Mr Jones – Greenside, George St
The word ‘Aberfan’ may not mean too much to the world nowadays, but nearly 60 years ago in October 1966, it was the scene of one of the most tragic events in post-war British history. On that day 144 people - 112 of them children - died when a 150,000-tonne coal heap engulfed a school in that small Welsh mining village. Liam Holmes wrote and stars in this superb new piece of writing which avoids polemic political statements around blame and cause, choosing to focus on the effect that the disaster had on two young people intimately associated with the event.
Steven Jones (Liam Holmes) and Angharad Price (Mabli Gwynne) are both on the cusp of life beginning, their late teens bursting with unfocused dreams; rugby stardom as fly half in the local team for Steven; escape to the bri...
