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John Peter McGrath (1 June 1935 – 22 January 2002) was a British playwright and theatre theorist who took up the cause of Socialism in his plays. Early life and career. From an Irish Catholic background, McGrath was born in Birkenhead, and educated in Mold and, after his National Service, at St John's College, Oxford. [1] .
Jan 24, 2002 · the greatest, most simple of working-class musicals. By that time, McGrath had worked as a director both in film and television, most notably with the then mould-breaking Z-Cars, a high-speed...
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By John McGrath. This play revitalised Scottish theatre. A Scottish history lesson delivered as 'a good night out' with comedy, music and drama. It still sings off the page today, and is vividly remembered by those who saw it. 'The Cheviot' is one of those rare plays that changed people's lives.
In his collection of essays entitled The Bone Won’t Break: On theatre and hope in hard times, the Liverpool-born playwright John McGrath (1935-2002) points to the systematic social, political and economic marginalisation and cultural misrepresentation of working-class people everywhere, a strategy that seeks to keep them from realising their ...
The playwright. Playwright John McGrath. John McGrath (1935-2002) was born in Birkenhead, England, 1935, to parents of Irish Catholic descent, and was educated in Wales. McGrath’s association...
Sep 17, 2003 · Pamela Howard designed Border Warfare and John Brown's Body at the Tramway, Glasgow, for John McGrath, and Wicked Old Man, which he wrote and directed for West Yorkshire Playhouse in 1992. Here, she recalls the highly distinctive visual language of the playwright, and the differences this made in seeing through a design from initial ...
John McGrath (1935-2002) was a playwright and theatre theorist. He also wrote for TV, notably Z-Cars ). In 1971 he founded 7:84 (named after the statistic that 7% of the population of...
