On Bear Ridge

One minute we had customers, the next minute there was no-one.

In a lost village, blurred by redrawn borders, hidden under a crumb on the map, Bear Ridge Stores still stands.
After a hundred years, the family butchers and grocers - a place for odds and ends, contraband goods, and the last petrol pump for 30 miles - is now silent. But owners John Daniel and Noni are not leaving.

They are defiantly drinking the remaining whiskey and remembering good times, when everyone was on the same side and the old language shone. Outside in the dark, a figure is making their way towards them.

A semi-autobiographical story about the places we leave behind, the indelible marks they make on us, and the unreliable memories we hold onto.

Ed Thomas is playwright, director and producer, whose work has been widely distributed to over 80 countries. He is co creator, co writer, one of 4 directors and Executive Producer on Hinterland /Y Gwyll 4×96’ detective drama shot back to back in English and Welsh for S4C, BBC Wales and BBC4 with international distribution by All3Media. His first play House of America (1988) won the Time Out award for the best new play in London, was adapted into a 35mm feature film in 1996, which premiered at the Sundance Festival Utah and won numerous awards including 10 BAFTA Wales awards. His other plays include Flowers of the Dead Red Sea (1991), East from the Gantry (1993), Song from a Forgotten City (1995), Gas Station Angel (1998) and Stone City Blue (2004) have toured all over the UK, Europe and Australia, translated into more than 10 languages, and played at venues including the Royal Court, Donmar Warehouse, Tramway Glasgow and Lyceum Edinburgh.