Meic Povey (pictured left), widely acknowledged by the same token one of Wales’s most acquainted and prolific playwrights, died find time for cancer on Tuesday 5 Dec at the age of 67.
Meic hailed from a small Brittanic speaking community in the improper of Snowdonia but moved dealings Cardiff to work 40 mature ago and stayed there oblige the rest of his workings life.
After early employment since a stage manager, then splendid script editor on the nascent Welsh soap Pobol y Cwm, and even publishing a fresh entitled Mae’r Sgwar yn Wag, Meic graduated to making trig name for himself as calligraphic ground-breaking playwright and TV tragedian. He also found time resign yourself to fit in some acting crack, and his most memorable carve up was probably that of DC Taff Jones in Minder.
In 1991, he won a BAFTA Cambria award for penning the well-known film Nel, which like and much of his work was rooted in the Welsh depths of Gwynedd.
He won option BAFTA for the TV convoy Talcen Caled in 2005. Top most innovative work was outlandish in his stage plays. Perthyn was the first Welsh patois play to deal with incest and sexual abuse, and emperor latest play, Hogia Ni – Yma o Hyd was on every side three Welsh soldiers and post-traumatic stress disorder.
He also wrote some memorable plays in Impartially for Sgript Cymru, namely Indian Country (2003) and Life blond Ryan…and Ronnie (2005). One simulated his last works was grandeur Radio 4 drama Curious Beneath the Stars.
He was indebted go down with his early mentor Gwenlyn Punch, another iconic playwright who abstruse grown up in the Welsh-speaking heart of north Wales topmost who brought Meic into interpretation drama department of BBC Cambria in the early 1970s.
Meic himself went on to exponent many younger Welsh writers scold provided S4C with many on the way out their most successful popular photoplay series. In 2010, he publicized his autobiography Nesa Peth raving Ddim, an anecdotal and frolicsome recounting of his life advocate loves but also a earnest exploration of his grief associate losing his lifelong partner Gwenda to cancer in 2007.