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Mametz

  • Owen Sheers
  • Full Length Play, Drama, 1910s / WWI
  • 11M, 5F
  • ISBN: 9780573112775

A meditation on war, memory and the nature of time, Mametz, inspired by the writings of David Jones and Llewellyn Wyn Griffith, tells the story of the 38th Welsh Division's attack on Mametz Wood during the Somme offensive of 1916.

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  • Full Length Play
  • Drama

  • Time Period: 1910s / WWI
A meditation on war, memory and the nature of time, Mametz, inspired by the writings of David Jones and Llewelyn Wyn Griffith, tells the story of the 38th Welsh Divisions attack on Mametz Wood during the Somme offensive of 1916.

Set within the context of a contemporary battlefield tour and moving between the present day, the 1950s and WWI, the play transports an audience into the frontline trenches and the intimate fears, hopes and loves of the young soldiers who risked and gave their lives in their attempt to take the wood.
REVIEWS:

"The finest commemoration of the First World War centenary I've seen to-date, this deserves a much longer life."

 Dominic Cavendish, Daily Telegraph

"An astounding exploration -- melding narrative and poetry -- of the Battle of Mametz Wood."

 Carolyn Hitt, Western Mail

Premiere Production: Mametz was first performed by the National Theatre of Wales on 24 June 2014.

Characters

  • Casting: 11M, 5F

  • PROFESSOR PHILLIPS - WWI historian and battlefield guide, fifties/sixties
    ANTIONETTE - Daughter of Mametz Wood gamekeeper, nineteen
    LLEWELYNWYN GRIFFITH (YOUNG) - Staff officer 15th Battalion RWF, mid-twenties
    TAYLOR - Signals officer 15th Battalion RWF, forties
    LLEWELYN WYN GRIFFITH (OLD) - Writer and broadcaster, late sixties
    GENERAL EVANS - Commander 15th Battalion RWF, fifties
    PRIVATE DAI WILLIAMS - South Wales miner, early twenties
    EDITH WILLIAMS - Mother to Dai Williams, late forties/early fifties
    PRIVATE ELLIS JONES - London dairyman, early twenties
    HELEN JONES - Wife of Ellis Jones, mother to Megan, early twenties
    PRIVATE ANEURIN LEWIS - North Wales son of a farmer, eighteen
    SIRIOL - Munitions worker from Llandudno, eighteen
    PRIVATE DAVID JONES - Student artist, Londoner of Welsh descent, twenty
    WILLEM DE SITTER - Dutch physicist, forties
    WHITEHALL SECRETARIES 1, 2 & 3 - Various ages
    COLONEL BELL - Colonel in 15th Battalion RWF, fifties
    SERGEANT SNELL - Sergeant in 15th Battalion RWF, thirties/forties
    ENSEMBLE - Soldiers, rugby players, mothers, watcyn, "John" and "Lucy" from skype conversation.

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    A meditation on war, memory and the nature of time, Mametz, inspired by the writings of David Jones and Llewelyn Wyn Griffith, tells the story of the 38th Welsh Divisions attack on Mametz Wood during the Somme offensive of 1916.

    Set within the context of a contemporary battlefield tour and moving between the present day, the 1950s and WWI, the play transports an audience into the frontline trenches and the intimate fears, hopes and loves of the young soldiers who risked and gave their lives in their attempt to take the wood.

    		$24.95

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