The Sherman Theatre has announced the cast for its TEN series, a short new online play which brings together Welsh and Wales-based performers including familiar faces, established actors and emerging talent.
As the theatre world entered lockdown, the Sherman Theatre thought about how it could continue to both provide its audiences with compelling theatre experiences and support artists. TEN is one of the projects which form part of the Interval programme created as a result of that thinking.
Sherman Theatre selected ideas from ten Welsh and Wales-based writers who responded to a call out to submit a paragraph long pitch to create a one to five-minute monologue. Actors were invited through an open call to express their interest in performing and self-filming those monologues, each working with a director.
With the process complete two plays will be released each week on Sherman Theatre’s website and on YouTube with the first two plays, Steffan Rhodri in No Sleep ‘til Filton Abbey Wood by Rick Allden, and Catrin Stewart in Love (and Loss) in the Time of Corona by Katie Elin-Salt already available..
Casting for TEN is as follows:
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Olatunji Ayofe in Dom’s Drug Prayer by Connor Allen, directed by Samantha Alice Jones
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Rakie Ayola in Who Runs Towards A Fire? By Owen Thomas, directed by Hannah Noone
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Gillian Elisa in Zip by Alun Saunders, directed by Alice Eklund
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Heledd Gwynn in Y Rhyfelwraig by Elin Phillips, directed by Alice Eklund
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Non Haf in Love is Blind by Sarah Louise Madden, directed by Samantha Alice Jones
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Lowri Izzard in Belly Buttons by Emma Cooney, directed by Samantha Alice Jones
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Paisley Jackson in Comma by Kelly Jones,directed by Samantha Alice Jones
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Mali Ann Rees in (Single) Mother by Alexandria Riley, directed by Hannah Noone
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Steffan Rhodri in No Sleep ‘til Filton Abbey Wood by Rick Allden, directed by Hannah Noone
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Catrin Stewart in Love (and Loss) in the Time of Corona by Katie Elin-Salt, directed by Hannah Noone
Directors Alice Eklund , Samantha Alice Jones and Hannah Noone have been working remotely with the cast.
TEN has been made possible through a generous donation from an anonymous benefactor and is inspired by Papatango’s Isolated But Open programme.