Greg Cullen [writer / director]Cardiff |
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| 1979-83 Worked variously as an actor, director and writer with The East End Theatre Group, Harlow Theatre Van, Chats Palace Community Arts Centre Hackney and The Grove Theatre Hammersmith. 1979 THE FLYBOYS Not produced. Culture clash in post-revolutionary Angola. 1980-81 THE BAR - THE EAST END THEATRE GROUP Writer/director. Tourists as cultural imperialists. Musical theatre. Composer Tam Neal. 1981 SPIV - EAST END THEATRE GROUP A take on A Christmas Carol. 1981 HANSEL AND GRETEL GROVE THEATRE . Christmas show. 1982 FOR THE BENEFIT OF - CHATS PALACE. BREAKFAST IN AMERICA - CHATS PALACE. A PIECE OF EAST - CHATS PALACE Writer/director. Three large scale multi media community events exploring popular culture, American culture and the history of post-war immigration into the East End respectively. 1982 ORDER! - CHATS PALACE YOUTH THEATRE Writer/director. A musical play set during the rehearsal for a school play. 1982 DOZY ROSY AND THE MAGIC SAMURAI - GROVE THEATRE + TOUR - Writer/director. Music by Tam Neal. A friendless girl gets taken back in time. a clever man is Mr. Cullen, using tricks and treats from all kinds of theatre, plus a good helping of his own originality and moulding them into 80 minutes of sparkling entertainment 1983 FLAMING LIBERTY! CHATS PALACE YOUTH THEATRE Writer/director. Six young women go to the youth club; some to escape their parents, others as an alibi for burglary and one who has lost a bomb addressed to Mrs Thatcher. 1983 APPOINTED WRITER IN RESIDENCE FOR THEATR POWYS THE SNOW QUEEN THEATR POWYS Middle scale tour. Music by James Machie An unqualified artistic success Western Mail 1984 THE BRIDE OF BARON DUPRAV - THEATR POWYS A Gothic Horror comedy of sexual bad manners. A fine little cameo of a comedy The Guardian 1984 PAST CARING THEATR POWYS A TIE project exploring change. Writer/director 1984 ALADDIN THEATR POWYS Music by Tam Neal. A musical version incorporating traditional Chinese myths and theatre traditions. 1985 TAKEN OUT THEATR POWYS A bereaved family visit the site of the Sir Galahad disaster after the Falklands War. Cullens technical ingenuity and inventive organisation of large themes, and the extent to which he reveals the nature of loss in war, is very strong an emotionally power-packed occasion The Guardian. 1985 TAKEN OUT BBC RADIO. Winner of a Sony award. Networked on Radio 4. (five broadcasts). Taken Out is remarkable not only for its delicate and unflinching articulation of personal loss, but also for the immediacy of its pursuit of this loss back to political causes The Listener. 1985 SHERLOCK GNOME AND THE EGG SNATCHERS MASQUERADE THEATR COMPANY. For 5-8 yr olds. 1985 TAKEN OUT THEATR POWYS TIE adaptation. 1985 SWASHBUCKLERS! - THEATR POWYS A farmers son discovers that his desk is a gateway into a world below where pirates fight for food. 1986 SPOILED PAPERS BBC RADIO Set during the Miners strike, follows the politicisation of a group of women in the Neath, Swansea and Dulais vallleys in South Wales. scenes of great force and cinematic brevity Spoiled Papers was a remarkable example of dramatic pace and concision without ever seeming sketchy or tendentious. What held the whole thing together was its immense narrative drive a fitting tribute to the men and women whose experiences Greg Cullen has so carefully listened to, collected, selected from, reshaped and used verbatim with such dramatic clarity and purpose Duncan Bush The Planet. 1986 DOZY ROSY AND THE MAGIC SAMURAI SOLENT YOUNG PEOPLES THEATRE A re-write of the original. 1986 HARD TIMES - THEATR POWYS. A middle- scale adaptation of Charles Dickenss novel. Greg Cullens adaptation of Dickenss most significant work of social criticism strikes me as one of the few justifiable ways of converting a novel like Hard Times into a piece of theatre The Guardian 1986 THE SNOW QUEEN QUEENS THEATRE, HORNCHURCH. A main stage adaptation of Hans Christian Andersens story. 