Gregory Motton (born September 1961) is a British playwright and author. Motton is best known for the originality of his formally demanding, largely a-political theatre plays at the

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in the 1980s and 1990s, state of the nation satires in the 1990s, and later for his

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about working class politics, ''A Working Class Alternative To Labour'' and ''Helping Themselves – The Left Wing Middle Classes In Theatre And The Arts''. He speaks fluent Swedish and is one of the chief translators of Strindberg's plays, known for his strict advocacy of translations rather than versions.

Early life

Gregory Motton was born in September 1961 in

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, in the London borough of Enfield, the second child of Bernadette (née Clancy) from

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in West

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, Ireland, a bar-maid, and David Motton, of

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, London, a writer of children's comics. He attended St. Angela's Convent, St. Paul's School, and Winchmore Comprehensive.

Early career

Motton's first two plays were staged in quick succession: ''Chicken'' (directed by

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) at the

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in April 1987, and then ''Ambulance'' (directed by Lindsay Posner) at the

in September 1987. His unconventional writing style soon dispersed the initial keen interest it had first awakened in managements and critics. His third play, ''Downfall'', again directed by Lindsay Posner at the Royal Court in July 1988, contained 56 very brief scenes, 26 characters and a fragmented illogical structure. It brought fierce condemnation from the critics, an empty theatre, and an end of the Royal Court's interest in Motton for several years. His fourth play, ''Looking at You (revived) Again'' commissioned originally by the

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, continued with the lyrical aspects of the previous plays but with a more economical technique . It followed a simple story but had a more or less non-naturalistic lyrical form. Rejected by Peter Gill, the then artistic director of the National Theatre Studio, it did not receive a rehearsed reading. It was produced by Simon Usher at the Leicester Haymarket in June 1989, during the period of

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's co-artistic directorship. The play was transferred to the

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by Jenny Killick, was unanimously disliked by the critics, and the theatre was empty once again. Consequently, it was not until a further three years later that two of Motton's plays were produced, almost simultaneously: ''A Message for the Broken Hearted'', directed by

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, March 1993, at the Liverpool Everyman; and ''The Terrible Voice of Satan'', directed by James MacDonald, July 1993, at the Royal Court, now being run by

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. (Motton and Gray formed the Ducks and Geese Theatre Company to bring the former play to London, at the

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. They subsequently worked together directing a number of Motton's plays in France.) Both plays met with almost universal disapproval by the critics, and Motton's brief career in Britain was effectively over. Excepting ''A Little Election Satire'' for one week at the

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in 1997 under David Farr, it was to be another twelve years before one of his plays was produced there. His plays remained out of print in English until 1997 when James Hogan of

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began the re-publication of all his plays in several volumes.

France

During that period his plays were premiered in

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. Notable productions were by the director

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(''Downfall'' 1992 and ''Terrible Voice of Satan'' Oct 1994), and also by the director Éric Vigner (''Looking at You (revived) Again'' - "Reviens à toi (encore)" 1994) at the Theatre de l'Odeon*, while the play was rejected by the NT Studio for a reading. (Also premiered in that theatre was ''Loue Sois le Progress 1998''). During this period Motton wrote the "Gengis" series of satirical political plays ('' Cat and Mouse (Sheep),'' premiered at the Theatre de L'Odeon, ''Gengis Amongst the Pygmies'', premiered at the

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, ''A Holiday in the Sun'', premiered on Radio France Culture, and ''The Rape Of Europe''). The first of these, '' Cat And Mouse (Sheep)'', was directed by Ramin Gray and Gregory Motton in English, and this production was seen briefly in Britain at the

under David Farr, a few months later. All four plays of that series have been the subject of public readings at the Royal Court, but never produced there. British critic Michael Billington noted Motton's presence abroad, which he interpreted in the following manner: "Ignored in his native Britain, Gregory Motton is widely performed in France and, watching the premiere (at the Comedie Francaise) of his latest piece, it is not difficult to see why. Motton studiously rejects naturalism and instead offers a comic-strip satire on capitalist consumerism in the style of Jarry, Ionesco or Vian. He is like an absurdist with

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tendencies".(Guardian 2004)

Recent work

Motton's relationship with the Royal Court began again in 2005, during

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's tenure. Rickson was not a natural enthusiast for Motton's work and was reluctant to produce any of his characteristically unconventional plays to which there had always been significant opposition. He decided against producing ''A Holiday in the Sun''. which he had commissioned and which was the subject of a reading. He was finally persuaded to produce ''The World's Biggest Diamond'' in 2005 which is a largely conventional drama about a lifelong love affair. This starred

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and

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and, perhaps surprisingly, earned the Royal Court the only 5 star review it had so far received during Rickson's term there. Ironically perhaps, Alex Sierz took this as a sign of a change in Motton's writing "The World's Biggest Diamond by Gregory Motton (Royal Court) Is Motton our English

