Identity area
Reference code
Title
Date(s)
- [1986]-[1997]. (Creation)
Level of description
Series
Extent and medium
5 large boxes (0.143 cubic metres) and 1 outsize folder.
Context area
Name of creator
Biographical history
The Hafod project was inspired by the story of the Hafod mansion in Ceredigion and the owner Thomas Johnes and his daughter Mariamne. The first stage of the project was the Tuag at Hafod work, which was the first stage in the creation of a new performance to be staged as a site-specific work in 1997. For Tuag at Hafod the company spent thirteen weeks from January to April 1997 generating material and presented the results of the work in three 'work-in-progress' presentations. The presentations were a mixture of exhibition, installation, sound, discussion, demonstration and performance. The work period concluded with a final performance of the work. All presentations and the performance took place on two floors of the disused Ely psychiatric hospital in Cardiff. The production was developed further following this and was presented in the Bala National Eisteddfod of Wales under the title Hafod - Bywyd Mewn Wyth Gyfres Fawr (A Life in Eight Great Suites). Brith Gof constructed a site in a forest by the Eisteddfod field. The site was open all day as an installation and a series of thirteen images and texts were set out. At lunchtime everyday a series of lectures were held and during the evening the performances took place. This was recreated for special stagings of the production on a 100m racing track in Sardinia and in a disused railway station in Florence as part of an international theatre festival.
Archival history
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Content and structure area
Scope and content
Correspondence and papers relating to the Hafod project, including photographs and slides, project booklets, publicity and information material, scenographic and prop sketches and designs, performance outline and details, production scripts and texts, press releases, research and preparatory material, examples of information packs, draft performance [scores], devising notes, a plan of Hafod, work plans, joiner photographs, copies of a marketing pack, design copies of set [banners], budgets, travel arrangements, venue plans, reviews, tour memorabilia, general production notes and administrative papers.
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling
Accruals
System of arrangement
Arranged according to type at NLW.
Conditions of access and use area
Conditions governing access
Conditions governing reproduction
Language of material
Script of material
Language and script notes
English and/or Welsh with some French and Italian as noted.
Physical characteristics and technical requirements
Finding aids
Allied materials area
Existence and location of originals
Existence and location of copies
Related units of description
Notes area
Note
All audio-visual and electronic material has been removed (29 June 2011) and transferred, except for two audio cassette tapes that are in the information packs (PE2/11).
Note
Preferred citation: PE2.
Alternative identifier(s)
Virtua system control number
Access points
Subject access points
Place access points
Name access points
- Hafod Mansion (Ceredigion, Wales) (Subject)