Dr Roger Owen
Lecturer in Drama (Welsh medium)
Contact
Email: roo@aber.ac.uk
Phone: 01970 622836
Responsibilities
After graduating from the Aberystwyth University Drama Department in 1987, I pursued a PhD in Welsh-language Theatre since the Second World War, while also working sporadically as a professional actor. Since finding gainful employment as a lecturer in 1994, I have continued to work in both an academic and practical capacity as a lecturer, actor/performer and director. My main area of teaching has been in Theatre and Performance Studies but I have also been known to conduct the odd Film seminar. Specific areas in which I have regularly taught include Performance Analysis, Performance in Context, Performance Writing, Theatre and Society and Analysis of Space. More sporadically, I have presented sessions on acting, directing, textual analysis, Shakespeare, 20thC English and American drama, and Welsh language theatre. I am also Subject Leader for Welsh medium Studies within the Department.Teaching Areas
- DD10520 - Siglo’r Sylfeini: Cyflwyniad i Berfformio Diwylliant yng Nghymru
- DD10820 - Prosiect Ymarferol Estynedig
- DD23810 - Dadansoddi Gofod
- DD30310 - Theatr a Chymdeithas
- DD31720 - Perfformio 2
- DD33020 - Cyfarwyddo a Dylunio
- DD33410 - Dadansoddi Perffomio
- DR30320 - Theatre in Society
Staff Publications
- Ar Wasgar: Theatr a Chenedligrwydd yn y Gymru Gymraeg 1979-97 (University of Wales Press, 2003)
- ‘State of Flux: Metaphors of Society and Nation in the work
of Charles Way, Dic Edwards and Ed Thomas’ in Hazel Walford
Davies (ed.), State of Play (Gomer, 1998)
- ‘The Play of History: The Performance of Identity in Welsh Historiography and Theater’, in North American Journal of Welsh Studies (Vol. 1 No. 2 [Summer 2001]) online at http://www2.bc.edu/~ellisjg/owen.html.
- ‘Y Theatr Amatur a’r Fro’ and ‘Theatr y
Gegin a Chwmni’r Gegin, Cricieth’ in Hazel Walford Davies
(ed.), Llwyfannau Lleol (Gomer, 2000).
- Forthcoming: ‘Powerful Simplification: Theatre in Wales in the 1990s and Beyond’ in Baz Kershaw (ed. ), Cambridge History of British Theatre vol.iii (Cambridge University Press, 2004