“Each of the artists is highly talented within their discipline; together, they are dynamite. The rapport between them is palpable and the performance is seamless. World-class.”
Clare Potter
In 2014, four Welsh actors and musicians Glenda Clwyd, Phylip Harries, Lowri-Ann Richards and Sean Williams met to share their passion for the words and music of Wales. And so was born a new performance group – Aur Cymru, Welsh Gold.
Joined now by Llinos Daniel, Aur Cymru’s performances are a reverent, nostalgic, bawdy and biting celebration of Wales and Welshness in poetry and music from the sixth century to the present day.
Llinos Daniel
Llinos Daniel trained at Royal Holloway and Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art. As an actor, she has worked extensively in theatre, TV and film throughout the UK
and overseas.
Theatre roles include Lady Macbeth in Macbeth – Kill Bill Shakespeare, Myfanwy Montez in Aberystwyth Mon Amour and Angela in Eye of the Storm, with music by Amy Wadge. TV work includes Hinterland and Torchwood.
Llinos tours as a soloist and harpist with the Black Mountain Male Chorus of Wales in America. Her album Themes and Dreams of Wales is on Black Mountain Records.
Lowri-Ann Richards
Lowri-Ann Richards trained at the Webber Douglas & Central School of Speech & Drama. Early success won her two top ten hits with the band Tight Fit. Acting credits in theatre, TV, radio & film are numerous and include Royal National Theatre and off-Broadway appearances.
A native Welsh speaker from North Wales, you can often catch Lowri-Ann performing UK wide in her quirky and comedic cabaret show Two Blondes and a Harp alongside harpist Dylan Cernyw. Immediate future work includes a Hollywood film and the role of the Wicked Queen in Sleeping Beauty at The Riverfront, Newport, S. Wales for the 2018/19 panto season.
Phylip Harries
Phylip Harries is an actor/musician from the Swansea Valley.
Theatre work includes: Macbeth, One Man 2 Guv’nors, Tom – The Musical and Little Shop of Horrors. TV includes: Hinterland, The Kennedys, Amdani and Torchwood. Film includes: Excalibur Rising, The Last Seduction 2 and A Bit of Tom Jones. Radio 4: Aberystwyth Mon Amour, The Owl Service and Telling the Sea.
Recently Phylip was Creative Producer for Shane a’r Belen Aur – a TV Panto starring Shane Williams. Phylip also writes and appears in Y Doniolis, a new children’s series for S4C (5.05pm on Thursdays!).
Sean Williams
Sean Williams is a Welsh actor, reader, writer and musician. He is the founder of Aur Cymru, Welsh Gold.
Current production
Made in Wales is a reverent, nostalgic, bawdy and biting celebration of Wales and Welshness in poetry and music from the sixth century to the present day. Performed in Welsh and English, it features the work of Taliesin, Aneirin, Dafydd ap Gwilym, Dannie Abse, Tiffany Atkinson, Gillian Clarke, WH Davies, Menna Elfyn, Matthew Francis, Nigel Jenkins, Aneirin Karadog, Gwyneth Lewis, Robert Minhinnick, Wilfred Owen, Malcolm Price, Owen Sheers, Dylan Thomas, Edward Thomas, RS Thomas, John Tripp, Vernon Watkins, Rowan Williams, Hedd Wyn and Samantha Wynne-Rhydderch.
The evening takes audiences to a land of passion and beauty, of lament and rapture, of anger and pain, of yesterday and tomorrow. A Wales of words and music.
Made in Wales tour 2018
Made in Wales last toured in Autumn 2018.
28 September 2018: Criccieth Memorial Hall
3 October 2018: Aberystwyth Arts Centre
5 October 2018: The Courtyard, Hereford
6 October 2018: Theatr Brycheiniog, Brecon
Performance enquiries
Performances are designed for mid-scale theatres, and the show runs for one hour and thirty minutes without an interval. Minimal technical requirements.
For all enquiries and bookings, tel: 077110 83935 or email info@welshgoldwordsandmusic.com