Plays 1 - Eh? & Honour and Offer & Stop It Whoever You Are & The Ffinest Ffamily In the Land & Don't Touch Him He Might Resent It

He was arguably the most audacious of his generation of playwrights, strongly influenced by his two years at Joan Littlewood's Theatre Workshop, where he acted in Brendan Behan's The Quare Fellow

Most of his plays are surreal farces set in ordinary places: a public lavatory in Stop It, Whoever You Are; a boiler room in Eh?; outside the door of a lift on the upper floor of a high-rise block of flats in The ffinest ffamily in the Land

Reviews were divided fairly evenly between disgust and delight, one of his critics referring to a piece he had just seen as "this thing...I cannot call it a play", another begging his readers on bended knees to go see this play immediately

His best-known play is Eh?