Gregory Motton

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,[9] an empty theatre, and an end of the Royal Court's interest in Motton for several years.(Motton and Gray formed the Ducks and Geese Theatre Company to bring the former play to London, at the Battersea Arts Centre.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 Gate Theatre under David Farr, a few months later.Motton studiously rejects naturalism and instead offers a comic-strip satire on capitalist consumerism in the style of Jarry, Ionesco or Vian.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.[citation needed] In 2020 The Ice-Floe Girl was published as a memoir (Conrad Press 2021)[20] "an account of an ephemeral beauty...an angelic Swedish au-pair.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.[22] 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.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.[29] In December 2013, Motton published A Working Class Alternative to Labour[30] a book outlining a collection of policies designed to remove poverty, by the means of a high statutory minimum wage and a return to manufacturing.
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