Clubnight: Melting Pot – It’s The Way You Tell Them, with Richard Berry

Making a story your own – using Visualization, Muscle Memory and Simple Notation to feel really at home inside a story.

Build confidence by Day Dreaming and Playful Planning.

Be your own writer, director, stage manager and performer.

With Richard Berry.

Richard Berry… has spent most of his working life in Theatre in Education and Small Scale Theatre. He was a founder member of ‘Action PIE’, Cardiff’s first Theatre in Education company, and also co-founded Hijinx Theatre.

He now works mainly as a Traditional Storyteller and Writer working in schools, hospitals, old peoples homes, libraries, theatres, parks, museums, at historic monuments and at festivals… in fact almost anywhere he can.

He wrote and directed ‘Gold’ a play written for Community Music Wales, as well as creating a new play ‘Tempus Fugit’ for the BBC Wales Cultural Diversity Unit.

He also performs with Helen Woods in their show for Nursery school children which was especially created for Cardiff Arts in Education Agency.

They will create another under fives show for St David’s Hall Promenade season this year after their first ‘Tiddly Prom – Bert’s Magic Musical Allotment’ (2004) followed by ‘Meg and Mog’ (2005), ‘Bert’s Magical Kitchen’ (2006), and Bert’s Magical Farmyard (2007).

He is an Associate of Hijinx Theatre and has worked on their integrated community project ‘Odyssey Theatre’. He wrote and directed ‘The Squeeking Beauty’ which was performed in the Studio of the Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff (2005), also ‘The Ozard of Wiz’ (2006), and ‘The Fall of the House of Wax’ (2007).

As an Artistic Directory of ‘Theatr Ffynnon’ (a company for adults with learning disabilities in Monmouth) he wrote and directed four annual productions (2000 – 2004).

He has written two award winning plays for special needs teenagers published by the University of Wales Press (2002): ‘Branwen’ and ‘The Tower by the Sea’, and has taught Storytelling at the University of Glamorgan.

He has performed traditional Welsh stories at the ‘Wales Croatia Nights’ Festival, Zagreb in 2001 / Theatre on Podol, Kiev 1994, Luaga & Losna – Theatre Festival, Austria 2004 / 2008.

In the summer of 2003 he created an education programme with Adzido, the UK’s leading Pan African Dance company. He has also developed an Intergenerational Storytelling project ‘Speaking and Listening’ for St Donats Arts Centre, Arts Active @ St David’s Hall Cardiff, Pontardawe Arts Centre, Monmouthshire Housing Association, Linc-Cymru Housing Association and RCT Homes. This has grown out of his storytelling outreach work with elderly people for ‘Beyond the Border International Storytelling Festival’ (1998 – 2017)

He is actively involved in the current storytelling revival, not only as a performer but also in running training sessions, and coordinating the Cardiff Storytelling Circle.