Tuesday (NHB Modern Plays)

With a Welsh-language translation, Un Bore Mawrth

Alison Carr, Daf James

• Publisher: Nick Hern Books
• Year: 2021
• ISBN:
  9781788503778
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: British Drama
• Index: Literature

'I've been waiting for something like this to happen. I'm surprised it's taken so long. The signs have been building up for a while.'

An ordinary Tuesday turns really, really weird when the sky over the school playground suddenly rips open. Pupils and teachers are sucked up to a parallel universe, whilst a new set of people start raining down from above. 'Us' and 'Them' must come together to work out what is going on, and how they can get things back to how they were.

Alison Carr's play Tuesday is funny and playful, with a little bit of sci-fi and a lot of big themes: friendship, family, identity, grief, responsibility – and what happens when an unexpected event literally turns the world upside-down.

Written specifically for young people, the play formed part of the 2020 and 2021 National Theatre Connections Festivals and was premiered by youth theatres across the UK. It offers opportunities for a large, flexible cast of any size, age and mix of genders.

This bilingual edition includes the original English play with a Welsh-language translation, Un Bore Mawrth, by playwright Daf James.

Set Text >> Tuesday is a set play on WJEC's GCSE Drama specification.

Un Bore Mawrth

''Wi 'di bod yn aros i rywbeth fel hyn ddigwydd. 'Wi'n synnu'i fod e 'di cymryd mor hir. Ma'r arwyddion 'di bod 'ma ers sbel.'

Dydd Mawrth digon cyffredin yw hi, ond yn sydyn mae'n troi'n ddiwrnod rhyfedd iawn pan mae'r awyr uwch ben yr ysgol yn rhwygo'n agored. Caiff disgyblion ac athrawon eu sugno i fyny i fydysawd cyfochrog wrth i garfan newydd o bobl arllwys i lawr oddi uchod. Rhaid i 'Ni' a 'Nhw' ddod ynghyd i ddeall beth sy'n digwydd ac i ddatrys sut i gael pethau'n ôl fel yr oedden nhw.

Mae'r ddrama wreiddiol hon gan Alison Carr, Tuesday, yn ddoniol ac yn chwareus, gyda phinsiad o ffugwyddoniaeth a thomen o themâu mawr: cyfeillgarwch, teulu, hunaniaeth, galar, cyfrifoldeb – a beth sy'n digwydd pan fydd digwyddiad annisgwyl yn llythrennol yn troi'r byd wyneb i waered.

Wedi'i hysgrifennu ar gyfer pobl ifanc, roedd y ddrama'n rhan o ?yl National Theatre Connections yn 2020 a 2021, a chafodd ei llwyfannu am y tro cyntaf gan theatrau ieuenctid ar draws y DU.

Mae'n cynnig cyfleoedd i gastiau mawr, hyblyg o unrhyw faint, oedran a rhywedd.

Mae Tuesday yn waith gosod ar fanyleb TGAU Drama CBAC. Yn y gyfrol ddwyieithog hon, fe welwch y ddrama wreiddiol Saesneg ynghyd â chyfieithiad Cymraeg y dramodydd Daf James, Un Bore Mawrth.

A Nick Hern Book

Tuesday first published in Great Britain in 2021 as a paperback original by Nick Hern Books Limited, The Glasshouse, 49a Goldhawk Road, London W12 8QP

This ebook first published in 2021

Tuesday copyright © 2021 Alison Carr
Welsh translation Un Bore Mawrth copyright © 2021 Daf James

Alison Carr has asserted her moral right to be identified as the author of this work, and Daf James has asserted his moral right to be identified as the translator of the Welsh-language version

Cover image: © iStock.com/gyro/ClaudioVentrella/Tolga TEZCAN

Designed and typeset by Nick Hern Books, London
Printed in the UK by Mimeo Ltd, Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire PE29 6XX

A CIP catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library

ISBN 978 1 83904 000 9(print edition)
ISBN 978 1 78850 377 8 (ebook edition)

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UN BORE MAWRTH

Cyfieithiad Cymraeg Daf James
o Tuesday gan Alison Carr

Cynnwys

Nodyn Cyflwyno’r Ddrama

Nodyn gan yr Awdur

Diolch

Manylion y Cynhyrchiad Cyntaf

Un Bore Mawrth

Yr Awduron

Manylion Hawlfraint a Hawliau Perfformio

I bawb y cafodd eu bywydau eu troi ben i waered

Nodyn gan yr Awdur

Ganwyd Tuesday ar ôl imi ymgolli’n llwyr wrth ddarllen ar y we am fydysawdau cyfochrog ac aml-fydysawdau. Roeddwn i am ysgrifennu rhywbeth am ddewisiadau a chanlyniadau, am ‘beth petai’ cyfle i ni edrych ym myw llygad llwybr nad oedden ni wedi ei ddilyn. Roeddwn i eisiau ysgrifennu rhywbeth a fyddai’n cyffroi, yn diddanu ac yn ennyn diddordeb y perfformwyr ifanc a fyddai’n mynd i’r afael ag ef, ac a fyddai’n rhoi heriau theatraidd i’w harchwilio a’u goresgyn. Rwy’n credu imi wneud hyn. Gobeithio hynny. Os ydych chi’n mynd ati i gynhyrchu’r ddrama hon, chi biau hi nawr a chewch ei gwneud a’i dweud hi fel y mynnoch chi. Gobeithio y cewch chi hwyl.

Diolch

Diolch i Ola Animashawun a phawb yn National Theatre Connections, ac i bob un o’r perfformwyr ifanc a’u timau sydd wedi cydio yn Tuesday/Un Bore Mawrth – neu sydd ar fin gwneud hynny!

A.C.

Comisiynwyd Tuesday yn rhan o Ŵyl National Theatre Connections 2020 a 2021 a’i pherfformio am y tro cyntaf gan theatrau ieuenctid ledled y DU, gan gynnwys perfformiad yn y National Theatre.

Bob blwyddyn mae’r National Theatre yn gofyn i ddeg awdur greu dramâu newydd i’w perfformio gan gwmnïau theatr ieuenctid dros y DU i gyd. O Belfast i Greenock, o Aberystwyth i Norwich,...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title page
• Contents
• Dedication
• Author’s Note
• Thanks
• Original Production Details
• Tuesday
• About the Authors
• Copyright and Performing Rights Information