Touring Theatre Production Company, Management,
Entertainment Agency and Theatrical Hire Shop

Patron: David Crystal Welcome to Anvil Productions. Anvil is one of the leading and most respected producers of quality drama and live entertainment in Wales. From our base in North Wales we produce and tour a wide programme of live performance to a range of venues across the UK. We offer: a fresh new approach to the classics quality, family entertainent performances in unusual venues presentation of the classics to a wider audience including School Shows, Workshops and Meet the Actor opportunities

Anvil Productions is a vibrant and passionate company working to give every audience a total theatrical experience with:

• attention to detail
• an extensive wardrobe

To date their performances have been both successful and highly acclaimed. Repertoire includes: Wizard of Oz Cinderella Wind in the Willows East Lynne A Doll’s House The Importance of Being Earnest Robin Hood Romeo and Juliet Macbeth The Taming of the Shrew and the other works of William Shakespeare

Written and produced by Anvil : each year Anvil aims to create a new and original Family Entertainment Classic.

• 2006 The Snow Queen
• 2007 The Legends of King Arthur
• 2008 An adaptation of Charles Dickins's David Copperfield

We also write and tour our own hilarious pantomimes

• 2005/06 Cinderella
• 2006/07 Robin Hood
• 2007/08 Dick Whittington and His Amazing Cat
• and for 2008/09 look out for JACK and the BEANSTALK.

Anvil look for unusual venues such as small theatres and community venues, castles and historical sites, outdoor venues, gardens and country houses, as well as in traditional theatres of all sizes. Shows for example have been performed at CADW and National Trust properties. Anvil is especially interested in presenting the classical drama to a wider audience and has received excellent feedback and reviews from its audiences and from leading specialists in the industry.

Amongst the most rewarding comments we have received were from the world renowned linguist David Crystal OBE, who has worked on original pronunciation productions for Shakespeare's Globe on Bankside in London and features regularly in their Around the Globe periodical magazine. He is now a patron of Anvil Productions (see feature box below).

About Our Patron - Professor David Crystal

Professor David Crystal is one the world's foremost experts on the subject of language. In 1995, he was awarded the Order of the British Empire for services to the English language. He works from his home in Holyhead, North Wales, as a writer, editor, lecturer, and broadcaster and has been a consultant, contributor or presenter on several radio and television programmes and series. He was the consultant for the BBC Voices project in 2005.

He was Sam Wanamaker Fellow at Shakespeare's Globe in 2003-4 and is honorary president of the Johnson Society for 2005-6. He has written many books including Shakespeare's Words (2002) and The Shakespeare Miscellany (2005), in collaboration with his actor son, Ben. Other Shakespeare work includes a quarterly article for Around the Globe and regular articles for the Times Education Supplement. Pronouncing Shakespeare, an account of the 2004 Globe production of Romeo and Juliet in original pronunciation, appeared in April 2005.

He is a director of the Ucheldre Centre in his home town of Holyhead on the Isle of Anglesey, North Wales and chairman and co-founder of Crystal Reference Systems, with its two divisions of Crystal Reference and Crystal Semantics. For more information visit www.davidcrystal.com.