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We’re thrilled for our boy @richardmylan.bsky.social 💥🫶🙌 #MumFighter by Tracy Harris #BestDirector

We are shortlisted for The Arts, Business & Health Award for our engagement with partners Cerebra & Swansea Carers Centre. Ahead of tomorrows awards we would like to say a huge thankyou to Swansea Council Creative Swansea Swansea Grand Theatre for all their support to date. 💥#MadeINSwansea

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Delighted to be shortlisted in the Arts, Business and Health Category for our work in partnership on 'MumFighter' by Tracy Harris with @cerebracharity.bsky.social & #SwanseaCarersCentre for the #aandbcymru Awards 2025. https://aandb.cymru/ab-cymru-awards-2025/ @SwanseaCouncil @SwanseaGrandTheatre

An iphone screenshot of the headline of the Buzz review: Hot Chicks Grand Ambition's latest social realist drama is a must-watch. In a production dhot from the show below, Kyla & Ruby peer a phone screen, looks of mild disgust on their faces. The chicken shops neon sign glares Open behind them

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ "Hard-hitting theatre with heart is becoming Grand Ambition’s faultless MO...this latest work... is up there with Netflix’s frequently lauded Adolescence as a must-watch show for both parents and teenagers"
Full review:
www.buzzmag.co.uk/hot-chicks-stage-review-...

Hot Chicks Audio Flyer Swansea Grand Hot Chicks Audio Flyer for Swansea Grand Theatre Transcript: Hello, I am Michelle and I will be audio describing the Hot Chicks show presented by the Sherman Theatre and Grand Ambition. Hot Chicks

This is the first time we've been able to offer both for a Grand Ambition show at the Grand, and we're really excited.

Here's the audio flyer for the performance tonight.

The very lovely Michelle Perez will be leading touch tours and audio describing Hot Chicks for tonight's 7.30pm performance at  Swansea Grand Theatre. Touch tours and audio description are brilliant tools for making theatre performances accessible for Blind and partially sighted audiences.

Hot Chicks BSL Trailer This is "Hot Chicks BSL Trailer" by Sherman Theatre on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.

We have two performances of Hot Chicks today - 2.30pm & 7.30pm.

Tonight's performance at Swansea Grand Theatre will be BSL interpreted- interpreter Julie Doyle.
There will also be audio description from Michelle Perez.
All performances are captioned.

Hot Chicks review – a powerful tale of exploitation and lost innocence – CASCADE “Whatever they want, it’s on me” chimes Sadie, as she starts her grooming of vulnerable 15 year olds Ruby and Kyla, in Cheney’s chicken shop, based in Swansea.  Two girls from backgrounds of implied poverty and neglect are dazzled by the generosity, power and glamour of this previously unse...

Read the full Cascade review here, and see why experts are saying Hot Chicks by Rebecca Jade Hammond is essential viewing: cascadewales.org/hot-chicks-review-a-powe...

Book now at Swansea Grand Theatre Runs until Friday.

"This is a must see production, for practitioners working with vulnerable young people, for teachers, for parents of adolescents, and importantly for young people themselves to become aware of the temptation and traps of exploitation" Dr Nina Maxwell, leading expert on Child Criminal Exploitation.

ARGAELEDD DIWEDDARAF: Mae ambell i docyn prin ar ôl ar gyfer Hot Chicks gan Rebecca Jade Hammond, ein cyd-gynhyrchiad gyda Theatr Y Sherman, ar gyfer y perfformiadau canlynol: Heddi' (22/04) 7.30pm, Yfory (23/04) 6.30pm, Dydd Iau (24/04) 2.30pm & 7.30pm (IAP/DS) a Dydd Gwen.(25/04) 2.30pm & 7.30pm.

LATEST AVAILABILITY: Final tickets remain for Hot Chicks by Rebecca Jade Hammond, our co-production with Sherman Theatre, for the following performances only: Today (22/04) 7.30pm, tomorrow (23/04) 6.30pm, Thursday (24/04) 2.30pm & 7.30pm (BSL/AD) and Friday (25/04) 2.30pm & 7.30pm.

The feedback wall has become a bit of a regular feature at GA productions, and now Hot Chicks, our coproduction with Sherman Theatre, has landed at Swanse Grand Theatre, the comments are beginning to roll in. Here's a selection from last week.

Until 25th April
🎟️ www.swanseagrand.co.uk

Photograph of HOT CHICKS production. Two people dressed in school uniform look at a phone, with a neon OPEN sign behind them.

