Port Talbot, on the coast of South Wales, is literally overlooked. Most experience the town while flying over it on the M4, held aloft by concrete stilts planted in terraced streets. From that four-lane gantry, the only landmarks are the dockyard cranes and belching steelworks.
Over Easter in 2011, National Theatre Wales staged a piece of street theatre that was crafted as a civic resurrection.
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