Dr Dic Edwards BA, PGCE (Wales)
Contact Details
School of Cultural StudiesE-mail: d.edwards@trinitysaintdavid.ac.uk
Campus
Lampeter CampusJob Title
Creative Writing LecturerRole in the University
Dr Dic Edwards teaches Creative Writing and Writing For The Theatre at undergraduate level and Creative Writing, Writing For The Theatre and Poetry at postgraduate level.Background
Dr Dic Edwards’ research and scholarship relates almost entirely to the field of Theatre. He is a playwright and poet. His first full length play At The End Of The Baywas produced in 1982 and since 1985 he has had a professional production every year somewhere in the UK and latterly in Australia (NIDA, Sydney) and Origin Theatre, New York. He has worked extensively with the TIE companies, Theatr Powys and Spectacle Theatre.
He has also written libretti for three operas. His poems have been published in Poetry Wales and byOberon Press.
Publications
Three Plays (Casanova Undone, Looking For The World, Long To Rain Over Us) –Oberon Modern Playwrights, London, 1992
Wittgenstein’s Daughter – Oberon Modern Playwrights,London, 1993
Shakespeare Factory and other plays – Seren Drama, Bridgend, 1998
Americana (Utah Blue & Over Milk Wood), Oberon Modern Playwrights, London, 2000
Franco’s Bastard/Lola Brecht – Oberon Modern Playwrights, London, 2002
Sobre El Bosc Lacti (Over Milk Wood) – Arola Editors, Tarragona, 2003
Astrakhan (Winter) and other works – Oberon Modern Playwright, London, 2005
Two Immorality Plays (The Pimp, Solitude) – Oberon Modern Playwrights, London, 2007
Walt Whitman and other poems – Oberon Press, London, 2007
Articles and Chapters in Edited Books
‘Wittgenstein and Morality – The Playwright’s Purpose” in The Professions in Contemporary Drama, ed. by Daniel Meyer-Dinkgrafe (Bristol: Intellect, 2003, pp. 115-131)
Articles in Academic Journals
‘The Living Corpse – A metaphysic for Theatre’ in The Nature and Culture of the Human Body: Lampeter Multidisciplinary Essays, Trivium, 37, 2007
Commissions
2004 Commissioned to write the play Welshing for Volcano Theatre Co.
2005: Commissioned to write The Assassination of Wales for Script Cymru and Girl for Spectacle Theatre Co.
2007: Commissioned to write Boy for Spectacle Theatre Company.
