Theatre in Wales

Dic Edwards

We have information on 23 plays by Dic Edwards . Click on the play name to access any reviews in out archive. Click on the company's name to read their details on this web site

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Sexual health education is essential for everybody. If young people are to make responsible decisions about their lives, they need to be well informed.
 
 
‘The Girl Who Got Away’ by Dic Edwards is a fast moving, humorous play that will provoke discussion amongst young people about their particular sexual health needs.

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Welshing is a new play about the plight of Middle Management in Wales, by controversial Welsh playwright Dic Edwards. If all goes according to plan, we will workshop Welshing later this year, and this will culminate in a new production. Dic's recent work includes the libretto of an extraordinary opera entitled Manifest Destiny, the story of a would-be suicide bomber who wants to avenge her Palestinian father's death but ends up in US custody at Guantanamo Bay. Find out more at www.dic-edwards.com.

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'Distant Jazz' is the story of life in the Valleys seen through the eyes of two young girls.  

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Carlo is a philosopher. Carlo is a soldier. Carlo is a lover. Carlo is a hunter. Carlo’s tears make Llyn Brianne. Carlo is the dawn on Poppit Sands… the rough seas’ calmer who whistles out the boats on beating eddies… a man with not a hint of mediocrity. Carlo is a fascist…

Franco’s Bastard is  a Sgript Cymru production and opened at Chapter Arts Centre in Cardiff on Wednesday April 10th 2002.

Drawing on personal experience of Julian Cayo Evans, self-styled leader of the Free Wales Army, 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.”

While dreaming of the day when a new Wales will dawn, Carlo Francisco Franco Lloyd Hughes’s “project” goes strangely awry, when he falls in love with a mixed-race woman from Cardiff and meets a playboy called Ben, who murdered his boss with a frozen fish!

Dic Edwards is a leading playwright in Wales with over twenty years’ experience. He has written for companies as diverse as The Glasgow Citizens, Leicester Haymarket, Spectacle Theatre and Clwyd Theatr Cymru, but with consistent originality, intelligence and formal daring. As one of Sgript Cymru’s first commissioned writers, Dic has responded by producing one of his finest pieces of work - Franco’s Bastard.

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.Into The East is the powerful story of how the Brundibar Opera by Hans Krasa become a symbol of hope to the people incarcerated in the Terezin ghetto in world war two

toured South wales in November 2001
directed by Steve Davies

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Theatre in Education project

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Toured Wales and Northern Ireland

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Theatre in education project

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"Dic Edwards' plays are never easy but lola brecht has some very funny moments, some sharp satire and plenty of evidence of a clever mind at work."
The Guardian

"A black comedy which points as accusing and bloody finger at sexual frustrations as the root of all evil.
As the civil war bubbles outside their hotel, it echoes the conflict inside (Brecht's) head and in his bitching impotent marriage to Lola. .to be congratulated.
The Stage

"lola brecht is a good play with much to say about modern human frustrationsThere is a delightful dream-scene where Napoleon makes love with Lola and helps her give birth: to an array of weaponry! Excellent.
Western Mail

"The drama is often eased by comic touches - a wounded Peter realises that he loves ex-nurse Lola "for her nursing skill and knowledge of bandages!" But the underlying threat of excessive nationalism keeps this drama simmering. Dic Edwards has written a thought-provoking script."
Cambrian News

"lola brecht.is about war but also about peace. The strange state of mesmeric sub-violence we live in. People find no meaning in their lives, objects don't have a function anymore. It's like being in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean and trying to find the bottom with your feet. The political leaders are zombies or puppets or clowns or sinister. And we're stranded in a strange hotel by a railway line. The play gives the feel of contemporary life. History strangely confusing, the mysteries of the present are not even intriguing - Kafka would die of boredom. And people's own passions swimming around them like sharks attacking them. And everything as decorous as a shop window. I think the play gets all this.The characters are immediately recognisable and their presence has consequence, they're not arbitrary..It's a strange play: it's like seeing an island of earth floating in the sky. As if the foundations of existence were exposed and as if the earth were trying to hide its nakedness."
Edward Bond

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Theatre in education project

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Theatre in education project

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Toured Powys 28.11.92 - 01.02.93
Directed by Guy Roderick

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Directed by Roland Reese of Foco Novo and
director of 1st elephant man theatre production.

The play was set in Greece at the time of the colnels and focused on a couple of tourists from
Wales (Howel Evans & Pat Evans) caught up on an island at the early stages of the Junta Military Regime who happened to witness the effects of change brought on to the island when the character (Michalis Petrou) returns from his military training together with the threat of rule under a
dictatorship.  

Other actors in the cast included Bill Maxwell (Michalis' father) and Malya Woolfe and Andrew Phylactou

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"Powerful studies of tyranny"
South Wales Argus

"Once again, Dick Edwards demonstrates his talent for pointed observation and biting comment, his acute ear for the absurdities in inconsequential social chat
The Stage

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Directed by Gareth Armstrong

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"This play has burst onto a mostly moribund Cardiff Theatre scene like a breath of fresh air. It gloriously affirms the company's claim that there are new writers and new works around that deserve a showing."
The Guardian

"Dick Edwards gets right down to the witty, gritty street wisdom of Cardiff's old Tiger Bay to provide a work of remarkable quality and depth..With that strange moodiness of Tennessee Williams, he brings to his first full-length play to be produced, a haunting atmosphere of dying dreams and lost hopes."
South Wales Argus

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"It strikes you right through the heartI found the play unfussy, unsentimental, unapologetic and questioning in a way that really made me offer up Gary's philosophy - however odd it may be - to the temporal, real questionings of his brother Mikal and Nicol. What we get from the writer is great, expressionistic, bravura strokes"
Kaleidoscope on Radio 4

"The company launched its season with what can olnly be described as a baptism of fire - Dic Edwards' Utah Blue, a brooding, provocative play about the American murderer Gary Gilmore and his bizarre, interior world. It is a challenging piece"
The Independent

"Compelling it made for a provocative and harrowing two hours"
The Stage

"a brutal, emotional, gut wrenching couple of hours."
South Wales Argus

"The powerful imagery leaves you drained, wallowing in Gary Gilmore's hell, not caring what his heaven might hold"
Gair Rhydd