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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 Sgript Cymru’s latest radical and controversial production to open 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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| Allison Piney, e-mail: alli@mrproducer.co.uk |
Thursday, March 14, 2002 |
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