Project Description

Caitlin: Dance Performance, Lauriston Hall, Edinburgh

  • Date:

    August 23rd – 26th

  • Lauriston Hall,
    28 Lauriston Street,
    Edinburgh
    EH3 9DJ
  • British Council Edinburgh Showcase 2017 presents Caitlin.

    Caitlin was the wife of poet Dylan Thomas. At the start of the 1970s, twenty years after he died, she started going to Alcoholics Anonymous.

    In a circle of chairs, set out for an AA meeting Caitlin makes a determined effort to deal with her tempestuous past. The audience sits in the circle with Caitlin as she revisits her life with Dylan. It is a relationship fuelled by love, addiction, jealousy and infidelity. As Caitlin and Dylan drink, fight, love and leave each other the unoccupied chairs become part of the action in this physical and powerful duet.

    Directed by Deborah Light
    Devised with and performed by Eddie Ladd and Gwyn Emberton

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