{"id":19793,"date":"2025-09-16T11:54:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-16T11:54:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/19793\/"},"modified":"2025-09-16T11:54:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T11:54:06","slug":"first-image-released-of-michael-sheen-as-owain-glyndwr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/19793\/","title":{"rendered":"First image released of Michael Sheen as Owain Glynd\u0175r"},"content":{"rendered":"

The first image of Michael Sheen as Owain Glynd\u0175r has been released to mark the annual day honouring the last Welsh-born Prince of Wales.<\/p>\n

Owain & Henry, a new play exploring Glynd\u0175r’s 15th Century rebellion against English rule, is one of the first productions announced by Welsh National Theatre, Sheen’s own company and co-produced with Wales Millennium Centre.<\/p>\n

Glynd\u0175r<\/a>, a symbol of Welsh nationalism, is remembered in statues, monuments and place names across Wales.<\/p>\n

Sheen, who has previously said the Royal Family should give up the Prince of Wales title, said he would portray Glynd\u0175r as “the iconic Welsh prince”.<\/p>\n

Sheen, who as an actor is best known for transforming into characters including Prince Andrew, David Frost and Tony Blair, previously said he was “incredibly excited”<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“It’s the play that tells the exact story that I want this national theatre company to be able to tell, on the second biggest stage in Europe,” he added. <\/p>\n

Born in Port Talbot, Sheen explained how Owain & Henry was “one of the origin stories of our nation, as relevant in today’s complex world as it was when Glynd\u0175r declared Wales an independent nation 600 years ago”. <\/p>\n

An audio release was also posted on social media which shows Sheen speaking as Glynd\u0175r for the first time. <\/p>\n

The play by Welsh playwright Gary Owen is believed to be the first time the story of Glynd\u0175r has been tackled by a dramatist for a large-scale production, with the prince as the main character.<\/p>\n

It will be performed at Wales Millennium Centre in Cardiff in November 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The first image of Michael Sheen as Owain Glynd\u0175r has been released to mark the annual day honouring…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19794,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[458,146,85,46],"class_list":["post-19793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-il","tag-israel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19793\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}