Jackie Cornwall

A very well received play written especially for the Laugharne Festival by Jackie Cornwall and performed by members of the Everyman Theatre (Cardiff).
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A special thanks to Carol Thomas who had the brilliant idea of putting on Under Milk Wood with local people, and to Jackie Cornwall who wrote the Caitlin and Dylan Play, and the actors from Everyman who came to perform for us.
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The cast of Caitlin and Dylan with Jackie CornwallJackie Cornwall, the writer of Caitlina and Dylan takes a well deserved bow; with Tim Ferguson as Jack Thomas, Maggie Nicholls as Caitlin Thomas, Paul Evans as Dylan Thomas and Melanie Poole as The Landlady.

Jackie Cornwall

a new play about youth, by Jackie Cornwall (with ideas contributed by Maggie Nicholls).
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Caitlin and Dylan: A Play About Youth, was written by Jackie Cornwall, a writer for Cardiff-based Everyman Theatre company with ideas contributed by Maggie Nicholls, also an actor with the company.
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This emotional play, with only four characters ., Dylan, Caitlin, Dylan's father Jack and a landlady, explores how Caitlin overcame alcoholism to rebuild her life in Italy.
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The idea, coupled with her interest in Caitlin's life and combined with the playwriting impetus of Jackie, grew into a new drama.
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Jackie Cornwall

Jackie Cornwall is a writer, teacher, lecturer, feminist and part-time revolutionary.She wrote her first poem at the age of six, and has been writing ever since.She has worked in Cornwall and Wales and in Turkey, where she organised the English Teaching Theatre of Izmir.Her plays for the stage have included A Double Life (about the poet W H Auden), The Burning of Rawlins White (produced by Everyman Theatre in 2005 to commemorate Cardiff's centenary) and Revolution Square.She also writes and performs poetry, and in 1997 was awarded a Chair for poetry at the National Eisteddfod in Bala.She devised and wrote the multi-media presentation Letters to Che Guevara (2005).

Jackie has homes in Andalucia and Cardiff but at present earns a living working with excluded young people in Newport.She is addicted to travel and goes to Cuba whenever she can.Her most impressive achievement so far has been the successful production of five children and four grandchildren.

Jackie Cornwall
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Jackie then came up with the idea that as they would be in 'Dylan Thomas' country they might write something together about Dylan.

Caitlin and Dylan: A Play About Youth, was written by Jackie Cornwall, a writer for Cardiff-based Everyman Theatre company with ideas contributed by Maggie Nicholls, also an actor with the company.
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This emotional play, with only four characters ., Dylan, Caitlin, Dylan's father Jack and a landlady, explores how Caitlin overcame alcoholism to rebuild her life in Italy.
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The idea, coupled with her interest in Caitlin's life and combined with the playwriting impetus of Jackie, grew into a new drama.

Maggie sajd: "We wanted to change the focus to Caitlin.I read her book Double Drink Stories and then started researching her,I discovered she had written four books and wanted to be a dancer. "She gave up drinking when she was 60 and rebuilt her life.