PLAYWRIGHT IN EXILE
"Much the most reviled figure amongst the establishment Gregory has carved out a career in permanent opposition. He's the Dennis Skinner or the Tony Benn of the playwriting fraternity" Domonic Dromgoole, The Full Room: An A-Z of Contemporary Playwriting
"The bad boy of British theatre" (The Independent)
Gregory Motton (born September 1961) is a British playwright, author, and film director. Best known for the originality of his formally demanding, largely a-political theatre plays, performed first at the Royal Court in the 1980s and 1990s, and at the Odeon and Comedie Francaise in Paris, and then for state of the nation political satires in the 1990s and later for his polemics about working class politics, A Working Class Alternative To Labour (2013) and Helping Themselves – The Left Wing Middle Classes In Theatre And The Arts (2008).
His work is rarely or never performed in Britain.
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.
It's fairly easy to get silenced, for artistic or political reasons, it's not an enviable position; either you accept your fate, and disappear, or you speak up for yourself and risk not sounding credible- either way the job is done, you've been silenced. In an open and pluralistic society such as ours you don't even get banned- you're just circumvented. "Banned" in China=not banned in Britain
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