

By Lucy Prebble

Premiered at London's Royal Court in 2015 Aberystwyth-founded, Cardiff-based theatre company Run Amok proudly bring the work of debbie tucker green to Wales for the very first time.

05/09/2017 - 16/09/2017

hang

By debbie tucker green

Premiered in 2005 at London's Royal Court Theatre and edited by Alan Rickman and Katharine Viner, My Name is Rachel Corrie is the first offering from new Cardiff based company Graphic, working in association with The Other Room to present the Welsh premiere of this brilliant and important play.

10/10/2017 - 21/10/2017

My Name Is Rachel Corrie

By Rachel Corrie, edited by Alan Rickman and Katharine Viner

Ariel Dorfman's spectacular thriller confronts an audience's understanding of the nature of truth and honesty, begging an answer to the question of whether democracy can ever truly heal the wounds of dictatorship.

31/10/2017 - 10/11/2017

Death And The Maiden

By Ariel Dorfman

One whole week of activity celebrating Welsh / Wales-based new writing

13/11/2017 - 16/11/2017

Blue Sky Scripts 2

By so many different writers.

A brand new Christmas Cabaret from the brilliant and bewigged Flossy and Boo. This one's just for the adults...

05/12/2017 - 23/12/2017

Flossy and Boo: The Alternativity

By Flossy and Boo

05/12/2017 - 30/12/2017

Sinners Club at the Soho Theatre

By Lucy Rivers

During a trial for a new pharmaceutical drug, Tristan and Connie fall madly in love, but soon realise that their feelings aren't necessarily their own. Following a three week run at The Other Room, Co-producers Critical Ambition, have toured The Effect to the Swansea Grand Theatre.

15/05/2018 - 19/05/2018

The Effect (Swansea)

By Lucy Prebble

MYDIDAE by Jack Thorne, presented by OtherLife in association with The Other Room and RWCMD Two people. One bathroom. Nothing to hide.

22/05/2018 - 02/06/2018

Mydidae

By Jack Thorne

Attention space cadettes! Now recruiting new society members to move to the moon. Join alien babe cabaret queen Laurie Black and her synthesiser-spaceship on the journey of a lifetime.

05/02/2019 - 08/02/2019

Space Cadette

By Laurie Black

Just a few words to say how you feel. Shouldn’t take long. Except, this is a one-man play with a stammer...

13/02/2019 - 16/02/2019

Just a Few Words

By Stammer Mouth

Part documentary, part live performance, part parody, part desperate as f*ck, Claire does everything she can to entertain her online audience. While remaining 100% totally authentically real.

21/02/2019 - 24/02/2019

See-Through

By Claire Gaydon

Join a nihilistic TigerFace as he searches for pockets of joy in trousers made of disappointment and misery.

27/02/2019 - 02/03/2019

The TigerFace Show

By Justin Cliffe

An absurd comedy that blends slapstick, nonsense, and existentialism. This is the tale of two inseparable friends, renowned killers, and the most famous faces in California.

05/03/2019 - 08/03/2019

Bummer and Lazarus

By Big Egg Theatre

Presenting Spring Fringe Special, 4 nights of glorious activity celebrating the ambition and artistry within Cardiff.

12/03/2019 - 15/03/2019

Spring Fringe Special

By The Other Room

Welcome to Camp Be Yourself! For those of you that can’t be yourself in real life, you Camp Be Yourself here.

20/03/2019 - 23/03/2019

Camp Be Yourself

By BOX. Theatre Company

Locked in his bathroom during a tragic third date, Willy Hudson asks: are you a top or a bottom?

27/03/2019 - 30/03/2019

Bottom

By Willy Hudson

Lily's like a lot of other 20-somethings - working a dead-end job, stuck in a cycle of one-night stands and not where they expected to be at the age of 27. Her friends all feel like their lives are falling apart…except Lily's really is. Can she stop the rot before she crumbles away to nothing?

17/09/2018 - 29/09/2018

The Awkward Years

By Matthew Bulgo

1989. Manchester. A frenzy of drugs, beats and bucket hats. Illegal raves and acid parties. A whole movement of young people united by one thing: FUN. Just jumping up and down in a field and throwing two fingers to Thatcher. Remember it? We don’t. We weren’t even born. But Ian was. And Ian does remember. We’ve got fuck all now. So, we’re going back to 1989. We’re gunna neck a brown biscuit, we’re gunna bounce around like idiots, we’re gunna get off our peanuts and Ian’s going to show us how. We’re mad fer it.

04/10/2018 - 06/10/2018

WE ARE IAN by In Bed With My Brother

By In Bed With My Brother

Every teenager thinks they’re the only one not having sex. But for Alana, it may well be true. Every time she gets close to doing it something just seems to get in the way… Soon she can’t help wondering is it this tricky for everyone else? Because no one ever said it was going to be this complicated

08/10/2018 - 13/10/2018

Skin A Cat by Isley Lynn

By Rive Productions

2 performers, a mini trampoline and a 1000 piece puzzle. Leah and Sophie have been together, here, for a long time. They are happy here. But there’s a problem. There’s a f**king massive problem and soon they’re going to have to talk about it.

18/10/2018 - 20/10/2018

Lands by Antler

By Antler

It's 1996 in the capital. A seventeen old from Llanedeyrn estate, is our guide, as he and his school mates head into town and negotiate their way through the ever changing streets of Cardiff. This is a study of male friendship, the love and the violence, the codes, the loyalties and rituals, all set to a 90’s mixtape. It’s just them and the music.

30/10/2018 - 11/11/2018

Cardiff Boy by Kevin Jones

By Red Oak Theatre Company

Cheer presented by Big Loop Theatre Company

It’s nearly Christmas. It’s so nearly Christmas that the pressure is on. By law there is a partridge in every pear tree, the lengths of tinsel to wall ratio cannot be off by an inch and you better not sing out of tune. City districts have been cordoned off for Christmas celebrations, the Police are checking everyone’s Christmas licenses and Cheer is being dealt on every street corner.

