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Wednesday, January 25, 2012, 5.10pm Roderic Bowen Library and Archives Reading Room, Lampeter Campus, University  of Wales Trinity Saint David Susie Wild is a writer, poet, editor and journalist based in South Wales. She shall read from her Edge Hill long-listed debut collection of short stories The Art of Contraception, her ebook novella Arrivals and her current novel-in-progress for which she was a recipient o f a Literature Wales Bursary in 2011. She will also take part in a Q&A about life as a writer and editor, including advice on submitting manuscripts to Parthian Books. Facebook event page:  https://www.facebook.com/events/278269932230750/

The Secret Garden Published  Wednesday 11 January 2012  at  11:57  by  Susie Wild Angel Exit bring an imaginatively inventive retelling of Frances Hodgson Burnett’s classic children’s story to the stage. Ten year old Mary Lennox (Cheadle) is an orphaned, spiteful child who is brought from her home in Calcutta to a damp, shadowy Yorkshire mansion to live with her distant uncle. Left to her own devices, Mary Mary Quite Contrary discovers a key to a secret garden where nature, magic and three special people help to turn her into a much more agreeable young woman and reunite the family. Songs, musical rhythms, and gentle acrobatics keep the scenes changing and pace and narrative moving. Aimed at children aged six and over, Angel Exit have managed to keep a lighter tone to the book’s dark themes of grief and loss, the bereaved slowly taking comfort in seeing how their garden grows. Packed full of curiosities, the simplified production engages European tradi...

Thursday, January 19, 2012 T Description 'Notable Bohemian' Susie Wild brings her literary salon from Uplands, Swansea to Cardiff for 2012. The first session will run in association with Parthian Books and features good literary conversation dotted with readings from issue 15 of Almanac: The Yearbook of Welsh W riting in English edited by Katie Gramich. https://www.facebook.com/events/276543982406806/

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Aladdin Published  Wednesday 21 December 2011  at  15:43  by  Susie Wild Jimmy Osmond, the youngest member of 70s pop act the Osmonds arrives in Swansea as Wishee Washee ahead of the band’s biggest ever UK tour in March. The addition of this retro, chart-topping pop star makes this story of Aladdin and his lamp one that is bound to please the city’s grandmothers yet leaves song choices rather bewildering for younger viewers. Still, while they sing along to Little Darling and join in on a ditty about how they think Jimmy is dishy, there are other more universal treats in store for the rest of the audience. 3D glasses offer moments of in-your-face special effects, which feel all the more magical for occurring in a theatre environment. From the genie to the magic carpet ride, all these effects work well, although some might want to use one of their three wishes to delete the spider from the story. Moving from the virtual to the actual, the ever popu...

From TheRaconteur.info : A selection of photos from our Cardiff launch at Chapter Arts Centre. It ended up so busy that we ran out of chairs!  To see all the photos from the night  visit our Facebook album . If you’d like to see inside the covers, you can  buy The Raconteur: America for £10. The America Issue The Editors (L-R): Susie Wild, Dylan Moore, our publisher Richard Davies and Gary Raymond America contributor Dan Tyte with his copy of The Raconteur The audience Recent online interviewee Tyler Keevel with Jane Llewellyn

Robinson Crusoe and The Caribbean Pirates Published  Thursday 15 December 2011  at  17:57  by  Susie Wild Ahoy me hearties. This big budget pirate pantomime has some of the bigger names and most expensive costumes in the region if not the biggest laughs. TV personality turned reality TV star Christopher Biggins (Mrs Crusoe) changes outfits well in between plugging his autobiography and wearing the product placements of a high street giant. Aside from the adverts, a posturing Robinson (Paul Zerdin) and his ventriloquist puppet Sam are the real stars of the show. Especially when Sam is left alone onstage and magically ‘comes to life’ - apparently talking and moving unaided. The action moves from the city of Cardiff to the deadliest place on earth as an ancient map leads all and sundry on a treasure hunt to Skull Island. In these dangerous tropical climes enchanting mermaids, lost tribes and Crusoe-should’ve-picked-her Girl Friday (a stunning Stephanie...

Peter Pan Published  Tuesday 13 December 2011  at  10:43  by  Susie Wild Yo ho ho! The boy who will never grow up leads a large cast on an overly-ambitious swashbuckling festive adventure. Beginning with a good ole cockney knees-up, this patchy pirate tale transports the prim and proper Wendy and her brothers away from their traditional, Conservative London home to the freer, fairy-populated Neverland. Calum Small is suitably stubborn and sprightly as the airborne Peter Pan. Llinos Thomas makes a prettily-voiced lovestruck Wendy and BBC Radio Wales personality Owen Money is his affable self as Smee. The plot doesn’t throw up any big surprises. There is an unfurling love story between Peter Pan and Wendy which results in a horribly histrionic Tinkerbell (Becci Lewis), and a battle to rescue the Lost Boys from the dastardly Captain Hook. An elaborate set causes stilted scene changes and a disjointed pace. Still, as the show is packed full of audience part...

Isaac Dwyer reviews the eclectic collection of short stories by Susie Wild ,  The Art of Contraception , and speaks with her about love, losers, upcoming projects, and performance. Susie Wild, a noted bohemian writer living in South Wales, as well as editor for the literary journal  The Raconteur , has published an eclectic collection of stories that succeeds in captivating and entertaining its readers. Focusing on individuals who suffer from issues from the sexual to the familial,  The Art of Contraception  clings romantically to the reproductively unfortunate. Beginning with the tragic story of Rob Evans, an obese sloth who takes vacations in the tub and dreams of an underage love interest, readers temporarily find their egos comfortably elevated. This throne of narcissism is swiftly brushed out from beneath their buttocks, however.  They realize how easily they could become like the poor creatures they laugh at when Archie appears – and sweeps t...