Good Night Sweet Matilda!
A real farce, solidly based on fantasy. Three couples bed hop in a haunted country cottage with bewildered aphrodisiacal energy. No orgies, please. Simply keeping up with the Joneses!
The Spanish Patio
Domestic pathos. Cathy yearns for romance in her life and a Spanish Patio in her house. She can’t wait, leaps into the deep end and goes up in flames, so to speak. He husband is caught with the smoking pistol.
The Nomination
Orthodoxy versus mystery. Squares debate the arrival of the non-sequiter man, Henderson, in their midst.
Journey to the Blessed Isle of Yellow Boots
Fantasy-farce-satire on England’s loopy ship of state. Donna-Isabellade-Pompadour-A-Go-Go and her pathetic Tory Admiral on a galleon. An odd odyssey.
The Man in the Welsh and English Lunatic Asylum
In England people are driven mad by the class system. In Wales they are driven mad by committee. But whether class or committee, all are victims.
Fairplay
The English class system at its worst, and all around us, even right now, as then. Ugh, ugh, ugh! as I write!
Owain Glyndwr
Owain Glyndwr.Wales’s national hero. Historical drama of Wales’s great national hero, Owain, who fought for and established an independent Wales, sadly only for a few years.
Base
‘They fly in T-bone stakes from Texas and fresh salad from New England.’ Thus I was informed by the American Press Officer in Berlin (American Sector) during the height of the Cold War.
Tribute to a Worthy
Black comedy. Welsh TV slimies and loathsome Taff greedies plan to carve up Cardiff, a noble city.
The Drummer
The scene is set in the late sixties and early seventies in Wales. Numerous acts of defiance were committed by various groups against the Investiture of the Prince of Wales at Caernarfon in ‘69.
Bosworth II
Bosworth II or a Dream Come True. A complete farce. Old time glasnost gone taffo-whacko! In Cardiff. Lost Muscovite plans reveal – a soviet invasion of the UK?! Or a Brit take over by the Angry Brigade? International red nuclear alert?!
Sailing to Avalon
Surreal wake. Unhappy reunion ends up as hilarious wake. Poet Sion gives up the ghost till his pals give him a push and off he goes, sailing to Avallon!
Underdogs and Troublemakers
Lives of English radicals. Meet John Milton, Wat Tyler, Tom Paine, Dean Swift, Percy Shelley, among others, in this history/fantasy of the best of British ‘troublemakers.’
Celestial Rock Musical
Musical of John Bunyan’s The Pilgrim’s Progress. Stage play and musical. Based on Christian’s quest in The Pilgrim’s Progress. Updated to the present.
End of Kings
End of Kings. Historical, based on Cromwell’s Commonwealth. Wonderful story, including the execution of Charles I. Follows the life of writer John Bunyan of Bedford, parliamentarian, Independent, advocate of freedom of worhip, religious leader, superb writer of English.
The Garden of Earthly Delights
Satire on inhuman values. Set in a gleaming sewage works, a fair representation of the world. Admiring Wolverines and Grim Hangers- On try to crush a Son of Man.
Monuments
Monuments or The Backstabbers. Satire on academic poseurs and student phonies. Bloody-One-Eyed Morgan and Curly Vern V, battle against the Moronites until vanity is restored. Marvellous pace. Terrific persons.
Backlash
Backlash or the Crucifiction of Black Antag. Satire-farce-fanatsy. Conservatives in conflict with antagonistic boy scouts, weird hair-does, sometimes hellish costumes on a journey to Decency or the World I Inhabit.
Saxon
Satire on the English Class System, set in John Bull’s Banqueting Halls. A British Export Drive crumbles on arrival. Mrs Bessie Bull, a Thatcherlike crone, keeps the proles in their place. All finally united in Burma-On-Sea. But the rot goes on and on and on….
Dialogues with Clovis
Two odd ball replica-reprobates talk of the World and of Man in the basement of Universal Charities under the Twin Towers. All ended with a whimper, didn’t it? Or did it? This play is for all of those who were lost there. And for all of those who weren’t.
