Cardiff Bay

Circle of Fifths (National Theatre of Wales)

“I go on a bright journey when I play music. If I’m in a dark place, I’m not in that dark place no more.”

Many of us have been in a dark place in the past couple of years. Missing the usual rituals that mark a death makes it harder to grieve fully. Circle of Fifths is less a conventional theatre production and more a cathartic space to honour the dead and acknowledge our loss. The crowd gather, in the Butetown tradition, by a brightly decorated coffin. The celebration begins.