Research

History of Welsh-language Theatre and Drama

Performance and Rural Community

Biography

Dr Roger Owen’s teaching work involves a wide range of activities in the field of Welsh-medium theatre and drama, and also includes contributions to English-medium modules on Theatre in Society and Performance Studies.  He is regularly involved in production work as a director and facilitator. His research interests include theatre and drama in the Welsh language, especially since 1945, and with particular reference to the relationship between theatre, culture and national identity.  He is also concerned with the relationship between theatre, performance and rural communities.  As a performer, he has been a regular collaborator with Eddie Ladd, the Lurking Truth Theatre Company and Cwmni Theatr Cydweithredol Troed-y-Rhiw. He is a board member of Centre for Performance Research Limited.

Teaching

Theatre and Performance Studies

Publications

• Ar Wasgar: Theatr a Chenedligrwydd yn y Gymru Gymraeg 1979-97 (Gwasg Prifysgol Cymru, 2003)
• ‘Powerful Simplification: Theatre in Wales in the 1990s and Beyond’ yn Baz Kershaw (ed. ), Cambridge History of British Theatre vol.iii (Cambridge University Press, 2004)
• ‘Demolition needs a drawing, too...: Case Histories of the Lurking Truth Theatre Company’s Engagements with Barker’ yn Karoline Gritzner, David Ian Rabey (goln.), Theatre of Catastrophe: New Essays on Howard Barker (Llundain: Oberon, 2006)
•  ‘Hanes Ymddiriedolaeth Theatr Dewi Sant, 1959-1984’ yn Hazel Walford Davies (gol.), Theatrau Cenedlaethol Cymru (Caerdydd: Gwasg Prifysgol Cymru, i’w gyhoeddi Hydref 2007)
• ‘“The Net and the Self”: Colliding Views of Individuality and Nationhood in the pre-Devolutionary plays of Mark Jenkins and Ed Thomas’ yn Rebecca D’Monté, Graham Saunders (goln.), Cool Britannia: British Political Drama in the 1990s (Llundain: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008)
• ‘Shattering All Excuse: A Performer’s Perspective on The Hanging Judge’ yn David Ian Rabey, Lovefuries (Bristol: Intellect, 2008)
• Wapke Feenstra, Antje Schiffers (eds.) Images of Farming (Heijningen: Jap Sam Books, 2012)