Jermin Productions Presents: Children of Mine

By Charlie Hammond

At RWCMD, Cardiff, Tuesday 23th July. 

The tagline for Children of Mine – ‘You Can’t Bury Sorrow’ – brings with it an implication that the disaster at Aberfan has largely been forgotten in recent cultural memory, and that the story of the 116 children and 28 adults who were suffocated by the collapse of an unstable coaling pit onto Pantglas…

What happens when you mix 20 writers, 10 directors and nearly 40 actors, giving them only 48 hours to create a series of short theatre pieces? This is the question…