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TWO PLAYS BY DRAMATIST ALED JONES WILLIAMS FOR THE PRICE OF ONE TICKET
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TWO PLAYS BY DRAMATIST ALED JONES WILLIAMS FOR THE PRICE OF ONE TICKET – ‘CHWILYS’ (Theatr Tandem) and ‘MERCHED EIRA’ (Bara
Caws) at the Beaufort Theatr, Ebbw Vale during the National Eisteddfod week 3rd August – 5th August at 7.30p.m
Bara Caws and Theatr Tandem will be co-presenting two innovative plays by the popular dramatist Aled Jones Williams during the National Eisteddfod week at Ebbw Vale. Tickets are available at the Beaufort Theatre: 01495 355 800.
‘Chwilys’ (which toured communities in North Wales in April/May 2010) is a drama peculiar to our time with its exploration of the fearful paranoia created amongst us by the rulers of this turbulent world. No innocent is truly safe, not even the highly respected academic in our play.
When an unwelcome and sinister stranger breaks into the bookish, cloistered haven of his flat, the ordinariness of his life is twisted and distorted into something monstrous and his very being threatened.
Part social comment, part surreal thriller, part poetry, ‘Chwilys’ is an intense theatrical experience.
‘Merched Eira’ will be performed for the first time at the Beaufort Theatre on Tuesday 3rd of August. Senility, loneliness and the casual treachery of everyday life drives this latest play by Aled Jones-Williams. Once again he leads us to the darkest place in the lightest way possible and swings a warm bright lantern over the edge of the coldest cliff of all.
According to Aled “ ‘Merched Eira’ is a play that explores the possible meanings of identity. How the young and middle-aged ‘I’ finds its place in the ageing ‘I’. An image emerged of two old women coming into a blizzard. As I listened to that initial image other pictures and words came into being. It is a sheer joy to have Gaynor Morgan Rees and Olwen Rees incarnate those images into a theatrical event and the sensitive and exact hand of Bryn Fon directing the whole into something that an author can say ‘Yes!’ to.”
Both plays have also been published by Gwasg Carreg Gwalch and they will be on sale during Eisteddfod week – available from Gwasg Carreg Gwalch and the Theatre on the Eisteddfod field and also at the Beaufort Theatre during the performances of ‘Chwilys’ and ‘Merched Eira’.
Following performances the Beuafort Theatre in Ebbw Vale, Bara Caws will be touring ‘Merched Eira’ around communities throughout Wales from the 3rd September to 25th September, 2010 – opening the tour at the
Galeri, Caernarfon on 3rd September.
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