Client details
Trevor Griffiths
Playwright/ Director
| Robert Kirby |
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Trevor Griffiths has been one of the UK's leading dramatists for more than forty years. He writes and directs for theatre, television, film and radio. His best-known stage play Comedians was named by the National Theatre as one of the "100 plays of the century" in the year 2000. He received the BAFTA Writers Award in 1982, the WGA award for Best Original Screenplay and an Oscar nomination for Reds (co-written with Warren Beatty) also in 1982. His film Food for Ravens received an RTS award and the Gwyn A Williams Award at the Welsh BAFTAs in 1998.
| http://www.trevorgriffiths.co.uk |
Theatre Plays 1 
Theatre Plays 2 
These are the Times: A life of Thomas Paine 
Food for Ravens 
Piano 
Bill Brand 
Hope in the Year Two and Thatcher’s Children 
The Gulf Between Us 
Sixty-Six Books: 21st-century writers speak to the King James Bible
| Publication Details | Notes |
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| SIXTY-SIX BOOKS: 21ST-CENTURY WRITERS SPEAK TO THE KING JAMES BIBLE 2011 Oberon Books | Includes Habaccuc Dreams by Trevor Griffiths |
| BILL BRAND 2009 Spokesman Books | Bill Brand is now available on DVD from www.networkdvd.net. until 11 November 2012. |
| WILLIE AND MAUD 2008 Spokesman Books | Unproduced screenplay about W B Yeats and Maud Gonne. Published in the Spokesman Journal no. 98 in 2008. |
| TREVOR GRIFFITHS: PLAYS 1 2007 Spokesman Books | Plays written between 1969 and 1980:The Wages of Thin; Occupations; Sam Sam; Apricots; Thermidor; The Party; Comedians; The Cherry Orchard |
| TREVOR GRIFFITHS: THEATRE PLAYS 2: 2007 Spokesman Books | Theatre Plays II: Plays written between 1981 and 2001: Oi for England; Real Dreams; Piano; The Gulf Between Us; Thatcher's Children; Who Shall Be Happy...? Camel Station |
| THESE ARE THE TIMES: A LIFE OF THOMAS PAINE 2004 Spokesman Books | |
| FOOD FOR RAVENS 1998 Oberon | Screenplay of film made by BBC Wales |
| COLLECTED PLAYS FOR TELEVISION 1989 Faber and Faber | All Good Men; Absolute Beginners; Through 1998 The Night; Such Impossibilities; Country: A Tory Story; Oi for England |
| FATHERLAND 1987 Faber and Faber | Screenplay of film for Channel 4, directed by Ken Loach |
| JUDGMENT OVER THE DEAD 1986 Verso | The screenplays of the Central TV series "The Last Place 1985 on Earth" |
| SONS AND LOVERS 1982 Spokesman Books | The screenplays of the 7-part adaptation for BBC TV |
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Trevor Griffiths has been one of the UK's leading dramatists for more than forty years. He writes and directs for theatre, television, film and radio. His best-known stage play Comedians was named by the National Theatre as one of the "100 plays of the century" in the year 2000. He received the BAFTA Writers Award in 1982, the WGA award for Best Original Screenplay and an Oscar nomination for Reds (co-written with Warren Beatty) also in 1982. His film Food for Ravens received an RTS award and the Gwyn A Williams Award at the Welsh BAFTAs in 1998. | http://www.trevorgriffiths.co.uk/ |
| Production | Company | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| REDS | Paramount | |
| A MIDNIGHT CLEAR | A and M | |
| ACTS OF LOVE | Warner | |
| FATHERLAND | Kestrel | |
| MARCH TIME | Trade Films | |
| THESE ARE THE TIMES | Marble Arch | |
| DEAD DROP | Carolco | |
| MERDEKA | Multimedia | |
| WILLIE AND MAUD | Recorded Picture Co |
| Production | Company | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| ADAM SMITH | Granada | Available on DVD |
| THE SILVER MASK | LWT | |
| ALL GOOD MEN | BBC | |
| OCCUPATIONS | Granada | |
| ABSOLUTE BEGINNERS | BBC | Part of the series, Fall of Eagles Available on DVD |
| THROUGH THE NIGHT | BBC | |
| BILL BRAND | Thames | 11-part series Available on DVD |
| COMEDIANS | BBC | |
| SONS AND LOVERS - 7 PART SERIES | BBC | |
| THE CHERRY ORCHARD | BBC | Available on DVD |
| COUNTRY | BBC | |
| OI FOR ENGLAND | Central | |
| THE LAST PLACE ON EARTH - 7 PART SERIES | Central | Available on DVD |
| THE PARTY | BBC | |
| GOD'S ARMCHAIR NOT PRODUCED | BBC | |
| HOPE IN THE YEAR TWO | BBC | |
| FOOD FOR RAVENS | BBC |
| Production | Company | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| ALL GOOD MEN & THERMIDOR (2012) | The Last Resort at the Finborough Theatre | director Rania Jamaily |
| THE WAGES OF THIN (2010) | Red Congo at the Old Red Lion Theatre, Islington | Nominated for Best Off-West End Production for the What's On Stage Awards 2011 and for Best Set Design for the Offies 2011 |
| HABACCUC DREAMS (2011) | Bush Theatre in alliance with the National Theatre and Westminster Abbey | Part of SIXTY-SIX BOOKS Project - a celebration of the 400th anniversary of the King James Bible |
| COMEDIANS (2010) | Octagon Bolton | |
| COMEDIANS (2009) | Lyric Hammersmith | |
| A NEW WORLD - A LIFE OF THOMAS PAINE (2009) | Shakespeare's Globe | |
| CAMEL STATION (2006) | Theatre Museum, Covent Garden | |
| WHO SHALL BE HAPPY ...? (1995) | Belfast Festival | |
| THE GULF BETWEEN US (1992) | West Yorkshire Playhouse | |
| PIANO (1990) | Royal National Theatre | |
| REAL DREAMS (1984) | Williamstown Theatre Festival | |
| OI FOR ENGLAND (1982) | Royal Court Theatre Upstairs | |
| DEEDS (1977) | Nottingham Playhouse | |
| THE CHERRY ORCHARD (1977) | Nottingham Playhouse | |
| COMEDIANS (1977) | Nottingham Playhouse | Transferred to West End and Broadway |
| ALL GOOD MEN (1975) | The National Theatre at the Young Vic | |
| THE PARTY (1973) | The National Theatre | |
| SAM, SAM (1972) | The Open Space | |
| THERMIDOR (1971) | 7:84 at the Edinburgh Festival | |
| APRICOTS (1971) | The Basement Theatre Soho | |
| OCCUPATIONS (1970) | The Stables Theatre Club | |
| THE WAGES OF THIN (1969) | The Stables Theatre Club |
