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Sgript Cymru
Sgript Cymru was a Welsh theatre company that specialised in new writing in Welsh or English by Welsh and Wales-based playwrights. The company was created in 2000 and was based in Chapter Arts Centre in Cardiff. It received its main funding from The Arts Council of Wales, and its raison d’être was to be ''the national and strategic organisation for new stage writing in both Welsh and English.'' Examples of work * Diwedd y Byd / Yr Hen Blant - Meic Povey * Crazy Gary's Mobile Disco - Gary Owen * Ghost City - Gary Owen * Art and Guff - Catherine Treganna * Ysbryd Beca – Geraint Lewis * Franco's Bastard - Dic Edwards * Dosbarth - Geraint Lewis * Past Away - Tracy Harris * Indian Country - Meic Povey Michael "Meic" Povey (28 November 1950 – 5 December 2017) was a Welsh screenwriter, director and actor in Welsh and English language roles, considered to be one of Wales's leading playwrights and screenwriters. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Welsh Language
Welsh ( or ) is a Celtic language family, Celtic language of the Brittonic languages, Brittonic subgroup that is native to the Welsh people. Welsh is spoken natively in Wales, by some in England, and in Y Wladfa (the Welsh colony in Chubut Province, Argentina). Historically, it has also been known in English as "British", "Cambrian", "Cambric" and "Cymric". The Welsh Language (Wales) Measure 2011 gave the Welsh language official status in Wales. Both the Welsh and English languages are ''de jure'' official languages of the Welsh Parliament, the Senedd. According to the 2021 United Kingdom census, 2021 census, the Welsh-speaking population of Wales aged three or older was 17.8% (538,300 people) and nearly three quarters of the population in Wales said they had no Welsh language skills. Other estimates suggest that 29.7% (899,500) of people aged three or older in Wales could speak Welsh in June 2022. Almost half of all Welsh speakers consider themselves fluent Welsh speakers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Geraint Lewis
Geraint Lewis (born 12 January 1974) is a former Wales international rugby union player. A back row forward, he played club rugby for Pontypridd RFC, Rotherham Titans, Bristol Bristol () is a city, ceremonial county and unitary authority in England. Situated on the River Avon, it is bordered by the ceremonial counties of Gloucestershire to the north and Somerset to the south. Bristol is the most populous city in ... and Bath before returning to Pontypridd at the start of the 2007/08 season. Geraint departed Pontypridd, and retired from Premiership Rugby, in the 2009 close season to take up the reins of player/coach at WRU Division 2 East's Llantwit Fardre RFC. References 1974 births Living people Rugby union players from Pontypridd Pontypridd RFC players Rotherham Titans players Wales international rugby union players Welsh rugby union players {{Wales-rugbyunion-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bethan Gwanas
Bethan Gwanas (real name Bethan Evans; born 16 January 1962) is a popular contemporary Welsh author, who publishes almost exclusively in the Welsh language. A prolific writer, she has had 17 titles published in the last decade. Whilst not just a fiction writer, she has written novels for teenagers and Welsh learners, though most of her recent work has been for adults. She graduated in French from Aberystwyth University, and in 1985 she won the Crown at the Urdd Eisteddfod. Having lived for periods in places as diverse as Bethesda, Cardiff, Nigeria and France, she has returned to Rhydymain, very close to her childhood roots. She grew up in Brithdir, near Dolgellau in North Wales, and on transferring to secondary school attended Ysgol y Gader, Dolgellau. Professional background Before achieving success as an author, Gwanas worked as a teacher, was deputy head at the Urdd Centre at Glan-llyn, near Bala), and also a research assistant and producer on Radio Cymru. In 2003 she ga ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alan Harris (playwright)
Alan Harris is a Welsh playwright. Career Has written plays for theatres throughout the United Kingdom, including Paines Plough and National Theatre Wales. He won a Judges’ Award at the 2015 Bruntwood Prize for his play ''How My Light is Spent'' at the Royal Exchange, Manchester. He also wrote ''The Opportunity of Efficiency'', the first international collaboration for National Theatre Wales with the New National Theatre Tokyo. The play was staged at the New National Theatre Tokyo's The Pit stage in 2013 and was directed by NTW artistic director John McGrath. In 2011 he set up liveartshow, a company specialising in new theatre with music with director Martin Constantine and composer Harry Blake. The company staged ''Manga Sister'', a contemporary dance opera, at The Yard, London and the same venue staged a re-telling of '' Rhinegold'' by the same company in 2012. Liveartshow also presented ''The Future For Beginners'', a co-production with the Wales Millennium Centre, at Sum ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tracy Harris
__NOTOC__ Tracy Harris (born 1958) is an American artist, known for her Abstract art, abstract, Encaustic painting, encaustic paintings. Tracy Harris lives in Milford (town), Pennsylvania . Biography Tracy Harris was born in 1958 in Lawton, Oklahoma, Lawton, Oklahoma, and she grew up in Dallas, Texas, Dallas, Texas until age 10. Her parents are Janene Harris and architect, Hayes Harris. After age 10, the family moved a lot after her father took a civilian architect role with the United States Army and United States Air Force, Air Force, they lived in Honolulu, Guam, Manila, and Thailand. She attended Southern Methodist University, receiving a BFA degree and Master of Fine Arts, MFA degree in 1983. After college she worked at the Dallas Museum of Art and taught painting classes. It was through her work at the Dallas museum she was connected by a mutual friend to minimalist artist Dan Flavin, initially as a penpal and later as long distance dating. She married Dan Flavin in 1992 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Past Away (play)
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Dic Edwards
Dic Edwards (born 1948) is a British playwright, poet and teacher of creative writing. His writing often touches upon political and social issues, nationalism and democracy. Early life Edwards was born in Cardiff. He was educated at Whitchurch High (Grammar), Cardiff, Lampeter University, Hughes Hall, Cambridge and the University of Wales at Aberystwyth. Career Edwards' early work was produced at the Sherman Theatre, Cardiff. These included ''At The End of The Bay'', ''Canned Goods'' and ''Looking For The World''. At the beginning of his career, he was introduced to Edward Bond who became, and still is, a supporter of his work. Before taking up a residency at Theatr Clwyd in 1989 and producing the play ''the fourth world'', Edwards worked with The Haymarket Theatre in Leicester where his productions were ''Long To Rain Over Us'' and ''Low People''. At this time Edwards began to be published by Oberon Books Ltd., London. Its publishing editor, James Hogan, encouraged The Citizen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Franco's Bastard
Francisco Franco Bahamonde (; 4 December 1892 – 20 November 1975) was a Spanish general who led the Nationalist forces in overthrowing the Second Spanish Republic during the Spanish Civil War and thereafter ruled over Spain from 1939 to 1975 as a dictator, assuming the title '' Caudillo''. This period in Spanish history, from the Nationalist victory to Franco's death, is commonly known as Francoist Spain or as the Francoist dictatorship. Born in Ferrol, Galicia, into an upper-class military family, Franco served in the Spanish Army as a cadet in the Toledo Infantry Academy from 1907 to 1910. While serving in Morocco, he rose through the ranks to become a brigadier general in 1926 at age 33, which made him the youngest general in all of Europe. Two years later, Franco became the director of the General Military Academy in Zaragoza. As a conservative and monarchist, Franco regretted the abolition of the monarchy and the establishment of the Second Republic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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