Background
Griffiths, Trevor was born on April 4, 1935 in Manchester, England. Son of Ernest and Ann (Connor) Griffiths.
(A collection of Trevor Griffiths's stage plays, including...)
A collection of Trevor Griffiths's stage plays, including Comedians, which was made into a film starring Jonathan Pryce.
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('The setting is a schoolroom near Manchester where an eve...)
'The setting is a schoolroom near Manchester where an evening class of budding comics congregate for a final briefing from their tutor before facing an agent's man from London. Telling jokes for money offers an escape from the building site or the milk round. But the humour is a deadly serious business that also involves anger, pain and truth.' Financial Times 'Trevor Griffiths has not shown his brilliance as a writer more clearly than in Comedians.' Daily Telegraph
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(These plays are set at turning points in history. The fir...)
These plays are set at turning points in history. The first play is set at the height of the Great Terror in 1794, on the eve of the execution of Danton while the second follows the lives of seven young people from their primary school days in the 1970s to the turn of the 21st century.
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Griffiths, Trevor was born on April 4, 1935 in Manchester, England. Son of Ernest and Ann (Connor) Griffiths.
Bachelor with honours, Manchester University, England, 1955.
Education officer British Broadcasting Corporation, London, 1965-1972. Teacher, lecturer in Manchester, England, 1957-1965. Further education officer British Broadcasting Corporation, 1965-1970.
('The setting is a schoolroom near Manchester where an eve...)
('The setting is a schoolroom near Manchester where an eve...)
(Billy Ryder, master builder, and Finbar O'Toole, wanderin...)
(A collection of Trevor Griffiths's stage plays, including...)
(These plays are set at turning points in history. The fir...)
With infantry British Army, 1955-1957.
Married Janice Elaine Stansfield, 1960 (deceased 1977). Married Gillian Cliff, 1992. 3 children.