John (Peter) McGRATH
Born in Birkenhead, Cheshire - June 1, 1935
Stage Works
- A Man Has Two Fathers (produced 1958)
- The Invasion, with Barbara Cannings, adaptation of a play by Arthur Adamov (produced 1958)
- The Tent (produced 1958)
- Why the Chicken (produced 1959; revised version 1960)
- Tell Me, Tell Me (produced 1960)
- Take It (produced 1960)
- The Seagull, adaptation of the play by Chekhov (produced 1961)
- Basement in Bangkok, music and songs by Dudley Moore (produced 1963)
- Events While Guarding the Bofors Gun (produced 1966)
- Bakke's Night of Fame, adaptation of the novel A Danish Gambit by William Butler (produced 1968)
- Comrade Jacob, adaptation of the novel by David Caute (produced 1969)
- Random Happenings in the Hebrides; or, The Social Democrat and the Stormy Sea (produced 1970)
- Sharpeville Crackers (produced 1970)
- Unruly Elements
- Angel of the Morning (produced 1971)
- Plugged-in to History (produced 1971)
- They're Knocking Down the Pie-Shop (produced 1971)
- Hover Through the Fog, Out of Sight (produced 1971)
- Out of Sight (produced 1971)
- Trees in the Wind (produced 1971)
- Soft or a Girl (produced 1971; revised version, as My Pal and Me, (produced 1975)
- The Caucasian Chalk Circle, adaptation of the play by Brecht (produced 1972)
- Prisoners of the War, adaptation of the play by Peter Terson (produced 1972)
- Underneath (produced 1972)
- Serjeant Musgrave Dances On, adaptation of the play Serjeant Musgrave's Dance by John Arden (produced 1972)
- Fish in the Sea, music by Mark Brown (produced 1972; revised version produced 1975)
- The Cheviot, the Stag, and the Black, Black Oil ( produced 1973) 1973; revised version, 1975; revised version, 1981.
- The Game's a Bogey (produced 1974)
- Boom (produced 1974; revised version produced 1974)
- Lay Off (produced 1975)
- Little Red Hen (produced 1975)
- Oranges and Lemons (produced 1975)
- Yobbo Nowt, music by Mark Brown (produced 1975) as Mum's the Word (produced 1977) as Left Out Lady (produced 1981)
- The Rat Trap, music by Mark Brown (produced 1976)
- Out of Our Heads, music by Mark Brown (produced 1976)
- Trembling Giant (English version) (produced 1977)
- Trembling Giant (Scottish version) (produced 1977)
- The Life and Times of Joe of England (produced 1977)
- Big Square Fields, music by Mark Brown (produced 1979)
- Joe's Drum (produced 1979)
- Bitter Apples, music by Mark Brown (produced 1979)
- If You Want to Know the Time (produced 1979)
- Swings and Roundabouts (produced 1980)
- Blood Red Roses (produced 1980; revised version produced 1982)
- Nightclass, music by Rick Lloyd (produced 1981)
- The Catch, music by Mark Brown (produced 1981)
- Rejoice!, music by Mark Brown (produced 1982)
- On the Pig's Back, with David MacLennan (produced 1983)
- The Women of the Dunes (produced in Dutch, 1983)
- Women in Power; or, Up the Acropolis, music by Thanos Mikroutsikos, adaptation of plays by Aristophanes (produced 1983)
- Six Men of Dorset, music by John Tams, adaptation of a play by Miles Malleson and Harry Brooks (produced 1984)
- The Baby and the Bathwater: The Imperial Policeman (produced 1984; revised version produced 1985)
- The Albannach, music by Eddie McGuire, adaptation of the novel by Fionn MacColla (produced 1985)
- Behold the Sun (opera libretto), with Alexander Goehr, music by Goehr (produced 1985)
- All the Fun of the Fair, with others (produced 1986)
- Border Warfare (produced 1989)
- John Brown's Body (produced 1990)
- Watching for Dolphins (produced 1991)
- The Wicked Old Man (produced 1992)
SCREENPLAYS:
- Billion Dollar Brain, 1967;
- The Bofors Gun, 1968;
- The Virgin Soldiers, with John Hopkins and Ian La Fresnais, 1969;
- The Reckoning, 1970
- Translator, with Maureen Teitelbaum, The Rules of the Game (screenplay), by Jean Renoir. 1970.
- The Dressmaker, 1989.
RADIO PLAY:
- The Game's a Bogey, 1979
TELEVISION PLAYS:
- scripts for Bookstand series, 1961;
- People's Property (Z-Cars series), 1962;
- scripts for Tempo series, 1963;
- Diary of a Young Man series, with Troy Kennedy Martin, 1964;
- The Entertainers (documentary), 1964;
- The Day of Ragnarok, 1965;
- Mo (documentary), 1965;
- Shotgun, with Christopher Williams, 1966;
- Diary of a Nobody, with Ken Russell, from the novel by George and Weedon Grossmith, 1966;
- Orkney, from stories by George Mackay Brown, 1971
- Bouncing Boy, 1972
- Once upon a Union, 1977
- The Adventures of Frank, from his play The Life and Times of Joe of England, 1979;
- Sweetwater Memories (documentary), 1984;
- Blood Red Roses, 1986;
- There Is a Happy Land, 1987.
OTHER
- A Good Night Out: Popular Theatre: Audience, Class and Form. 1981.
- The Bone Won't Break: On Theatre and Hope in Hard Times. 1990.
MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION: University of Cambridge.
CRITICAL STUDIES:
- Disrupting the Spectacle by Peter Ansorge, 1975;
- British Theatre since 1955 by Ronald Hayman, 1979;
- Stages in the Revolution by Catherine Itzin, 1980;
- Dreams and Deconstructions edited by Sandy Craig, 1980;
- "Three Socialist Playwrights" by Christian W. Thomsen, in Contemporary English Drama edited by C.W.E. Bigsby, 1981, and "The Politics of Anxiety" by Bigsby, in Modern Drama, December 1981;
- Modern Scottish Literature by Alan Bold, 1983;
- Interview with Oscar Moore, in Plays and Players, April 1983.