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ROGER Williams, one of Wales' most prominent dramatists, celebrates the performance of two new plays this month - one in Cardiff and the other in New Zealand. Williams will be the first Welsh writer to have his work featured at the New Zealand International Arts Festival and will be travelling to Wellington in February to see the presentation of his play Lingua. The play follows four language experts as they congregate at a Cardiff hotel to try and save four endangered languages. The play has already been read in New York and London. Meanwhile, back in Cardiff, Williams's new play, Y Byd (A'i Brawd) is about to be performed by the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama in association with Sgript Cymru. The play is set in Bali in 2002 - a few weeks after the terrorist attacks that killed more than 200 people. In the play, a young Welsh woman travels to Bali to pay tribute to her brother who died in the bombings. While there she meets a Welsh backpacker who'll do anything not to return home. "I've been writing plays with an international slant for the last four years," said Williams. "I was writer in residence with Sydney Theatre Company for a year and I think that experience changed the way I write about Wales. "I'm now interested in how Wales fits into the international community and about Welsh people abroad." Although he is still only 29, Williams has already received great success with his writing. In 2002, he was nominated for a Bafta for his network television series Tales From Pleasure Beach. The series consisted of three 40-minute films originally made for BBC Wales, and it was billed as a "darkly comic drama." Y Byd (A'i Brawd) will be staged at the Bute Theatre at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama in Cardiff from February 6 to 14. For further details, contact the box office on 029 2039 1391. For those who may be travelling Down Under, Lingua will be presented as part of the New Zealand International Arts Festival on March 10. The festival runs from February 27 to March 21. |
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