1986 BEAUTY AND THE BEAST - THEATR POWYS. Middle scale tour. Music by Steven Byrne. Whats beautiful Let the animal out! 1987 THE DRAGON OF BOG MEADOW - THEATR POWYS THE BALLOONATICS - THEATR POWYS Two plays devised with and performed by the children of Bwlch Y Sarnau and Llanfihangel Rhydithon schools respectively. 1987 TAKEN OUT SPARK THEATRE, DRILL HALL, LONDON. Re-write of the original. Cullen has united the political with the tragic, personal element of war and sets a new theatrical agenda for debate The Independent Translated and published by Stuck Gut Press, Germany. 1987/88 MARY MORGAN MID POWYS YOUTH THEATRE. Writer/director. Commissioned by THEATR POWYS. The true story of a serving girl hanged for killing her child at birth. The childs father sat on the jury that convicted her; his cousin was the judge. Won the City Limits award for New Expressionism and was jointly reproduced with RED SHIFT THEATRE COMPANY for performance at the Riverside Studios in 1988. Has had eight subsequent productions. Gruelling, moving, atmospheric and entertaining MWD. Music by Steven Byrne. Published by Seren. 1987 ROBIN HOOD THEATR POWYS. Middle scale tour. Music by Steve Byrne 1988 THE CHILDREN OF REBECCA SPECTACLE THEATRE TIE tour. Writer/director. Four young people arrested for rioting in Carmarthen in 1839 find what unites and divides them. Music by Steve Byrne 1988 A NEW WORLD IN THE MOURNING BBC RADIO 4 A radio farce; following the attempts by a marginal Labour M.P. to remain respectable during a general election. Scurrilous, blasphemous and soft on terrorism The Telegraph. Shows Cullen at his most subversively inventive State of Play. One of the years best radio plays The Listener 1988 TARZANNE MID POWYS YOUTH THEATRE commissioned by THEATR POWYS. Large Cast. Writer/director. Set in Victorian times, a young girl is returned to a stately home having been reared by a colony of chimpanzees. In an era of rapid transformations how do we change to answer our human needs This is no easy upending of the Edgar Rice Burroughs macho story but a deeply provocative play from one of the best theatre workers writing in Wales a truly rewarding theatrical experience as the theme of nature versus nurture is expounded The Guardian 1989 FRIDA AND DIEGO, A LOVE STORY RED SHIFT THEATRE CO. Music by Liam Grundy. Following extensive research in Mexico and the USA tracking down people who knew Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera, the play opened at the Edinburgh Festival winning the Fringe First Award. This musical theatre production then toured Britain for six months. Fierce, passionate, beautiful. The heartbeat of a forge hammer, its grabbing your mind, then your heart, then both its theatre as intended, dangerous, exhilarating and irresistible, a play resonating long after its finished, singing in your head; this is it, this is it! The Guardian. Artists inevitably provide ideal material for the stage, but it requires skilled hands to work it into something genuinely theatrical. Greg Cullen has succeeded in doing just this Scotland on Sunday. The play has subsequently been produced in San Francisco, Houston, Guatemala and Mexico. A Swedish translation ran to full houses for a year in Stockholms Stadsteater. A production by The Mid Powys Youth Theatre won the B.T. National Connections playing at the Royal National Theatre. Published by Seren Winner - Fringe First Award Edinburgh Festival Winner - BBC Arts Award 1989 A CHRISTMAS CAROL THEATR POWYS Middle scale tour. Writer/director. Music by Steve Byrne. A classy piece of work. The Guardian. 1990 COUNTRY MATTERS - MID POWYS YOUTH THEATRE A series of short sketches looking at pressures on the countryside. Commissioned by the Countryside Commission for Wales. 