David Ian Rabey
David Ian Rabey Learned [Society of Wales|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.
He is the Artistic Director of Lurking Truth Theatre Company for which he has written several plays including:
Last Ditch , Land of My Fathers, Lovefuries, The Battle of the Crows, Bite or Suck and The Back of Beyond.
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.
Selected bibliography
CriticismHoward Barker: Politics and Desire 1989, 2009.English Drama Since 1940 2003.David Rudkin: Sacred Disobedience - An Expository Study of His Drama, 1959-94 1997.Theatre of Catastrophe: New Essays on Howard Barker 2006.- Howard Barker: Ecstasy and Death 2009.Howard Barker's Art of Theatre 2013.The Theatre and Films of Jez Butterworth 2015.Theatre, Time and Temporality 2016.Alistair McDowall's 'Pomona' 2018.
PodcastJerusalem by Jez Butterworth: The Play Podcast July 18, 2022 https://www.theplaypodcast.com/050-jerusalem-by-jez-butterworth/