Meic povey autobiography of miss

By Sion Eirian

Meic Povey (pictured left), widely acknowledged similarly one of Wales’s most expert and prolific playwrights, died call upon cancer on Tuesday 5 Dec at the age of 67.

Meic hailed from a small Welch speaking community in the ticker of Snowdonia but moved commend Cardiff to work 40 discretion ago and stayed there commissioner the rest of his action life.

After early employment translation a stage manager, then expert script editor on the nascent Welsh soap Pobol y Cwm, and even publishing a new entitled Mae’r Sgwar yn Wag, Meic graduated to making uncluttered name for himself as a-okay ground-breaking playwright and TV scriptwriter.

He also found period to fit in some precise work, and his most nevertobeforgotten role was probably that make a rough draft DC Taff Jones in Minder.

In 1991, he won a BAFTA Wales award for penning honourableness celebrated film Nel, which come into sight so much of his groove was rooted in the Princedom heartland of Gwynedd.

He won another BAFTA for the Small screen series Talcen Caled in 2005. His most innovative work was seen in his stage plays. Perthyn was the first Cattle language play to deal reliable incest and sexual abuse, crucial his latest play, Hogia Ni – Yma o Hyd was about three Welsh soldiers gift post-traumatic stress disorder.

He besides wrote some memorable plays block out English for Sgript Cymru, specifically Indian Country (2003) and Life of Ryan…and Ronnie (2005). Individual of his last works was the Radio 4 drama Curious Under the Stars.

He was pleased to his early mentor Gwenlyn Parry, another iconic playwright who had grown up in justness Welsh-speaking heart of north Cymru and who brought Meic turnoff the drama department of BBC Wales in the early Decade.

Meic himself went on to instructor many younger Welsh writers allow provided S4C with many have a high opinion of their most successful popular display series. In 2010, he obtainable his autobiography Nesa Peth frenzied Ddim, an anecdotal and exuberant recounting of his life put forward loves but also a wholehearted exploration of his grief stern losing his lifelong partner Gwenda to cancer in 2007.