Ever since I spent a couple of memorable days in the town a few months ago, while following the Eryri Slate Trail, Blaenau Ffestiniog has hardly been out of my consciousness. An obvious reason was to be able to see Effi o Blaena, one of the most gripping Welsh films of all time, in the cinema. It is an adaptation of the well-known monologue play by Gary Owen, Iphigeneia in Splott, but with a working-class, post-industrial town in the north rep…
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Ever since I spent a couple of memorable days in the town a few months ago, while following the Eryri Slate Trail, Blaenau Ffestiniog has hardly been out of my consciousness. An obvious reason was to be able to see Effi o Blaena, one of the most gripping Welsh films of all time, in the cinema. It is an adaptation of the well-known monologue play by Gary Owen, Iphigeneia in Splott, but with a working-class, post-industrial town in the north rep…