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David Ian Rabey

DAVID IAN RABEY  

 Nationality:    English
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David Ian Rabey is Artistic Director of Lurking Truth/Gwir sy'n Llechu Theatre Company, and Professor of Drama and Subject Leader of Theatre Studies at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth.

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below is a list of David Ian Rabey's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

         Back Of Beyond, The         Battle Of the Crows, The         Bite Or Suck         Contracting Sea, The         Crash         Hanging Judge, The         Lovefuries (the Contracting Sea)

Back Of Beyond, The

Back Of Beyond, The
takes, as its starting point, the route of a sequel to KING LEAR, in which the surviving Shakespearean characters set out on an odyssey through a perilous, blasted landscape, and encounter new agents of cruelty, desire and magic. Wildly humorous and fiercely shocking, the play charts a series of remorseless exposures, interrogating the idealisms and brutal repressions that have informed Anglo-Welsh relations whilst subverting Shakespearean motifs; tragically humorous poetic language and nightmarish visual imagery contribute to the sense of a land where the signposts have been smashed.

Notes:
part of the Wye Plays

1st Produced:
theatr Y Castell, Aberystwyth, Wales    1996

Organisations:
Lurking Truth/Gwir sy'n Llechu Theatre Company

1st Published:

Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  9            Female:  4            Other:  doubling

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Battle Of the Crows, The

Battle Of the Crows, The
A sequel to the BACK OF BEYOND, the BATTLE OF the CROWS extends and concludes the stories of three characters - a mavErick witch, a renegade knight, and an abuse victim made empress - in a harrowing and humorous exploration of border warfare, witchcraft, massacre, bitchery, hilarity and heartbreak. the BATTLE OF the CROWS is partly a Dramatic speculation about desire as magic, partly a sad reckless laugh at internecine hostilities and the passionate and disastrous transformations which spring up in the face of Death itself.

Notes:
part of the Wye Plays

1st Produced:
theatr Y Castell, Aberystwyth, Wales    1998

Organisations:
Lurking Truth/Gwir sy'n Llechu Theatre Company

1st Published:

Music:
-

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  5            Female:  5            Other:  extras & doubling

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Bite Or Suck

Synopsis:
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Notes:
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1st Produced:
theatr V Castell, Aberystwyth    1997

Organisations:
Lurking Truth

1st Published:
Contained in: "Lovefuries" published by Intellect Books 2008   -

Music:
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Contracting Sea, The

Synopsis:
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Notes:
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1st Produced:
-    2004

Organisations:
Lurking Truth

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
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Crash

Synopsis:
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Notes:
from J G Ballard's novel

1st Produced:
theatr V Castell, Aberystwyth    2001

Organisations:
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1st Published:
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Music:
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Hanging Judge, The

Synopsis:
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Notes:
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1st Produced:
-    2004

Organisations:
Lurking Truth

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
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Lovefuries (the Contracting Sea)

Synopsis:
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Notes:
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1st Produced:
-    2004

Organisations:
Lurking Truth

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
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Parts:
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