Riverfront, Newport"A great big, sad, beautiful joke," was how Welsh writer Gwyn Thomas viewed Valleys' life, and it's exactly what Told by an Idiot deliver in this theatrical patchwork quilt, stitched together from Thomas's life and writings, and even an appearance on Parkinson. It might so easily be scrappy, but once you adjust to the hotchpotch of interwoven snippets and stories and accept that not all of them wil…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:01PM on November 14, 2010