The Blue Scar (1949)

The Blue Scar was a 1949 British drama film, directed by documentary filmmaker Jill Craigie and featuring a musical score written by Welsh composer Grace Williams.

The movie was set in a Welsh village where the mine has recently been nationalised and was filmed in two locations. The first was a makeshift studio in the disused Electric Theatre cinema, Port Talbot, and the second was on location in the neighbouring village to Rhondda of Aber/Blaengwynfi, the opposite portal of the Rhondda Tunnel.

The Blue Scar is an iconic film. It was the first movie to feature a musical score composed by a woman, and was directed by the first female director in the film industry. It is hugely important in terms of both the history of the upper Afan Valley and pioneering female achievement.

As part of RAFT 2019, the film receive a special screening, during its 70th anniversary, for a capacity audience in the Miners Hall of the very village where it was filmed.

Images from The Blue Scar

​The screening of The Blue Scar will take place, in parternship with the Rhondda Arts Festival (RAFT) on Friday June 21st, 7:00pm at the Gwynfi Miners Community Hall, Blaengwynfi
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​Tickets are available direct from the Gwynfi Miners Community Hall, at the door

EVENT DETAILS

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Park & Dare Theatre, Treorchy
Theatr Y Parc a’r Dâr, Treorci  ​

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Friday 21st June
​Nos Wener 21 Mehefin

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​19:00 to 20:30
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