TREVOR GRIFFITHS (1935 - )
| Nationality: | British |
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Plays by Trevor Griffiths
Absolute Beginners |
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| 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 |
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All Good Men |
| 1st Produced: | London | 1975 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Faber & Faber, London | 1977 | ||
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| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 1 |
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Notes: televised 1974 | ||||
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Apricots |
| 1st Produced: | Basement Theatre, Greek Street, London | 1971 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Pluto Press, London | 1978 | ||
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| Genre: | Short Drama | One Act | Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 |
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Synopsis: a lyrical, erotic, 'interlude' on the sexual politics of love in marriage. | ||||
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 |
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Notes: broadcast 1969 | ||||
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Camel Station |
| 1st Produced: | New York | 2001 | ||
| Company: | Not In Our Name | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com | |||
| Genre: | Short Drama | One Act | Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 |
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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 | ||||
Cherry Orchard, The |
| 1st Produced: | Nottingham | 1977 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Pluto Press, London | 1978 | ||
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| Genre: | - | Adaptation | Parts: | Male | 16 | Female | 6 |
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Notes: Original Playwright - Anton Chekhov. Translated by Helen Rappaport | ||||
Synopsis: the story of mortgage with the grounds of the proud house being sold to pay off debts | ||||
Comedians |
| 1st Produced: | Nottingham | 1975 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Faber & Faber, London | 1976 | ||
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| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 11 | Female | - |
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Synopsis: tutorial for budding comics before they face a London agent, explores how and why laughter is engineered | ||||
Consequences |
| 1st Produced: | Croydon | 1988 | ||
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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 | ||||
Country |
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| 1st Published: | Faber & Faber, London | 1981 | ||
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| Genre: | T.V. Play | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Synopsis: A Tory Story' | ||||
Deeds |
| 1st Produced: | 1978 | |||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Plays & Players, May/June, London | 1978 | ||
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| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Notes: written with Brenton Cambell, Hare | ||||
Synopsis: Baby dies from chemicals in Nuzzles Milk Powder, wife disappears,, husband jailed, wickedness all round. | ||||
Fatherland |
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| 1st Published: | Faber & Faber, London | 1987 | ||
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Gulf Between Us, The: The Truth And Other Fictions |
| 1st Produced: | Quarry, Leeds | 1992 | ||
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| 1st Published: | Faber & Faber, London | 1992 | ||
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| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 1 |
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Gun |
| 1st Produced: | Edinburgh | 1973 | ||
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| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com | |||
| Genre: | - | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Hope In The Year Two |
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| 1st Published: | Faber & Faber, London | 1994 | ||
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| Genre: | T.V. Drama | - | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 |
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Lay By |
| 1st Produced: | Edinburgh | 1971 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | in "Plays & Players" Nov | 1971 | ||
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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. | ||||
Occupatins |
| 1st Produced: | Stables Theatre, Manchester | 1970 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Calder & Boyers, London | 1972 | ||
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| Genre: | Political Drama | - | Parts: | Male | 10 | Female | 3 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
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Synopsis: about revolutionary politics in Turin in the 1920's | ||||
Oi For England |
| 1st Produced: | 1982 | |||
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| 1st Published: | Faber & Faber, London | 1982 | ||
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| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 1 |
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Notes: televised 1982 | ||||
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Party, The |
| 1st Produced: | 1973 | |||
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| 1st Published: | Faber & Faber, London | 1974 | ||
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| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 10 | Female | 5 |
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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 | ||||
Piano |
| 1st Produced: | 1990 | |||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Faber & Faber, London | 1990 | ||
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| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 12 | Female | 3 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Original Playwright - Anton Chekhov | ||||
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Real Dreams |
| 1st Produced: | 1984 | |||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Faber & Faber, London | 1987 | ||
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| Genre: | - | Adaptation | Parts: | Male | 8 | Female | 4 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: story Revolution in Cleveland by Jeremy Pikser | ||||
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Sam, Sam |
| 1st Produced: | Open Space, London | 1972 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | in "Plays and Players", London, April | 1972 | ||
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| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Synopsis: two brothers, one of whom stays in his own class while the other moves up and, perhaps, on | ||||
Such Impossibilities |
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| 1st Published: | Faber & Faber, London | 1977 | ||
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| Genre: | Television | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Thatcher's Children |
| 1st Produced: | 1993 | |||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Faber & Faber, London | 1994 | ||
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| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 4 |
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Thermidor |
| 1st Produced: | Cranston Street, Edinburgh | 1971 | ||
| Company: | 7:84 Theatre Company | |||
| 1st Published: | Pluto Press, London | 1978 | ||
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| Genre: | Short Political Drama | One Act | Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
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Synopsis: a short, sharp, analytical look at emergent Stalinism in the Soviet Union in the thirties. Dramatised as an interrogation between a bureaucrat and a suspected 'dissident'. It shows the origins of the attitutes responsible still for the persecution of Soviet dissidents. | ||||
Through The Night |
| 1st Produced: | - | - | ||
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| 1st Published: | Faber & Faber, London | 1977 | ||
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| Genre: | Television | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Wages Of Thin, The |
| 1st Produced: | Stables Theatre, Manchester | 1969 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com | |||
| Genre: | - | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Who Shall Be Happy-? |
| 1st Produced: | 1995 | |||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Samuel French, London | 1997 | ||
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| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | - |
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Synopsis: Period 1794, Danton, the hero of the French Revolution has been betrayed and jailed, a reverse cat and mouse drama ensues | ||||