Images by Toby FarrowNational Theatre Wales and Told by an Idiot celebrate one of Wales' most distinctive voices of the last century. Read more …
Following a sell-out run during NTW's inaugural season, The Dark Philosophers is a new dramatisation of the fantastical life and ink black comic tales of Gwyn Thomas. This homage to a great Welsh storyteller and dark hilarious chronicler of the valleys is a funny, violent, passionate depiction of a community teetering on the brink of humanity.
The large ensemble works well together, singing and manipulating the towering figure of Oscar, but there is a bagginess to the staging, an occasional awkwardness, that keeps the piece ground-bound.
A world between Milk Wood and Twin Peaks.
Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh from Tuesday August 9, 2011, until Sunday August 28, 2011. More info: www.traverse.co.uk
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