"Hive City Legacy" / "Hela" / National Dance Company Wales

My latest batch of theatre reviews: “Hive City Legacy” at the Wales Millennium Centre – a touring performance piece giving us the rare opportunity to see several “femmes of colour” on stage at the same time in a music/dance extravaganza focussing on issues of identity (which played to a disappointingly small audience on the night I saw it); Mari Izzard’s bilingual psychological thriller “Hela”, the final piece in the dystopian Violence Series at The Other Room; and the latest collection of excellent short pieces presented by National Dance Company Wales under the heading “Roots” at the W.M.C.’s Dance House – as always, it’s good to see them going to the effort of making a sometimes abstruse art-form accessible without dumbing down.

Lowri Izzard and Gwydion Rhys in "Hela" (Photo: Kirsten McTernan)