Carnivals, Watering Holes, Men with dirty faces, Scenery carved by ice age scarred by mining...the chapel revival now boarded or converted into homes....the last train leaves with its very last load...Back to the Garw

Over view of the Garw…

Writing my current play I have had to revisit my past as I am writing something of what 'I know' (first rule of writing). Its certainly revealed things I had long forgotten and also churned up some buried emotions from things I have witnessed in my youth.

I had forgotten the villagers pride, I'd forgotten their embarrassment, I'm forgotten how Thatcher was a dirty word. I'd forgotten that this wasn't just an 80's issue...that since the mines opened there has always been fear,…

1.618 are pleased to announce their first full length play in development to performed as a script in hand at The Stwidio, Chapter. This has been made possible with the support of Arts Council Wales. The writer will spend a week residency with a director and two performers culminating in a sharing of the work.

Hope you can come along and see…