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Autumn 2019
We're very excited to be embarking on our latest project 'Is There Anybody There?' with the support of Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff and Arts Council Wales.
'Is Anbody there?' examines death, living with death and the possibility of life beyond death with our signature dark humour and a sprinkling of magic (or trickery depending on how you look at it). Inspired and intrigued by attending evenings of psychic mediumship and touched by people's story of grief we started to question our interaction with death... what lies on the other side and how do we the living deal with this great unknown..
A touch of MAGIC....we're very excited to have a new member on board for this show. Tim Bromage, Magician, Performance Artist, and fellow artistic resident on CHAPTER'S PEILOT scheme will be working with work us as an adviser on all things Magical!
We'll spend the next few months in our rehearsal room in Chapter, Cardiff and at our desks at home forging the basis for the new script and then when that's good to go in January we'll be inviting a small audience to come into the rehearsal room to hear the first draft and give us some feedback.
In the meantime we have started our research on psychic mediumship and we'd love to hear any stories or experiences you might have! Have you ever visited a psychic medium? Have you ever had a message from someone from beyond the grave? If you have anything you'd like to tell us, we'd LOVE to hear it.
We're very excited to be embarking on our latest project 'Is There Anybody There?' with the support of Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff and Arts Council Wales.
'Is Anbody there?' examines death, living with death and the possibility of life beyond death with our signature dark humour and a sprinkling of magic (or trickery depending on how you look at it). Inspired and intrigued by attending evenings of psychic mediumship and touched by people's story of grief we started to question our interaction with death... what lies on the other side and how do we the living deal with this great unknown..
A touch of MAGIC....we're very excited to have a new member on board for this show. Tim Bromage, Magician, Performance Artist, and fellow artistic resident on CHAPTER'S PEILOT scheme will be working with work us as an adviser on all things Magical!
We'll spend the next few months in our rehearsal room in Chapter, Cardiff and at our desks at home forging the basis for the new script and then when that's good to go in January we'll be inviting a small audience to come into the rehearsal room to hear the first draft and give us some feedback.
In the meantime we have started our research on psychic mediumship and we'd love to hear any stories or experiences you might have! Have you ever visited a psychic medium? Have you ever had a message from someone from beyond the grave? If you have anything you'd like to tell us, we'd LOVE to hear it.
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November 2018
With just under a week to go until Margaret and the Tapeworm opens in Chapter Arts Centre, we catch up with the show's director Sean Tuan John to hear his thoughts about how rehearsals are going and what he loves about Christmas...
Tell us a bit about yourself and the sort of productions you’ve directed before?
I've been choreographing and directing work in the UK and internationally for a long time now, since 1993! my work has a physical emphasis and utilises comedy and dark humour. It's usually multi-media in many aspects.
Predominantly I create and tour my own work, mixed with commissions and offers to work with other companies and artists. I make different types of work for specific audiences; from young children and families, to working with senior citizens. I also make films.
What’s your favourite thing about Christmas?
Christmas dinner of course. It's also great having the time to watch films and catch up with my family and friends.
What makes Margaret and the Tapeworm unique?
Margaret and the tapeworm is a story about friendship and loneliness, with a bizarre, but funny, inclusion of a tapeworm who finds a new host/friend for Christmas. It's definitely an unusual take on a Christmas story!
How does Margaret and the Tapeworm convey the Christmas spirit?
The show has a Christmas obsessed character Amber who loves everything about the Christmas experience that conveys a bittersweet message about Christmas. The show takes place over three days and all of the characters experience a life changing Christmas...including the tapeworm!
What do you think audiences will enjoy most about the production - aside from the sherry and mince pies!?
For me, the exciting thing is how Triongl have spent a huge amount of time creating and developing the characters and their stories to make a performance that is both heart-warming and funny with and important layer of pathos. It is a Xmas show with heart. I hope that the audience will enjoy entering this realistic but slightly surreal world and enjoy the characters journey.
What are you looking forward to about opening night?
Hopefully hearing laughter!.We all need some of that a Christmas!!
50 Days till Christmas!
As Margaret and the Tapeworm has such a Christmassy vibe we’ve decided to recruit the wonderful Amber as our Christmas Ambassador. She’ll be managing our Instagram account and generally helping us all to get into the festive spirit.
As Margaret and the Tapeworm has such a Christmassy vibe we’ve decided to recruit the wonderful Amber as our Christmas Ambassador. She’ll be managing our Instagram account and generally helping us all to get into the festive spirit.
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Christmas is coming, the goose is getting fat! and there is only 71 days to go! I absolutely love Christmas, I do! I love everything about it and I’m so excited to be sharing with you all the wonderfully festive things I see over the next couple of months. I'm making a list and checking it twice : ) Let’s make this the best Christmas ever! Amber x |
Follow Amber’s Christmas Countdown on Instagram @triongltheatr and make sure you let her know what you think of her posts!
October 2018
We know, we know, it’s a little early to be feeling festive, but the prep work for our Christmas comedy Margaret and the Tapeworm is getting underway and we’re really excited!
