Les Miserables Boyo missus!!!!!!

Do you hear the people sing?

A few miles East of Trelawnyd is the pretty market town of Mold.( Welsh name yr Wyddgrug)
It's an important place for me as it's the home of Theatr Clwyd 
My nearest cultural centre and location of the only real art house cinema in the North Of Wales
Last night my sister and I went to see the Theatre Clwyd production of The Mold Riots which is a community based dramatisation of the 1869 riot where the Welsh town folk rebelled against the jailing of seven Welsh miners who had been involved in a scuffle with their English mine owner who had banned Welsh speaking underground and who favoured the handful of English miners under his employ.

One day more

In the riot two miners and two local women were killed and with a cast of four professional actors and nearly 100 local people playing the Mold residents, the whole production which was set in the Very streets that the riot took place around 150 years ago, was an energetic  and at times rather moving piece of theatre.
Because of the torrential rain, last night's production took place in the Town's St Mary's Church rather than in the streets selves where the audience walked around the pews which doubled as the great unwashed local market!
It was, in all essence, a massive Welsh Version of Les Miserables! 

As Janet and I wandered amongst the actors, a serious looking Victorian Welsh woman with a Very dirty face ran up to us and asked Janet if she had seen her husband
" Sorry I don't know him!" Janet answered honestly
We had the giggles about it all on the way home.
A lovely night!