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Green in Black
As a tribute to Cecily Tyson, who died on 28 January 2021, we re-publish this article from New Welsh Review 86, winter 2009. The year 2009 has seen a …
Read moreEarly Twentieth-century Welsh Plays in English, Vol 1: ‘A Dirty Broth’
The first volume of a two-book series devoted to Welsh writing for the theatre, A Dirty Broth, contains the complete texts of just three plays. You m …
Read moreLocating the Audience: How People Found Value in National Theatre Wales
The opening chapter is a fascinating analysis of why and how audiences should be studied through a thought-provoking explanation of burning issues in …
Read moreThe Wolf Tattoo
However hard the playwright tries, the theatre tends to be us and them. Usually, the audience return to a St Mellons, a Pontprennau or a Birchgrove. T …
Read moreTroelus a Chresyd
As an actor who has been styling out ruff, doublet, and breeches for a few years and whose mother tongue is Welsh, I’ve always been a bit jealous that …
Read moreAnd Suddenly I Disappear: The Singapore ‘d’ Monologues
18/9/17: We arrive into Singapore at the end of the Month of the Hungry Ghosts. Flaming braziers sit on street corners and outside temples. Paper mone …
Read moreThe Ape on the Rock
In taxis and nightclubs. On railway bridges and in libraries. Walking through a British military range in the Brecon Beacons, or investigating a terra …
Read moreThe Map and the Clock
Sitting in Aberystwyth’s Arts Centre’s Theatre Bar Café, way too early for the theatre doors to open, I think about who goes to poetry recitals. That …
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