In 2012, playwright Rob Inglis was awarded a £16,000 Arts Council grant to write Regent's Canal, a Folk Opera, a musical that celebrates the 200th anniversary of the digging of the canal.
His plays include Voyage of the Endeavour (1965), based on the journal of Captain James Cook; Canterbury Tales (1968), dramatised readings from Chaucer; Erf (1971), a one-actor play about the twenty-first century; A Rum Do (1970), a musical based on the governorship of Lachlan Macquarie; and Men Who Shaped Australia, for Better or for Worse (1968), a one-actor play dealing with significant historical figures.
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It was through his one-man stage adaptions that he was noticed by Recorded Books and asked to narrate an unabridged edition of Lord of the Rings (1990) and later The Hobbit (1991).
Rob Inglis (1933), audiobook narrator, actor and playwright
Rob Zombie | Rob Lowe | Rob Schneider | Rob Roy | Rob Liefeld | Rob Corddry | Rob Swift | Rob Reiner | Rob Grant | Rob Ford | Rob Hyman | Rob Hubbard | Rob Halford | Rob Sonic | Rob Roy (1995 film) | Rob Paulsen | Rob Marshall | Rob Mariano | Rob Malda | Rob Hrytsak | Rob Bishop | Rob Ryan | Rob Neyer | Rob Mills | Rob Dougan | Rob Howley | Rob Hardy | Rob Furlong | Rob Warden | Rob Steen |