My experiences of at The Royal Opera Stores at Abercwmboi near Aberdare in South Wales. Not usually open to the public, the stores (used because it is cheaper to store the props here than in London) are described by Dylan Moore, in his review for the ArtsDesk as “a hangar-sized warehouse on an industrial park overlooked by the classic Welsh landscape of terraced housing clinging to picturesque hillsides”.

 , by Marc Rees, is the first-ever collaboration between Wales’ two national theatres, the English-language National Theatre Wales and the Welsh-language Theatr Genedlaethol Cymru.  This blog talks of Marc's artistic process, and the 150th anniversary of the 150 (ish) welsh speakers who made an 8,000 mile journey in a boat called Mimosa, to found the colony called Y Wladfa in Patagonia 1865.