Frank Vickery – författare

A year ago Vi suffered a stroke and her son Howard gave up college to nurse her. Vi, now capable of looking after herself finds it hard to let go. Howard has a secret - he is gay and has been seeing Bernard, Vi's insurance agent. A caravan holiday in Tenby does nothing to relieve the tension.

It hasn't been Griff's and Ruby's day. They discovered that their son Nigel is both a drag queen and gay; hours later Nigel is in hospital after a car crash in which his lover Kevin, has incurred much worse injuries. Tensions and emotions rise even higher as they meet the "in-laws".

Mid-life crisis is hitting Ted. A row is the catalyst for his decision to leave Beryl, his wife of 32 years. At first she is shattered, but events give her a new lease of life. When Ted decides that the grass is not so green, Beryl makes a decision that six months ago would have been unthinkable.

The action in this comedy of the strains and stresses of property buying and selling alternates between two locations and should be familiar to anyone who has ever experienced house buying!

This substantial collection of one act plays from Wales charts the rise of Welsh Drama from the 1950s to the present. From the Dylan Thomas classic, Return Journey, to the work of established names likes Charles Way and Frank Vickery, to the more recent plays by young writers like Edward Thomas and Ian Rowlands, this book presents a significant overview of the drama of our era. Though stylistically and thematically diverse, these plays all deliver thought-provoking characters, unusual situations and moving confrontations. Editor Phil Clark, Artistic Director of the Sherman Theatre in Cardiff, in his perceptive introduction, charts the growth of professional theatre-writing in Wales, acknowledges the powerful influence of the amateur movement, and finds areas of common influence among these various distinctive writers. As well as ensuring the continued performance of the many classics of the form written over the past four decades, this collection will be a catalyst for the future of drama in Wales.