TREVOR GRIFFITHS   (1935 - )


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Plays by Trevor Griffiths

TREVOR GRIFFITHS
Absolute Beginners
1st Produced:
BBC TV
1974
Company:
-
1st Published:
in "Griffiths, Trevor, Collected Plays For Televison" Faber, London
1988
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Genre:
T.V. Play
-
Parts:
Male
12
Female
2
Parts Other:
-
Notes: Episode in the series "Fall of Eagles"
Synopsis:
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TREVOR GRIFFITHS
All Good Men
1st Produced:
1975
Company:
-
1st Published:
Faber & Faber, London
1977
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Genre:
-
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
3
Female
1
Parts Other:
-
Notes: televised 31 Jan1974
Synopsis:
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TREVOR GRIFFITHS
Apricots
1st Produced:
Basement Theatre, Greek Street, London
1971
Company:
-
1st Published:
1978
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Genre:
Short Drama
One Act
Parts:
Male
1
Female
1
Parts Other:
-
Notes: -
Synopsis: a lyrical, erotic, 'interlude' on the sexual politics of love in marriage.
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TREVOR GRIFFITHS
Big House, The
1st Produced:
Newcastle upon Tyne
1975
Company:
-
1st Published:
Calder & Boyers, London
1972
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Genre:
Political Drama
-
Parts:
Male
6
Female
2
Parts Other:
-
Notes: broadcast 1969
Synopsis:
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TREVOR GRIFFITHS
Camel Station
1st Produced:
Cooper Union Hall, New York
2001
Company:
Artists Network of Refuse and Resist
1st Published:
2007
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Genre:
Short Drama
One Act
Parts:
Male
1
Female
1
Parts Other:
-
Notes: -
Synopsis: The setting is North iraq where a 14 year old shepherd boy recounts to his cousin a tale he hopes to tell on a storytellers course in Nineveh. it turns out to be a subversive, shaggy camel story in which Saddam husein is the humiliated victim.
Michael Billington, Guardian
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TREVOR GRIFFITHS
Cherry Orchard, The
1st Produced:
1977
Company:
-
1st Published:
1978
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Genre:
-
Adaptation
Parts:
Male
16
Female
6
Parts Other:
-
Notes: Original Playwright - Anton Chekhov. Translated by Helen Rappaport. also produced for BBC television in 1981
Synopsis: the story of mortgage with the grounds of the proud house being sold to pay off debts
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TREVOR GRIFFITHS
Comedians
1st Produced:
1975
Company:
-
1st Published:
1976
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Genre:
-
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
11
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes: also produced for BBC television in 1981
Synopsis: tutorial for budding comics before they face a London agent, explores how and why laughter is engineered
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TREVOR GRIFFITHS
Consequences
1st Produced:
Croydon
1988
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
-
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Genre:
Colaboration
-
Parts:
Male
7
Female
1
Parts Other:
-
Notes: written with Brenton, Dunn, Ikoli, Sobol, Williams, Wilson, Wymark
Synopsis: Eight playwrights play consequences in the 21stC as a last gasp for Foco Novo, killed by the government and the Arts Council
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TREVOR GRIFFITHS
Country: "A Tory Story"
1st Produced:
BBC TV
1981
Company:
-
1st Published:
Faber & Faber, London
1981
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Genre:
T.V. Play
-
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
large cast
Notes: -
Synopsis: -
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TREVOR GRIFFITHS
Deeds
1st Produced:
1978
Company:
-
1st Published:
Plays & Players, May/June, London
1978
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Genre:
-
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes: written with Brenton Cambell, Hare
Synopsis: Baby dies from chemicals in Nuzzles Milk Powder, wife disappears,, husband jailed, wickedness all round.
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TREVOR GRIFFITHS
Fatherland
1st Produced:
Channel Four International
1986
Company:
Kestrel Films
1st Published:
Faber & Faber, London
1987
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Genre:
-
Film
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes: -
Synopsis:
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TREVOR GRIFFITHS
Food For Raven
1st Produced:
-
-
Company:
-
1st Published:
Oberon, London
1998
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Genre:
-
-
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes: -
Synopsis: -
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TREVOR GRIFFITHS
Gulf Between Us, The: The Truth And Other Fictions
1st Produced:
1992
Company:
-
1st Published:
1992
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Genre:
-
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
6
Female
1
Parts Other:
-
Notes: -
Synopsis:
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TREVOR GRIFFITHS
Gun
1st Produced:
Edinburgh
1973
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
-
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Genre:
-
-
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes: -
Synopsis:
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TREVOR GRIFFITHS
Hope In The Year Two
1st Produced:
BBC TV
1994
Company:
-
1st Published:
Faber & Faber, London
1994
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Genre:
T.V. Drama
-
Parts:
Male
2
Female
1
Parts Other:
-
Notes: also produced for the theatre, under the title "Who Shall Be Happy. . .?
