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Article: We'll get kids off computers and into the theatre.(Features)
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- Daily Post (Liverpool, England)
- Article date:
- November 6, 2009
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Byline: TOM BODDEN
THE director of Wales' new National Theatre unveiled his plans yesterday to reach out to the 'computer game generation'.
John McGrath's eventual ambition is to see 'every single person in Wales coming to a show'.
"For the first year, my ambition is to get a hell of a lot of them and to bring some people into theatre for the first time," he said.
The theatre announced its programme which is due to start in March, thanks to pounds 3m over three years from the Welsh Assembly Government.
It includes innovative work next summer on the beaches of North Wales when three artists - Rhiannon Cousins, Carl Morris and ...