Eye of The Storm

A Theatr na nÓg and Swansea Grand Theatre production
By Geinor Styles and Amy Wadge
In partnership with Technocamps

Best Show for Children and Young People - Wales Theatre Awards 2018

Meet Emmie Price.

For the last 5 years her life has been a whirlwind. It’s a world torn between caring for her bipolar mum, pursuing a passion for tornados, and proving she’s got what it takes at school. But Emmie knows one day that’s all going to change. One day she’s going to become a storm chaser… in America.

When an opportunity to get a bursary to study in the USA comes up can she keep her place on the course and win the STEM competition with her invention for renewable energy?

Multi award-winning Theatr na nÓg present an unmissable original musical play that’s guaranteed to seize your heart and capture your mind. Set in the Welsh Valleys to a toe-tapping soundtrack steeped in Americana from Grammy Award winner Amy Wadge (Thinkin’ Out Loud with Ed Sheeran, Keeping Faith) and performed live on stage by a cast of 8 talented actor musicians.

This theatrical event of courage, determination and compassion is guaranteed to inspire adults of all ages and families with children aged 8+.

*****
An A* top of the class new musical.

Buzz Magaine

Set of an open sided caravan with a neon cactus, colourful sunset and a school girl playing the guitar

Pupils in the science room conducting an experiment to make an artificial tornado

Actor holding a guitar in a pose with one arm in the air

Classroom scene with four pupils sat at science tables and the teacher at the front of the class

A projection of a petrol station with a counter and young boy behind it

A woman standing in though, wearing a pink tabard with a pink neon light behind

Three people at a table, one dressed as a cowboy, one in a yellow rain mac and a school girl cleaning the table between them.

Man dressed as a modern day American cowboy holding a guitar

The show toured to:

Edinburgh, King's Theatre

Swansea Grand Theatre

Portsmouth, New Theatre Royal

Birmingham Hippodrome, Patrick Studio

Newport Riverfront

Bangor, Pontio

Aberystwyth Arts Centre

Amy Wadge’s original Eye of the Storm soundtrack was recorded on a limited edition CD album available from Theatr na nÓg.

If you would like to purchase a CD of the album, then please get in touch directly by email
drama@theatr-nanog.co.uk

Alternatively you can download the tracks on iTunes and Amazon or listen on Spotify.

Grammy winner Amy Wadge is one of the UK’s most prolific contemporary songwriters. Amy’s most notable success to date comes from her long established writing partnership with Ed Sheeran. Amy and Ed’s track Thinking Out Loud was the third single from Sheeran’s second album, the triple Grammy nominated X (Multiply). It went to No. 1 in the UK chart in November 2014 after spending 19 weeks in the Top 40, breaking the record for the longest ever ascent to the peak position. Closer to home, Amy has twice won Best Female Artist at the Welsh Music Awards, the first time ahead of Charlotte Church and the second ahead of Cerys Matthews. More recently she has enchanted TV audiences with her haunting soundtrack to the BBC Drama Keeping Faith.