Listings
ROYAL WELSH COLLEGE OF MUSIC & DRAMA
NEW’25
11 – 21 June 2025
Presented by Richard Burton Company
Ticket prices:
£15 Full price
£13 Concessions (over 60s)
£7.50 U25
£6 schools (1 free teacher ticket for every 10 children)
General content advice:
Age guidance 14+
Contains adult themes
May contain strobe effects
An Armed Robbery in a Petrol Station off the A38
Written by Samuel Bailey
Directed by Ned Bennett
Wed 11 & Fri 13 June, 2pm. Thu 12 & Sat 14 June, 6pm
Darren is desperate. He’s lost his job, his girlfriend Kayleigh has kicked him out and his Mum needs help with her shopping. So he’s going to rob a petrol station – it’s the only thing he can think to do. But what should be a quick pay-day turns into a high-stakes hostage situation, and a lesson in line-dancing.
Salem
Written by Lisa Parry
Directed by Sara Lloyd
In collaboration with Sherman Theatre
Wed 11 & Fri 13 June, 6pm. Thu 12 & Sat 14 June, 2pm
Capel Salem, Gwynedd. In 2025, two Welsh nationalists hide out with ‘Salem’ – a painting they’ve stolen from a Liverpool art gallery to decolonise Welsh art. In 1908, Sydney Curnow Vosper paints his vision disputed by its sitters. Is it possible to ever prescribe a work of art’s meaning?
Children of the West
Written by Dipo Baruwa-Etti
Directed by Zoë Templeman-Young
In collaboration with Paines Plough
Wed 18 & Fri 20 Jun, 2pm. Thu 19 & Sat 21 Jun, 6pm
Borders are shut. The country is underpopulated. Citizens are required to have children. Nia, a prominent journalist, has always sat on the fence about these regulations despite it impacting her and her husband’s lives. As she seeks to escape from the country and tell the story of what’s happening in a now isolated nation, she is forced to interrogate the cost of what she’s leaving behind. As she goes on this journey, so do others – from government officials to smugglers to couples dealing with infertility – evaluating their lives in relation to these measures. What does it mean to have a significant part of your life forced upon you? Is it the right way to rebuild a country? Should they comply or rebel? Children of the West is a grounded dystopian drama that explores love, parenthood, and free will.
Into the Light
Written by Vivienne Franzmann
Directed by Lucy Morrison
Wed 18 & Fri 20 Jun, 6pm. Thu 19 & Sat 21 Jun, 2pm
A forest. Nine main characters. A series of vignettes interweave into a patchwork of contemporary stories.
