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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] .
A man of great charisma and presence, a writer, producer, and director for stage and screen, and founder of the 7:84 theatre company in England and Scotland; a middle-class playwright who presumed to speak for the working-class; a man of the theatre who produced some of the most memorable television drama; a socialist criticised for his ...
Jan 24, 2002 · That John McGrath was a powerhouse of theatre in Scotland, England, and abroad is indisputable. But he was also a cultural signifier and iconoclast,…
- The Herald Staff
John McGrath: an Updated Checklist and Bibliography – The International Journal of Scottish Theatre and Screen. Ksenija Horvat and John McGrath. BRIEF BIOGRAPHY. John Peter McGrath was born on 1 June 1935 in Cheshire, England into an Irish Catholic family.
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 ...
This January marks the 12th anniversary of the death of John McGrath, playwright, screenwriter, producer, director, and founder of the 7:84 Theatre Companies in both England and Scotland. McGrath’s legacy is well remembered, and honoured, by many people around Scottish theatre who recall his passion for taking theatre out of its red-plush, ...
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...
