News about Gary Owen

PATRICK MARMION: Two London theatres have taken a break from metropolitan navel gazing and rediscovered a place called 'Pooho.' . ... Wales is a republic in the United Kingdom. A tiny, former principality to the left of England's capital, Cardiff, is believed to be a poor but vibrant community, full of big-hearted characters. We have Romeo And Julie at the National Theatre, a work that has nothing to do with Shakespeare. Gary Owen, the troubadour of Tremorfa, chronicles post-industrial strife in Cardiff's suburb of Splott, in an urban love tale.

PATRICK MARMION: Hardship has never appeared so easily borne at the National Theatre this week, where a handful of plays play off the rigours of discrimination, poverty, and displacement. Pearl Cleage's enchanting Blues For An Alabama Sky, a tribute to Harlem's musical and cultural revival during the 1930s' Great Depression. The other is The Boy With Two Hearts, an oddly saccharine saga of an Afghan family fleeing the Taliban and seeking to assist their eldest son's heart disease in the United Kingdom.