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News and Updates
Well, wonderful things happen at Christmas!
Thanks to a great deal of good will and a determination to make the show go on, Telstars are thrilled to announce that "Murder at the Nativity" will now be staged.
We will now be performing at The Old Library, Singleton Road, Splott CF24 2ET.
Curtain up at 8pm.
This will be a revamped performance but we're really excited. We have worked so hard at this.
Ticket price will be a suggested £5 paid at the door. Please bring your own refreshments.
Turn up and enjoy "Murder at the Nativity"
Telstars are the Phoenix of the theatre world.
Please support us.
The Cardiff Roath Amateur Players aren't having much luck. It is their final dress rehearsal for The Wakefields Shepherds Play, several of the cast are missing, lots of the costumes aren't right, and as for their lottery syndicate... When a murder happens during the rehearsal, it'll take a genius to find out whodunnit.
Then join us for a party after the show. Bring your own food and drink and make a night of it.
A play by Paul Robinson.
Tickets available from ticketsource.co.uk search Telatars
Venue Address:
Beulah canolfan
Beulah Rd
CF14 6LT


From 19th April to 21st April, we are bringing Frank Vickery's production of Granny Annie to life.
Tickets are now on Sale

2023 sees Telstars celebrating our 60th year! Could the BT employees who started the company in 1963 have dreamed we would still be performing decades later?
We've been to festivals all over the UK, traveled to perform across the pond, and of course, covered a huge range of plays at home in South Wales.
With so many stories and faces over the years please join us across 2023 for shows, and memories as we open our vaults and more to come.
And of course, thank you - our audience - for keeping us going to a diamond anniversary!


One Night with Marilyn By PT Rose
THE WORLD PREMIERE OF ONE NIGHT WITH MARILYN - Buy Now
This is going to be a unique performance of the little unknown story of Marilyn Monroe's private life. Acapela Studio will be transformed for 3 evenings into the psychiatric division of Cornell University - The Payne Whitney Clinic - to tell the haunting and sometimes disturbing story of her incarceration!
It's "One Night With Marilyn" you won't want to miss!
TICKETS AVAILABLE NOW - SEE LINKS BELOW
One Night With Marilyn
09/10/11th May 2022
Acapela Studio is privileged to hold the World premiere of the updated and completed “One Night with Marilyn” presented by Telstars Theatre Company.
Unknown to her many millions of fans in February 1961 Marilyn Monroe was sectioned by her psychiatrist Dr Marianne Kris to the Payne Whitney Clinic, the psychiatric division of Cornell University New York. Marilyn was under the impression she was being sent for some rest and recuperation by her trusted doctor. Marilyn was exhausted after the stressful filming schedule of ‘The Misfits’, its lukewarm reception and her fresh separation from Arthur Miller. In addition, Marilyn had set alarm bells ringing amongst her friends and psychiatrist by talking of ‘ending it all’.
As she was being escorted into the clinic Marilyn became aware that this was no ordinary place and started to become quite anxious. She had often been to such places previously to visit her mother who had been confined to mental institutions for many years and was a diagnosed paranoid schizophrenic. Marilyn herself had a growing complex that she too was going insane and friends noticed that occasionally she behaved as if pre-occupied by ‘voices’ she claimed to be speaking to her.
TICKETS FOR ALL 3 NIGHTS STILL AVAILABLE
CLICK HERE FOR 9TH MAY 2022
CLICK HERE FOR 10TH MAY 2022
CLICK HERE FOR 11TH MAY 2022
Coming Soon

We're Winners
Congratulations
Paul Robinson - Best Comedy Performance
Adjustors Award - Jo West

International Women's Day. Women who have helped make Telstars
Teresa McCarthy, Kay Baber, Wendy Stowe, Angela Evelyn, Sue Meighan
& Jo West
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Happy New Year from all of Telstars
BIG News and Updates
News and Updates of our up and coming performances and events. Dates and venues and booking information.

