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See life through the eyes of a young cracker cowboy growing up in
Old Florida's cow country during the 1940's and 50's. I put in
thousands of miles on horseback chasing (and sometimes running
from) old Florida's scrub cattle, (a mean and ornery bunch!). This
was my life from age 8 until my early 20's. I received a hard
earned PHD in "Cow-ography" by the age of 15. Somehow I lived
through being thrown off a horse at least 50 times; being bit,
kicked, reared up and fell on, scraped off on trees, ran under tree
limbs and yet came out all in one piece (well, more or less). After
being married at age 17 and suddenly being responsible for someone
other than myself; I started the long hard road toward achieving
the American Dream. That road was rough and rocky, sometimes taking
one step forward and two steps backward. From a penniless
beginning, I am living proof you can achieve anything you can
dream. Read my story, laugh, cry and learn.
See life through the eyes of a young cracker cowboy growing up in
Old Florida's cow country during the 1940's and 50's. I put in
thousands of miles on horseback chasing (and sometimes running
from) old Florida's scrub cattle, (a mean and ornery bunch!). This
was my life from age 8 until my early 20's. I received a hard
earned PHD in "Cow-ography" by the age of 15. Somehow I lived
through being thrown off a horse at least 50 times; being bit,
kicked, reared up and fell on, scraped off on trees, ran under tree
limbs and yet came out all in one piece (well, more or less). After
being married at age 17 and suddenly being responsible for someone
other than myself; I started the long hard road toward achieving
the American Dream. That road was rough and rocky, sometimes taking
one step forward and two steps backward. From a penniless
beginning, I am living proof you can achieve anything you can
dream. Read my story, laugh, cry and learn.
A stunning new play by "the most exciting playwright to come out of
Wales" (Guardian) Winter in a city. Berlin, Paris, Cardiff,
Antwerp. It could be anywhere.A stranger A poet A drunk A whore
Four voices One city Together till dawn The end of the story? Or
just the beginning? Published to coincide with a tour by Clwyd
Theatr Cymru.
One minute we had customers, the next minute there was no-one. In a
lost village, blurred by redrawn borders, hidden under a crumb on
the map, Bear Ridge Stores still stands. After a hundred years, the
family butchers and grocers - a place for odds and ends, contraband
goods, and the last petrol pump for 30 miles - is now silent. But
owners John Daniel and Noni are not leaving. They are defiantly
drinking the remaining whiskey and remembering good times, when
everyone was on the same side and the old language shone. Outside
in the dark, a figure is making their way towards them. A
semi-autobiographical story about the places we leave behind, the
indelible marks they make on us, and the unreliable memories we
hold onto.
An explosive, passionate play about a Welsh family and the American
dream, House of America is an angsty, unsentimental work that deals
with themes such as the disintegration (or lack) of national
identity and the absence of a father figure. When their father
abandons them for a new life in California and an open-cast mine
encroaches on their house, life for the family is going to change
forever. Mam goes mad after killing a cat called Brando, and
despite hometown brother Boyo's protests, nothing can stop Sid and
Gwenny from retreating into a fantasy world of Jack Kerouac and his
Beat Generation classic novel On the Road.
One of the most written-about figures in Welsh cultural life,
working with some of the best actors and designers, Thomas has
consistently forced the pace of theatre, television, and film in
Wales. House of America, released as a much-acclaimed film in 1997
is about alienated youths stranded in a one-street town in South
Wales subsumed by American industry and culture with no jobs, no
money, and no hope. Song from a Forgotten City is an unsentimental,
urban, madly imaginative and lyrical piece. While the rich,
anecdotal writing of Gas Station Angel creates a whole world out of
a handful of characters.
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