Gareth has written and performed his own solo play Shylock which premiered at the Salisbury Theatre, where he was an Associate Artist, and later played the Edinburgh Festival. The play toured to over fifty countries worldwide playing in cities as diverse as Vienna and Tel Aviv, Bucharest and Bombay. Shylock has won awards in New Zealand, Canada, Spain and Germany.
The play has been translated into Italian, Spanish, Catalan, French, Russian, Hungarian, Mandarin Chinese and has been filmed for Dutch television and broadcast on Romanian radio, where it won the award for best radio of the year. Gareth has also directed the play with other performers in the UK and America.
A book based on his travels and experiences: A Case for Shylock – Around the World with Shakespeare’s Jew, with a foreword by Judi Dench, was published by Nick Hern Books.
NHB also publish his book on solo performing, with a foreword by Maureen Lipman. For more information on “So You Want To Do A Solo Show?” please click here.
His dramatisation of Oscar Wilde’s De Profundis is entitled Wilde Without the Boy has been published by The Player’s Account. The play tours domestically and internationally, starring Gerard Logan. With the same actor he has adapted three supernatural tales by E.F. Benson, called Night Terrors, which toured so successfully that a sequel called Hauntings is also now in Gerard’s repertoire.
His five-handed comedy Fondly Remembered had its London premiere at the Tabard Theatre in the summer of 2015 and was published as a French’s Acting Edition in 2017 and is available for amateur performance. It has already been given a dozen productions in England, Scotland and Wales. A professional revival of this play in London is scheduled for early summer 2024.
The You Tube posting below is an audio recording of a 15 minute play I wrote as the winning entry of The Dylan Thomas Society’s 2023 playwriting competition. The theme is an imagined meeting between Dylan Thomas and Thomas Hardy.