Theatr y Byd
we have 20 plays by Theatr y Byd in our database . Click on the name of the play to read reviews we have in our database.
- Butterfly [ 2006]
author: Ian Rowlands
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BUTTERFLY is a play about art and life, and their appropriation by the unscrupulous; a reflection of society’s increasing immunity to pure emotion, instead seeking personal satisfaction through retaliation and acquisition. A pitch-black comedy featuring a cast of three, the play introduces an established art critic and collector who is no longer moved by beauty. Desperate to feel, to live, he has become a vampire who sucks the souls of young artists from their canvasses, destroying them out of spite. When he is picked up by a young man at a gallery opening, a story of seduction and revenge unfolds.
- Flowers from Tunisia [ 2005]
author: Laurence Allan
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A parable on memory, both poignant and funny, as Reah, a woman slipping onto the middle stage of dementia, rediscovers love in the eyes of a young Tunisian flower seller. ...... This play was restaged by the Torch Theatre, Milford Haven in May 2011 Cast Reah Christine Pritchard Keith Richard Corgan Rose Pamela Merrick Khalid Naoufal Ousellam Creative and Production Team Director Simon Harris Designer Joana Ferrão Lighting Designer Elanor Higgins
- Flowers from Tunisia [ 2005]
author: Lawrence Alan
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By Lawrence Alan A parable on memory dramatised through the holiday romance between Hamat a Muslim flower seller looking to the West and Reah a seventy year old widow looking to love. Reah though fit and feisty is slipping into the middle stages of dementia. She lives with her forty year old son, Keith, who looks after her though she believes she looks after him. Together they share an existence of collusion and delusion. For her hospital trips turn into luxury holidays and social workers and salesmen alike transmogrify into long lost relatives. For Keith it is sometimes easier to comply with the deceit. But all too often his logically trained brain tries to drag her back to reality, especially when his father, Reah`s long dead husband re-emerges from the grave or is reinvented as a brand new and unfamiliar creature.
- Flowers from Tunisia [ 2005]
author: Lawrence Alan
synopsis:
By Lawrence Alan A parable on memory dramatised through the holiday romance between Hamat a Muslim flower seller looking to the West and Reah a seventy year old widow looking to love. Reah though fit and feisty is slipping into the middle stages of dementia. She lives with her forty year old son, Keith, who looks after her though she believes she looks after him. Together they share an existence of collusion and delusion. For her hospital trips turn into luxury holidays and social workers and salesmen alike transmogrify into long lost relatives. For Keith it is sometimes easier to comply with the deceit. But all too often his logically trained brain tries to drag her back to reality, especially when his father, Reah`s long dead husband re-emerges from the grave or is reinvented as a brand new and unfamiliar creature.
- Sex and Power at the Beau Rivage [ 2003]
author: Lewis Davies
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Gripping and emotionally charged, the production explores the dilemmas facing two writers who have sought refuge in the fading glamour of a South of France coastal resort. The writers are D. H Lawrence and Rhys Davies, a Valleys-born writer who was greatly inspired by the challenge the older man made on the sexual and literary conventions of his day. A catalyst for their encounter is the volatile figure of Frieda Weekley, Lawrence’s wife and muse. Sex and Power at the Beau Rivage has been researched and set in the real life hotel where the young novelist from the Welsh Valleys first encountered his volatile hero - and Frieda Weekley, his equally volatile wife. The play is a love triangle with a difference: a fusion of historical fact, literature, art and the antics of two men (and a woman) behaving badly. Lewis Davies is a novelist as well as playwright and he is also publishing editor for Parthian who have recently reprinted A Human Condition, a collection of short stories by Rhys Davies. Born in the Clydach Vale, near Tonypandy, Rhys Davies published 40 books and was awarded an OBE for services to literature in 1968. His name lives on in the bi-annual Rhys Davies Award, a competition for short story writers living and working in Wales
- Sex& Power at the Beau Rivage [ 2003]
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Set in the French Riviera in 1929 this play follows a young Rhondda born writer, Rhys Davies and his visit to DH Lawrence and his wife Frieda
- I Love You Superstar [ 2002]
author: Helen Griffin
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The play highlights the predicament of a Valleys couple's brush with media fame. Starring Maria Pride and Roger Evans The production was part of Theatr y Byd's Newport Stories project.
- Inside Out [ 2001]
author: Lesley Ross
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Inside Out, written by Welsh-born Lesley Ross (‘Pick of the Edinburgh Fringe’) in collaboration with Chris Morgan, offers an insight into the world of Ivor Novello: Wales’ original stage and screen heart throb. At the height of his fame during The Second World War, Novello was imprisoned in wormwood Scrubs for using bootleg petrol to keep his Rolls Royce on the road, a scheme plotted in large part by a devoted – if misguided – fan.
- Mor Tawel / Pacific [ 2001]
author: Ian Rowlands
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Ian Rowlands' play centres on David Samwell, the eighteenth century London Welshman who sailed as a ship's surgeon with Captain Cook and his ill fated third voyage on the Discovery in 1778. The play is a commentary on contemporary 'Welshness' - reluctant nationhood stepping from past to future. A beautifully staged and performed piece of work Commissioned by the National Eisteddfod of Wales and Arts Council of Wales for the 2000 National Eisteddfod in Llanelli.
- Blue Heron in the Womb [ 1999]
author: Ian Rowlands
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- New South Wales [ 1999]
author: Ian Rowlands
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- Marriage of Convenience [ 1996]
author: Ian Rowlands
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- Thinking In Welsh [ 1994]
author: Dafydd Wyn Roberts
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One Man Show written and performed by the author Dafydd Wyn Roberts. Toured Wales 1994, Edinburgh Festival 1995, short tour Ireland , Wales, Brittany 1996. Edinburgh Festival Reviews : The Stage, The Scotsman.
- Love in Plastic [ 1994]
author: Ian Rowlands
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- Glissando on an Empty Harp [ 1994]
author: Ian Rowlands
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- Gobeithion Gorffwyl [ 1994]
author: Sharon Morgan
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- Big Black Hole [ 1994]
author: Tim Rhys
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- The Change [ 1994]
author: Jane Buckler and Helen Griffin
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- Solomon's Gory [ 1993]
author: Ian Rowlands
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- The Sin Eaters [ 1992]
author: Ian Rowlands
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Co producedby Wales Actors Company