1990 TARZANNE THEATR POWYS AND FOOTLOOSE DANCE CO. Rewritten for a middle-scale touring production. Music by Matthew Bailey 1990 INSIDE ME BBC RADIO 4 Co-devised and performed. ..the climax was as tight as a drum skin The Times somehow achieved the rare distinction of liberating the listener The Guardian 1990 THE VISIT by DUERRENMATT. MID POWYS YOUTH THEATRE Directed cast of fifty, orchestra of twenty in a radical restaging of this contemporary masterpiece. 1991 LANDLOCKED - BBC RADIO 4 Co-devised and performed. A son tracks down his father before it is too late to say the truth. 1991 MARY MORGAN - BBC RADIO 4 A 75minute adaptation of the original stage play. 1991 THE VISIT BY DUERRENMATT. ROYAL NATIONAL THEATRE - MID POWYS YOUTH THEATRE Directed cast of fifty, orchestra of twenty in a radical restaging of this contemporary masterpiece for the Olivier Stage. 1991-93 RAGING ANGELS MID POWYS YOUTH THEATRE Writer/director. Music by Steve Bryne Five hapless humans find themselves in the arrivals lounge of heaven. However they will not get their wings until Archangel Bob is satisfied that they have reconciled their past lives. Cullen is one of the very best writers working in Wales and this attack upon sexual hypocrisy was startling in its honesty The Guardian Cullens purposeful, mischievously surprising dramatisations of a cosmology like a comic version of Sartres In Camera State Of Play. Winner of a Youth Work In Wales Excellence Award. Winner of a Wales Excellence Award For making an outstanding contribution the lives of young people in Wales. Winner of a BBC Arts Award. 1991 UNDER GOLIATH BBC RADIO 5 A four-part adaptation of Peter Carters novel set at the beginning of the troubles in Northern Ireland. (Two broadcasts) 1991/92 AN INFORMERS DUTY WELSH COLLEGE OF MUSIC AND DRAMA. Large cast. Commissioned as the colleges first Writer In Residence to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the college. A three-act play interspersed with each movement of the 5th symphony. In fear for his life under Stalins terror, Dimitri Shostakovich withdraws his Fourth Symphony from production. However, others inspire him to dare to write the Fifth. An impressive theatrical event and one that I shall treasure David Adams State of Play. 1992 LYSISTRATA MID POWYS YOUTH THEATRE Music By Jak Poore Large cast. A radical musical adaptation of Aristophanes original. 1992 THE ARK YSTRADGYNLAIS YOUTH THEATRE commissioned by THEATR POWYS. Large cast. A pet shop owner in a Welsh valleys town believes a second flood is coming and so builds an ark in his back yard. 1993 RHODRI MAWR and WELCOME TO THE FEAST - BBC RADIO WALES Two 20 minute radio plays illuminating Welsh history from 850-900A.D. 1993 RHODRI AND THE BARD MID POWYS YOUTH THEATRE Large cast. Devised with and performed by the children of Ysgol Trefonnen. 1993 RAGING ANGELS MID POWYS YOUTH THEATRE Writer/Director. A 75min Television version of the original stage play. Music by Steve Bryne. Moving Vision Co. 1994 FRIDA AND DIEGO A LOVE STORY - ROYAL NATIONAL THEATRE - MID POWYS YOUTH THEATRE. Writer/director. Music by Steve Byrne. Everything theatre should be, passionate, funny, musical, sexy, well performed and about something meaningful Richard Eyre, Artistic Director, Royal National Theatre. A large cast adaptation of the original stage play. Winner of BT National Connections Award. Youth work in Wales excellence award. BBC Arts Award. 1994 FRIDA AND DIEGO A LOVE STORY CITY COLLEGE, SAN FRANCISCO. 1994 FRIDA AND DIEGO A LOVE STORY STAGES THEATRE -HOUSTON, TEXAS. 1994 LITTLE DEVILS MID POWYS YOUTH THEATRE Writer/ Director. Large cast. Music by Steve Byrne. Set in a crumbling Hell, the devil asks whatever happened to good and evil as four young people and a magistrate plead for the soul of their departed friend. MPYTs marvellous production a packed house gave the young company four standing ovations. MWD Winner of a Comic Relief Award. Winner of a Youth work In Wales Excellence Award Winner of a Barclays Youth Action award 1994 THE WALLS SHERMAN THEATRE AND BBC WALES. Co-written with Kelly Evans (Then 15yrs.old) In a small border town rivalry between two gangs of girls explodes out of frustration. Subject of a BBC Documentary The Slate. 