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Personal life. In 1962 he had married Elizabeth MacLennan, the Scottish actress, whom he had met while they were both at Oxford University; the couple had two sons and a daughter. Death. McGrath died from leukemia in January 2002. [4] .
John McGrath was born in Birkenhead on 1 June 1935, to a lower-middle-class Irish Catholic family. When war broke out in 1939, the family moved to Mold in North Wales, where from 1946 McGrath attended the local grammar school, after which he did two years' National Service in the Royal Artillery.
Jan 24, 2002 · That John McGrath was a powerhouse of theatre in Scotland, England, and abroad is indisputable. But he was also a cultural signifier and iconoclast,…
John McGrath (1935-2002) was born in Birkenhead, England, 1935, to parents of Irish Catholic descent, and was educated in Wales. McGrath’s association with Scottish drama comes from his work...
Sep 7, 2017 · John McGrath, the writer, called it ‘a ceilidh play’. In it he tells the story of the exploitation of the Highlands from the post-Jacobite rising, through the suppression of the clans, the atrocities of the clearances, the sporting estates and their absentee owners, to the North Sea oil boom which he dramatised through oral tradition ...
Feb 2, 2002 · For 20 years McGrath helped to shape a kind of drama that would reach the widest audiences, because it found its inspiration in real and recognisable lives.
John McGrath was born in Birkenhead in 1935. It was probably his long partnership and marriage with Elizabeth MacLennan that fired his interest in, and commitment to, Scotland. McGrath wrote many plays before 'The Cheviot, the stag and the black, black oil', and many after, but 'The Cheviot' remains his best-known work.
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