The last few years have seen an explosion of new Welsh writing for the stage. With the advent of Theatr Genedlaethol Cymru in 2003 and the launch of National Theatre Wales in 2009, there has been a tectonic shift in Welsh theatre and its perception. Today, there are national theatres telling Welsh stories with wit, verve and ambition in both languages, with playwrights at the heart. The explosion of quality work from Wales's national theatres has stimulated thriving fringe theatre scenes in its cities, and raised the bar for other theatres across the UK. Wales has celebrated its poets and novelists, but in the 21st century, it is the playwright who is asking the crucial questions. In particular, what does it mean to be Welsh in the 21st century? Never before has there been so many playwrights of all ages, from across Wales, finding the stage the home for their stories. This collection of contemporary Welsh plays is the first to officially recognise this 'new wave' of Welsh playwrights, ranging from established, award-winning writers to those on the cusp of national recognition.It showcases a wide range of forms, themes and political concerns, as well as representing the most exciting voices at the forefront of Welsh drama. By taking the temperature on the first golden age of Welsh playwriting, this volume is the first collection in this new Welsh canon. This volume features the following plays: The Radicalisation of Bradley Manning by Tim Price Parallel Lines by Kath Chandler Bruised by Matthew Trevannion Llwyth by Dafydd James (in Welsh) Gardening for the Unfulfilled and Alienated by Brad Birch Tonypandemonium by Rachel Trezise Includes a foreword by David Ian Rabey and Charmian Savill, an introduction by Tim Price and Kate Wasserberg, and a chronology of major events in Welsh playwriting in the 21st century.

Love is the rarest of things...it's the rarest trick...and we feel entitled to it, don't we? Owen may live in the present but his mind remains lodged firmly in the past. As he's forced into a relationship with a teenager with emotional behavioural problems he blurs aspects of his current life with the memories of what might have been and the opportunities and relationships that could have changed his world. Riddled with regret over the man he loved and the chance to flee rural Wales he's unable to detach himself from past mistakes. An exciting new play by an established Welsh writer inspired by experiences working at an emotional behavioral difficulty education unit. All But Gone explores a man's relationship with his past as two world collide and his fractured mind merges the life he once knew with the lonely world in which he exists.