Gregory Motton

Gregory Motton
BornSeptember 1961
London, England
Occupation(s)Playwright, songwriter, author, film director
Websitehttps://www.gregory-motton.com/

Gregory Motton (born September 1961) is a British playwright and author.[1] Motton is best known for the originality of his formally demanding,[2][3] largely a-political theatre plays at the Royal Court in the 1980s and 1990s, state of the nation satires in the 1990s,[4] and later for his polemics about working class politics, A Working Class Alternative To Labour[5] and Helping Themselves – The Left Wing Middle Classes In Theatre And The Arts.[6]

He speaks fluent Swedish and is one of the chief translators[7] of Strindberg's plays, known for his strict advocacy of translations rather than versions.[8]

  1. ^ Billington, Michael (5 April 2005). "Gengis Parmi les Pygmées". The Guardian. Retrieved 30 January 2011. ignored in his native Britain, Gregory Motton is widely performed in France
  2. ^ The Guardian, 29 October 2015
  3. ^ The Independent 2 November 2010
  4. ^ Whats On And Where To Go, 23 April 1996, Roger Foss, Theatre can never be the same after this
  5. ^ Motton, Gregory (17 December 2013). A Working Class Alternative to Labour. Levellers Press. ISBN 9780956436443.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: date and year (link)
  6. ^ Motton, Gregory (7 December 2009). Helping Themselves: The Left Wing Middle Classes in Theatre and the Arts. Levellers Press. ISBN 9780956436405.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: date and year (link)
  7. ^ "Gregory Motton årets Göran O. Eriksson-stipendiat! | Sveriges Dramatikerförbund". www.dramatiker.se. Archived from the original on 24 August 2013.
  8. ^ The Guardian, 6 October 2014.