A Little Extra Help- By Jo West Directed By Gavin Dando
A modern Fairy Tale about falling in love. This very funny play was written by our beloved past member Jo West. It centres around two people unluckily in love, but can a supermarket help them find each other and find love.
GDL One Act Festival - Regional Round
31st March, 1st April & 2nd April 2022
The Savoy Theatre, Tonyrefail, CF39 8EL
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https://www.glamorgandrama.com/one-act

One Night With Marilyn
BIG NEWS
Following on from the success of the rehearsed reading. Telstars will be performing the World Premier of the Global phenomenon of PT Rose's One Night with Marilyn.
Performances will take place on Monday 9th, Tuesday 10th and Wednesday 11th May 2022 at the Acapela Studio Pentyrch Cardiff
For Tickets please use the links below for each date
Monday 9th - https://www.acapela.co.uk/events/one-night-with-marilyn/
Tuesday 10th - https://www.acapela.co.uk/events/one-night-with-marilyn-by-pt-rose-second-night/
Wednesday 11th - https://www.acapela.co.uk/events/one-night-with-marilyn-by-pt-rose-third-night/
For more information on One Night With Marilyn please visit
http://onenightwithmarilyn.com/index.html
https://www.facebook.com/KSWNetwork
https://www.facebook.com/onenightwithmarilyn
News, Reviews & Updates
News and Updates of our up and coming performances and events. Dates and venues and booking information.

One Night With Marilyn - Review - Jan Samuels.
One Night with Marilyn by P.T. Rose Presented by Telstars Theatre Company. One Night with Marilyn is the third part of The Tinsel Town Trilogy by P T Rose. It is based around a little-known event in Marilyn Monroe's life. In February 1961 Marilyn Monroe was sectioned by her psychiatrist Dr. Marianne Kris to the Payne Whitney Clinic, the psychiatric division of Cornell University New York. Marilyn was under the impression she was being sent for some rest and recuperation by her trusted doctor. She was exhausted after the stressful filming schedule of ‘The Misfits’, its lukewarm reception and her fresh separation from Arthur Miller. In addition Marilyn had set alarm bells ringing amongst her friends and psychiatrist by talking of ‘ending it all’. The play, based on real events, was to have premiered in 2020 but Covid caused a postponement. Rehearsed Reading presentations are being held over 18 months to commemorate ‘Marilyn 60’, the 60th anniversary of the icon’s death. They are taking place around the world; UK, USA and India to name just a few. On Friday I was privileged to be part of an invited audience to see the Welsh Premiere reading of the play by Telstars Theatre Company in Cardiff. The author, P T Rose, was in the audience along with Karen Struel-White, the producer and organiser of ‘Marilyn 60’ The play features three Marilyns, her family and her carers at the clinic and portrays her personal struggles with childhood trauma, mental illness, and addiction. This was beautifully done by Telstars and Teresa McCarthy, the director, used costume, make-up and simple but effective lighting to enhance the reading and frankly, we were so absorbed by the story and the excellence of the performances that I forgot it was a reading and that they were holding books. The three Marilyns, played brilliantly by Victoria Hughes, Kimberley Littlechild and Hafwen Hibbard were all excellent with real contrasting characters. They portrayed the Marilyn Monroe 1 (Victoria) whose mental health was clearly influenced by the dysfunctional family life of her early years. We saw the iconic Marilyn Monroe, (Kimberley) “I’m Marilyn Monroe. Isn’t a man in this world doesn’t want me?” And the young Norma Jeane, the child bride, (Hafwen) who married Jim, her first husband to escape abandonment by her mother. The rest of the cast played the people in her life: Gladys, her mother; a scene stealing performance by Kay Baber. And Marion, her uncle who died when she was young, and was someone she never knew. He was the linchpin that held the story together as the various other people in Marilyn’s life appear to her in her room. Another excellent piece of work from Gavin Dando who was Marilyn’s conscience/ memory/ and tormentor, as she relives her past relationships. The whole cast gave credibility to the play which is beautifully written, very well paced and which I, and I think the whole audience, was riveted by. There was so much I didn’t know about her story and I found the whole play absolutely absorbing and also disturbing. On the way home, the discussion turned to the importance of family, love and our upbringing; to the ‘Me Too’ movement and Harvey Weinstein; to Judy Garland and the use of drugs by studios to keep their stars, (especially the female ones) in line; control, manipulation and the lies that were sold to audiences about the stars and their lives. So, this play is also extremely relevant and current. I am sure that this play will be performed again in your area. Go and see it, you will not be disappointed. Jan Samuels.
