Digging deep for drama

Published: 7 February 2016
Reporter: David Upton

Taylor Jay-Davies as Chewy and Patrick Brennan as Chopper in the original production of Land of Our Fathers Credit: Flavia Fraser-Canon

Acclaimed Welsh mining drama Land of Our Fathers comes to Liverpool’s Playhouse Studio.

The award-winning play about six Welsh miners trapped down a coal mine was winner of Time Out’s Critics’ Choice and Fringe Show of the Year 2013. Chris Urch’s debut play echoes a generation of lost voices and will be at the Playhouse Studio from March 1-5.

Original cast members Joshua Price (Llwyth/Tribe, Sherman Cymru) and Taylor Jay-Davies (Great Expectations, Vaudeville Theatre, London) reprise their roles as Mostyn and Chewy.

They are joined by John Cording (Da Vinci’s Demons), Tomos Eames (Pride, Resistance), Cornelius Booth (Pride & Prejudice) and Robert Jezek (The Bodyguard—Adelphi Theatre, London).

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