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Yogi Creative perform for Midsummer Festival

South Wales graphic design company Yogi Creative have secured the contract for design and branding for the open air Midsummer Festival of Music & Theatre event for the third year running. The festival is an annual event held once again in the theatre garden at Dyffryn Gardens, St Nicholas, and will take place over a two week period in June.

Yogi’sOperations Director Andrew Marsh says “we carry out design contracts across a wide range of market sectors and across the UK, however the festival project is a particularly enjoyable one for us because of the the locality of the event, the challenge of incorporating a variety of events under one branded banner, and of course, the entertaining subject matter!”

Andrew Marsh
Yogi Creative
029 2046 0234
andrew@yogicreative.com
www.yogicreative.com

   
       
       
       
         
         
                   
     
Midsummer Festival operates paperless ticketless theatre booking system for the third year running

In an attempt to be as environmentally friendly as possible, particularly in view of the natural surroundings in which this festival is located, we are delighted to announce that we are once again operating a ticket-less booking system for this event in partnership with Ticketsource.

When a booking is made, the booking name is automatically (electronically) placed on our front of house list for the appropriate performance, and an e-mail confirmation is automatically sent to the audience member to confirm all booking details. A unique reference number is issued for extra peace of mind if required.

Entry to the performance is by booking name, which we automatically tally with the names on our list when the audience member arrives.

Re-useable wooden tokens (wood from a sustainable source) are then issued to all arrivals checked against the list, in order to allow entry to the Theatre Garden.

No paper, no fuss and no waste!

   
       
       
 
       
       
       
       
       
       
       
 
   
     
 
     
Simon H West to direct Gilbert & Sullivan for Midsummer Festival

For the first time, the Midsummer Festival will be taking their Gilbert & Sullivan production in-house this year, under the watchful and experienced eye of director Simon H. West.

Originally from Cardiff, Simon's interest in theatre led him to train as a professional Director, and he comes to the Midsummer Festival fresh from a six month period directing the pantomime season at London's Barbican Theatre.

Festival Artistic Director John Manders says "In previous years, while we were growing the festival, we decided to keep our house productons manageable, producing just the Shakespeare and the schools and family productions ourselves. Concept Players kindly came in under our umbrella to perform the G & S for us. This year, however, we were ready to take it on ourselves.

Keen to perform The Pirates of Penzance this year, the company were lucky enough to find that this coincided with Simon West being back in Cardiff. "The timing is just right for us, and Simon has attracted a range of fabulous 'voices' to our cast - we're very excited about the show!" says John.