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? This account of two lovers who meet for a weekend after 30 years seethes with Scandinavian gloom. But whatever happened to Motton's distinctively weird personal vision?" (Alex Sierz) Motton's plays have been produced only once in the past 17 years in Britain and never, in Britain, in a theatre with more than 90 seats. It is perhaps for this reason that he is considered by some commentators to have been rejected, along with some other writers, by the theatre establishment; Playwright

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, wrote: "The English theatre has for some 50 years told itself that it is a writers' theatre. It's odd, then, that the English theatre should have produced a substantial list of playwrights who have become alienated from our theatres, often at the peak of their power.In my imagination there's a strange hinterland, an empty

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standing at a point equidistant from both the

and the National Theatres, where the shades of once-celebrated playwrights such as

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and Gregory Motton wander up and down". To others Motton is a natural dissident because of the form and the content of his writing.

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("not a fan of Motton's work") calls him the

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of playwriting. Most recently, Gregory Motton has begun writing musicals. He wrote the music, lyrics and books of three in less than three years, having composed more than 60 songs. They are; ''

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and

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'', ''The Mystery Of Hill Street'' and ''Dracula''. He wrote a fourth '' Tristan and Yseult'' in 2014. In 2014 he released a double CD album, called ''Damnation and Praise'' (Exile Music), containing a selection of 27 songs from 4 of his musicals. In 2020 ''The Ice-Floe Girl'' was published as a memoir (Conrad Press 2021)ISBN978-1-913567-34-7 "an account of an ephemeral beauty...an angelic Swedish au-pair." In 2013 Ramin Gray commissioned him to write a play for

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. The play he delivered was ''A Worthless Man''. It was not produced because Ramin Gray considered the material to be too contentious; he commented; "I can't put that on, I'd get the sack." Between 2018-2023 he made a series of five full-length films, and in 2024 he wrote a large number of monologues. In 2024 there was a series of rehearsed readings of eight of his new plays, directed by Simon Usher, in Soho, London, at the Soho Folk and Blues, 41 Frith Street, London. Others were read at the Deal Angling Club, Kent.

Awards

In 2012, Strindberg's centenary year in Sweden, Motton was awarded the Swedish Writers Guild ( Dramatikerförbundet) Göran O Eriksson Award for his translations of Strindberg. This award was presented on the stage of Strindbergs Intima Teater, in

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. The jury's motivation for the award was "Gregory Motton is a very many-sided translator whose work is valued by a great number of authors. His translations of dramatic works of widely differing genres and styles, display a faithfulness which points to the kind of sensitivity, integrity and precision, that comes of great professional skill."

Theatre and politics

In various articles and interviews, Motton has voiced some criticisms of British theatre, ''("The Stage of Hollow Moralising")'' Guardian 16 April 1992, reprinted Theatre Forum Fall 1992, The Stage 1 April 1993, Whats On 5 May 1993, and most notably in the mid-1990s when he wrote an article about the high administrative staffing levels and low plays output of Britains regional theatres. Patrick Marmion wrote; "He stands aside from the mainstream orthodoxy of issue based writing....Now theatres are looking at his plays but remain edgy about what he may say in them." Motton's comments about British theatre may have alienated theatres against him. More recently, he wrote a book, '' Helping Themselves - the Left Wing Middle Classes in Theatre and the Arts '', criticising the influence of the middle class left in both the arts and politics, and their effect on working class representation in politics. It includes an examination of the working class identity of the Royal Court in the 1960s and 70s, with specific reference to the public school origins of many of their best known writers. This book was commissioned by

, but was rejected by them for publication. It is published by Levellers Press. It was accepted for sale in the Royal Court bookshop by the Royal Court Artistic Director Dominic Cooke, despite its robust criticisms of that theatre. No more of Motton's plays were published by Oberon Books subsequent to that date. In December 2013, Motton published ''A Working Class Alternative to Labour'' a book outlining a collection of policies designed to remove poverty, by the means of a high statutory

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and a return to manufacturing. The central idea of the book is to shift money and economic activity from the top end of the economy to the lower end, and proposes a challenge to the predominance of large

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and its influence in our society, most notably by ending Britain's reliance on profits from investment in foreign industries (through

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) for the

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. He proposes a return to what is called 'traditional banking' where money from current accounts is invested in domestic industries. He advocates free and ''untested'' access to

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for all who want it, as a means of countering the predominance of a public school educated

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in positions of power. There is a section describing the workings of the

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, and a critique of its lack of democratic accountability. He points out that the government of the EU (the executive) is not elected, and that the European Union elections, are only of MEPs, and are therefore largely cosmetic since the executive is not drawn from the MEPs and cannot be removed by elections. Motton portrays the EU as a largely capitalist organisation designed to drive down

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wages. He characterises the EU's appropriation of political power, by-passing democracy, as a ''coup d'état'' by the administrative classes of Europe. He gives evidence of a belief amongst EU leaders that political and economic decisions are best made without reference to democracy. This book is now in the

