Dirty Broth, A - Early Twentieth-Century Welsh Plays in English — Early Twentieth-Century Welsh Plays in English

Disgrifiad Cymraeg / Welsh Description

Blodeugerdd o ddramâu Cymreig yn yr iaith Saesneg, sef Change gan J. O. Francis (1913), drama deuluol am derfysgoedd troad yr 20fed ganrif, Taffy gan Caradoc Evans (1923), dychan ffyrnig am gymdeithas a chrefydd Gymreig, a A Comedy of Good and Evil gan Richard Hughes (1924).

Disgrifiad Saesneg / English Description

This anthology brings together three plays from the beginnings of Welsh playwriting in English; Change by J. O. Francis (1913), a family drama about the upheavals at the start of the twentieth century, Taffy by Caradoc Evans (1923), a fierce satire on the Welsh social and religious establishment, and A Comedy of Good and Evil by Richard Hughes (1924).

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Bywgraffiad yr Awdur / Author Biography

David Cottis is a lecturer in Scriptwriting at Middlesex University, and a theatre writer/director. He lives in London and Cardiff. Editor Biography David Cottis is a lecturer in Script-writing at Middlesex University, and a theatre writer/director. He lives in London and Cardiff. Dr Alyce von Rothkirch is a translator, writer and artist. She was formerly a senior lecturer specialising in Welsh Writing in English at Swansea University. She now lives in Eltville am Rhein, Germany.

Adolygiad y Cyhoeddwr / Publisher Review

With an introduction by David Cottis and Alyce von Rothkirch. When Caradoc Evans' play Taffy was first performed in London, the Western Mail reviewer described it as 'like a dirty broth which, dished out to the English people, is swallowed with avidity.' In so doing, it summed up the treatment often given to the tradition of English-language play-writing in Wales – sometimes ignored, sometimes disapproved of, rarely celebrated. This Anthology, the first in a series of three, brings together three plays from the beginnings of Welsh play-writing in English; Change by J. O. Francis (1913), a family drama of the upheavals at the start of the twentieth century, Taffy (1923), a fierce satire on the Welsh social and religious establishment, and A Comedy of Good and Evil (1924) by Richard Hughes, a magical realist fantasy of the dilemmas faced by a country cleric and his wife when they are faced with a literal demon-child. Edited by David Cottis, who also co-wrote the Introduction with Alyce von Rothkirch, this volume shows the earliest stirrings of the English-language theatre in Wales, and the first of many attempts to set up a Welsh National Theatre. It sees the beginnings of the preoccupations and subject matter that were to characterise Welsh play-writing throughout the twentieth century, and to influence later writers such as Emlyn Williams, Dylan Thomas, Diana Morgan, and Jack Jones.