Moments of Madness

by Paul Davies

Moments of Madness takes Ron Davies' famous stroll on Clapham Common as its cue for an investigation into the troubled psyche of a small nation. Part parody, part tragedy, absurd and very funny, Moments of Madness is a fictional conference concerned with the affairs of an emerging nation at the dawn of a new era.

Moments of Madness brings news from a small country. What does the future hold - progress, anarchy, or more light refreshments?

Five characters - a repressed consultant, a misanthropic executive, a small-time actor, a lonely academic and a narcoleptic newspaper hack - meet to discuss art, culture and the state. Tragedy and farce collide as they find themselves unable to focus on the agenda that lays before them.

"People, apparently serious people, making spectacles of themselves..."

Moments of Madness opened at Chapter in Cardiff on 14 March 2000, and toured the UK for twelve weeks.

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"There are those in London who seem never to have heard of Wales" Ken Livingstone, Observer, February 2000