Intellect

Professor David Ian Rabey is Professor of Drama and Theatre Studies at Aberystwyth University. David was born in the English Black Country, and lived in America and Dublin, and now lives in Machynlleth. He was formerly lecturer in English & Drama, Trinity College, Dublin (1982-4). and was educated at the Universities of Birmingham and California, Berkeley. Artistic Director of Lurking Truth Theatre Company/Cwmni Gwir Sy’n Llechu, which he co-founded in 1986, and for which he wrote and directed the plays The Back of Beyond (written 1994-5, staged twice in 1996) and The Battle of the Crows (written 1996, staged 1998), published as a single volume The Wye Plays (2004).

Also Bite or Suck (written 1996, staged 1997), a theatrical exploration of J. G. Ballard’s Crash (Aberystwyth University Dept. of Theatre, Film and Television Studies, 2001), and Lovefuries (The Contracting Sea and The Hanging Judge) (written 2002, staged 2004-5).

Performance work includes The Exaggerator in Howard Barker’s Don’t Exaggerate, Sleen in The Early Hours of a Reviled Man, title role in Barker’s (Uncle) Vanya at Theatr Clwyd and Theatr y Castell, Aberystwyth; and Isonzo in Barker’s production of The Twelfth Battle of Isonzo, in Dublin (2001), and on tour in Ireland and Wales (2002); also for Lurking Truth, Carlos in Barnes’s The Bewitched, Perowne in Heathcote Williams’s AC/DC and Badger in Bite or Suck. Departmental directing work includes The Sons of Light, The Europeans, Titus Andronicus, Coriolanus, Heartbreak House, Dreaming, Saint’s Day, Ursula: Fear of the Estuary, The Master and Margarita and Stone City Blue. External directing includes work in Aberystwyth, Cardiff and Swansea and Dublin, including That Slidey Dark by Nigel Wells (1994). He is an Associate of Howard Barker's theatre company, The Wrestling School.