Gas Station Angel

Synopsis

Ace is a young man living with his elderly parents Manny and Mary Annie in a seaside town whose house is slowly being consumed by erosion from the sea. Over the course of several interconnected vignettes, Ace recounts meeting the enigmatic Bron one night and the two going on a drug-fueled odyssey, while also grappling with fragmented memories of his missing brother Bri.

Utilising Welsh mythology, magical realism, and working-class vernacular, the play excavates layers of secrets, resentments, and traumas buried within this dysfunctional family. Themes of guilt, mental illness, loss of identity and heritage coalesce into an oneiric portrait of disintegrating domesticity. With its kaleidoscopic structure and embrace of the surreal, the work chronicles Ace’s search for meaning and escape from the shattered foundations of his upbringing. Thomas weaves a haunting, lyrical exploration of how stories, both real and imagined, can paradoxically imprison and liberate those they belong to.