Cyfres PE2. - Hafod,

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.