Better Still the Night
Allegory of war. Three deserters hole up in a ruined castle. They are haunted by spectres of their own violence. Weird subterranean troglodytes emerge from the vaults to purge them of death, especially the ‘timor mortis conturbat me’ bit. All ends in a bloody mess, hardly surprising, being human.
Watch for the Drowned man
Set on Welsh Hill farms. Captain Owen, Squinting Howell and friends try to survive land-greed and gold-fever. Rape, madness, laughter and corpses: a typical Welsh mix, with a fantastic Last Supper at the end.
Tear-drops of the Sea-Dragon
Set in a cottage by the sea. A ruined poet returns home to visit his ruined friends – Aneurin of the phantom daughters, the sea-wrack Johnny Conch, and the broken diamond merchant, the dumb Tabor.
For Dreamers Only
Faded hippy Dan finds solace in his ancient sixties Wurlitzer juke box. But out of nostalgia rises a Lady called Luck, involving ‘angels unawares’ and overseas bequests, so that Dan is able to strum at the end, ‘Let your love flow on with the smallest of dreams…’
Service for St Hal
Dai, the whisky preacher and his bizarre but human comrades, celebrate the death of their friend Hal. Though the Righteous persecute, Hal is duly canonized and they have a great day at the races.
Xanadu II
Charts breakdown of marriage. Mary-Rose in quest of the Perfect Penguin. Her husband praises Fergus’s poetry, hunts for the Primeval Rotifer, and ends up in the Home for the Bewildered. He is soon released. Who really was the loon?
Those Fields of Yellow
‘Those Fields of Yellow…’ tells the story of highly strung Patricia Shaw,who became convinced, under the influence of a Counsellor, that she had been the victim as a child of sexual abuse by her own father.
Iolo
Everyone loves a charming rogue. Edward Williams, 1775-1835, known as Iolo Morganwg, was a sort of eighteenth century Raffles. His expertise, however, lay not in stealing jewels, but in creating them, and they were not the kind of gems found in jewellers’ shops. Iolo’s were found in bookshops and libraries, written in both Welsh and English.
Greed or The Fat Kat
Black comedy on the UK’s present moral corruption and degradation. Norman Barratt, an original ‘Fat Cat’ decides to become Chief Exec and main manipulator of Sweetwater Inc, one of the main rip-off water utilities of the new age.
Between Storm Clouds
The action takes places in various locations in the small port town of Aberfach, West Wales, where conservationists and developers are at loggerheads. The Conservationists/Welsh Nationalists are led by Sylvan, with Tommy Tucker and Ben Cai, old inhabitants of the port.
147 Babylon Gardens
The Hippy dream and the Manson nightmare surface in an English setting. After the Apocalypse, Foul Ushers and White Attendants set up a ‘Long Grey Period’ known as ‘the Seventies, eighties, nineties, and beyond…
Reflections of Genesistrine
Cosmic pollution. Apocalyptic rot. Last survivors battle against the Desmodus Mob, the cause of the catastrophe. Shades of the antique Minamata mercury disaster and the US 100 Mile High Reactor Insanity, not to mention Russia’s Chernobyl. All over? Yet? Don’t believe a word of it!
The Women of Pilleth
Contemporary play, set after the battle of Pilleth during the Middle Ages. Welsh women in frenzy rend the dead of both sides. Samhain and the mid-summer Furies are blamed. A Celtic Bacchae glossed over in Welsh annals - any bloody body’s annals, come to that.
Bard
Based on the life and times of Twm O’r Nant, ‘the Welsh Shakespeare.’ Twm, the troubadour, the people’s champion, satirizes a corrupt and vicious establishment. The poet is helped by Yr Arglwydd Angau, the Lord Death. All in the 18th century. The first play to present Wales’s greatest satirist in English. Twm wrote only in Welsh, bless him.
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