Wales Millennium Centre Productions

We are a creative producer and as well as presenting and curating the best touring work, we create our own productions, festivals and events which we hope will entertain, stimulate and inspire our audiences at home and abroad.

We prioritise work that...

Celebrates the voice as an instrument

Our focus is on making theatre with music; musical theatre, plays with songs, gig theatre or a story where the score is fundamental to the production.

Gives a platform to a wide variety of voices

We produce innovative, contemporary work that both entertains and challenges our audiences, telling new stories and giving a platform to new voices including those that are under-represented, celebrating Wales in all its diversity.

Connects to Wales

Our work promotes Welsh talent or tells stories with Welsh roots for audiences to enjoy at home and abroad.

Is Magical

We believe in work that has the power to expand our worlds, spark emotions and fire imaginations. We do this by...

Reach

Our work connects Wales and the world, developing commercial partnerships which enable us to share our work with more audiences, giving it a longer life through touring and raising our profile.

Talent

Our work is rooted in collaborating with the best artists from Wales and beyond and finding opportunities for challenge and growth.

Opportunity

We provide hands-on training associated with our productions which develops skills for work and clear career pathways for new voices and young people in Wales

Test and Grow

We create a research and development environment that gives artists the right time, space and support to allow for failure,and experimentation, enabling good ideas to emerge and fly.

So far we've successfully produced/ co-produced...

Roald Dahl’s City of the Unexpected – the biggest arts event ever to take place in Cardiff, as 250,000 people took to the streets to celebrate Roald Dahl’s centenary. Co-produced with National Theatre Wales.

Man to Man – a five-star re-imagining of Manfred Karge’s one-woman show which toured the UK and was performed in the prestigious Brooklyn Academy of Music’s Next Wave festival in New York.

The Last Mermaid – a musical interpretation of the classic fairy tale, written by Charlotte Church for our first Festival of Voice in 2016.

Land of Our Fathers – a dark comedy about Welsh miners trapped in a pit, which toured the UK.

La Voix Humaine – a co-production with Welsh National Opera which garnered five-star reviews in several broadsheet newspapers and subsequently played at the prestigious Aldeburgh Festival.

Only the Brave – our first large-scale musical, this Soho Theatre co-production followed the story of the Pegasus D-Day landings, with music by Welshman Matthew Brind. A critical smash hit.

Tiger Bay the Musical – another large-scale musical, this time a co-production with Cape Town Opera about the multicultural docklands of Cardiff and the Marquis of Bute. It played to an audience of 26,000 over two weeks in the Donald Gordon Theatre.

Lovecraft (Not the Sex Shop in Cardiff) – this one-woman cabaret co-produced, written and performed by Carys Eleri garnered excellent reviews, won Best Cabaret at the Adelaide Fringe and toured Wales – in English and Welsh – to great acclaim.

Cave – a production with Camille O’Sullivan for Festival of Voice 2018, which played London, Auckland, Adelaide, Brighton, Edinburgh and Germany.

Double Vision – a musical co-production with Cardiff-based Gagglebabble of a lost Hitchcock film script for Festival of Voice 2018.

Highway One – a five-star reviewed musical by Katell Keineg, co-produced with August 012 for Festival of Voice 2018, about the journey of a woman from Cardiff to consult the Oracle at Delphi by way of encounters with Maria Callas and Pasolini.

The Mirror Crack’d – an Agatha Christie adaptation by Rachel Wagstaff, it played a successful tour to over 28,000 people including a two-week run at Cardiff’s New Theatre where it achieved record sales for a drama. This was a co-production with Wiltshire Creative.

RED – a cracking festive show co-produced with Likely Story in 2019, inspired by the classic fairy tale The Little Red Riding Hood.

The cornerstone of our production schedule is our now annual Festival of Voice; an international arts festival showcasing all the voice can do and immersing its audience in the incredible talents of artists from across the globe.

We have a feast of mid-to large-scale productions and co-productions at various stages of development to share with audiences over the next five years.

Watch this space...