Jasper Rees

Made in Port Talbot

Port Talbot, the birthplace of Michael Sheen, Anthony Hopkins and Richard Burton, is the subject of a new play from National Theatre Wales and an eight-part crime drama

issue 09 September 2017

Port Talbot, on the coast of South Wales, is literally overlooked. Most experience the town while flying over it on the M4, held aloft by concrete stilts planted in terraced streets. From that four-lane gantry, the only landmarks are the dockyard cranes and belching steelworks.

Over Easter in 2011, National Theatre Wales staged a piece of street theatre that was crafted as a civic resurrection.

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