the  East End of London . His earliest plays are adaptations of works by  Franz Kafka :  The Metamorphosis  (1969);  In the Penal Colony  (1969); and  The Trial  (1971). In the 1970s and 1980s, he wrote a series of verse plays including:  East  (1975);  Greek  (1980);  Decadence  (1981);  West  (1983);  Sink the Belgrano!  (1986);