Morriston Comprehensive Performing Arts Tutors discuss @grandambition.bsky.social & Sherman Theatre's coproduction HOT CHICKS by Rebecca Jade Hammond, directed by Hannah Noone.

Catch HOT CHICKS at Swansea Grand Theatre April 16 - 25 - get your tickets now!

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Lovely to see this Swansea story in the Grand today. 4 actors, wonderful story telling, the only unbelievable thing about it was the high scoring hygiene rating on the chicken shop window. Catch it this week. Another triumph for the team at @grandambition.bsky.social

Review Hot Chicks, Sherman Theatre, Grand Ambition by Richard E Rock - Get The Chance When I was a kid (which was a very long time ago), ask any schoolboy what he wanted to be when he grew up and he would reply, ‘a footballer’. What any schoolgirl at that time might have answered I never discovered, as such social mixing was kept very much to a minimum. A pop … Continue reading Review Hot Chicks, Sherman Theatre, Grand Ambition by Richard E Rock →

"funny, witty, touching and horrifying in equal measure"
Swansea author Richard E. Rock, came along to see Hot Chicks at Swansea Grand last week. Here's his review

Fantastic feedback from Swansea legendary production designer Ed Thomas (Dr Who, Da Vinci's Demons, Last Voyage of the Demeter). This means the world to us. Diolch Ed!

📍Swansea Grand
🗓️ Until 25th April
🎟️ www.swanseagrand.co.uk/hotchicks

Swansea! This weather is grim, right? Whilst the beach is off the cards for all but the most determined of you, we have a nice (dry) alternative to being cooped up at home all holidays! 
Book online today.

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The feedback wall has become a bit of a regular feature at GA productions, and now Hot Chicks, our coproduction with Sherman Theatre, has landed at Swanse Grand Theatre, the comments are beginning to roll in. Here's a selection from last's night's packed preview...

Have a read of the full review over on their website, and book your ticket before it's too late!
playstosee.com/reviews/uk-reviews/hot-c...

📆16-25th April
🎟️ Swansea Grand Theatre

"Bold and Ambitious"

With just one day to go until our Swansea preview, the brilliant people over at Plays to See have shared a blazing review of Rebecca Jade Hammond's new drama, from it's premiere run with our coproducers Sherman Theatre

Have a read of the full review over on their website, and book your ticket before it's too late!
playstosee.com/reviews/uk-reviews/hot-c...

📆16-25th April
🎟️ Swansea Grand Theatre

Hot Chicks opens at Swansea Grand tomorrow!

With just one day to go until our Swansea preview, the brilliant people over at Plays to See have shared a blazing review of Rebecca Jade Hammond's "never safe, often funny" new drama, from it's premiere run with our coproducers, Sherman Theatre.

Check out this wonderful new play that opens at Swansea Grand Theatre on 16th April - more information www.swanseagrand.co.uk/HotChicks

@grandambition.bsky.social #theatre #swansea #arts

Who fancies a game of where are we?? We've got Hot Chicks posters here there and everywhere, but can you tell where in Swansea we filmed this mystery bus stop? Let us know in the comments and add any that you've spotted yourself: 🚏Ble mae'r safle bws hwn?🚏

Here's what audiences at Sherman Theatre thought of Hot Chicks. Book now to see the show right here in Swansea!
www.swanseagrand.co.uk/hotchicks

We're looking forward to sharing it with Swansea audiences from 16th -25th of this month at Swansea Grand Theatre. www.swanseagrand.co.uk/hotchicks

Parents in Wales warned of 'very real danger' to children in powerful message A critically-acclaimed play explores how 'chicken shop gangs' are recruiting children to deal drugs and be part of organised crime gangs, with the offer of free food

Thanks to Wales Online for this interview with Hot Chicks writer Rebecca Jade Hammond, explaining more about how she came to write the play, which is a coproduction between ourselves and Sherman Theatre.

Theatre review: Hot Chicks Jon Gower Grand Ambition, the Swansea-based theatre company has been around since 2021 which is long enough to see a pattern in their work. There is the energy to begin with – high octane performances are pretty much de rigeur. Then there is the deeply rooted sense of place, in the writing, the actors and […]

Our last Cardiff review for Hot Chicks by Rebecca Jade Hammond has landed. Penned by the author of ACW's English Language Theatre in Wales Review, this Nation Cymru review gives a few clues as to why we had so many sell out shows in Cardiff.