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ODYSSEY ’84
Sherman Theatre, Cardiff
PLAYRIGHT Tim Price’s ambitious retelling of the South Wales miners’ contribution to the heroic but doomed year-long strike against pit closures in the mid-1980s is clever, warm and oddly repulsive in its individualism.
Fresh from his success with his play Nye about Bevan and his creation of the NHS, Price has turned his attention to another labour movement epic, weaving the story of the South Wales miners’ part in the strike based on the Greek tale of Homer’s The Odyssey.
The device works well in parts, showing the journey of Rhodri Meilir’s reluctant striker John O’Donnell from a nervous public speaker to travelling the world collecting money for the strike.
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