Touring Theatre Production Company
Patron: David Crystal Welcome to Anvil Productions. Anvil is one of the leading 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:
Anvil Productions is a vibrant and passionate company working to give every audience a total theatrical experience with:
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To date their performances have been both successful and highly acclaimed. Repertoire includes:
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Written and produced by Anvil : each year Anvil aims to create a new and original Family Entertainment Classic.
We also write and tour our own hilarious pantomimes
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). |
2008 - A Spring Tour of Regional Theatres across the UKOTHELLO: April - June - look out for details. This production will be adapted and join Anvil's Family Entertainment Classic 2008 David Copperfield to make up Anvil's Summer Outdoor tour 2008 School ShowsAnvil performs complete shows for schools. KAMAKAN the Vampire Slug - Live and MonstrousComing to a theatre near you soon. Based on an award winning book for children - this show is especially suitable for junior schools. Readings and workshops available. |
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.
Contact Information
For more information please contact Anvil Productions at:
Mail: Bryn Awel, Graig, Glan Conwy, North Wales. LL28 5TW, UK
Phone: 01492 580774 Mobile: 0789 979 1886
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