Ffwrnes Theatre felt a warm glow with the Eisteddfod visit

Llanelli’s Ffwrnes Theatre boomed while the Carmarthenshire National Eisteddfod was in town.
Carmarthenshire Theatre’s manager Carwyn Matera Rogers said: “The theatre is certainly on the bigger map as a result of the Eisteddfod, many of its visitors come to see us and they came from all over the world.”
The Ffwrnes had a mobile box office on the Eisteddfod Field and sold in excess of £1500 of tickets for our autumn programme in all county theatres.
Mr Rogers said: “More than 100 new customers have registered on our customer’s database.
“We have had audiences totalling 3,600 both locally and from all parts of Wales attending sell out performances in our main auditorium and in Stiwdio Stepni.
“We recruited three volunteers after the launch of our Gyda’n Gilydd Volunteer initiative who worked with us for a total of 42 hours.
“We launched our gallery space at the Ffwrnes with a Polish-Welsh partnership exhibition of the work of Josef Herman who was a Polish-Jewish immigrant who eventually settled and worked for most of his life in Wales.
“The exhibition was opened by the Consul General of the Republic of Poland and featured on S4C Heno.”
Demand for our brochures on line increased by 70per cent on the same time last year.
The Ffwrnes Caffi Bar Cwtsh trebled its normal weekly turnover.
Mr Rogers said: “It’s all a really positive impact which can be attributed directly to the Eisteddfod.”