{"id":151099,"date":"2020-07-06T01:01:57","date_gmt":"2020-07-05T23:01:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2020\/07\/06\/forgotten-plays-no-6-occupations-1970-by-trevor-griffiths\/"},"modified":"2020-07-06T01:01:57","modified_gmt":"2020-07-05T23:01:57","slug":"forgotten-plays-no-6-occupations-1970-by-trevor-griffiths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=151099","title":{"rendered":"Forgotten Plays: No 6 \u2013 Occupations (1970) by Trevor Griffiths"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The collapse of the 1968 protests left this incisive political dramatist searching for answers \u2013 and his response delved brilliantly into the dilemmas of revolutionAside from Comedians (1975), the work of Trevor Griffiths is shockingly neglected. Yet he is one of the most questioning, intelligent political dramatists Britain has ever produced. Why does no one revive The Party (1973) which marked Olivier\u2019s farewell to the stage? Why does the BBC, as we celebrate the NHS, not reshow Griffiths\u2019 TV play about Aneurin Bevan, Food for Ravens (1997)? Above all \u2013 assuming theatre ever returns to something like normality \u2013 how about re-examining Occupations, which is a genuine modern classic?First seen at the Manchester Stables in 1970, Occupations was given a superb Buzz Goodbody production, starring Patrick Stewart and Ben Kingsley, the following year by the RSC. Like a lot of Griffiths\u2019 early work, the play was a response to the failure of the 1968 revolution in France. But, rather than deal directly with recent events, Griffiths finds what he calls a \u201chistorical correlative\u201d in the abortive socialist uprising in Italy in 1920. We see Christo Kabak, a Bulgarian communist and representative of the Third International, arriving in Turin to await, and even influence, political events. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/stage\/2020\/jul\/06\/forgotten-plays-no-6-occupations-1970-by-trevor-griffiths\" target=\"_blank\">Forgotten Plays: No 6 \u2013 Occupations (1970) by Trevor Griffiths<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The collapse of the 1968 protests left this incisive political dramatist searching for answers \u2013 and his response delved brilliantly into the dilemmas of revolutionAside from Comedians (1975), the work of Trevor Griffiths is shockingly neglected. Yet he is one of the most questioning, intelligent political dramatists Britain has ever [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-151099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151099","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=151099"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151099\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=151099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=151099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=151099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}