MONDAY OCTOBER 06 6pm

A talk and Q&A in our newly redesigned bar by Volcano’s Artistic Director Paul Davies.

Paul is a founder member of Volcano, and the company’s Artistic Director. He talks about what it means to run an independent theatre company and to hold space for radical creative work in the city. This could be for you if you are interested in theatre or performance, if you are thinking of a career in the arts or of setting up a creative company, or if you are just curious about what goes on here.

Paul’s talk will be followed by an introductory theatre and movement workshop with Volcano’s Movement Director Catherine Bennett. No experience necessary. You’ll find out a little about how we work and get to try out some games and techniques. Great for students in creative disciplines, anyone interested in performance, or those who just want to develop confidence, creativity, and expression using the voice and the body. Come to either or both, but please book for the workshop as places are limited!

ABOUT PAUL DAVIES

Paul is a director, performer, improviser and writer who holds a doctorate in Politics and a black belt in karate. He is a football coach and allotment holder. He is a founder member of Volcano Theatre. Since 2013 he has been sole Artistic Director. In 2018 he was awarded an Honorary Doctorate by the Open University for Services to the Arts.

Paul combines a restless fascination with ideas with an originality and audacity that can produce astonishing theatre that simply could not have been made by anyone else. He has performed in many Volcano shows, written three plays for the company and directed, co-directed or devised most of the company’s productions. He has directed work in Montreal and Croatia and taught in various academies around the world. In 2018 he taught at the International ‘Territory’ Festival in Moscow. Work he has directed for Volcano in recent years includes Under Milk Wood, Confessions of a Dark Room, The Dread Zone, Sincere as Objects, Hamletmachine, The Populars, Seagulls, Black Stuff and A Clockwork Orange.

Paul is interested in creativity in education and the transmission of knowledge and action in society more generally. He is also interested in the place of the arts within inner cities and the way in which cultural programmes interact with the dynamics of regeneration and late capitalism.

Paul also runs Volcano Youth Company, for teenagers and young adults in South Wales.