1994 AN INFORMERS DUTY - BBC RADIO 3. An adaptation of the stage play starring Fiona Shaw and John Shrapnel. 1994 RUMPLESTILTSKIN by MIKE KENNY - THEATR POWYS. Directed touring production. 1994 MARY MORGAN ARMAGGEDON THEATRE COLEG HAFREN. Directed B.Tech students in final year production. Published by Seren. 1993/4 FRIDA AND DIEGO- A LOVE STORY STADESTEATR STOCKHOLM. Translated version of the original stage play. Ran for over a year to sold-out houses. 1994 FRIDA AND DIEGO A LOVE STORY ROYAL NATIONAL THEATRE/MID POWYS YOUTH THEATRE. Writer/director. Music by Steve Byrne. A large cast adaptation of the original stage play for the Cottesloe Theatre. Published by Seren 1995 TOWER BBC RADIO 4 Tower Colliery survives closure and becomes a profitable pit owned and run by the miners themselves. In this fictionalised account characters dramatically contrast the options open to the women and men of the Cynon valley. Nominated by BBC Wales for international awards. 1995 LITTLE DEVILS MID POWYS YOUTH THEATRE Adaptation of original stage play for touring cast. Writer/director. Music by Steve Byrne. Presented with a personal award by Wales Promotion for Making an outstanding contribution to the lives of young people in Wales. 1995 FRIDA AND DIEGO- A LOVE STORY STADESTEATR STOCKHOLM. Touring version to Mexico City. 1995 TARZANNE MID POWYS YOUTH THEATRE Definitive version of the original large cast stage play. Music by Paula Gardiner An astounding theatrical triumph that delighted, disturbed and provoked in equal measure The Express Published by Seren. 1996 THE WHISTLEBLOWER BBC RADIO 4. Based upon research into the Sea Empress disaster and interviews with people directly and indirectly affected by the oil spill. The play concerns a pregnant schoolteacher who is married to a salver. When a child dies from asthma, Jenny becomes obsessed with her lack of trust in the environment and her life undergoes a radical personal and political transformation.1996 THE WALLS ARMAGEDDON THEATRE at THEATR HAFREN Co-written with Kelly Evans. Rewritten and expanded version of the original. 1996 AN INFORMERS DUTY MID POWYS YOUTH THEATRE Writer/director. Cast of sixty. Radical re-write of the original stage and radio version of the script. Using The Fifth Symphony and DJs. 1996 BIRDBRAIN BBC FILMS Winner of the PICS competition for short films to celebrate 100 years of cinema. A disabled boy on a remote farm has the power to free himself through a relationship with a buzzard. A chilling metaphor for aspects of parent child relationships. Winner of a BAFTA for Best Short Film Cinematography. 1996 SILAS MARNER- CLWYD THEATR CYMRU. Middle scale tour. A Musical theatre adaptation of George Eliots story. Cast of 7. sensitively and astutely adapted a moving tale the audience is totally involved with the text, must be one of the highlights of the theatrical year. Radio Merseyside follows the main thrust of the narrative without compromising Eliots underlying social and philosophical message. It is, as this adaptation demonstrates, a cracking good story with fairy tale elements, combined with powerful subversive components, earthy humour and tragic overtones. 1996 CHERUBS MADE IN WALES STAGE CO. The blighted lives of a farmer and his three daughters are transformed when the corpse of the most beautiful man they have ever seen washes up in the river. A story of angels, incest, history and the redeeming power of beauty. Startlingly theatrical its combination of searching liturgical poetry, purposeful frankness and physical immediacy distinguish it as one of Cullens most powerful and original works for the stage. David Rabey, State of Play 1997 TALL STORIES MID POWYS YOUTH THEATRE AND MONAGHAN YOUTH THEATRE Writer/director of summer school international exchange production. Based upon myth/legend/ fairy story to create our own stories. 