In
a Welsh castle at the edge of the sea, listeners, tellers, gods
and demons gathered for a festival of story.
The mythic
is also the new: a truth revealed in an entirely different but
equally compelling manner by a remarkable young Welsh-English
puppeteer, Gavin Skerritt. His hour-long show, Y Weledigaeth
(The Vision) — a tribute to his Welsh-speaking grandmother
— is almost impossible to describe. A tiny theatre, like
a jewel-box, spotlit — evocative puppets whose actions
clearly spring from narrative but are not narrative —
and all overseen by the presence of the puppeteer, clad in black,
black gauze over his eyes and head, his face chalk white, his
red mouth singing haunting Welsh melodies.
Erica Wagner, The Times.