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 his political convictions and profoundly committed in his plays to an exploration of the possibilities of and obstacles to a radical transformation of British society, which he has described in its present state as "corrupt and sliding." In terms of the general development of British drama since World War II, Griffiths is something of a curiosity. His violent opposition to the existing social system in Britain, and in particular the Marxist radicalism of his politics tend characteristically to be associated with a younger generation of dramatists such as David Hare, Stephen Poliakoff, Snoo Wilson, and Howard Barker, all born after World War II. Yet, born in 1935, Griffiths is in fact a member of the...