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Joseph Graham Reid (born 1945) is a British playwright from Belfast, Northern Ireland.
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Joseph Graham Reid (born 1945) is a British playwright from Belfast, Northern Ireland.
Born into a working-class family in Belfast, Northern Ireland, Reid left school at age 15, served in the British army, [1] married young, [2] but returned to education and graduated from Queen's University in 1976. He became a teacher at Gransha Boys' High School in Bangor, County Down but left in 1980 to concentrate on his writing career.[ citation needed ] His first play, The Death of Humpty Dumpty is a story about an innocent man who gets caught in the cross fire of the troubles in Belfast. [3]
Characters in his work The Hidden Curriculum were based on pupils and teachers from the school he taught at. Premiered at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin in 1982, after a subsequent production the following year at the Lyric Players Theatre in Belfast, Ulster Television commissioned a screenplay which was broadcast in 1984. His trilogy, colloquially known as the Billy plays, for the BBC's Play for Today series, were his breakthrough works. These are Too Late to Talk to Billy (1982), A Matter of Choice for Billy (1983) and A Coming to Terms for Billy (1984). The lead in these television plays is a young Kenneth Branagh, who had previously worked in Reid's futuristic play Easter 2016, which was screened as part of the BBC's Play for Tomorrow series. It was while working on the later two Billy plays that Reid met the actress Gwen Taylor whom he later married.[ citation needed ] For BBC2's ScreenPlay series he wrote You, Me & Marley (1992), which won the Michael Powell Award for the best British film at the Edinburgh International Film Festival.
| Name | Year first produced | Theater first produced |
|---|---|---|
| The Death of Humpty Dumpty | 1979 | Abbey Theatre, Dublin |
| The Closed Door | 1980 | Abbey Theatre |
| Dorothy | 1980 | Oscar Theatre, Dublin |
| The Hidden Curriculum | 1982 | Abbey Theatre |
| Callers | 1985 | Abbey Theatre |
| Too Late to Talk to Billy | 1982 | Television |
| A Matter of Choice for Billy | 1983 | Television |
| A Coming to Terms for Billy | 1984 | Television |
| Lengthening Shadows | 1995 | Lyric Theatre, Belfast |
| Love, Billy | 2013 | The Lyric Theatre, Belfast, UK |
| Love | 1995 | West Yorkshire Playhouse, Leeds, UK |
| Remembrance | 1984 | Lyric Theatre, Belfast |
| Ties Of Blood | 1985 | Television |
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