Undeb Theatre

Fresh from Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, Undeb Theatre have already made a brilliant name for themselves on the Cardiff arts scene.
Made up of the incredibly friendly Tom Cullen and Alex Vlahos, the company pull in a spectrum of Wales’ finest writers and performers and make theatre which is exciting, relevant and moving. It is also, perhaps most importantly, absolute barrels of fun.
Frustrated with what Cardiff had to offer and keen to make works that their mates would actually want to go and see, the two Artistic Directors decided to use their college contacts to make performances to change the face of Welsh theatre.
They certainly have the vision and, fortunately for us all, have proved themselves full of the imagination and energy necessary to make truly genre defying pieces.
Now they have been welcomed as resident theatre company at Cardiff Arts Institute, Cullen and Vlahos have seized the opportunity to blur the boundaries between theatre and a casual night out. As a result of their aims and their talent, their work tends to be charmingly interactive and seriously cutting-​edge.
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I first discovered Undeb Theatre Co. at the Cardiff Identity Festival where I was also performing last month. They are a young and feisty writing and performing theatre company who have taken up residence in Cardiff Arts Institute, the heart of the city’s cultural revolution.
Founded in 2009 by Artistic Directors, Tom Cullen and Alexander Vlahos with the aim of bringing exciting, quality work to new audiences at non-​theatre venues.
In their own words: ‘Undeb started because we we’re frustrated at the lack of theatre that spoke to us; it was expensive, irrelevant & boring. Theatre that our mates didn’t want to see; pretentious and intimidating. For us it’s all about the event, a night out where you can relax, drink, dance, chat and watch some excellent theatre.‘
As such Undeb work with new writers, directors and actors. They workshop full length plays and offer first time writers a chance to develop their work. So far the results I’ve seen have been impressive and engaging from the CAI event, to the Balloon madness that was Harder, Better, Faster, Rhondda at Clwb Ifor Bach. Their latest theatre experience is selling out fast.