National Theatre Wales new site specific piece of work explored the streets and stories of Butetown Cardiff. Showing the diverse range of people, and their lives this interesting story began by showing how such a wonderful multicultural society first came into being, through the docks. The journey started at the Wales Millennium Centre and as you walked through the main doors the reception was bathed in a marine blue light. A man with a megaphone was urging people to get their boarding passes and with ticket in hand you had to join the line to go through the joys of customs.

A boarding pass with the time you would start your taxi ride was handed to you, and then stamped before you joined a new line to have your photograph taken. Once you had undergone that ordeal you could explore the holding area. Characters mingled and interacted with the audience, and wonderful projections mixing old and new photographs of the area were displayed on the wall.

Soon it was time for a taxi ride and when leaving the WMC the image of the fleet of taxis waiting to whisk the audience away was incredible. The story now turns into a radio play, where we hear about a man searching for his father. While on the ride beautiful images lit in green and purple light were highlighted outside.

Once the story was over we were dropped off at The Coal Exchange, to experience a wake. A letter was handed to us, from father to son, and we had to watch as a family mourned the passing of ‘Tiger Bay’, a man who lived for his community.

Although there were some brilliant moments, including getting the whole audience dancing and ending the performance with a reggae party, there did seem to be a lot of waiting around, and not quite enough to keep audiences members entertained for long stretches of time. It was however a brilliant way to introduce large numbers of people to site specific work.