Very lazy of us.....

Well, we've been a bit rubbish with blogging.

Since we last posted we have held two brilliant Dirty Protest nights.
We took over the Sherman - our first time in an official theatre space. We were invited as part of the Springboard new writing festival. It was the first time we performed fully staged plays and this is where our new stage manager Ellie Carter really became indispensable. She is obsessed with pegs, washing lines, fairy lights and camouflage. It the best DIY way to make a set. We also welcomed actress/writer/director Mared Swain fully into the Dirty Protest gang. She directed the very dark play from new writer Sam Bees. True/Fiction Theatre's Matthew Bulgo was behind the helm for Colette Kane's Carnival and our very own Dirty Catrin was in charge of setting Dirty Tim's first play for the company - The Whole Truth.
We're taking Tim's play to Latitude next month, with the second and third part written by two more Welsh writers (names tbc)
The night was packed out, we've been told we were the best selling event of the festival and everyone stayed to party afterwards in the foyer and then onto Buffalo. The bar had made special Dirty Protest cocktails for us - everyone was questioning what the Worthers' Orginal was doing in the bottom of the glass though.


Then on May 29 we took over Ten Feet Tall in Cardiff for Dirty Directors' Protest. Using a play commissioned by London group Drywrite we gave six Welsh directors complete freedom to stage Phil Porter's Repeat. The short plays from Adele Thomas, Mared Swain, Simon Harris, Julie Barclay, Kit Lambert and Gareth Bale couldn't have been any more different. One person fainted - we couldn't work out whether it was because of the heat or the fact that Julie Barclay's play had an interesting interpretation of "something disgusting". Either way, well done Julie.
The venue was packed, with people queuing down the street in the rain 30 minutes before.


But there is no rest for the wicked and we are all ignoring the sunshine and are working on our upcoming performances at Latitude, Wales Millennium Centre and also the Dirty Picnic - to celebrate our first birthday

Today we are making our first official website, which involved giving the brilliant Steve Salter some cups of tea and lunch while he ignores the sunshine and sits quite close to the computer playing with logos and leopard print.


Things we need to do before Latitude Festival

1. Get the plays all finalised. Two down one more to go
2. Pick our actors
3. Take press pictures - which will hopefully involve a wood and some very dirty actors. Watch this space and we will post them up.
4. Ellie has to make costumes, source props and make a kick-off banner. You won't be able to miss us when we hit Latitude
5. Hire a van and make some mix CDs

There's probably more to do. But that's enough for the moment.


Dirty Claire