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The Pitmen Painters
When: Tuesday 13th October 2009 -> Saturday 17th October 2009
Where: New Theatre, Park Place, Cardiff, CF10 3LN
In 1934, a group of miners from Ashington, Northumberland hired a professor from Newcastle University to teach an Art Appreciation evening class. Theory was quickly abandoned in favour of practice and the men learned to become painters whilst continuing to work down the mines. Within a few years their work was being celebrated throughout the British art world.
The Pitmen Painters premiered at Live Theatre, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, in September 2007, before transferring to the National Theatre in 2008.
Written by Billy Elliott writer Lee Hall.
Show Times:
Tue 13th: 7.30pm
Wed 14th: 7.30pm
Thu 15th: 2.30pm & 7.30pm
Fri 16th: 7.30pm
Sat 17th: 2.30pm & 7.30pm
"Lee Hall’s new play and Max Roberts’ sublime production are ablaze with intellectual vigour, political passion and incendiary emotional energy. A beautiful work of art that everybody should see" - The Times
"A wonderful piece of theatre: comic, sad and stirring in the same breath" - Financial Times
"Tragic, funny and illuminating in one fell swoop of energy" - Evening Standard
For ticket information, please call the Box Office on 029 2087 8889, or follow the link to the New Theatre website (see below)...