SHERMAN Cymru has announced its Spring 2015 season, with artistic director, Rachel O’Riordan, saying it is focused on celebrating new writing from Wales as well as quality theatre from across the UK.

Sherman Cymru is working with some of the freshest, emerging new talent, including Swansea based sketch company Double Dipp. They will be bringing their hilarious stand up characters to the Sherman to wipe away the January blues in Pick ‘N’ Mixx on January 28.

Paines Plough, in association with the theatre, bring their new writing interactive Come To Where I’m From exhibition from February 18 until March 12.

Discover candid, hilarious and insightful podcasts dotted along an interactive map of the UK. Choose a location, pop on some headphones, sit back and listen to short plays be the nation’s top playwrights about the place they call home.

Listen through headphones in the Sherman Theatre foyer to various stories from James Graham’s paean to the lost mining industry in his native Mansfield; wander into Gurpreet Kaur Bhatti’s garrulous family home in Watford or let Tim Price share tales of Cardiff.

This free event will be available to visitors during their opening hours.

Sherman Cymru will be curating the work of some of Wales’s finest theatre companies. In time for the Rugby Six Nations, there will be two productions at the Sherman Theatre with a rugby theme.

National Theatre Wales, Out of Joint and Arcola Theatre with Sherman Cymru have produced a new play based on the story of Welsh Rugby legend Gareth ‘Alfie’ Thomas. Working with Alfie himself, and young people in Bridgend, the two exciting theatre companies have teamed up to tell a great Welsh story about sports, politics, secrets, life, and learning to be yourself in the world premiere of Crouch, Touch, Pause, Engage from February 19 until March 7.

For the first time the Sherman will be presenting work at the Dance House, Wales Millennium Centre. The incredible Ultima Vez will be performing What The Body Does Not Remember on February 20 and 21.

The theatre’s playwright in residence, Katherine Chandler has written a new play, Hood, as part of the National Theatre Connections Festival which will be performed by Sherman Youth Theatre from February 25 to 28 before the Sherman becomes the regional venue for the National Theatre Connections Festival on April 11 and 12.

During the NT Connections Festival local young groups will perform one of the 10 plays written by the 10 commissioned by the National Theatre for this year’s Connections Festival.

For full details and listings of shows please visit www.shermancymru.co.uk or contact the ticket office on 02920 646900.