Ed Thomas – författare

"Ed Thomas is the most exciting playwright to come out of Wales" (Guardian) Bron meets Ace six days after his house falls into the sea. Their families may share a past of fairies, angels, axe-murderers and chickens, but what do Bron and Ace need with the past when they've got imagination and a tinted glass blue Marina 1800 TC ready to drive into the heart of Saturday night? Set in a shrinking land, Gas Station Angel is the latest play from Ed Thomas whose previous plays includes House of America (also recently released as a film) and Songs From a Forgotten City.

A stunning new play by "the most exciting playwright to come out of Wales" (Guardian) Winter in a city. Berlin, Paris, Cardiff, Antwerp. It could be anywhere.A stranger A poet A drunk A whore Four voices One city Together till dawn The end of the story? Or just the beginning? Published to coincide with a tour by Clwyd Theatr Cymru.

One minute we had customers, the next minute there was no-one.In a lost village, blurred by redrawn borders, hidden under a crumb on the map, Bear Ridge Stores still stands.After a hundred years, the family butchers and grocers – a place for odds and ends, contraband goods, and the last petrol pump for 30 miles – is now silent. But owners John Daniel and Noni are not leaving.They are defiantly drinking the remaining whiskey and remembering good times, when everyone was on the same side and the old language shone. Outside in the dark, a figure is making their way towards them.A semi-autobiographical story about the places we leave behind, the indelible marks they make on us, and the unreliable memories we hold onto.

A new edition of House of America, playwright Ed Thomas's obliquely structured account of a dysfunctional Welsh Valleys family living on the edge of an open-cast mine whose loss of self-worth and sanity is fatally accelerated by the imported dreams they fill their lives and bury their past with.