Owain Glyndŵr, The Imaginary Prince of Wales, Part 2
Owain Glyndŵr launches his campaign for Mayor on Radio Dyfi.
When he was in his final year of school and he rewrote his speech, as his namesake, Owen Glendower, in Shakespeare’s Henry the Fourth, he unwittingly began what has become a protracted and, in some cases, ill-tempered debate around the issue of whether Shakespeare ought to be taught in Welsh schools at all.
His current political campaign is not without controversy.
Now that Westminster has made clear its plans regarding the financial management of the local council, Glyndŵr has called for the town forthwith to declare independence and furthermore, to opt out of the Pound. In short, his idea is to form a government and to issue a new currency.
Radio Dyfi, at this point, hasn’t been able to find a singe person who agrees with this stance, no matter how hard we have tried.
“In fact, that isn’t exactly what I meant,” Glyndŵr is reported as saying.
Glyndŵr has been joined in his campaign by two old school friends, Ffion Walsh who joined the Bank of England where she headed up a specialist task force looking at a digital currency, and Cristin Hughes, famous international artist, recently back in London where she has been active in political circles. Walsh and Hughes played Hotspur and Mortimer in the infamous production. (Casting was audaciously, for the time, cross-gendered.)
What they think of Glyndŵr’s ideas is unknown.