As well as organising the production of on average two performances a year, the Really Cuckoo Company also participates in a range of other projects, including events for charity and helping out with community work.
Here are some of our other achievements from the past 14 years.

Cuckoo Stayawake 2008

Risca Carnival 2007

Cuckoo Sponsored Silence

B&Q "You Can Do It" Award

Cuckoo Sponsored Walk

Cuckoo Sponsored Stay Awake

We are a dedicated group of individuals aged from 8 years and above who are committed to taking part and producing shows that astound and amaze whilst allowing its enthusiastic performers to blossom.
We aim to provide young people with a safe haven where they will receive encouragement and support to participate in amateur dramatic productions as much as their self confidence will allow.
We hope to encourage the children to develop a strong sense of community feeling and to learn to interact socially with each other and with the adults in a positive manner. Our endeavour is to develop a sense of teamwork throughout rehearsals and especially at show time.

For many of our members the company becomes an extended family, and this means a lot to us.

You may wonder at the origins of our name, The Really Cuckoo Company, and I think it would be fair to say that there are three distinct reasons for the choice.

In deference to Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Really Useful Theatre Company from the early 1980’s, we commandeered the word Really, closely followed by the word Cuckoo, out of respect for the folk tale concerning the people of Risca, a small town close to Newport and set in the valleys of South Wales.

In this tale, the people of Risca associated the happy days of spring and summer with the cuckoo’s song, and therefore decided to build a high hedge around the community to prevent her from leaving. Needless to say, they were on a hiding to nothing and could only watch in dismay as the cuckoo flew over the hedge, taking the tired sun with her in her beak. Hence, the nickname for the locals became the Risca Cuckoos.

Of course, as the years have gone by, those of us who are voluntarily involved in the running of the company and the production of the shows have come to the conclusion that we all must be well and truly cuckoo to keep coming back for more – but we wouldn’t want it any other way.

What we have created in this small valley’s community, involving so many young people over the years, is a credit to the dedication and commitment of the adult members.

A major benefit that we have found with the name is that it does tend to stick in your memory and usually guarantees to bring a smile to someone’s face – and that can’t be bad, can it?