1997 WHISPERS IN THE WOODS MID POWYS YOUTH THEATRE commissioned by THEATR POWYS Large cast. Writer/director. Music by Steve Byrne A tailor and his daughter live by the edge of a forest. Each year the tailor makes her a dress woven with enchanted thread. All is well until the girl falls in love with a wolf. A fantastical story of love, prejudice and possession. An overwhelming extravaganza of all that is best in theatre Western Winner Youth Work In Wales Excellence Award 1997-99 SONIC ARCHITECTS Artistic Director of dance/ theatre/ multimedia events organisation. 1997 A WONDERING TOWN COMMUNITY PLAY FOR NEWTOWN POWYS Cast of over one hundred with music. Unproduced. 1997 THE RING AND THE PIGLET. Large cast. A musical comedy commissioned to celebrate the opening of Theatr Brycheiniog in Brecon. Set in 1866, a travelling theatre company, resident in Brecon for the season, become embroiled in political corruption as the county prepares itself for a general election. Directed by Michael Bogdanov. 1997/98 THE CHANGELINGS . THEATR CLWYD A touring TIE piece set in Victorian times. Two sisters part company in search of work. One goes into service with the enigmatic Mrs Briscoe, the other to the industrial North of England. Their vastly different experiences clash when one seeks refuge from the law in Mrs Briscoes house. Directed by Tim Baker. 1998 SILAS MARNER MID POWYS YOUTH THEATRE Writer/director. Music by Steve Byrne. Large cast version of the original stage play. Cullen bows out on a high a spiritual and fairy-tale like Silas Marner which evoked the magic of youth. Western Mail Winner Youth Work In Wales Excellence Award 1999 TOWER WELSH COLLEGE OF MUSIC AND DRAMA Writer/Director. Stage premiere of the adaptation of the radio play with students from the Welsh College and the University of Mid Glamorgan. 1999-2000 PAUL ROBESON KNEW MY FATHER HIJINX THEATRE CO. Writer/ Director. Music by Paula Gardiner. Set in 1957 Gethyn only knows two things about his father; he died in the war and once sang with Paul Robeson. When a black road worker arrives in his village Gethyn is convinced that Paul Robeson has come back to tell him all about his Dad. ..the stuff that Sunday matinee dreams are made of Cullens characters are boldly and engagingly drawn.. Evening Standard Cullens understanding of a small boys fears enthusiasms ground the wishful thinking in firm reality. The Times Greg Cullens fine play, which celebrates the unifying power of song by framing the public struggle within a private one full marks all round. Time Out Cullens subtle, sensitive, lyrical play Western mail 1999 WIND! MID POWYS YOUTH THEATRE Commissioned by THEATR POWYS. Large cast. Music by Jak Poore. The arrival of a Wind Farm company to a beautiful Mid Wales valley during rehearsals for a Community Play tears asunder both the community and their play. 2000 TARZANNE QUEEN OF THE VALLEY HIJINX THEATRE CO. Writer/director. Music by Paula Gardiner. A new musical version for a cast of four. Modern day. A fourteen year old girl is returned to her ailing mother in a Welsh valleys town. Together with her neighbour they try to bring Anne back into humanity. Will the arrival of a refugee from the urban jungle liberate or imprison Anne this highly imaginative and thought provoking play The Stage 1998-2000 STATION ROAD BBC RADIO WALES A hugely popular daily Soap set in a South Wales town. A senior writer and storyline deviser for the series. 2001 FIRST DEGREE BBC TELEVISION Storylining the first ten Episodes of a new BBC Television drama set in a hi-tech college in Cardiff Bay. 2001 ABELARD AND HELOISE Sole lyricist and co-author with Tom Polum and Stuart Marland of the Book for a new musical based upon this true love story from 12th Century France. Composer Tom Polum. Currently in negotiation for production in the USA. 2001-2002 SPOILS OF VICTORY BBC RADIO WALES. Traces the lives of the original characters from my play TAKEN OUT twenty years after the Falklands War. In this age of nation-less wars would the characters do the same again 2002 NUTS AND BOLTS HTV. Six of eighteen episodes of this popular television series set in the South Wales valleys. 