Local boy takes part in International Theatre Festival

Radyr student Harry Ferrier will shortly be off to Monaco with other members of the Cardiff based The Unknown Theatre Company to represent Wales and the United Kingdom in the prestigious “International Mondial du Theatre” event. The competition is held every four years and this year twenty four nations are competing for this coveted award.

Each country hosts a cultural evening which includes the best of its traditional national food and drink; so Welsh cakes, Bara brith and local beers and wines will also be on the menu. The group will be performing ‘Dance with Dragons’, a musical play by Philip Mitchell with music by Matt Brind. These two exceptionally talented young Cardiff men have already made their mark by putting on their own successful musical last year at the New Theatre, Cardiff.

The Unknown Theatre Company was formed in 1997, and has a cast of 19 young men and woman, whose average age is eighteen. They have competed at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival for the past three years and in 2002 won the Sony Global Search for New Musicals as part of the International Festival of Music Theatre with Dance with Dragons.

Its going to cost them around £22,000 to fund their programme in Monaco and whilst they have been doing everything possible to raise funds with concerts, bag packing, fayres and garden parties (one of which was held in Radyr recently) they still have a way to go. You can help with grants or donations or by attending their performance at the Millennium Centre Studio on 26 or 27th June before they go to Monaco.

Please lend them your support. To know more please contact Jane Donoghue at jane@unknowntheatre.fsnet.co.uk