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Owen Sheers Mametz (Paperback). He draws on the writings of two survivors in particular. The other key influence is the writer Llewelyn Wyn Griffith. It is one of the set plays on WJEC's A level Drama specification. This dual edition combines the original English-language play with a Welsh-language translation by Ceri Wyn Jones, one of Wales's most eminent poets. Further DetailsTitle: Mametz Condition: New Author: Owen Sheers Translator: Ceri Wyn Jones Contributor: Ceri Wyn Jones (Translated by) Subtitle: with a Welsh-language translation EAN: 9780571332250 ISBN: 9780571332250 Edition: Main Publisher: Faber & Faber Format: Paperback Release Date: 03/02/2017 ISBN-10: 0571332250 Genre: Poetry & Drama Item Height: 200mm Item Length: 125mm Item Width: 15mm Item Weight: 222g Language: English Description: '"For years afterwards the farmers found them - the wasted young, turning up under their plough blades." So run the blunt, grimly beautiful opening lines of the Welsh poet Owen Sheers's elegy for the men, 4,000 of them from the 38th (Welsh) Division, who were killed or wounded in the Battle of Mametz Wood in July 1916. Sheers revisits that chapter of carnage in a stirring, sprawling promenade show. He draws on the writings of two survivors in particular. One is the poet David Jones whose fractured, enervated, modernist response to his war-time experiences, In Parenthesis , was hailed as a "work of genius" by TS Eliot. The other key influence is the writer Llewelyn Wyn Griffith. driven to wondering how the sun "could shine on this mad cruelty and on the quiet peace of an upland tarn near Snowdon"... We end up in dark woods and a place of numb desolation, bombarded by words that pierce the heart and vignettes that capture the stomach-churning sacrifice. The finest commemoration of the First World War centenary I've seen to-date, this deserves a much longer life.' Dominic Cavendish, Daily Telegraph Mametz by Owen Sheers was premiered by National Theatre Wales in June 2014. It is one of the set plays on WJEC's A level Drama specification. This dual edition combines the original English-language play with a Welsh-language translation by Ceri Wyn Jones, one of Wales's most eminent poets. Country/Region of Manufacture: GB Release Year: 2017 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
