Teeth 'n' Smiles Teeth 'n' Smiles Teeth 'n' Smiles is a musical play written by David Hare. The play was first performed at the Royal Court Theatre on 2 September 1975. It was subsequently revived at Wyndhams Theatre in May 1976, at the Oxford Playhouse in October 1977 and at the Crucible Theatre in 2002. 1975 cast. 1976 cast. 1977 cast. In a 1979 production in the USA, Maggie was played by Ellen Greene. The play is set around the performances of a failing rock band fronted by lead singer Maggie Frisby at the May Ball on the night of 9 June 1969
John McGrath (playwright) John McGrath (playwright) John Peter McGrath (1 June 1935 – 22 January 2002) was a British playwright and theatre theorist who took up the cause of Scottish independence in his plays. From an Irish Catholic background, McGrath was born in Birkenhead, and educated in Mold and, after his National Service, at St John's College, Oxford. During the early 1960s he worked for the BBC, and wrote and directed many of the early episodes of the Corporation's police series "Z-Cars" which began in 1962. He is remembered as a playwright and for his theoretical formulation of the principles of a radical,