27/11/2018 - 15/12/2018

Cheer presented by Big Loop Theatre Company

By Kitty Hughes

Six specially commissioned short plays performed by this year's Young Artists Festival's Ensemble. This year's Young Artists Festival includes plays by Isley Lynn, Brad Birch, Roger Williams, Lisa Parry, Nerida Bradley and Owen Thomas.

11/04/2019 - 13/04/2019

Young Artists Festival, 2019

By Various

Kane's fourth play; Crave, is a game-changing play that rages against traditional theatrical form.

30/04/2019 - 11/05/2019

Crave

By Sarah Kane

High above New York City, the super-rich wine and dine in sky-line restaurants dreaming of bigger and better cities. In a military bunker deep in the heart of an American wasteland, the poor compete for food and preferment in a programme with more than sinister ends. What happens when the rift between haves and the have-nots becomes unassailable?

10/09/2019 - 29/09/2019

American Nightmare

By Matthew Bulgo

A volunteer arrives back from working in a refugee camp to discover she is now an "enemy of the people." Arrested and imprisoned for her actions, the only way to maintain her sanity in a world turned upside down is to discover the identity of the mysterious interrogator from her past.

08/10/2019 - 27/10/2019

The Story

By Tess Berry-Hart

Mae Erin yn fam ifanc sydd wedi colli ei mab, ond does neb yn gwrando. Wedi cyrraedd pen ei thennyn, ond yn benderfynol, mae’n rhaid iddi ddod o hyd iddo rhywsut neu’i gilydd. Wedi aros yn amyneddgar am y foment iawn, nawr yw’r amser i weithredu, a’r amser am atebion a chyfiawnder. Erin, a young Mother, has lost her son but no one will listen. Driven and desperate she must find him by any means necessary. Waiting patiently for the right moment, now is the time for action, answers and justice.

05/11/2019 - 24/11/2019

Hela

By Mari Izzard

The Gap Year Company are a group of students currently studying at Bridgend College. After last years sell out original play by Rhiannon Boyle they are now back with this thought provoking piece of theatre.

04/02/2020 - 05/02/2020

BRIDGEND COLLEGE PRESENTS: Cathy

By by Ali Taylor

Mewn trosiad newydd ir Gymraeg wedii osod yng nghymoedd y de ym 1989, dyma ddrama dyner am gyfeillgarwch, gobeithion ac ofnau pobl ifanc ym mhob oes. In a new Welsh-language translation set in the south Wales valleys in 1989, this is a touching play about friendship and the hopes and fears of young people.

11/02/2020 - 15/02/2020

Pryd Maer Haf?

By Chloe Moss | Trosiad gan / Translated by Gwawr Loader

Two helpings of Lewis Doherty's one man movies on stage: "It's not just a good night out but also a technical masterpiece" ★★★★★ The Wee Review

26/02/2020 - 29/02/2020

Wolf & Boar

By Lewis Doherty

It's 1989. The Berlin Wall is coming down, the world is changing rapidly, and Bernhard is sat at home in England. But not for much longer.

03/03/2020 - 06/03/2020

Back To Berlin

By Luke Seidel-Haas

FATTY FAT FAT is a funny, frank and provocative solo show about living in a body the world tells you to hate. Leave your diet books at the door.

12/03/2020 - 13/03/2020

Fatty Fat Fat

By Katie Greenall

An award winning light comedy. With shade.

26/03/2020 - 28/03/2020

Sexy Lamp

By Katie Arnstein

One parent refuses to talk about sex. The other buys their child gay porn DVDs.

31/03/2020 - 04/04/2020

Sex Education

By Harry Clayton-Wright

Archive

Life in Close-Up

Blasted

The Dying of Today

A Good Clean Heart

Young Artists Festival

Blue Sky

Blud

Your Room

Alix in Wundergarten

Insomnia

Play/Silence

Sand

St. Nicholas

Constellation Street

A Sunny Disposition

July at The Other Room

The Young Artists Festival 2016: Performances

Edinburgh Previews: Alix in Wundergarten

Edinburgh Previews: A Good Clean Heart

Autumn/Winter at The Other Room

The Mountaintop

Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons

Blackbird

BLINK

Some People Talk About Violence

Looking Through Glass

Outliers

Sinners Club

Seanmhair

Escape The Scaffold

Summer at The Other Room

Young Artists Festival: Performances 2017

Seanmhair: Edinburgh Previews

Seanmhair: Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2017

LOVESICK

A Number

All But Gone

The Effect

Autumn/Winter at The Other Room 2017 2

hang

My Name Is Rachel Corrie

Death And The Maiden

Blue Sky Scripts 2

Flossy and Boo: The Alternativity

Sinners Club at the Soho Theatre

SUMMER 18

The Effect (Swansea)

Mydidae

Spring Fringe

Space Cadette

Just a Few Words

See-Through

The TigerFace Show

Bummer and Lazarus

Spring Fringe Special

Camp Be Yourself

Bottom

Autumn 2018

The Awkward Years

WE ARE IAN by In Bed With My Brother

Skin A Cat by Isley Lynn

Lands by Antler

Cardiff Boy by Kevin Jones

Cheer presented by Big Loop Theatre Company

Spring at The Other Room

Young Artists Festival, 2019

Crave

The Violence Series

American Nightmare

The Story

Hela

Spring Fringe 2020

BRIDGEND COLLEGE PRESENTS: Cathy

Pryd Maer Haf?

Wolf & Boar

Back To Berlin

Fatty Fat Fat

Sexy Lamp

Sex Education