Contemporary Welsh Plays Tonypandemonium, The Radicalisation of Bradley Manning, Gardening: For the Unfulfilled and Alienated, Llwyth (in Welsh), Parallel Lines, Bruised

by Trevannion, Matthew; Trezise, Rachel; Price, Tim; Wasserberg, Kate

• ISBN13: 9781472576583
• ISBN10: 1472576586
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2015-04-23
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Methuen Drama

Summary

Recent years have seen an explosion of new Welsh writing for the stage. With the advent of Theatr Genedlaethol Cymru in 2003 and the launch of National Theatre Wales in 2009, there has been a tectonic shift in Welsh theatre and its perception.

Wales has famously celebrated its poets and novelists, but in the twenty-first century, it is the playwright asking the crucial questions. Never before have there been so many playwrights of all ages, from across Wales, finding the stage to be the home for their stories.

This collection is the first to officially recognise this new wave of Welsh playwrights. It showcases a wide range of forms, themes and political concerns, as well as representing the most exciting voices at the forefront of Welsh drama, taking the temperature on what be considered to be the first golden age of Welsh playwriting.

Tonypandemonium by Rachel Trezise
The Radicalisation of Bradley Manning by Tim Price
Gardening for the Unfulfilled and Alienated by Brad Birch
Llwyth by Dafydd James (published in Welsh)
Parallel Lines by Katherine Chandler
Bruised by Matthew Trevannion

Featured in the volume are the following plays, along with a foreword by Professor David Ian Rabey of Aberystwyth University, and an introduction by the editors, Tim Price and Kate Wasserberg.

Author Biography

Tim Price is a former journalist from the South Wales Valleys. His theatre credits include: For Once (Pentabus, Hampstead Theatre and national tour), Salt Root and Roe (Donmar Warehouse, Trafalgar Studios), Demos (Traverse Theatre), Will and George shortlisted for the Verity Bargate Award 2011, Café Cariad (National Youth Theatre of Wales), and The Radicalisation of Bradley Manning which was first performed on 12 April 2012 at Tasker Milward VC School, Haverfordwest, as part of National Theatre Wales. In 2013, he won the inaugural James Tait Black award for drama for his play The Radicalisation of Bradley Manning.

Table of Contents

The anthology includes the following:

Llwyth by Dafydd James (in Welsh)
Parallel Lines by Katherine Chandler
Salt, Root and Roe by Tim Price
Light Arrested Between the Curtain and the Glass by Brad Birch
Blackthorn by Gary Owen
In Water I'm Weightless by Kaite O'Reilly