Merthyr Tydfil is a Welsh post-industrial town with an extraordinarily rich history, yet it has been in almost perpetual economic decline since the closure of its old ironworks and the surrounding ...

A pair of piercing performances give real depth to Lisa Parry’s smart two-hander about faith and community It is the end of the school week and precociously self-possessed 16-year-old Carys is in ...

Originally scheduled as part of Sherman Theatre's Autumn 2020 season, The Merthyr Stigmatist will be presented in a co-production with Theatre Uncut this Spring as a fully-staged digital production ...

Larushka Ivan-Zadeh discusses Disney's 101 Dalmatians prequel, Cruella. Pauline Black on the exhibition “2 Tone: Lives & Legacies”. Lisa Parry on her play The Merthyr Stigmatist. Show more Disney’s ...

It’s Friday afternoon in a Catholic school in Wales and Carys is in detention again, with the week-stretching burden of supervision falling to teacher Siân. Seeing that the 16-year-old has both wrists ...

Nicholas Davies is a freelance writer of screenplays, novels and articles. He is based in Cardiff and previously spent 17 years working for ...full bio Merthyr Tydfil is a Welsh post-industrial town ...

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Is something incredible happening in Merthyr, something which defies logic? Carys, a sixteen year-old school pupil, claims to have received the stigmata: Christ’s wounds from the Cross. Are her wounds ...

Disney’s much-anticipated 101 Dalmatians prequel Cruella is the visually stunning origin story of the woman who becomes the puppy-stealing force of evil from Dodie Smith’s original 1956 story.