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Land of our Fathers
"I can't believe we're arguing over a Blue Riband"
"I can't believe we're stuck down a mine."
"Yet here we are"
3rd May 1979, South Wales. Thatcher is counting her votes, Sid Vicious is spinning in his grave, and six Welsh miners are trapped down a coal mine. Within two weeks everything these men believe in and everything they know will have changed. A darkly comic drama looking at the dramatic two weeks in which a group of Welsh miners are trapped underground.
Chris Urch's debut full-length play is packed full of blistering comedy and summons a generation of lost voices.
"I can't believe we're stuck down a mine."
"Yet here we are"
3rd May 1979, South Wales. Thatcher is counting her votes, Sid Vicious is spinning in his grave, and six Welsh miners are trapped down a coal mine. Within two weeks everything these men believe in and everything they know will have changed. A darkly comic drama looking at the dramatic two weeks in which a group of Welsh miners are trapped underground.
Chris Urch's debut full-length play is packed full of blistering comedy and summons a generation of lost voices.
124 pages, Paperback
First published November 6, 2013
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July 30, 2019
Bomber: Julie Andrews screeching her way up a mountain is not culture. That's torture.
Mostyn: The Sound of Music's a classic. Classic that is.
Bomber: Why Julie Andrews ran away from the Nazi's I'll never know. All she ever had to do was sing at them for long enough and they would have given back Poland.
Having read and enjoyed Urch's latest play The Rolling Stone, I thought I'd check out this earlier one (his first full -length effort). It starts strongly, with a wonderful mix of humour and drama, as six miners get trapped underground, and the first act ratchets up the tension while doing a fine job of delineating the characters. Alas, all the good will engendered comes to a screeching halt in the second act, which get melodramatic, moribund and is riddled with long-winded soliloquies that go nowhere.
Mostyn: The Sound of Music's a classic. Classic that is.
Bomber: Why Julie Andrews ran away from the Nazi's I'll never know. All she ever had to do was sing at them for long enough and they would have given back Poland.
Having read and enjoyed Urch's latest play The Rolling Stone, I thought I'd check out this earlier one (his first full -length effort). It starts strongly, with a wonderful mix of humour and drama, as six miners get trapped underground, and the first act ratchets up the tension while doing a fine job of delineating the characters. Alas, all the good will engendered comes to a screeching halt in the second act, which get melodramatic, moribund and is riddled with long-winded soliloquies that go nowhere.
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