To the Hills with Thee, Angharrad

Starting life as a one-man show at the Merthyr Playhouse in 1974, "To The Hills With Thee, Angharad" is Welsh actor and writer Boyd Clack's moving account of his childhood in the mining valleys of South Wales, and his late teenage years spent in a Vietnam-era America, and then in the war itself. With a soundtrack that deftly mixes the hits of the era, from Max Bygraves to Jefferson Airplane, 'To The Hills...' takes its protagonist, Emyr, from love's first embrace (in the form of his childhood crush, Angharad Pugh), to the napalm-scorched paddy fields of Da Nang. The critic Kenneth Tynan described 'To The Hills With Thee, Angharad' as "a violently moving experience".