ROALD DAHL’S CITY OF THE UNEXPECTED
About the City of the Unexpected
September 2016 / Cardiff
ROALD DAHL’S CITY OF THE UNEXPECTED
In September 2016, more than 120,000 people attended Wales’ largest ever cultural event, staged to celebrate the centenary of Roald Dahl. With over 7,000 people performing, making and volunteering, Roald Dahl’s City of the Unexpected was a totally surprising celebration of the man, his characters and his stories.
The Welsh capital – where Roald Dahl was born on 13 September 1906 – became a place where reality was turned on its head, and where the laws of physics, logic and the predictable gave way to magic, fun, invention and the surreal, as if Dahl himself was at the helm.
Participants and audience members immersed themselves in everything from large-scale events to intimate performances – all staged across Cardiff’s streets and public spaces, in shops and arcades, at iconic buildings and parks.
Creative Team
Nigel Jamieson
Creative Director
Dan Potra
Production Designer
Jeanefer Jean-Charles
Mass Movement Director
David Mahoney
Music Supervisor
John Norton
Participation Director
Mathilde López
Lina Johansson
Associate Directors
Partick Dineen
Original Composition
Daf James
Original Music and Lyrics
Mike Beer
Sound Designer
Rob and Matt Vale, Illuminos
Production Designers
Matt Wright
Digital Designer, The Bulletin
Ceri James
Lighting Designer