Back from a mini tour of Yorkshire and Stockport and cheering for supporting act Indignation Meeting
Arts Ahead
Online essentials, from Cardiff to Cuba
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A uncomfortably misogynistic authorial voice that sometimes seems to lack insight troubles FIONA O’CONNOR
WELSH actor and activist Michael Sheen brings big-name clout to online monologues Mum and Dad from Cardiff’s Sherman Theatre but the guts of the pieces is in the writing, thanks to Gary Owen, author of the superb Iphigenia in Splott.
Quite apart from the obvious advantage of having a name which describes a strategic rugby kick, Owen’s other writing credits include the dark and brutal Killology. He’s donated the two monologues to the Sherman and the struggling theatre asks only for donations to view them.
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Sheen is joined by Lynn Hunter, always authentic and hugely watchable, in these near-verbatim records of stories told by Owen’s parents about their lives growing up in Pembrokeshire.
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