Trevor Griffiths has noted of his own work: "nearly everything I write is political in one way or another." He is, in fact, a classic example of the dramatist engagé, passionately Marxist in hi...
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Of the generation of writers who emerged in Britain during the 1970s broadly sharing a commitment to leftist politics, none has demonstrated such thematic consistency or such coherent and self-aware s...
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Critical Essay by Alan Brien
[Even] in these days of stage nudity and mimic intercourse, such an episode [as the one opening Griffiths's The Party] still requires some strong dramatic justific...
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Critical Essay by J. W. Lambert
The Party is a truthful play; but it is also sadly muddled [and] theatrically ineffective….
Essentially The Party—the title refers vaguely to politica...
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Trevor Griffiths
Critical Essay by Alan Brien