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Film

For

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, he has written and directed four full-length feature films, which make up a quartet of films called ''The Four Gospels of Dracula the Messiah.'' Filming began in 2017 and ended in 2021. They are: *1 ''The Four Gospels of Dracula the Messiah, part one: A Voice Crying In The Wilderness.'' 1hr 16mins. *2 ''The Four Gospels of Dracula the Messiah, part two: Conquering Death.'' 1hr 16 mins. *3 ''The Four Gospels of Dracula the Messiah, part three: The Seducer.'' 1 hr 24 mins. *Part four was released in January 2022. Also *''Lilith'' 2022, 120 mins, also for Two Cities Films. Notting Hill Film Festival 2023

Selected works

Plays include

*''Chicken'' (Penguin, Oberon) Riverside Studios 1987, *''Ambulance'' (Penguin,/Oberon) Royal Court 1987, *''Downfall'' (Methuen, Oberon ) Royal Court 1988, *''Looking at You (Revived) Again,'' (Flood Books, Oberon) Leicester Haymarket 1989, *''A Message for the Broken Hearted'' 1993 (Flood Books, Oberon) Liverpool Playhouse, *''The Terrible Voice of Satan'' (Flood Books, Oberon) Royal Court 1993, *'' Cat and Mouse (Sheep)'' (Flood Books, Oberon) Theatre de L'Odeon 1995, *''The Forest of Mirrors'' (Methuen) National Theatre Studio, *''In Praise of Progress'' (Oberon) Theatre de L'Odeon 1999, *''A Little Satire'' (Oberon) Gate Theatre 1997, *''God's Island'' (Oberon) Theatre de La Tempête 2001, *''You Need Some of This,'' Théâtre de Gennevilliers, *''Gengis Amongst the Pygmies'' (Oberon) Comedie Francaise 2004, *''A Holiday In The Sun'' (Oberon) Radio France Culture 2005, *''The World's Biggest Diamond'' (Oberon) Royal Court 2005, *''The Rape Of Europe'' (Levellers Press 2011) Commissioned 2008, Calder Bookshop Theatre Jan 2013 *''Petrol'' (Levellers Press 2013) Gulbenkian Theatre March 2013 *''A Worthless Man'' (Levellers Press 2017) *''Palm Sunday'' *''Burning House'', 2024 Soho Folk and Blues. *''The Balcony'', 2024 Soho Folk and Blues. *''Simeon'', 2024 Soho Folk and Blues. *''People Get Ready'', 2024 Soho Folk and Blues. *''Car Door Handle'', 2024 Soho Folk and Blues. *''Omphalos'', 2024 Soho Folk and Blues. *''Listen to Me Now'', 2024 Soho Folk and Blues. *''All Abord'', 2024, *''No Fuss'', 2024, *''Wake up'', 2024, *''Two Women'', 2024, *''Judas of the Field'', 2024, *''First They Came For'', 2024, *''This isn't my vibe, this isn't what I meant'', 2024, *''When a Tyrant is Dead'', 2024, *''#17'', 2024, *''Help is on its Way'', 2024, *''I wish I wish I wish in Vain'', 2024, *''Lazarus'', 2024.

Short plays

*''The Jug'' 1990 BBC Radio, *''Lazy Bríen'' 1991 BBC Radio, *''A Monologue'' (Oberon) Musee Dauphioise 1998, *''The Mother'', *''Pirates''.

Musicals

*''The Mystery Of Hill Street'' (Script, words and music of 20 songs)2010 *''Nefertiti and Akhenaten'' (Script, words and music of 16 songs)2011 *''Dracula'' (Script, words and music of 27 songs, plus 5 instrumental pieces)2012

Books

*''Helping Themselves - The Left Wing Middle Classes in Theatre and the Arts'' (Levellers Press 2009) *''A Working Class Alternative To Labour'' (Levellers Press 2013) *''The Ice-Floe Girl'' (Conrad Press 2020)

Translations from Swedish

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'' by

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(Oberon) *''The Pelican'' by August Strindberg (Oberon), *''Swanwhite'' by August Strindberg (Oberon), *''The Burned Site'' by August Strindberg (Oberon), *''The Storm'' by August Strindberg (Oberon), *''

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'' by August Strindberg (Oberon), *''

Miss Julie ''Miss Julie'' () is a naturalistic play written in 1888 by August Strindberg. It is set on Midsummer's Eve and the following morning, which is Midsummer and the Feast Day of St. John the Baptist. The setting is an estate of a count in Sweden. ...

'' by August Strindberg. (Oberon), *''Comrades'' by August Strindberg (Oberon), *''

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'' by August Strindberg (Oberon), *''

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'' by August Strindberg (Oberon), *''The Black Glove'' by August Strindberg (Oberon), *'' The Dance of Death'' by August Strindberg (Oberon), *''

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'' by August Strindberg (Oberon)

Translations from Norwegian

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(Oberon), *''Someone Is Going to Come'' by Jon Fosse (Oberon)

Translations from German

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'' by

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(

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)Nick Hern Books Woyzeck, Buchner, Motton

References

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