There was big chuckles and cheers of applause tonight marking the long-awaited return of local drama sensation, the Library Luvvies.
Staff from Rhondda Cynon Taf Council Libraries service – aka ‘the Library Luvvies’ – performed their own musical comedy ‘Where in the World?’ at Ton Pentre Library.
Rhondda Cynon Taf Council Libraries Service is holding a week of travel-related activities during its ‘Where in the World Week’, starting Monday, June 7, 2010. The local library service in Rhondda Cynon Taff offer a range of travel books and DVDs available for loan.
Tonight was an hilarious night of comedy sketches from around the world.
It’s only a matter of time before the police swoop on the publishers and confiscate all copies of Tracy’s Tits by Ponty author Amanda Weeks … so I thought I’d better blog a review here pretty sharp.
Tracy’s Tits is a collection of short stories by Amanda Weeks, a fresh and exciting new voice writing from Pontypridd, the second-most important South Wales Valleys town after Aberdare.
If only Rob Brydon was prescribed on the NHS in Wales. We could get well sooner and save so much money by just learning to laugh at ourselves and avoiding all those happy pills.
Brydon rocked the house in Brecon last night. Theatr Brycheiniog is quite a small theatre at nearly five-hundred seats but it felt much more intimate than some of the larger venues on his tour. Sitting in seat AA1 might have helped me feel closer to the action too.
Better late than never… this Christmas we discovered the television comedy Gavin and Stacey, thanks to a gift from a kind uncle. The comedy was written by Ruth Jones and James Corden.
It was a thrilling discovery. We had to pause the DVD several times to try and recover from fits of hysterical laughter.
Gavin and Stacey is a lovely romantic comedy romp, with a strong Welsh flavour.
There were one or two scenes that really tickled the heart-strings in a big way. We fought (and failed) to hold back the tears watching the scene with Rob Brydon on the way to the Church with his niece.
Rob Brydon was absolutely excellent. He recently appeared in a one-man show in the Coliseum Theatre, Aberdare. How we now wish we had gone to see him!
The humour in Gavin Stacey is reminiscent of Rhondda playwright Frank Vickery. In the words of Smithy, the best mate of the show’s Essex hero, it’s “a Welsh thing”.
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The drama revolves around a romance which begins over the telephone between a twenty-something girl from Barry Island, Wales, and a young man from Essex. The following is an excerpt from a conversation at the beginning of the first show, between Stacey and her pensioner neighbour Doris. Doris offers ‘romance tips’ to Stacey on her forthcoming blind-date in London :
Doris : Hiya Stacey
Stacey : Alright Doris, how’s the leg ?
Doris : Oh love, I wish they’d cut the bugger off.
Stacey : Oh you don’t mean that.
Doris : Oh yes I do. You ‘and me the axe, I’ll do it myself. You still going up London then on your blind date ?
Stacey : It’s not really a blind date. I mean, we’ve been talking for six months on the phone. We just haven’t met in the flesh like.
Doris : What time you off ?
Stacey : First thing. Dave’s coaches. I’m cacking myself I am.
Doris : Stace love, you’ve got to chill out. Thing to remember is don’t go giving him nothing on the first night.
Stacey : Really ?
Doris : Well, no, not nothing… A kiss, a cuddle, a cheeky finger… just don’t go selling him the whole farm.
We eagerly await the second-series which is in the making.
If only the playwright Frank Vickery was available on the NHS ! Imagine how many ailments could be cured through comedy therapy. But don’t wait until your local GP can prescribe Frank Vickery for you… visit your local Coliseum Theatre this week where A Night on the Tiles, Frank Vickery’s latest pacey comedy, is running until Saturday.
A typing error by a journalist at the Bombay Leader newspaper has sparked mass rioting at the Indian city’s travel agents with fights breaking out over air flights to visit Aberdare this weekend.
A news story was printed claiming that “Ann Clwyd MP will be unveiling her bust at Rock Grounds Aberdare“.
The Bombay journalist tried to translate the news story that Ann Clwyd MP will be unveiling a bust of Keir Hardie the very first Labour MP at Rock Grounds Aberdare on Saturday 2nd December 2006.
Better late than never… this Christmas we discovered the television comedy Gavin and Stacey, thanks to a gift from a kind uncle. The comedy was written by Ruth Jones and James Corden.
The King of Comedy… it’s the one… the only Mr Elvis Preseli.
