Bob Wallbank - Playwright

Steve Bryant and Nick Davies in Wild Man

Bob Wallbank wrote stage plays for many years, which were performed at Theatr Hafren and locally in Wales and the Borders, most recently Something that Happened Just South of Solitude (about the writing and development of Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men) and Grey Seal Cut Stone (about the building of a jetty during the Irish Famine) for Theatr Powys (a TIE and Community Touring Company); Wild Man (based on the Medieval Irish romance of Suibne Geilt) and Goose (a play with a strong ecological theme based on the life cycle of a goose) for Scratch Theatre (an amateur touring company); and Tir Na n’Og (based on the legend of Bran’s sea trip to the Isles of Youth, and the problems of perpetual life) which was an Arts Council funded community cabaret piece, written with music by Ian Morgan-Williams for an amateur tour.

At the time of his death (March 2010) he was working on an opera libretto, also for Ian Morgan-Williams concerning the demise of Norse Greenland in the Middle Ages, where the Norse chose destruction, rather than compromise their culture; a play for Scratch Theatre about Hares; and a play set in 1979 concerning a boy’s quest for the Nanteos Cup (a scam holy grail in an Aberystwyth mansion), set against the background of the Meibion Glyndwr firebombing. Ian Morgan-Williams has subsequently taken various parts from Bob's theatrical and poetical writing to create a symphonic song cycle instead of the opera.

All the plays are copyright, but are available for performance on application to Bridget Wallbank (see below for contacts).

To see further details of some of the plays including sample scenes, full scenario, performance detail and reviews, click on the list below:-

Grey Seal Cut Stone Complete list of plays

Something that Happened Just South of Solitude

Wild Man Contact me

Goose

Tir Na n’Og

Hare

For further information, or complete copies of any of the plays you can email Bridget or write to her at ~ Bryn Wgan, Caersws, Powys, SY17 5QU

Grey Seal Cut Stone	Complete list of plays
Something that Happened Just South of Solitude
Wild Man	Contact me
Goose
Tir Na n’Og
Hare