Writers of Wales: Gwenlyn Parry

Disgrifiad Cymraeg / Welsh Description

Gwenlyn Parry oedd un o ddramodwyr Cymraeg pennaf yr ugeinfed ganrif. Chwaraeodd ran allweddol ym mhoblogeiddio drama ar lwyfan ac ar deledu yn ystod yr 1970au a'r 1980au, a chafodd ei brif ddramâu llwyfan - Saer Doliau , Tŷ ar y Tywod , Y Ffin a Y Tŵr - ddylanwad sylweddol.

Disgrifiad Saesneg / English Description

Gwenlyn Parry was one of the most important Welsh-language playwrights of the twentieth century and played a key role in the popularisation and flourishing of drama in the theatre and on television during the 1970s and 1980s. Parry's major stage plays - Saer Doliau , Tŷ ar y Tywod , Y Ffin and Y Tŵr - had a substantial impact.

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Cynnwys / Table of Contents

1. ‘Llanbabo it is to us and Llanbabo it will remain’: Early Life 2. ‘God help me, I cannot escape from this’: Three Short Plays 3. ‘A kind of self-therapy’: Saer Doliau 4. ‘A revolution ...where one man takes over the empire of the other’: Tŷ ar y Tywod 5. ‘A Welsh Tom and Jerry’: Fo a Fe and Y Ffin 6. ‘In the middle of the seventies experience’: Pobol y Cwm and Grand Slam 7. ‘They will also argue and fight and talk about their fear of death etc.’: Y Tŵr 8. ‘You know who’s in the balance?: Sal 9. ‘Any bloody fool can play dame’: Panto 10. ‘Everything will be fine now, you’ll see’: Later Life

Bywgraffiad yr Awdur / Author Biography

Roger Owen is a Lecturer at the Department of Theatre, Film and Television Studies, Aberystwyth University.

Adolygiad y Cyhoeddwr / Publisher Review

This study is the first extended treatment of Gwenlyn Parry’s life and work in English, and examines the complex and occasionally paradoxical relationship between the autobiographical aspects of his writing and his use of theatrical form. His plays were instrumental in solidifying a new relationship between drama and theatrical production in Welsh, bringing the theatricality of the Absurd to a popular audience for the first time. His plays have been the subject of much critical attention in Welsh, and have been reinterpreted in production on many occasions, both in their original form and in translation.