http://www.trevorgriffiths.co.uk/site Just another WordPress weblog Thu, 12 Jan 2012 17:31:50 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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 ... http://www.trevorgriffiths.co.uk/site/2012/01/12/coming-soon/ 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, ... http://www.trevorgriffiths.co.uk/site/2012/01/07/bill-brand-on-dvd/ 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 ... http://www.trevorgriffiths.co.uk/site/2012/01/07/habaccuc-dreams/ 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 ... http://www.trevorgriffiths.co.uk/site/2012/01/07/the-wages-of-thin-2/ 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 ... http://www.trevorgriffiths.co.uk/site/2010/12/28/about-more-pics/ [gallery] http://www.trevorgriffiths.co.uk/site/2010/12/28/a-new-world-a-life-of-thomas-paine-at-shakespeares-globe-2009/ http://www.trevorgriffiths.co.uk/site/2010/12/28/comedians-at-the-lyric-hammersmith-2009/ 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" ... http://www.trevorgriffiths.co.uk/site/2010/08/20/oi-for-england-at-edinburgh/ 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 ... http://www.trevorgriffiths.co.uk/site/2009/10/12/a-new-world/ [caption id="attachment_787" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Trevor Griffiths and Jimmy Jewel in rehearsal"][/caption] 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.        http://www.trevorgriffiths.co.uk/site/2008/10/18/comedians-the-first-production-1975/