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The Rambler 90 min. walking monologue |
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| In the 1968 film The Swimmer, Ned Merrill, played by Burt Lancaster, imagines the swimming pools of his wealthy Connecticut neighbourhood forming a river along which he can swim home. The map of the STAR area reveals a string of parks and open spaces that form a seven and a half mile green pathway that follows a dogleg loop from the northern end of Roath Park to Adamsdown’s Cemetery Gardens just minutes from the city centre. As the summer of 2005 draws to a close Dominic Thomas sets out in the manner of the nineteenth century amateur explorer, to walk the STAR Green Way, creating as he goes a rambling and idiosyncratic audio portrait of the changing landscapes of Eastern Cardiff |  |