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My People
Theatr Clwyd, Mold
3/5
STEFFAN DONNELLY’S skilled adaptation of Caradoc Evans’s My People has cleverly knitted 12 disparate stories from a century ago into a 2015 frame.
An impressive cast, working their socks off, play multiple characters in this fast-moving ensemble piece and the solutions which directors Donnelly and Aled Pedrick and designer Cecile Tremolieres have found to the significant demands of the script are effective, inventive and often witty.
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