This evening we were at the Dylan Thomas Theatre for the world premiere of 'Hollywoodland' a fictionalised account of the relationship between infamous American syndicated gossip columnist, Hedda Hopper and little remembered Welsh actor, Gareth Hughes.
Hughes gave up his life as a screen star to follow a spiritual path. He was so fixed on this that he became padre to a Native American tribe, the Paiute of Pyramid Lake Nevada.
It was an entertaining, well-acted and beautifully written play centred around the mystery of an unsolved murder decades before. The playwright is a local writer while the director had flown over from Los Angeles especially. We enjoyed it tremendously.
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