Synopsis:
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TREVOR GRIFFITHS
Jake's Brigade
1st Produced:
-
1971
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
-
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Genre:
-
Radio Play
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes: -
Synopsis: -
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TREVOR GRIFFITHS
Judgement Over The Dead: The Screenplays Of The Last Place On Earth
1st Produced:
televised
1985
Company:
-
1st Published:
London, Verso
1986
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Genre:
-
Screenplay
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes: -
Synopsis: -
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TREVOR GRIFFITHS
Lay By
1st Produced:
Edinburgh
1971
Company:
-
1st Published:
in "Plays & Players" Nov 1971. London, Calder & Boyars, 1972
-
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Genre:
-
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
4
Female
2
Parts Other:
-
Notes: written by Brenton, Clark, Griffiths, Hare, Poliakoff, Stoddart, Wilson
Synopsis: Fellatio as rape gets perpetrator ten years and pregnant heroin addict victim committed to Holloway. Denouement as main characters are washed in blood and made into jam.
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TREVOR GRIFFITHS
Occupations
1st Produced:
Stables Theatre Club, Manchester
1970
Company:
-
1st Published:
1972
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Genre:
Political Drama
-
Parts:
Male
10
Female
3
Parts Other:
-
Notes: also produced for Granada TV in 1974
Synopsis: about revolutionary politics in Turin in the 1920's
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TREVOR GRIFFITHS
Oi For England
1st Produced:
1982
Company:
-
1st Published:
1982
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Genre:
-
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
5
Female
1
Parts Other:
-
Notes: televised by Central Television, 1982.
Synopsis:
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TREVOR GRIFFITHS
Party, The
1st Produced:
1973
Company:
-
1st Published:
1974
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Genre:
-
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
10
Female
5
Parts Other:
-
Notes: also produced for BBC TV in 1988
Synopsis: 1968 student rising in Paris. In London a group of people meet to discuss the implications for them and their belief in a socialist society and how it can be achieved
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TREVOR GRIFFITHS
Piano
1st Produced:
1990
Company:
-
1st Published:
1990
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Genre:
-
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
12
Female
3
Parts Other:
-
Notes: based on the film Unfinished Piece for Mechanical Piano (1980) by A Adabashyan and N Mikhalkov; subtitle translation by Peter Seward and Lydia Seward.
Synopsis:
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TREVOR GRIFFITHS
Real Dreams
1st Produced:
1984
Company:
-
1st Published:
1987
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Genre:
-
Adaptation
Parts:
Male
8
Female
4
Parts Other:
-
Notes: story Revolution in Cleveland by Jeremy Pikser.
Synopsis: Real Dreams is respectfully dedicated to those many Americans who continue to struggle for justice and equality against all the odds in a land, long mad, whose Dream has by now become, almost literally, the rest of the worlds nightmare; and if to one in particular, to the friend, comrade and writer of promise who gave me his story. (Trevor Griffiths, 1987)
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TREVOR GRIFFITHS
Reds
1st Produced:
-
1981
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
-
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Genre:
-
Screenplay
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes: with Warren Beatty
Synopsis: -
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TREVOR GRIFFITHS
Sam, Sam
1st Produced:
Open Space, London
1972
Company:
-
1st Published:
1972
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Genre:
-
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
5
Female
5
Parts Other:
-
Notes: -
Synopsis: two brothers, one of whom stays in his own class while the other moves up and, perhaps, on
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TREVOR GRIFFITHS
Sons And Lovers
1st Produced:
BBC TV
1981
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
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Genre:
-
Screenplay
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes: Trevor Griffiths' screenplay of the novel by D.H. Lawrence
Synopsis: "I choose to do this work because, . . .there is, in this Lawrence, and vibrantly so, a powerful and radical celebration of dignity in resistance within working-class culture in industrial class-societies . . ." Trevor Griffiths in his Introduction
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TREVOR GRIFFITHS
Such Impossibilities
1st Produced:
unproduced
-
Company:
-
1st Published:
in Two Plays for Television, Faber & Faber, London
1977
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Genre:
Television
-
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
large cast
Notes: commissioned by the BBC as part of The Edwardians but not shown, 1971
Synopsis:
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TREVOR GRIFFITHS
Thatcher's Children
1st Produced:
1993
Company:
-
1st Published:
1994
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Genre:
-
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
5
Female
4
Parts Other:
-
Notes: -
Synopsis:
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TREVOR GRIFFITHS
Thermidor
1st Produced:
Cranston Street, Edinburgh
1971
Company:
7:84 Theatre Company
1st Published:
1978
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