PAST PRODUCTIONS
Since 1975 wgytc has staged a wide range of productions, styles and periods of theatrical work. From classic works such as Electra and The Oresteia, through Shakespearian works as diverse as Coriolanus and Twelfth Night, to modern classics by writers including Harold Pinter, Stephen Sondheim and Arthur Miller. The company has complemented such established works with a wide range of devised pieces, specially commissioned works and writing in the medium of Welsh.
The following list of productions serves as an insight into the changing and developing diet of work undertaken by the Company.
2024
Nell Gwynn
2023
Lord of the Flies
Emma
What the World Needs Now...
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2022
Emergence
The Glove Thief
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2021
Macbeth
2020
The Party
2019
2018
The Radicalisation of Bradley Manning
An Evening of Welsh Theatre
2017
This Is What Democracy Looks Like
2016
2015
40th Anniversary Celebration (various/wgytc)
Blue Stockings (Jessica Swale)
Man's Ambition (wgytc & alumni)
2014
The Browning Version (Rattigan)
Is There Life After High School? (Kindley/Carnella)
2013
A Chorus of Disapproval(Ayckbourn)
Grimm Tales(adpt. Duffy)
Anne Boleyn (Brenton)
2012
Decade (Various)
A Midsummer Night's Dream (Shakespeare)
2011
Toad of Toad Hall(adpt. A.A Milne)
Richard III(Shakespeare)
Way To Heaven(Mayorga)
2010
Forus Humanitas(wgytc)
Amour (wgytc)
Billy Elliot Youth Theatre Outreach Project (Hall)
I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change(DiPietro/Roberts)
Hotspur (wgytc)
The Women of Troy (Euripides)
2009
Oh What a Lovely War!(Littlewood)
Be My Baby(Amanda Whittington)
Accidental Death of An Anarchist(Dario Fo)
The Kitchen(Wesker)
Party Time (Pinter)
Last to Go(Pinter)
2008
The Pirates of Penzance(Gilbert and Sullivan)
Julius Caesar(Shakespeare)
Confusions(Aykbourne)
2007
The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui(Brecht)
Fuente Ovejuna(Lope De Vega)
The Rock Odyssey(wgytc)
2006
Under Milk Wood (Dylan Thomas)
The Birthday Party (Pinter)
Our Country's Good (Wertenbaker)
Amhosib Wladfa(wgytc)
2005
Widows(Dorfman)
Coriolanus(Shakespeare)
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie(Spark)
2004
Come Closer Now (wgytc)
Guys and Dolls(Loesser)
I.D. (wgytc)
2003
The Government Inspector(Gogol adpt. Mitchell)
Equus(Shaffer)
Showtime! (wgytc)
2002
Cider with Rosie(Laurie Lee adpt. Roose-Evans)
Electra(Sophocles)
Marx Soup(wgytc)
2001
The Biograph Girl(Heneker/Brown)
The Tempest(Shakespeare)
Side by Side by Sondheim(Sondheim)
2000
The Life and Death of Freya Fox(French)
1999
All's Well that Ends Well (Shakespeare)
Under the Moon(French)
Merrily We Roll Along(Sondheim)
1998
Grimm Tales(Brothers Grimm)
Antigone(Brecht)
Ghetto(Sobol)
1997
Alternative Voices(wgytc)
A Jovial Crew(Brome)
A Midsummer Night's Dream(Shakespeare)
1996
The Mysteries(Trad adpt. Harrison)
On the Tongue of a Bird(wgytc)
1995
Nicholas Nickleby(Dickens adpt. Edgar)
The Woman(Bond)
The Sea(Bond)
1994
Mother Courage(Brecht)
Macbeth(Shakespeare)
Into the Woods(Sondheim)
1993
The Deep Heart's Core(Yeats/Synge)
Love's Labour's Lost(Shakespeare)
Whale(Holman)
1992
Fuente Ovejuna(Lope De Vega)
Salad Days(Slade)
1991
Famous for Fifteen Minutes (wgytc)
Oedipus The King(Sophocles)
Metamorphasis(Kafka adpt. Berkoff)
Fighting Chance(wgytc)
1990
Animal Farm (Orwell adpt. Hall)
The Good Woman of Setzuan (Brecht)
Largo Desalato(Havel)
1989
Romeo and Juliet (Shakespeare)
Blood Brothers (Russell)
A Night Out(Pinter)
1988
For as Long as Forever is (wgytc)
Gotcha! (wgytc)
1987
David Copperfield (Dickens adpt. Mullins/Davies)
Larkrise (Thomsom Adpt. Dewhurst)
1986
Once in a Lifetime(Kaufman/Hart)
Cloth Caps and Tails (wgytc)
Cymbeline(Shakespeare)
1985
Peter Pan (Barrie)
1984
The Insect Play(Capek)
A Midsummer Night's Dream (Shakespeare)
The Crucible(Miller)
1983
Murder in the Cathedral (T.S. Elliot)
Three Times Before Dawn(wgytc)
The Crucible(Miller)
1982
Perthyn (wgytc)
Peter Pan(Barrie)
1981
The Oresteia(Aeschylus)
Twelfth Night (Shakespeare)
Job(Vaughn Williams)
1980
Caucasian Chalk Circle (Brecht)
Pair Dadeni (wgytc)
1979
Peer Gynt (Ibsen)
The Cherry Orchard (Chekov)
The Sixties Show(wgytc)
1978
Under Milk Wood(Dylan Thomas)
Hamlet(Shakespeare)
Mass(Bernstein)
1977
The Bacchae (Euripides)
A Midsummer Night's Dream(Shakespeare)
The Faerie Queen(Purcell)
1976
The Winter's Tale (Shakespeare)
West Side Story (Bernstein/Sondheim)