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Trevor Griffiths (born 4 April 1935, Ancoats, Manchester), is an English dramatist. ==Early life and career== Brought up as a Roman Catholic, he attended St. Bede's College before being accepted into Manchester University in 1952 to read English. After a brief involvement with professional football and a year in national service, he became a teacher. He became chairman of the Manchester Left Club, and the editor of the Labour Party's ''Northern Voice'' newspaper. Gradually he tired of political journalism, began writing plays, and was eventually commissioned by Tony Garnett to provide a script for ''The Wednesday Play'' (BBC, 1964–70). The play, "The Love Maniac", was about a teacher, but even though Garnett took the commission with him when he moved to London Weekend Television and formed Kestrel Productions, it was never produced. Buoyed by Garnett's enthusiasm and influenced by the Paris evenements of May 1968, he wrote ''Occupations'', a stage play about the Italian Communist Antonio Gramsci and the Fiat factory occupations of 1920s Italy.〔Robert Chalmers ("Putting the world to rights: Trevor Griffiths on Olivier's dope-smoking, Marxist ranting and his 20-year purgatory" ), ''The Independent'', 9 August 2009〕 The play had been submitted to the Royal Shakespeare Company as early as 1964, but had then been rejected as being "too controversial".〔Alycia Smith Howard (''Studio Shakespeare: The Royal Shakespeare Company at The Other Place'' ), Aldershot: Ashgate, 2006, p.19-20〕 Following its premiere in Manchester the previous year,〔Michael Patterson (''Strategies of Political Theatre: Postwar British Playwrights'', Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003, p.69 )〕 the eventual RSC production in 1971 of ''Occupations'', Griffiths first full length stage play,〔 was directed by Buzz Goodbody. Intending to affect "bourgeois theatre" with his viewpoint, Griffiths has described his approach as being "committed to analysing Marxism and to condemn Stalinism without discrediting socialism in the eyes of the world".〔 The play soon brought him to the attention of Kenneth Tynan, the literary manager of the National Theatre Company who promptly commissioned Griffiths to write the play that became ''The Party''. This critique of the British revolutionary left featured the National's artistic director Laurence Olivier in his last stage role as the Glaswegian Trotskyist John Tagg.〔 Griffiths had by now begun to write television plays, such as "All Good Men" (''Play for Today'', BBC, 31 January 1974) and "Through the Night" (2 December 1975). Influenced by the experience of his wife, the later is concerned with a woman's treatment for breast cancer. In between these two plays came "Absolute Beginners" (BBC, 19 April 1974), in the series ''Fall of Eagles'', which presents a version of events in 1903 involving Lenin and Trotsky. He developed a series about parliamentary democracy, ''Bill Brand'', which was first shown by ITV in the summer of 1976. Despite his considerable success in the theatre, he said of his work as a television dramatist in 1976: "I simply cannot understand socialist playwrights who do not devote most of their time to television.... ()hat if for every ''Sweeney'' that went out, a ''Bill Brand'' went out, there would be a real struggle for the popular imagination.... ()nd people would be free to make liberating choices about where reality lies." In the meantime, Griffiths had continued to write for the theatre with ''Comedians'' commissioned by the Nottingham Playhouse. The premiere production of the play was directed by Richard Eyre, then artistic director of the Nottingham theatre, and was first performed on 20 February 1975. ''Comedians'' is set in a Manchester night-school, where a group of budding comics gather for a final briefing before performing to an agent from London. The play is set in real time, i.e. as the real time is 7.27, the clock on the wall of the school room also says 7.27. It subsequently transferred to Broadway, and was later adapted for television by Eyre while he was responsible for ''Play for Today''. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Trevor Griffiths」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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