NATIONAL THEATRE WALES

In Snowdonia

The Weather Factory

December 2010

In partnership with
FEVERED SLEEP

Directed and Designed by
DAVID HARRADINE

Where does all the weather in Wales come from? This festive season, artist David Harradine invites you to step inside his Weather Factory. Discover the real drama of the elements. A year’s worth of weather all in one magical place.

‘We had to walk to school for five miles in the snow and lift your legs into deep drifts’

Andy Morse, Weather Man

The Weather Factory background and booking information

The Weather Factory is designed for adults and children 9 and up, and will approach the timeless question of the weather with a lively and magical curiosity.

Director and designer David Harradine is Artistic Director of the company Fevered Sleep. Working across the UK and internationally, the company makes exquisite work for children and curious adults. Previous projects have included An Infinite Line - an installation in an underground industrial space in Brighton - and And The Rain Falls Down, part of a trilogy of installations for children based on the rituals and games of everyday life. Fevered Sleep is an Associate Company at the Young Vic Theatre.

www.feveredsleep.co.uk

BOOKING OPENS MONDAY 8 NOVEMBER 2010

Booking

Snowdonia

December 2010

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Andy Morse, Weather Man

‘Snow attracted me to the weather. When I was a child in the 1960s and 1970s, we were going through very cold winters and the snow must have seemed – thinking about it now – very, very deep, as if it was as high as me. But thinking back now, it would have been chest height. I remember in those days no such thing as the school run, and we had to walk to school for five miles in the snow and lift your legs into deep drifts. It was great fun. I just seemed to get more and more interested in the weather from there.’

Andy Morse, Weather Man