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- Gregory Motton (born September 1961) is a British playwright and author. Best known for the originality of his formally demanding, largely a-political theatre plays at the Royal Court in the 1980s and 1990s, state of the nation satires in the 1990s, and later for his polemics 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. (en)
- Gregory Motton, född 1961, engelsk-irländsk pjäsförfattare och översättare, bosatt i London. Bland publikationerna märks Ambulance (1987), Chicken (1987), Downfall (1988), Looking At You (Revived) Again (1989), Message For The Broken Hearted (1993), The Sleeping Beauty (1993), The Terrible Voice Of Satan (1993), Cat And Mouse (Sheep) (1996), Lazy Brien (1996), A Little Satire (1997), In Praise of Progress (1999), A Monologue (1999), God’s Island (2000), Gengis Amongst the Pygmies (2003), A Holiday in the Sun (2005). Motton har översatt en rad pjäser av August Strindberg och den norske dramatikern Jon Fosse. Stilen är satirisk, korthuggen, ibland absurd. Mottons pjäser har översatts till franska, finska, japanska, ungerska, danska, tyska, portugisiska, italienska och svenska. De har framför allt spelats i Frankrike. Radiopjäsen Lazy Brien har spelats på BBC i Storbritannien. (sv)
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- Gregory Motton (born September 1961) is a British playwright and author. Best known for the originality of his formally demanding, largely a-political theatre plays at the Royal Court in the 1980s and 1990s, state of the nation satires in the 1990s, and later for his polemics 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. (en)
- Gregory Motton, född 1961, engelsk-irländsk pjäsförfattare och översättare, bosatt i London. Bland publikationerna märks Ambulance (1987), Chicken (1987), Downfall (1988), Looking At You (Revived) Again (1989), Message For The Broken Hearted (1993), The Sleeping Beauty (1993), The Terrible Voice Of Satan (1993), Cat And Mouse (Sheep) (1996), Lazy Brien (1996), A Little Satire (1997), In Praise of Progress (1999), A Monologue (1999), God’s Island (2000), Gengis Amongst the Pygmies (2003), A Holiday in the Sun (2005). (sv)
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