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This is the 1st book-length research in English of Gwenlyn Parry (1932–91), the Welsh author top recognized for his significant level performs, together with Saer Doliau, Y Twr, and Panto, in addition to his works for tv and movie, akin to the cleaning soap opera Pobol y Cwm, the sitcom Fo a Fe, and the cult BBC television movie Grand Slam. Roger Owen takes into account the scope and diversity of Parry’s paintings, which frequently dwells on a despairing and solitary look for which means in lifestyles. He unearths Parry as a author whose theatrical imaginative and prescient was once either facilitated and impeded via his commitment to the spoken dialect of his local Arfon and whose paintings mediated among the extremes in his lifestyles and paintings: the non-public and personal, absurdism and populism.

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Poen yn y Bol was not Parry’s only experiment with Ionescoan drama. There was another, far less reputable, adventure into this field in which Gwenlyn played a role: Y Ffynnon [‘The fountain’], or La Fontaine, a cod-absurdist prank presented at the Welsh Students’ Collegiate Drama Festival of 1964. It was billed at the festival as a new Welsh translation by Gareth Miles of ‘one of the early works of Eugene Ionesco’, and presented on stage by a group of students mostly drawn from the university in Bangor.

16 His own practice as a lay preacher was based on the simple division of elements in life into good and evil, a ‘habit’ which brought him ‘a lot of comfort’, and had a distinct influence on his approach to the practice of writing for theatre later in life: I’m sure I composed dozens of sermons – with the help of Richard Jones, and . . the shape of a sermon or the outline of a sermon is very similar to a play – to start with you have three headings in a sermon and three acts in a play, and a sermon develops to a kind of twist in the tail, just as a three act play has some kind of kick in the tail and a kind of moral .

According to legend, they included the students themselves (among them the young Dafydd Glyn Jones, soon to be a charismatic scholar), the dramatists Huw Lloyd Edwards, W. S. ’16 The play had been motivated by a distinctly juvenile urge to wreak revenge on the Western Mail drama critic D. R. indd 23 7/24/2013 2:46:32 PM Gwenlyn Parry had disappointed some of the students with his cursory review of their production of John Gwilym Jones’s Hanes Rhyw Gymro. Some disÂ�cerning critics, including Jacob Davies and Norah Isaac, were fooled by the play, but D.

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