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Nearly twenty years ago, work began on the Yemeni Community Centre in the heart of old Butetown.

But almost two decades on, the director of the facility, which serves hundreds of people from around Cardiff every month, is reluctant to stop and celebrate.

Although women make up 52 per cent of the population, men write 83 per cent of plays, according to feminist theatre company Sphinx.

Now Lisa Parry, artistic director for Agent 160, an exciting new female writer-led company, aims to change all this.

STAR QUALITY is a play within a play, adapted from a 1951 short story and unproduced 1967 script by writer, wit and bon vivante Noël Coward.

It tells the story of troubled West End production Dark Heritage as its cast, author and director struggle to lift it above the mediocre.

Leading lady Lorraine Barrie, played as a whirl of ego, preciousness and coquetry by Liza Goddard, battles with director Ray Malcolm (Daniel Casey of Midsummer Murders fame) for creative control of the play.

Shame stars Michael Fassbender as 30-something Manhattan yuppie and sex-addict Brandon Sullivan who sates his carnal cravings in and around a nondescript but high-powered service job - so far, so American Psycho.

But British director Steve McQueen’s second feature film is less a satire on vapid consumerism than a study of one man’s crippling struggle with compulsion. When not engaged in joyless sex with strangers or prostitutes, Sullivan is watching porn or ogling naked women on video chat.

Cardiff council has installed an interim executive board in a failing primary school in order to turn it around.

The replacement of St Alban’s RC primary school’s governors with an executive board yesterday is the first time this measure has been used in Wales.

The troubled Tremorfa school was put under special measures in November after Estyn inspectors uncovered “systemic failures” at all levels of leadership and management over a three-year period.

The Noah's Ark Appeal has revealed a 71 per cent drop in money raised from charity clothes bags after a spree of thefts from bogus collectors.

The children's charity tries to raise £100,000 each year from the clothes bags to help equip and support the Children's Hospital for Wales, based at the Cardiff Royal Infirmary in Newport Road. It has seen a significant blow after the shocking number of recent thefts from outside homes in Cardiff.

Director: Peter Rowe
Musical Director: Greg Palmer
Choreographer: Francesca Jaynes

Guys and Dolls is an energetic and entertaining production which sees the worlds of the Salvation Army missionary and the lowlife craps player collide on the streets of New York with comical consequences.

Cast members double up as the onstage musicians to provide a welcome change from the traditional formula.

The all-singing, all-dancing guys and dolls leave audience members feeling the urge to get up and join in.

Devolution has failed to save Wales's struggling economy, according to one of the country's top business figures.

In an interview with the The Cardiffian, David Rosser, director of the Confederation of British Industry Wales, said poor economic performance was probably the greatest disappointment of devolved government so far.

His comments come just two days before voters decide on whether to shift more power from Westminster to the Assembly.

Bed bugs have been so prominent in the media in recent years, they might have Max Clifford doing their PR.