We’ll be taking Margaret and the eponymous tapeworm across Wales in November and December this year and we invite you all to join us for a glass of sherry and a mince pie and a heartwarming tale of tinsel and tapeworms.
We’d also like you to join us for the run up to the start of the tour. We’ll be sharing news, pics, stories and behind-the-scenes snapshots of how we’re getting on on our social media channels and we’d love to hear your thoughts and comments as we go.
So look out for us on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram and if you’d like to join our mailing list, just send an email to [email protected] and you’ll be able to receive our newsletter.
More soon!
November 2016
We're delighted to announce that Chapter Arts Centre have invited us to join them on their Peilot Artistic Associate scheme and we've said a big, wholehearted 'yes please!'
This means that for the next three years we have a sparkling new rehearsal room to create our work in before we hit the road on tour across Wales and beyond. We'll be rehearsing in the Peilot rehearsal room, giving previews of our work in the Seligman Theatre, drinking coffee in the Chapter cafe in-between rehearsals and generally soaking up the building's vibrant community energy and letting it seep into our work!
We are delighted to be continuing our relationship with Chapter and are looking forward to the exciting things that lie ahead.
You can read about the other fabulous companies and artists that will be joining us on Peilot here.
Rydym yn falch iawn o gyhoeddi ein bod wedi ein dewis i fod yn un o Artistiaid Cysylltiol Peilot Canolfan Gelfyddydau Chapter.
Mae hyn yn golygu bod ganddom ystafell ymarfer am y dair blynedd nesaf i greu gwaith newydd cyn i ni fentro ar rin taith nesaf ar draws Cymru a thu hwnt.
yddwn yn ymarfer a dangos ein gwaith yn yr ystafell ymarfer Peilot, yfed coffi yn y caffi rhwng ymarferion ac yn yn amsugno ynni cymunedol bywiog yr adeilad ac yn gadael iddo fwydo mewn i'n gwaith! Rydym yn falch iawn o barhau ein perthynas â Chapter ac yn edrych ymlaen at yr amser cyffrous sydd o'n blaenau.
Gallwch ddarllen am yr artistiaid gwych eraill a fydd yn yn ymuno â ni ar Peilot yma.
August 2016
Enid is rather surprised that the tour is over...
Enid is rather surprised that the tour is over...
As the tour of Miramar comes to an end...We'd like to say THANK YOU to our audiences from Bangor to Blackwood, from Cardiff to Clwyd and from all the places in-between.
After 3 weeks of shows, 4 Q & A's with Shelter Cymru,1 errant smoke machine and an unquantifiable amount of laughter, sadly it's all over.
"Miramar is about communication – about showing us that spoken language has just one part to play and so we roll from Welsh into English and back again without even noticing. It is about family, life and death and consequences. It is about different tastes and different times and places. It is about home. It is about shit. Cachu. It happens." - review by Helen Joy, U3A.
And in the words of one or two of our audience members...
"Gwych. Wedi mwyhau'n ofnadwy a chwerthin llond bol!"
"So funny, We laughed and laughed. We'll be coming again!"
But if you missed us, don't worry. We've already got the next show in the pipeline! It's back to the rehearsal room in August for some research and development time with our friends at Chapter Arts Centre in Cardiff and we'll be keeping you up to date with images and blogs from the rehearsal room on our facebook page and on twitter as the show develops.
After 3 weeks of shows, 4 Q & A's with Shelter Cymru,1 errant smoke machine and an unquantifiable amount of laughter, sadly it's all over.
"Miramar is about communication – about showing us that spoken language has just one part to play and so we roll from Welsh into English and back again without even noticing. It is about family, life and death and consequences. It is about different tastes and different times and places. It is about home. It is about shit. Cachu. It happens." - review by Helen Joy, U3A.
And in the words of one or two of our audience members...
"Gwych. Wedi mwyhau'n ofnadwy a chwerthin llond bol!"
"So funny, We laughed and laughed. We'll be coming again!"
But if you missed us, don't worry. We've already got the next show in the pipeline! It's back to the rehearsal room in August for some research and development time with our friends at Chapter Arts Centre in Cardiff and we'll be keeping you up to date with images and blogs from the rehearsal room on our facebook page and on twitter as the show develops.
June 2016
Great post show discussion with JJ from Shelter Cymru after MIRAMAR in Chapter Arts, Cardiff. 97% of the work Shelter Cymru does is with people you might classify as the 'hidden homeless'.
Great post show discussion with JJ from Shelter Cymru after MIRAMAR in Chapter Arts, Cardiff. 97% of the work Shelter Cymru does is with people you might classify as the 'hidden homeless'.
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June 2016
And we're off...
The 2016 tour of MIRAMAR has officially begun! Great audiences so far in Swansea,, Aberystwyth and Theatr Clwyd. Here is what they are saying ....
"Fantastic night watching Miramar by Triongl. Funny, naturally bilingual, fantastic actors!"
"Sgript ardderchog a ffordd diddorol a chlyfar o drafod y thema- wedi mwynhau mas draw!"
"An excellent production, witty, thoughtful and very enjoyable!"
Come and see us at one of the following venues June 2016....
