After Gareth’s time at the RSC, he was offered leading roles in two plays that were being presented as a double-bill directed by the Australian Trader Faulkner. The first was The Cudgelled Cuckold, written by Alejandro Casona as an adaptation from a story in Bocaccio’s Decameron and translated from Spanish into English by Faulkner himself. The second, Black Comedy, was written by Peter Shaffer. These were such a success at Belfast’s Lyric Theatre that they then transferred to the Gate Theatre in Dublin.

All images on this page are courtesy of Glyn Thomas. The scrapbook from which this section has drawn material was created by Annie Novac, to whom the creator of this website is deeply grateful.

Programme from Belfast: the show opened on 17th June 1969 and ran for two weeks.

Gareth delivered the Prologue in The Cudgelled Cuckold and played the lead in Black Comedy:

The reviews single out Gareth’s work for particular praise:

On July 1st 1969, the double-bill opened at the Gate Theatre, Dublin. There is a flyer:

And programme:

The reviews from the Dublin run were equally complimentary: