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NTW08 - The Dark Philosophers
Photography credit: Gareth Phillips / National Theatre Wales
November 2010
The Riverfront, Newport
National Theatre Wales and Told by an Idiot celebrate Gwyn Thomas the great Welsh storyteller and dark hilarious chronicler of the Valleys one of the most distinctive Welsh voices of the last century Taking as its inspiration Thomas ink black comic tales The Dark Philosophers National Theatre Wales eighth production is a funny violent and passionate depiction of a community teetering on the brink of humanity Using Told by an Idiots trademark anarchic physicality and inventive storytelling this adaptation brings out the bleak wild humour in tales laced with sex murder and Thomas devastating Valleys wit.