David Ian Rabey

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David Ian Rabey FLSW is an Emeritus Professor of Theatre and Theatre Practice at Aberystwyth University. He worked there for 35 years, until he retired from teaching at the end of August 2020.

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He is the Artistic Director of Lurking Truth (Gwir sy'n Llechu) Theatre Company for which he has written several plays including:

Last Ditch (Anhrefn yng Nghymru) (first performed 2023), Land of My Fathers (first performed 2018), Lovefuries (first performed 2004), The Battle of the Crows (first performed 1998), Bite or Suck (first performed 1997) and The Back of Beyond (first performed 1996).

Professor Rabey has directed and/or performed in fifteen productions of the plays of Howard Barker and has also written several publications on his work. He has also published expository studies of the work of David Rudkin, Jez Butterworth and Alistair McDowall, as well as the wider studies Theatre, Time and Temporality and English Drama Since 1940.

Whilst at Aberystwyth University he directed many departmental productions with students, and taught Contemporary British and Irish Drama, Theatre in Contemporary Society, Shakespeare in Contemporary Performance, Playwriting, Acting and Directing.

In 2020, he was elected a Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales. [1]

Selected bibliography

Criticism

Plays

Podcast

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References

  1. Wales, The Learned Society of. "David Ian Rabey". The Learned Society of Wales. Retrieved 31 August 2023.

Further details on Lurking Truth can be found at the Theatre Wales website.