2002 LIFE AND DEBT HTV 75 Minute TV Film A Christmas Special drama following the life of a young man who steps into the shoes of his dead brother only to find an absurd and dangerous world of drug deals and debt collection. Nominated for a Wales BAFTA Best single Drama 2003 MUDCRAWLERS BBC RADIO WALES A community radio play researched and set in Pillgwenlly, Newport. After a racist attack upon a Kurdish Iraqi, a catholic priest and his parishioner take him into their church to care for his wounds only to discover that he is as terrified of them as he is of the racist thugs. However they discover that they have much in common and that the current hysteria over asylum seekers is nothing new. 2003 ABELARD AND HELOISE Two rehearsed readings in New York. 2003/4 ICE CREAM THE WALES PLAYWRIGHT COMMISSIONING GROUP A large cast play with music by Paula Gardiner. Researched and devised with five High Schools in South Wales. An ice cream man inherited an extraordinary gift from his mother as she died giving birth to him, the ability to see into the lives and anguish of others. This lonely man seeks to intervene, unseen, and bring peace, but at what cost to himself 2003 FRIDA AND DIEGO A LOVE STORY NATIONAL YOUTH THEATRE OF WALES Writer/Director Rewritten version for a cast of 45. Music by Steve Byrne and Jak Poore. Bi-lingual production with translation by Ian Staples. ..overwhelms the auditorium with a spectacular array of music, dance, stunning visuals that encapsulate the senses and challenge the stage to its utmost limits Victoria Cooper. Theatre In- Wales a performance as thrilling to watch as it must have been to perform in. Cathryn Scott. Buzz Magazine. 2004/5 THE TAILORS DAUGHTER WELSH NATIONAL OPERA An opera for young people. Music by Brian Irvine. Two productions scheduled to open in 2005 at the Grand Opera House, Belfast and the Wales Millennium Centre in April 2005. Astounding! That is the only word to describe an utterly stunning performance a work that deserves national exposure AJ Sicluna. IC Wales beautifully written and even more beautifully crafted unfurled with more twists than a piglets tail Mike Smith - Western Mail 2004 PAUL ROBESON KNEW MY FATHER HIJINX THEATRE. A revival directed by Chris Morgan. ..working on lots of levels, gliding from lyricism to argument, from the personal to the political, from the past to the present. It is fired with passion and conviction and concern David Adams The Western Mail 2004 WHISPERS IN THE WOODS NATIONAL YOUTH THEATRE OF WALES. Writer/ Director A radical re-write of the original stage play. Music by Jak Poore. Bi-lingual script with translation by Ian Staples. Cast of 45. it is on the surface a gloriously extravagant ragbag of fairy-tale, myth, romance and Hollywood fantasy but as we expect from Cullen, we should never take anything at face value David Adams. Western Mail. 2004 DUSTY - A new Musical based on the life of Dusty Springfield, scheduled for production in the USA in 2005. Based upon an original play by Susann Fletcher. Seeking production. 2004 DON JUAN COMES HOME FROM THE WAR UNIVERSITY OF WALES. Director. A stunning beautiful realisation of an immensely difficult play Paddy Cooper Theatre in Wales 2005/6 FINDING FRIDA KAHLO Writer/lyricist. Music by Tom Polum A new musical play set in Mexico. A young American couple with a failing marriage are haunted by the ghosts of Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera. A richly comic and poignant adventure about the need to express ones experience of life even when it hurts. Currently pursuing production. 