1 – The Wages of Thin | Occupations | Sam Sam | Apricots | Thermidor | The Party | Comedians | The Cherry Orchard Trevor Griffiths was born and educated in Manchester and has been writing for theatre, television and cinema since the late 1960s. The first volume of his collected theatre plays covers the period 1969 to 1980. Volume two contains the plays written between 1981 and 2001.