A Pembrokeshire playwright is celebrating this weekend, not just one – but six of his plays were performed on the same day in three separate countries last Friday, November 10.

Half a dozen of Derek Webb’s plays were performed in the USA, UK and Ireland.

In the UK Calling Time – an interlinked series of short plays was on in Burton Leonard in Yorkshire; Wye Theatre Company was performing his spoof on Macbeth – Roy Brown: Bard of Margate in Glasbury, Herefordshire, while in Corfe Castle, Dorset the very popular Agatha Crusty and the Village Hall Murders was being performed by Double Act.

In Birmingham, his play with music about Dusty Springfield – Call Me Dusty – which toured South Wales in 2013 was completing an eight day run at Hall Green Little Theatre.

Across the water in Ireland, Model Box Productions were notching up awards with Webb’s serious drama about assisted suicide called Another Life.

The play has been entered in the Irish 1-Act Festival and has so far won awards for Best Play twice, Best Director, and Best Actress Award three times for Pauline Greer, its leading actress. On Friday Another Life competed in the next round of 1-act Festivals in Ballymahon. The company came first and will now be one of the 2017 finalists at the grand final in Letterkenny.

Over the pond the latest Agatha Crusty, which premiered at Theatr Mwldan earlier this year, is part way through a three week run in California with Santa Clara Players performing Agatha Crusty and the Health Spa Murders.

Webb has more plays in the pipeline too. His adaptation for the stage of the Hitchcock classic film ‘The Lady Vanishes’ tours next March in a production by Fluellen Theatre Company. And, in June 2018, his fast-paced, hilarious new adaptation of the HG Wells classic ‘The Invisible Man’ is set to be performed at Theatr Gwaun in Fishguard by Ignition Theatre Company.

“It seems that last Friday I had six plays being performed on the same day - from Yorkshire to California - with another doing really well in the Irish 1-Act Festival Awards,” said Derek.

“Worth celebrating I reckon.”