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SOUTH WALES SECRETS #38:
Touch Rugby Season
The comedian, and mind behind new comedy
show The Committee Meeting, Chris Corcoran
reveals his South Wales Secret.
“It’s been quite an exciting sort of journey with
The Committee,” recalls Chris Corcoran. “I was
chatting to Greg Davies and he said, ‘Why don’t
you just do your own show in the valleys, come up
with a format, think of what it would be and just
do it?’
“It is a bit panto-y, it is a loose format, whereby it’s
all scripted and we can do the show. It works both
ways, sort of thing.”
In the show, which mimics the atmosphere of a
Welsh social club committee meeting, Corcoran
is joined by fellow welsh comedian Elis James.
“Elis has this bizarre ability to speak with a voice
of a 1950s health and safety park caretaker,” says
Corcoran. “It’s bizarre and probably verging on
some extraordinary talent.”
After a hugely successful run at the Edinburgh
Festival, The Committee Meeting is now touring
around the towns and cities of Wales.
“We started it off in Pontypridd, at the Muni Arts
Centre,” Corcoran explains. “When we took it to
Edinburgh, it was the first time we sort of dipped
our toe outside the borders of Wales. Then there
was a ‘eureka!’ exciting moment which was that
it worked!
“Whilst it is based in a Welsh valleys social club, and
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therefore the nuances and references are all pretty
Welsh, all it means is that Welsh audiences get it
quicker. There’s never any idiots in a Welsh audience,
they’re always bang up for it and having a laugh.
“I’ve been heckled with phrases from real
committee meetings, like ‘can I have a pint?’ and
‘your presence on the floor Mr. Chairman’.”
Much like his show, Corcoran’s choice of South
Wales Secret is a bit of a surprise as it isn’t a
place, but the Touch Rugby season.
“It’s a growing sport,” he says. “It’s mixed, women
and men, and it’s just played by the nicest cultured
people in the world.
“You invent your own team so we’re called the
‘Escargot Turbo’, which is a reference to the point
that we’re old. The Welsh setup, though, is taken
more seriously; it’s done by proper coaches, but it
is tonnes and tonnes of fun.”
“It’s just brilliant. And so the more people that play
the better really. So that’s my little secret.”
Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff Bay, Wed
27 + Thurs 28 Nov. Tickets: £8-£12. Info: 029
2063 6464 / www.wmc.org.uk. | Grand Theatre,
Swansea, Fri 6 Dec. Tickets: £12. Info: 01792
475715 / www.swansea.gov.uk
Welsh-made
psychological
horror game Master Reboot is
quickly becoming the centre
of indie video game attention.
It is the first console game
to ever be designed with the
option of having the full game
in Welsh. The award winning
developers, Wales Interactive,
have become Wales’s biggest
video game developer in just 18
months and are hosting Master
Reboot’s launch party on Fri 1
Nov. During the launch keen
gamers are also encouraged to
view and play the game which
is both fresh and frightening.
The game revolves around the
idea of being able to keep your
soul and favourite memories
after death in a place called the
Soul Cloud. When something
goes horribly wrong (as it’s
bound to in any game) your soul
and memories are destroyed.
The ‘anti-viruses’ see you as
a threat to the Soul Cloud and
create horrific obstacles for you
to overcome with puzzles and
adventure. LS
Master Reboot Launch,
Porters Bar, Cardiff, Fri 1
Nov. Info: 01656 858412
www.walesinteractive.com