Description: A considerable figure on the modern Welsh drama scene, Laurence Allen has written eighteen plays in the past fourteen years, many of which are inspired by the gritty, lively, and often comic street life of his home town Pontypridd. The striking humor and resilience of his characters, often at odds with social and political trends, beset by unemployment and harsh circumstances, shines through. In "On the Road Again", two tramps (one a compulsive cheat, the other a hapless liar) receive a notice to evict them from their derelict caravan home. Redundant miners kidnap the Secretary of State for Wales in "The Best Years of Our Lives". "Cradle to the Grave" chronicles the comic and painful misadventures of a patient mistakenly transferred from a private hospital to one which, for all intents and purposes, has been closed.

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