'Hinterland' is a great series - well written and brilliantly acted - one of the firs and still one of the best of the Welsh Noir genre.
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Theater Review (Off-Broadway NYC): ‘Iphigenia in Splott’ by Gary Owen
A typhoon of a performance by Sophie Melville drives toward – and justifies – a wrenching twist. Directed with just-shy-of-frantic energy by Rachel O'Riordan, Sophie Melville's Effie is a raw slice of humanity, baring her ragged soul and bringing us her milieu, a few of the people in her life, and a critical encounter with a war veteran that bends the arc of her history toward, if not justice, a kind of heroism.
Read More »Theater Review (NYC): Motherlode Theatre Company’s ‘The Good Earth’
Welsh villagers are pressured to leave their ancestral homes when the government suspects their mountain may collapse.
Read More »Movie Review: Jeppe Rønde’s ‘Bridgend’
"Brigend" is a relentlessly downbeat film, and lacking a dramatically satisfying conclusion, it's a film that can be admired for its execution, even as it keeps viewers at arm's length.
Read More »2015 Tribeca Film Festival Review: ‘Bridgend’ in Its North American Premiere
When mysterious suicides bring an inspector and his daughter Sara to the town of Bridgend, Wales, there is no respite for the father and daughter. Both caught up in the evil atmospheres of the town and the surrounding dark forests. Sara becomes estranged from her father and the inspector grows more tyrannical as the situation moves from bad to worse. There is no explanation why teens are killing themselves and everyone wonders who will be next.
Read More »Music Review: 9Bach – ‘Tincian’
A Welsh band combines modern sounds and folk themes in a set of songs beautifully sung in the Welsh language.
Read More »Nine Days in Wales, Part Five (and Conclusion)
Castles, sunsets, and sheep who wander off their field and onto a traffic median, where they continue peacefully grazing. That's Wales.
Read More »Nine Days in Wales, Part Four
More castles and a side trip to Portmerion, one of the strangest places in the world, brought us near the end of our adventure.
Read More »Nine Days in Wales, Part Three
The magnificence of Tintern Abbey, and the beauty of St. David's, where according to legend St. Patrick set sail for Ireland.
Read More »Nine Days in Wales, Part Two
Our journey continues to the picturesque Gower Peninsula, then up to the dramatic ruins of remote Carreg Cennen Castle.
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