Welcome to Wales Arts Review’s Best of 2018. Over the last few weeks we have been nominating our top selections across the arts of Wales, and now we are very exited to announce our numbers ones in each category.
Best of 2018:
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Best Theatre Production
All But Gone (The Other Room)
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Best Opera
War and Peace (Welsh National Opera)
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Best Dance
Passion (National Dance Company Wales & Music Theatre Wales)
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Book of the Year
A Simple Scale (Seren) by David Llewellyn
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Young Persons Book of the Year
The Clockwork Crow (Firefly) by Catherine Fisher
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Best in Visual Arts
This Inconstant State by Shani Rhys James (Connaught Brown Gallery, London)
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Welsh Album of the Year
Echo the Red – Accü (Libertino Records)
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