Trevor Griffiths

Out now …

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Bill Brand - the screenplays. “The most remarkable serial ever seen on the box” (Sunday Times). This latest volume published by Spokesman Books contains all eleven episodes of Trevor Griffiths’s celebrated 1976 Thames Television series Bill Brand, which was the fictional account of a young left-wing Labour MP entering Parliament for the first time at a time of great political and industrial unrest. The series starred Jack Shepherd as Bill Brand, Arthur Lowe, Alan Badel, Cherie Lunghi and many other distinguished actors. It has never been shown again, nor is it at present commercially available on dvd. This book is therefore a unique record of a unique television event. It is available from www.spokesmanbooks.com.

Bill Brand on dvd

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All eleven episodes of this acclaimed 1976 tv series are now available on dvd from www.networkdvd.net. This dvd will only be available until 11 November 2012.

Also from networkdvd.net: the first series of Adam Smith, written by Trevor Griffiths and starring Andrew Keir and Tom Conti, and first shown on Granada TV in 1972, will be available on 6 February 2012.

Habaccuc Dreams

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This new short play was commissioned by the Bush Theatre as part of “Sixty Six Books”, a celebration of the 400th anniversary of the publication of the King James Bible. 66 writers were invited to each choose one book of the Bible to respond to. The show was the opening production of the new Bush Theatre in October 2011, and included two 24-hour performances of the whole cycle of plays and one 12-hour overnight performance at Westminste Abbey.

The Wages of Thin

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This one-act black comedy, Trevor Griffiths’s first stage play, written in 1969, received its first revival in nearly 40 years at The Old Red Lion Theatre in Islington in May 2010, in an acclaimed production directed by Prasanna Puwanarajah and starring Ryan Gage, Alan Francis and Richard Sandells, Reviews of this production can be found in the Trevor Griffiths section of the Spokesman Books website at www.spokesmanbooks.com

About “More Pics”

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These pages contain a selection of production pics, rehearsal pics, posters, programme covers etc. and have been included for extra interest and information. More will be added from time to time.

Double-click on images to see them full size.

Titles are in alphabetical order.

Photos have been credited wherever possible, but please let us know if you can correct any omissions.

A New World: A life of Thomas Paine, at Shakespeare’s Globe (2009)

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Comedians at the Lyric Hammersmith (2009)

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Oi for England at Edinburgh

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Oi for England played on the Fringe at the Edinburgh Festival at Venue 13 this year, in a new production by the Not Too Tame Theatre Company, directed by Jimmy Fairhurst. ”An energetic and fascinating revival” … “a master class in compression and texture, rounded off with a brilliant and unexpected twist” ( www.theatre-wales.co.uk/reviews )

A New World

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A New World: A Life of Thomas Paine, written to celebrate the 200th anniversary of Paine’s death, played at Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre in the summer of 2009. Directed by Dominic Dromgoole, designed by Tim Shortall, with music by Stephen Warbeck, the company included John Light as Paine, Keith Bartlett as Ben Franklin, Laura Rogers as Marthe, James Garnon as Danton, Dominic Rowan as George Washington and Alix Riemer as Carnet.

“… big, bawdy, hugely ambitious, jaw-droppingly original and imbued with a tremendous sense of fun, it’s also executed, as everything always is under Dromgoole, with faultless professionalism.” Sunday Telegraph

” … a moving and informative tribute to the man Michael Foot once called ‘the greatest exile ever to leave these shores’ ….. Griffiths has the priceless ability to show the power of Paine’s ideas and to make history come alive ….. This is an intelligent historical spectacle packed with contemporary resonance.” The Guardian

A New World is the stage adaptation of the screenplay These Are The Times: A Life of Thomas Paine.

Comedians - the first production (1975)

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Trevor Griffiths and Jimmy Jewel in rehearsal

Jonathan Pryce as Gethin Price, Jimmy Jewel as Eddie Waters, Stephen Rea as George McBrain, James Warrior and Dave Hill as Phil and Ged Murray. Photographs by Nobby Clark.