David Ian Rabey is a Professor of Drama and Theatre Studies at Aberystwyth University. He is also the Artistic Director of Lurking Truth (Gwir sy'n Llechu) Theatre Company for which he has written several plays including:

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 staged several of the plays of Howard Barker

Howard Barker

Howard E. Barker is a British playwright.-The Theatre of Catastrophe :Barker has coined the term "Theatre of Catastrophe" to describe his work...

 and has also written several publications on his work. He has also published text books on post-war English drama and analysis of the work of David Rudkin

David Rudkin

James David Rudkin is an English playwright of Northern Irish descent. Coming from a family of strict evangelical Christians, Rudkin was educated at King Edward's School, Birmingham and read Mods and Greats at St Catherine's College, Oxford...

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Whilst at Aberystwyth University he has staged a number of productions with students and lectures on Contemporary British and Irish Drama.

Selected bibliography

• Howard Barker: Politics and Desire (Palgrave Macmillan) 1989, 2009
• English Drama Since 1940 (Longman Literature in English) 2003
• David Rudkin: Sacred Disobedience - An Expository Study of His Drama, 1959-94 (Contemporary Theatre Studies) 1997
• Theatre of Catastrophe: New Essays on Howard Barker (co-editor with Karoline Gritzner) (Oberon) 2006
• The Wye Plays: The Back of Beyond and The Battle of the Crows (Intellect Books) 2004
• Lovefuries: The Contracting Sea and The Hanging Judge, with Bite or Suck (Intellect Books) 2008
• Howard Barker: Ecstasy and Death (Palgrave) 2009

External links

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