Trevor Griffiths, Writer
has been writing for the theatre, television and cinema since the late 1960s. His stage plays include Comedians, Occupations, The Party, Piano, Thatcher's Children, The Gulf Between Us, Who Shall Be Happy ...? and a version of The Cherry Orchard.   His television work includes Through The Night, Country directed by Richard Eyre , The Last Place on Earth, Food for Ravens, and the celebrated political series Bill Brand.   Cinema films include Reds, with Warren Beatty, and Fatherland directed by Ken Loach.

He has received numerous awards including the BAFTA Writers Award and an Oscar nomination for Reds.

THERMIDOR
1937, Moscow. Party activist Anya Pakhanova is summoned to a preliminary investigation at KGB Headquarters. What follows is a short, sharp, analytical look at Stalinism in the Soviet Union in the 1930s.

APRICOTS (adult content which may cause offence)
1971. Sam and Anna sit in their garden, dinner guests gone, kids in bed. Isolated from each other they struggle for power in their relationship using sex as a tool and a weapon. A lyrical, erotic interlude on the sexual politics of love in marriage.

CAMEL STATION (European premiere)
2001, a mountainside in North Iraq. 14 year old Tarik, tasked by his father to guard the sheep, writes and rehearses an audition piece for the Storytellers' Course at the Hakawati School in Nineveh.  

Written to protest the war on terror for the Not in Our Name movement in New York this is the first full production of CAMEL STATION.

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Tamara Hinchco, Director
(RNT, RSC, West Yorkshire Playhouse, Birmingham Rep) was in the original productions of Apricots and Thermidor produced by the 7:84 Company in 1971. She also appeared in two other plays by Trevor Griffiths, Occupations for 7.84 and Sam Sam at the Open Space.

Cast
Lisa Came, Daniel James, Alexander McConnell, Fenar Mohammed-Ali, Andrea Sadler, Imogen Smith

Designed by Lone Schacksen