The bookshop in the seaside village is buzzing despite the late hour. Just over a dozen new playwrights are witnessing the launch of their work in print. The three volumes of ACTSwansea – The Plays are a culmination of years of hard graft by the writers who have been nurtured by playwrighting courses and a new X-factor style competition for new writers in Swansea.
“We’ve all been Binda’d,” said Joy Tucker, a retired journalist who has seen her 15 minute play Any Other Business performed at the Play Offs, as they are known. The phrase comes from the man behind the books and the Play Offs, Binda Singh.