DIRTY PROTEST in the HOUSE!!

Out With The Old Skins writers, award-winning playwrights and one cherrypopper will make up the line up for the latest Dirty Protest event this week. Fresh from a sell-out performance at Camden’s Roundhouse the critically acclaimed Welsh theatre company will present a night of new plays for the price of….well just over a pint. Curated by award-winning playwright Chloe Moss, the writers were each given the challenge to write a new play with the theme Out With the Old. In keeping with the company’s tradition of short, engaging and entertaining pieces, each play must be no less than three minutes and no more than 10 and had to be written within 4 weeks. The plays were all first performed at London’s Roundhouse in December, with established writers taking the same stage and billing as a selection of newcomers from the theatre’s new writing course. The Cardiff performance will feature one of the newcomers, Cherrypopper Melissa Manteghi, who since writing for Dirty Protest is in talks with one national theatre about writing further commissions. Melissa will be joined by Skins’ writer Lucy Kirkwood, who the Independent recently named as the UK’s Brightest Young Stage Writer, Rebecca Lienkewicz who was the first woman to have an original play on the National Theatre Stage, Collette Kane, Chris Thorpe, and Chloe Moss herself. Dirty Protest’s Claire Hill said, “These plays were seen by a sold out London audience in December and since then we have been dying for our loyal Welsh audiences to see the plays. So it is great to be able to bring them to the Cardiff Arts Institute this week with a brilliant new Welsh cast which includes Matthew Bulgo, Erin Richards and Helen Rosser Davies.” The night will be directed by Dirty Protest’s Mared Swain and the National Theatre of Wales, Mathilde Lopez. Cardiff Arts Insititute, February 18, 8pm. £4 www.dirtyprotesttheatre.co.uk @dirtyprotest on twitter or find us on Facebook