Project Description
Three Knights and Two Welshmen, Zoom online
Date:
Saturday May 14th
7.30pm – 9.30pm
Online via Zoom
‘Three Knights and Two Welshmen’ features Richard Burton, Dylan Thomas, Sir John Gielgud, Sir Ralph Richardson and Lord Olivier.
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The script centres around the friendship between the legendary Welsh pair Burton and Thomas, their fame, legacy and dependencies…
Burton had at one time been lauded as the heir apparent to Olivier but in the eyes of many he squandered his rare talent in pursuit of fame, celebrity, privilege, wild living, …women….and drink.
Thomas had similarly been a bright early talent who gathered around him ardent fans and admirers, but in the eyes of many he squandered his rare talent in pursuit of fame, celebrity, privilege, wild living, …women….and drink.
The whole play occurs in an Austrian Hotel suite in 1982 when Richard is part way through filming ‘Wagner’ the extraordinary 8 hour epic directed by Tony Palmer. While caught in a drunken stupor he is ‘visited’ by Dylan, Gielgud, Richardson and Olivier.
On November 11th 2019 the script and premier memorabilia were inducted into the official Richard Burton Archive held at Swansea University.