2005 BOTTICELLIS BONFIRE NATIONAL YOUTH THEATRE OF WALES Writer/Artistic Director. With the death of Lorenzo di Medici the floodgates of religious fundamentalism open. A self proclaimed prophet, Savonarola, leads a militant band of followers to burn homosexuals, prostitutes, dissenters and millions of pounds worth or art on the so called Bonfire of the Vanities. Botticelli even throws his own paintings onto the bonfire. However, when the Medicis get back into power they want to retrieve The Primavera, a Botticelli masterpiece kept hidden by the very monks who supported Savonarola. Only Machiavelli is deemed skilled enough to negotiate between these enemies and save the painting for the world. supremely intelligent and witty, the best thing about Botticellis Bonfire has to be its heart. Mellisa Dunne Theatre in Wales. I make no bones about it, this was a memorable production now how about one of our national companies considering Botticellis Bonfire it is one well worth lighting the other side of the Welsh border Irene Rostron Goda The Stage Cullen has an excellent skill in characterisation and the subtle way he uses humour...a strong and provocative drama Cathryn Scott Buzz magazine I for one am grateful that a fascinating and provocative a playwright as Cullen has the opportunity to see large scale epic plays realised on a main stage to full houses David Adams Western Mail compelling writing Cullen is an artist who revels in theatrical splendour and sensation has created a bonfire of vanities that deserves to burn forever Michael Kelligan- Theatre in Wales 2005/06 WIDOWS BY ARIELD DORFMANN UNIVERISTY OF WALES. Director. Widows just sparkled with talent and integrity. The passion and conviction the young cast brought to it a far cry from the moralising pseudo-political rants weve come to expect from theatre that dubs itself political. 2006 CAERDYDD Writer - An hour-long episode of the popular S4C drama. 2006 HELOISE AND ABELARD Writer/Lyricist - radical reinterpretation of the original musical. 2006 LEGENDS - A short play for two south Wales schools. Four young people sit waiting in a car, but for what We cast back over their lives and the events that led them to this point, in particular their relationship to a young man called Ritchie, who curiously is not present. A tale with a twist. 2006 AN INFORMERS DUTY NATIONAL YOUTH THEATRE OF WALES. Writer/Director. once more proved Cullens worth as an uncompromising but top-drawer director It should not be missed by anyone for whom theatre is, or is not, still a force to be reckoned with James Ellington and Paddy Cooper Theatre in Wales an epic and totally engaging play that was a great joy to experience yet a sorry reminder of the difficult times we are still living in Michael Kelligan Theatre in Wales Whatever the time, there are some plays that seem appropriate and Greg Cullens drama about the composer Shostakovich and his soviet dictator Stalin is one such 2006/7 CARAVAGGIOS HEAD Sgript Cymru Writer Under commission. The head of this notorious Baroque artist is brought in and put on a table. Revenge has been taken for his murder of Ranuccio Tomassoni, himself a murderous pimp. Caravaggios head begins to tell the story of his tempestuous last few years and the personal war between achievement and self-destruction. 2006/07 BOTTICELLIS BONFIRE UNIVERSITY OF WALES Writer/director This will be a reworking of the original stage play with the intention of focussing the drama round a smaller cast. PUBLICATIONS INCLUDE: Taken Out Stuckgut Press Three Plays Seren - Mary Morgan, Tarzanne, Frida and Diego A Love Story. Frida and Diego Stadesteater, Stockholm State of Play Gomer - A study of my work edited by Hazel Wallford Davies. Staging Wales University of Wales Press New Welsh Review Two interviews with Hazel Wallford Davies. The Planet Re. Taken Out Now Youre Talking - A series of interviews charting my career in Wales. Paul Robeson Knew My Father Parthian press |
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