John mcgrath artist biography
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John McGrath (playwright)
Socialist playwright and drama theorist
John Peter McGrath (1 June – 22 January ) 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] During the early s he worked for the BBC, and wrote and directed many of the early episodes of the corporation's police series Z-Cars which began in
Theatrical career
McGrath is best remembered as a playwright and for his theoretical formulation of the principles of a radical, popular theatre.
His play Soft Or A Girl was performed at the Liverpool Everyman Theatre in the early s with great success.l, including in the cast the actor Alison Steadman. The play dealt with, amongst other things, the role of the city council in continuing, as the play claims, Hitler's destruction of larg