Thursday 2nd, Taliesin Arts Centre http://www.taliesinartscentre.co.uk/
Friday 3rd- Aberystwyth Arts Centre https://www.aberystwythartscentre.co.uk/
Tuesday 6th - Theatr Clwyd https://www.theatrclwyd.com/en/whats-on/
Wednesday 8th Theatr Twm O'r Nant, Denbigh http://www.theatr-twm-or-nant.org.uk/index.htm
Thursday 9th- Neuadd Dwyfor, Pwllheli https://www.gwynedd.llyw.cymru/en/Residents/Leisure-parks-and-events/Cinemas-and-theatres/Neuadd-Dwyfor,-Pwllheli.aspx
Friday 10th- Pontio , Bangor https://www.pontio.co.uk/Online/
Saturday 11th- Tabernacle, Machynlleth http://moma.machynlleth.org.uk/
Tuesday 14th - Blackwood Miners Institue, Blackwood https://your.caerphilly.gov.uk/bmi/content/welcome
Wednesday 15th, Gartholwg http://www.gartholwg.org/wordpress/?page_id=2706
Thursday 16th, Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff http://www.chapter.org/
Friday 17th- Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff http://www.chapter.org/
Saturday 18th, Redhouse , Merthyr Tydfil http://www.redhousecymru.com/about-us/
Wednesday 22nd - The Welfare, Ystradgynlais http://www.thewelfare.co.uk/
April 2016
And so rehearsals begin for the June 2016 bi-lingual tour of MIRAMAR in the room where the company first met. We have a fabulous creative team on board , the script has developed and we are all very excited about getting it on it's feet and getting it out across Wales! Many thanks to Arts Council Wales for their continuing support and Chapter Arts centre for a beautiful rehearsal space.
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April 2015
MANY THANKS FOR YOUR SUPPORT........Brian Williams, Anne Siegel, Kathleen Watts, Nazli Tabatabai-Khatambakhsh, Simon Howells, Hilary Smith, Barbara and Chris Smith,Ellie Young, Jay Choi, Jessica Bannister, Jeni Giffen, Fiona Knowles, Jane Waygood, Amber Mottram, Heather Fletcher, Gabe Stewart, Shelagh and John Chalmers, Nick Asbury, Ann McEwen, Polly Kilpatrick, Stef Evans, Katy SInclar-Thomson, Julia Khoo, Richard Herring, Claire Vaughan, Andy Smith, Alun Saunders, Jean Caley, Cathy Boyce, CarolAnn, Johnty Downham, Rona mUnro, Grant Caley, Justin and Julia Davis-Smith, Daryl Perrins, Roddy Simpson and Oliver Lamford, Jill Fenner, Pat Piper and the Roberts family of Penarth. |
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July 2014
Research & Development, 'Home, Sweet Home',
With the support of Arts Council Wales the Triongl company spent 3 weeks in research and development for a project with a working title of 'Home,Sweet Home'. We were sparked into conversation by Glenda Jackson's speech after the death of Margaret Thatcher https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDtClJYJBj8 . This led us to begin asking questions about what is a 'home' and a 'society'. The more we began to look into it the topic the more information began to surface about the state of the housing situation or 'crisis' in the UK at the moment. We now have a social group termed Generation Rent which refers to the generation now in their mid 20's- 30's who due to the rise in property prices are unable to buy homes; since 2007 house prices have risen by 28% and wages have risen by 12%. This prompted us to look in to what 'home' means to us; what is the 'value' of a house and how far would we go to get one? We explored how we structure the places in which we live; villages and cities, detached houses or terraces with other humans just the other side of the wall, home-onwners vs squatters...who owns what? And who can say where HOME is?
From this process we have emerged with a comedy! A new piece of writing entitled 'Miramar'.
There will be a free staged reading 'Miramar" in Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff on July 24th.2014. Please get in touch with us if you would like to come so that we can have an idea of numbers. We'd love you to join us and share in the first steps of our work .
Research & Development, 'Home, Sweet Home',
With the support of Arts Council Wales the Triongl company spent 3 weeks in research and development for a project with a working title of 'Home,Sweet Home'. We were sparked into conversation by Glenda Jackson's speech after the death of Margaret Thatcher https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDtClJYJBj8 . This led us to begin asking questions about what is a 'home' and a 'society'. The more we began to look into it the topic the more information began to surface about the state of the housing situation or 'crisis' in the UK at the moment. We now have a social group termed Generation Rent which refers to the generation now in their mid 20's- 30's who due to the rise in property prices are unable to buy homes; since 2007 house prices have risen by 28% and wages have risen by 12%. This prompted us to look in to what 'home' means to us; what is the 'value' of a house and how far would we go to get one? We explored how we structure the places in which we live; villages and cities, detached houses or terraces with other humans just the other side of the wall, home-onwners vs squatters...who owns what? And who can say where HOME is?
From this process we have emerged with a comedy! A new piece of writing entitled 'Miramar'.
There will be a free staged reading 'Miramar" in Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff on July 24th.2014. Please get in touch with us if you would like to come so that we can have an idea of numbers. We'd love you to join us and share in the first steps of our work .
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