David Ian Rabey

• Contemporary British and Irish drama, theatre in society, theatre and time, creative writing for the stage.

  • PUBLICATIONS include:

     

    PUBLICATIONS IN DEVELOPMENT:

     

     

    Essay contribution (‘Making Space for the Shadows: Penda’s Fen, katabasis, tradition and legacy’) to contracted collection, OF MUD AND FLAME: DAVID RUDKIN’S PENDA’S FEN’, eds. R. Harle and J. Machin (Strange Attractor/MIT Press 2018). Accepted for publication (in 2019) and in press.

     

    Essay contribution (‘Jumping to, and away from, conclusions: rhythm and temporality in debbie tucker green’s drama’) to contracted collection, THE THEATRE OF DEBBIE TUCKER GREEN, eds. Jacqueline Bolton and Sian Adesishiah (Palgrave 2018). Accepted for publication (in 2019) and in press.

     

     

     

    MONOGRAPHS PUBLISHED:

     

    ALISTAIR McDOWALL’S POMONA. Routledge Fourth Wall series, 2018.

     

    THEATRE, TIME AND TEMPORALITY. Intellect Books/University of Chicago Press,  2016.

     

    THE THEATRE OF JEZ BUTTERWORTH. Bloomsbury/Methuen Critical Companions series (London), 2015. 

     

    HOWARD BARKER: ECSTASY AND DEATH: A STUDY OF HIS DRAMA, THEORY AND PRODUCTION WORK, 1988-2008. Palgrave Macmillan/St Martin’s (Basingstoke and New York),  2009.

     

    LOVEFURIES: The Contracting Sea and The Hanging Judge, with Bite or Suck, Intellect Press (Bristol and Univ. of Chicago), 2008.  

     

    THE WYE PLAYS (The Back of Beyond and The Battle of the Crows), Intellect Press (Bristol and Portland, Oregon), 2004.

                                            ENGLISH DRAMA SINCE 1940: Longman Literature in  

                   English Series, 2003. (AHRB Research Leave Award)

     

    DAVID RUDKIN:  SACRED DISOBEDIENCE:  A STUDY OF HIS DRAMA 1959-96 (Awarded British Academy Personal Research Fund grant). Harwood Academic Press, 1997; Routledge 2002.

     

    HOWARD BARKER : POLITICS AND DESIRE:  A STUDY OF HIS DRAMA AND POETRY 1969-1987.Macmillan 1989

     

                BRITISH AND IRISH POLITICAL DRAMA IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY.                    

    Macmillan 1986.

     

     

     

Lecturer, TP10120 & TP11320 Introduction to Theatre Studies

Module co-ordinator TP30820 Contemporary British and Irish Drama

Module co-ordinator TP23220 Shakespeare in Contemporary Performance

Module co-ordinator TP34640 Playwriting

Module co-ordinator TP20420 Theatre in Contemporary Society

Director, TP34940 Production Project

Professor of Theatre and Theatre Practice

Departmental co-director of research

Astudiaethau israddedig: 1975-8, BA dosbarth cyntaf mewn Saesneg, Prifysgol Birmingham

Astudiaethau uwchraddedig: 1978-9, MA ym maes Astudiaethau Shakespeare, Sefydliad Shakespeare, Prifysgol Birmingham

1979-80, MA yn Saesneg (gydag Ysgrifennu Creadigol), Prifysgol California, Berkeley

1980-2 PhD yn Saesneg, Prifysgol Birmingham

1982-4 Darlithydd Saesneg a Drama, Prifysgol Dulyn, Coleg y Drindod.

1985 penodwyd yn Ddarlithydd Drama, Prifysgol Aberystwyth; Uwch Ddarlithydd wedi hynny, 1993; Darllenydd yn 2000.

2003 penodwyd yn Athro Drama

2018 penodwyd yn Athro Theatr ac Ymarfer Theatr

1986-heddiw; Cyfarwyddwr Artistig, Cwmni Theatr Lurking Truth/Gwir sy'n Llechu.

2020 penodwyd yn Gymrawd o Gymdeithas Ddysgedig Cymru.

Monograffau:

ALISTAIR McDOWALL'S POMONA. Cyfres Fourth Wall Routledge, 2018. 

THEATRE, TIME AND TEMPORALITY. Intellect Books/Gwasg Prifysgol Chicago, 2016. 

THE THEATRE OF JEZ BUTTERWORTH. Cyfres Critical Companions Bloomsbury/Methuen (Llundain), 2015.   

HOWARD BARKER: ECSTASY AND DEATH: A STUDY OF HIS DRAMA, THEORY AND PRODUCTION WORK, 1988-2008. Palgrave Macmillan/St Martin's (Basingstoke ac Efrog Newydd), 2009. 

ENGLISH DRAMA SINCE 1940. Longman: Cyfres Literature in English, 2003.

DAVID RUDKIN:  SACRED DISOBEDIENCE:  A STUDY OF HIS DRAMA 1959-96. Gwasg Harwood Academic, 1997; Routledge 2002. 

HOWARD BARKER : POLITICS AND DESIRE :  A STUDY OF HIS DRAMA AND POETRY 1969-1987. Macmillan 1989 

BRITISH AND IRISH POLITICAL DRAMA IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY. Macmillan 1986. 

Dramâu'n cynnwys: 

LOVEFURIES: The Contracting Sea a The Hanging Judge, gyda Bite or Suck, Gwasg Intellect (Bryste a Phrifysgol Chicago), 2008.   

THE WYE PLAYS (The Back of Beyond  a  The Battle of the Crows), Gwasg Intellect (Bryste a Portland, Oregon), 2004.  

Llyfrau wedi’u cyd-olygu:

HOWARD BARKER’S ART OF THEATRE, goln. David Ian Rabey a Sarah Goldingay, Gwasg Prifysgol Manceinion, 2013 

THEATRE OF CATASTROPHE, goln. Karoline Gritzner a David Ian Rabey, Llundain, Llyfrau Oberon, 2006. 

Rhifyn beirniadol a olygwyd a’i gyhoeddi:

RED SUN and MERLIN UNCHAINED gan David Rudkin; gyda thraethodau beirniadol gol. Rabey (gan gynnwys ei draethawd: 'Broken Magic? A Director’s Perspective on Merlin Unchained’), Llyfrau Intellect (Bryste a Phrifysgol Chicago), 2011. 

CYFWELIAD:  

‘Academic, Playwright, Actor and Director: David Ian Rabey', yn VIEWS, POSITIONS, LEGACIES: INTERVIEWS WITH GERMAN AND BRITISH THEATRE ARTISTS, 1985-2007 gan Daniel Meyer-Dinkgräfe: Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars’ Publishing, 2007.