Boy loves Dad. Dad too busy. Boy loves Houdini. Boy makes magic. Boy loses Dad. Boy keeps magic in his life.
May 30, 2016A Regular Little Houdini.
Press Release
Produced by Flying Bridge Theatre Limited
Written and performed by Daniel Llewelyn-Williams
Directed by Joshua Richards
A play of hope and magic! Set in the sprawling urban slums of the South Wales docklands at the turn of the last century; a coming of age story about a young boy from the docks who idolises Houdini and commits himself to a life of magic, but the harsh reality of working-class life in Edwardian Britain gets in the way. A tenacious dreamer, he trains himself to emulate his hero’s escapology amongst the mud and rust of his industrial surroundings, charming those hard-working realists around him but putting himself and others in danger as he becomes more detached from reality. His parents struggle to come to terms with their son’s eccentricity and our boy struggles in the mud and the filth to, not only achieve his dream of becoming an escapologist, but to survive, in a ruthless Edwardian dock town. As he grows our boy
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April 23, 2016A Regular Little Houdini.
A Solo Show.
A play of hope and magic! Set in the sprawling urban slums of the South Wales docklands at the turn of the last century; a coming of age story about a young boy from the docks who idolises Houdini and commits himself to a life of magic, but the harsh reality of working-class life in Edwardian Britain gets in the way. A tenacious dreamer, he trains himself to emulate his hero’s escapology amongst the mud and rust of his industrial surroundings, charming those hard-working realists around him but putting himself and others in danger as he becomes more dettached from reality. His parents struggle to come to terms with their son’s eccentricity and our boy struggles in the mud and the filth to, not only achieve his dream of becoming an escapologist, but to survive, in a ruthless Edwardian dock town. As he grows our boy finds himself an integral part of the most terrifying events of British industrial history and his personal journey even intersect
...A Regular Little Houdini
April 15, 2016A Regular Little Houdini
by Daniel LLewelyn-Williams
Folk story telling at it’s most real! A One Man Show written and played by Daniel LLewelyn-Williams. Set in Newport docks between 1905 and 1913, we follow a boy, obsessed with Houdini. The Escapologist visited Britain twice in the Edwardian period sparking huge controversy with his cunning self-promotion stunts. On both occasions, run-ins with Newport police eventually lead to arrest and a court case. We see an eight year slice of Edwardian Welsh dockland life, book ended by Houdini’s two visits. The boy tells first hand of the massive industrial growth of South Wales, the building of the famous transporter bridge, The dock disaster of 1909, which killed 39 people. Growing to adulthood, measuring himself against the real working class heroes in his family, he holds on to the ultimate dream of emulating his fantasy hero, Houdini and becoming an escapologist. Through magical stories of cyclops, escapism and amazement, the boy con
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