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Llanelli Youth Theatre will be performing A Clockwork Orange later this month. It runs at Stiwdio Stepni, Ffwrnes Theatre, Llanelli, from Thursday 21st to Saturday 23rd April at 7.30pm, with a Saturday matinee at 3pm. A Clockwork Orange takes place in a futuristic city governed by a repressive, totalitarian super-state. In this society, ordinary citizens have fallen into a passive stupor of complacency, blind to the insidious growth of a rampant, violent youth culture. The protagonist of the story is Alex, who leads a small gang of teenage criminals. The Anthony Burgess play, with music, is based on his own provocative 1962 novella of the same name. The book was first published in 1987. A Clockwork Orange was made into a film classic by Stanley Kubrick in 1971, and was dramatised by the RSC in 1990. Age suitability 14+. Tickets - https://ffwrnes.ticketsolve.com/shows/873544837/events?show_id=873544837

If you love to sing, then this will be music to your ears. A series of workshops and open rehearsals will be held at the start of May for children who enjoy singing. On Sunday 12 May, the Hywel Girls’ Choir & Hywel Boy Singers will present “SING UP!” at Y Ffwrnes theatre's Studio Stepney in Llanelli. The event will feature a vocal and rhythm workshop featuring percussionists from the National Orchestra of Wales together with the press launch of the Trans-Continental Teddy Tour Challenge in aid of BBC Children in Need. On Monday 13 May, the Hywel Choir will sponsor “Got Rhythm! Got Voice!” – a series of educational workshops for local primary schools focused on music, singing and percussion to be held at Studio Stepney, Y Ffwrnes, Llanelli. The workshops will even include percussion performances including a unique percussion piece played on basket balls. Demand has been so great for the workshops that organisers have had to double the number of places available for school child...