A script-held performance directed by the author, performed by students from the Department of Theatre, Film and Television Studies, UW Aberystwyth. Botticelli’s Bonfire is set in Renaissance Florence amid a climate of religious fear, where a group of groundbreaking artists find their work despised, repressed and destroyed.
Directed by Greg Cullen
Paradise Drive’s political and cultural context is clearly redolent of the 1980s. Spanning the entire decade, the play focuses on a series of difficult and painful family occasions, which bring to the surface dark and hitherto unacknowledged emotions. The play was first performed by Hijinx Theatre Company in February 1989.
Directed by David Prince
Franco’s Bastard is a richly written and very funny play looking at the absurdities of nationalism through the eyes of Carlo- a romantic fascist who believes himself to be the illegitimate son of General Franco and ‘ a horse owner and citizen of Rome’. It was first performed by Sgript Cymru in 2002.
Directed by Michael Kelligan
A Birthday tribute to Mark Jenkins.Nora’s Bloke was first performed by Everyman Theatre at Llanover Hall in 2003. It was directed by Leslie Hoban Blake. Rosebud – The Lives of Orson Welles was first produced in 2004 for the Edinburgh Fringe festival starring Christian Mckay and directed by Josh Richards. Playing Burton was first produced in 1992 by David Bidmead at the Etcetera Theatre, London, starring Josh Richards, directed by Hugh Thomas
In Sunshine and in Shadow is the second play in Alan Osborne’s Merthyr Trilogy. “.. shot through with intensity and honesty, a powerful play”- Western Mail
Directed by Michael Kelligan