|
Patch’s Century - Theatr Powys
|
Rhaglen Theatr mewn Addysg Gyfranogol ar gyfer Blynddoedd 7
Participatory Theatre in Education programme for Year 7
We can turn our backs on understanding. Memory can dissolve.
But, into history we are locked.
Penblwydd y cyn-filwr. Y penblwydd olaf.
Mae’r gweithiwr gofal ifanc yn y Cartref yn byrlymu gyda posibiliadau’r diwrnod a’i chynnwrf heintus yn disgleirio fel pelydrau’r haul trwy’r ffenest ble mae’r hen _r yn eistedd, ar goll yn ei feddyliau.
Mae ei or-or-_yr yn llusgo ei hun o’i wely i rannu’r diwrnod. Ac mae distawrwydd yn eistedd yn drwm yn y gagendor o 90 o flynyddoedd rhyngddyn nhw.
Bu farw’r Harry Patch go iawn am 9 o’r gloch y bore 25 Gorffennaf 2009 yn 111 mlwydd oed. Yr olaf o’r rhai fu’n ymladd yn y ffosydd, yn ymgyrchu yn y Rhyfel Mawr 1914 –1918.
Pedair mlynedd i ffwrdd o ganmlwyddiant rhyfel Harry, nid atgof mo’r ffosydd bellach, yn hytrach, hanes. Mae rhyfeloedd heddiw, gwir brofiadau y rhai sy’n eu hymladd, eu heffeithiau trychinebus, yn gallu teimlo’n bell iawn i ffwrdd.
Gwrthdrawiad o werthoedd sydd yn y ddrama yma, taith trwy ganrif ble mae meibion di-rif wedi gorymdeithio i ardaloedd brwydro ble mae meibion eraill – ar goll, yn ofnus, wedi’ llygru – yn gorymdeithio ac yn llafarganu casineb yn erbyn ‘y gelyn’ dwad.
It’s the old soldier’s birthday. His last.
The young care worker in the residential home is brimful with the possibilities of the day and showers her excitement like sunlight through the window where the old man sits, lost in his own mind’s eye.
His great, great grandson drags himself from bed to share the day. Silence sits loudly in the 90 year gap that separates them.
The real Harry Patch died at the age of one hundred and eleven at 9am on 25 July 2009. At the point of his death, Harry was the last human being to have fought in the trenches, waging the Great War to end all wars of 1914 - 1918.
With only four years to the centenary of Harry’s war, the trenches are no longer memory, only history. Today’s wars, the real experience of those charged with waging them, and their catastrophic impact, can feel very far away from us.
This new play is a collision of values, a journey through a century in which countless mothers’ sons have marched to far away war zones and in which other mothers’ sons – lost, afraid and corrupted - march and chant hatred against ‘the enemy’ at home. |
web site: |
e-mail: |
Wednesday, March 31, 2010 |
|
|
|
|
Older news
stories have been carefully archived.
2006 | 2005 | 2004 | 2003 | 2002 | 2001 | 2000 | 1999
