The wizard, the goat and the man who won the war

Date: Friday 26 November 2011

Dyddiad: Dydd Gwener, 26 Tachwedd 2011

The wizard, the goat and the man who won the war

Written and directed by DJ Britton
Featuring Richard Elfyn as Lloyd George

Ysgrifennwyd a chyfarwyddwyd gan DJ Britton
Perfformiad gan Richard Elfyn fel Lloyd George

Coalition government. Political scandal. David Lloyd George took it in his stride and still found time for a colourful personal life. The Welsh Wizard was a giant of 20th Century global politics, yet the nation remains divided about him. How could a Welsh-speaking chapel boy become the steely statesman who saw Britain through the Great War? How could the champion of non-conformist Christianity become a womaniser living a double life?


How could this protector of the poor risk so much in the pursuit of wealth? Writer/director D.J.Britton and BAFTA-winning actor Richard Elfyn have created an exhilarating solo performance, finding mystery, charm, poetry and much humour in Lloyd George's extraordinary life. Set in Antibes, France, on his 50th wedding anniversary, this speculative drama follows Lloyd George's imagination through his imperfect past into dreams of further conquests.

"Lloyd George is a dramatist's dream, a mass of contradictions: charismatic, intelligent, foolish, implusive, clinically decisive and painfully human... It may be a one-man play, but don't expect a monologue. Richard Elfyn becomes all the people in Lloyd George's world and somehow manages to sing and dance his way into the great man's soul". D.J.Britton

"Richly enteraining" Sally Baker, Director, National Writers' Centre


"Absolutely spell-binding: beautifully conceived...superbly acted" Professor Neil Reeve, Swansea University

Llywodraeth glymblaid… gwarth gwleidyddol… roedd David Lloyd George yn feistr ar y sefyllfa ond roedd ganddo amser o hyd i gael bywyd personol lliwgar. Roedd y Dewin o Gymru’n gawr yng ngwleidyddiaeth fyd-eang yr 20fed Ganrif, ond eto mae amrywiaeth barn yn y genedl amdano o hyd. Sut gallai Cymro Cymraeg o fachgen capel droi’n wleidydd haearnaidd a lywiodd Prydain drwy’r Rhyfel Mawr? Sut gallai hyrwyddwr Cristnogaeth anghydffurfiol fod yn ferchetwr â bywyd dwbl? Sut gallai hwn a amddiffynnai’r tlodion fentro cymaint ar drywydd cyfoeth?

Mae’r ysgrifennwr/cyfarwyddwr D.J. Britton a’r actor Richard Elfyn, sydd wedi ennill BAFTA, wedi creu perfformiad unigol gwefreiddiol, gan ddod o hyd i ddirgelwch, swyn, barddoniaeth a llawer o hiwmor ym mywyd hynod Lloyd George. Wedi’i gosod yn Antibes, Ffrainc, ar ei hanner canfed pen-blwydd priodas, mae’r ddrama synfyfyriol hon yn dilyn dychymyg Lloyd George drwy ei orffennol amherffaith i freuddwydion o goncwestau pellach.

Perfformir y ddrama hon yn Saesneg.

Theatr Soar, Pontmorlais, Merthyr Tudful.

Times: 7.30pm.
Amseroedd: 7.30yh.

Prices: £10 (Concessions: £8 Disabled, OAP, Unwaged, Children)
To purchase tickets for this event, contact 01685 722176.
Prisiau: £10 (Consesiynau: £8 Anabl, Pensiynwyr, Anghyflogi, Plant)
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