Book Details
- Paperback
- 213 pages
- ISBN 978-1-902638-08-9
Publisher Parthian
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One Woman, One Voice is a new selection of funny, bizarre, poignant and emotional pieces of theatre by five highly-praised writers (Sharon Morgan, Christine Watkins, Lucy Gough, Lucinda Coxon and Gwenno Dafydd) in a fabulous celebration of the success and diversity of women dramatists.
Magic Threads conveys the female collective unconscious, capturing moments of living in the history of a Welsh woman.
Queen of Hearts is a humorous exploration of the effects of a supernatural visit from Princess Diana upon two Welsh flatmates; 82-year-old Annie and transvestite Di look-a-like, Rae.
Welcome to my World features Ada, a Builth Wells spinster who has recently buried her crazed mother and is concerned about the mysterious reappearance of her sister.
The Red Room takes a journey through the icy landscape of Charlotte Bronté’s imagination during the writing of Jane Eyre.
In In The Tail a young girl indulges her fantasy of becoming a mermaid in the bath, an experience which forces her to delve deeply into her own insecurities.
I am Angela Brazil challenges and twists the illusion of theatre via a forty-something male figure who is, and is not, Angela Brazil.
No Regrets tells the story, through speech and song, of Edith Piaf and her loves and losses.
Dr Hazel Walford Davies is a senior lecturer in Theatre Studies at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth. She lectures widely on Shakespeare, theatre and cultural studies at American universities and has been Kilby Professor of Drama at Wheaton College, Illinois. She is also chair of the UK Advisory Board for the North American Association for the Study of Welsh Culture and History.
Magic Threads conveys the female collective unconscious, capturing moments of living in the history of a Welsh woman.
Queen of Hearts is a humorous exploration of the effects of a supernatural visit from Princess Diana upon two Welsh flatmates; 82-year-old Annie and transvestite Di look-a-like, Rae.
Welcome to my World features Ada, a Builth Wells spinster who has recently buried her crazed mother and is concerned about the mysterious reappearance of her sister.
The Red Room takes a journey through the icy landscape of Charlotte Bronté’s imagination during the writing of Jane Eyre.
In In The Tail a young girl indulges her fantasy of becoming a mermaid in the bath, an experience which forces her to delve deeply into her own insecurities.
I am Angela Brazil challenges and twists the illusion of theatre via a forty-something male figure who is, and is not, Angela Brazil.
No Regrets tells the story, through speech and song, of Edith Piaf and her loves and losses.
Dr Hazel Walford Davies is a senior lecturer in Theatre Studies at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth. She lectures widely on Shakespeare, theatre and cultural studies at American universities and has been Kilby Professor of Drama at Wheaton College, Illinois. She is also chair of the UK Advisory Board for the North American Association for the Study of Welsh Culture and History.
