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An Enemy of the People

The Melville Theatre The Melville Centre, Pen-y-Pound, Abergavenny, Monmouthshire, United Kingdom

Suitcase Theatre Company presents "An Enemy of the People" on Thursday 1st - Saturday 3rd May, 7.30pm. This production will feature a new version of Henrik Ibsen's classic drama, created by William Gilbert. Set in a small market town in Wales (not very different from Abergavenny) the play tells the story of the local GP, Dr Tomos Hopkins, whose patients start to present with all the symptoms of a waterborne disease. He tests the local river and the lab reports reveal the truth - sewage in the water. But when he tries to bring this health hazard to the attention of [...]

TangleJack

The Melville Theatre The Melville Centre, Pen-y-Pound, Abergavenny, Monmouthshire, United Kingdom

After three decades of making music together, John-Paul Davies and Duncan Leigh have perfected their unique, acoustic, double-duet sound. Through tight two-part harmonising and intricate, interweaving guitar lines TangleJack conjure an extraordinary four part texture. And it is on stage that the chemistry behind the TangleJack sound can really be seen. Sharing a history that began some 30 years ago, as the arty outsiders in the brass bands of the South Wales valleys, John-Paul and Duncan formed a friendship that outlasted their teenage rock band years, as well as the jazz and classical meanderings of their studies, to return to their [...]

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Poetry Upstairs (Phil Bowen & JLM Morton)

Melville Centre Cafe-Bar The Melville Centre, Pen-y-Pound, Abergavenny, Monmouthshire, United Kingdom

Phil Bowen is a poet, performer, biographer and playwright. Salt published Nowhere's Far - New & Selected Poems in 2008. His biography of the Mersey Poets, A Gallery to Play To was republished by Liverpool University Press also in 2008. His plays include A Handful of Rain, (an imagined meeting between Bob Dylan and Dylan Thomas), and Anything But Love, an adaptation of the writings of Dorothy Parker and the lyrics of Dorothy Fields. His poem 'Blue Docs' won The Quaterly Prize for the 2023 Spring Issue of The Lyric (est 1921) Recent work includes 'Love Somehow' – a multi award [...]

METTLE

The Melville Theatre The Melville Centre, Pen-y-Pound, Abergavenny, Monmouthshire, United Kingdom

“Mettle” Written and performed by Nicholas Collett and directed by Gavin Robertson. Following the performance of “The Ghost Of A Smile”, award-winning solo performer Nicholas Collett (British Arrows Best Actor, Special Performance Award World Duo Festival, Seoul South Korea, Best Theatre Award Adelaide Fringe 2023) tells the story of his father’s service during the Atlantic Convoys of World War Two. A true odyssey, that takes us from Sheffield to Liverpool to Nova Scotia, Boston to West Africa and home again, amidst the constant threat of U-Boat attack and treacherous weather. Physical theatre and storytelling, with a dramatic soundscape and 40’s music, [...]

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Poetry Upstairs with Michael W Thomas & Emily Cotterill

Michael W. Thomas’s latest poetry collection is A Time for Such a Word (Black Pear Press). His latest novel is The Erkeley Shadows (KDP / Swan Village Reporter). His work has appeared in, among others, The Antioch Review, Critical Survey, The London Magazine and the TLS. He is on the editorial board of Crossroads: A Journal of English Studies (University of Bialystok, Poland).   Emily Cotterill is a Cardiff based poet, originally from Alfreton in Derbyshire. Her debut collection Significant Wow was published by Seren in February 2025. The collection explores themes of celebrity, story-telling and pop culture. The collection follows the 2019 pamphlet The Day of the Flying Ants (smith|doorstop) which was part of [...]

A Poet’s Life – Poetry Workshops

Explore the Art and Passion of Poetry Course Description: Dive into the world of poetry with A Poet’s Life, a course designed for aspiring poets. Explore poetic forms, creative expression, and engage in the life of influential poet, playwright and artivist, Mark Christmas, who will be on hand to offer encouragement in developing your own, unique poetic voice. The course is limited to a group of 6 people and offers opportunity to write then read your work (if you want to). Please bring all of your own writing material and implements, tea and coffee will be supplied at a minimal cost. [...]

A Weak and Feeble Woman (Script in hand readthrough performance)

PLEASE NOTE: This is a script in hand readthrough performance. Olivia Henly is doing a Masters' in feminist history, busy preparing for her upcoming presentation about the sexual identity of Queen Elizabeth I. Having been abandoned by her father as a teenager, Liv lives alone with her stepmother Alison, and aside from her on/off boyfriend Jesse has no social life to speak of. When Liv meets Poppy, a beautiful and mysterious young woman, her understanding of her identity becomes confused, as the boundaries between where she ends and Elizabeth I starts begin to break down. July 18th 19:30 show starts £5

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Claude Bourbon

The Melville Theatre The Melville Centre, Pen-y-Pound, Abergavenny, Monmouthshire, United Kingdom

Claude Bourbon (progressive blues) It's not easy to describe the almost endless mix of merging influences in this amazing string master's playing... He moves from a classical opening with almost courteous music across the continent to the blues of the Mississippi Delta, from the Balearic Islands to the Balkans, and then back to the United States. A Spanish blues evolve into Gypsy music, travels to Eastern Europe, with a splash of Paco de Lucia, then a touch of Delta tunes and more. Also influences from Richie Blackmore, Joaquin Rodrigo, JJ Cale and even J. S. Bach speaks for themselves. Claude Bourbon [...]

Poetry Upstairs – A book launch of Shook Up! by Ric Hool

Melville Centre Cafe-Bar The Melville Centre, Pen-y-Pound, Abergavenny, Monmouthshire, United Kingdom

A book launch of Shook Up! by Ric Hool Ric Hool has 13 collections of published poetry and is widely featured in poetry magazines & anthologies. His poetic themes include psychological and geographical impact of place, time and space on experience. He has run the reading series Poetry Upstairs in Abergavenny for 30 years. Ric Hool is from Northumberland.

Poetry Upstairs -A book launch of Llyn Y Fan Fach

Melville Centre Cafe-Bar The Melville Centre, Pen-y-Pound, Abergavenny, Monmouthshire, United Kingdom

A book launch of Llyn Y Fan Fach with readings from Caroline Goodwin Graham Hartill & Frank Olding. Caroline Goodwin lives and works in the San Francisco Bay Area, where she is serving as the first Poet Laureate of San Mateo County. Her books include Peregrine (Finishing Line Press, 2015), Trapline (JackLeg Press 2013), and the chapbooks Kodiak Herbal and Text Me, Ishmael. She teaches at California College of the Arts and the Stanford Writer's Studio, holds a BA in Biology and an MFA from the University of British Columbia.   Graham Hartill moved to the Black Mountains in 1992. He [...]

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