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Cast
Richard Parry
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Richard has worked in European theatre, opera and children’s television, winning London Fringe Theatre Best Comedy, Time Out and British Gas Theatre awards. He’s performed in British rep theatre and at the Royal Opera House. He trained as a classical baritone singer with Mark Wildman, Head of Voice at the Royal Academy of Music and has performed classical song at international music festivals, creating new music theatre performances at the French Embassy in London, Rhode Island School of Design (USA), National Eisteddfod of Wales and the Senedd parliament, Cardiff. Collaborations with the artist Ivor Davies include the ante-masque performance Ymateb at the National Museum of Wales, the film PYROGENESIS, and Ivor Davies’s response to Richard’s work with the musical installation Ancient Mariner – Not an Opera at the National Gallery, Cardiff. Richard continues to appear in theatre, concert and recital, and he produced the opening outdoor celebration Carnifal y Môr for the 2018 National Eisteddfod.
Mary-Anne Roberts
Calypso
Singer, artist and theatre maker Mary-Anne Roberts was born and raised in Trinidad. She began her theatre career with Trinidad Tent Theatre, dancing professionally from the age of 12. All her life she’s made carnival, and taught movement, voice, mark-making and mask-making which explore Trinidadian Carnival archetypes. Mary-Anne has performed widely in Welsh theatre as a singer and actor. She formed, with musician Robert Evans, the duo Bragod, recording 3 ground-breaking CDs of medieval Welsh praise poetry and music. Mary-Anne was the lead artist creating Laku Neg’s art installation Spirited for the Re-framing Picton exhibition at the National Museum of Wales, and music and performance devised by Mary-Anne and Robert Evans featured prominently in the 2021 Turner Prize. She has collaborated with contemporary sound design artist Roly Porter on his album Kistvaen, performing with Roly in European night clubs. Mary-Anne performs traditional Trinidadian street songs and calypso stories to audiences in Wales with her Calypso band.
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