Nicholas Wright
Nicholas Wright is a leading British playwright. His plays include: 8 Hotels (Minerva Theatre, Chichester, 2019); an adaptation of Patrick Hamilton's novel The Slaves of Solitude (Hampstead Theatre, 2017); an adaptation of Pat Barker's novel Regeneration (Royal & Derngate, Northampton, 2014); Travelling Light (National Theatre, 2012); The Last of the Duchess (Hampstead Theatre, 2011); Rattigan's Nijinsky (Chichester Festival Theatre, 2011); The Reporter (National Theatre, 2007); a version of Emile Zola's Therese Raquin (National Theatre, 2006); an adaptation of Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials (National Theatre, 2003-4); Vincent In Brixton (National Theatre, 2002; winner of the Olivier Award for Best New Play); a version of Luigi Pirandello's Naked (Almeida Theatre, 1998); and Mrs Klein (National Theatre & West End, 1988).
His writing about the theatre includes Changing Stages: A View of British Theatre in the Twentieth Century, co-written with Richard Eyre.
John Gabriel Borkman (National Theatre version)
Nicholas Wright's sensitive version of Ibsen's late play, about a family brought low by the disgrace and imprisonment of its patriarch.
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Naked
Pirandello's ingenious detective story about a young woman who is hounded by the press after the death of a child in her care..
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Nicholas Wright: Five Plays
A rich selection of work by leading playwright Nicholas Wright, introduced by the playwright.
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A play about the early resistance to policies of apartheid or racial segregation in Cape Town, South Africa, in the 1950s.
Published in volume Nicholas Wright: Five PlaysOne Fine Day
A play about the gulf that separates Britain and Black Africa.
Published in volume Nicholas Wright: Five PlaysThe Custom of the Country
Fletcher and Massinger's bawdy Jacobean drama is transposed to 1890s Johannesburg.
Published in volume Nicholas Wright: Five PlaysCressida
A comedy drama set in the seedily glamorous world of 17th-century London theatre.
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By Frank Wedekind Adapted by Nicholas WrightThe first version of Wedekind's celebrated erotic masterpiece to be based on the author's original text, restoring the clarity, the daring and the sexual explicitness of a modern masterpiece written a hundred years before its time.
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Vincent in Brixton
A moving portrait of the young Vincent van Gogh - a hit in the West End and on Broadway.
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By Anton Chekhov Translated by Nicholas WrightNicholas Wright's version of Chekhov's masterpiece, in which four young people are left stranded in a provincial backwater following the death of their father.
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His Dark Materials (stage version)
By Philip Pullman Adapted by Nicholas WrightA two-play dramatisation of Philip Pullman's extraordinary award-winning fantasy trilogy, first seen at the National Theatre.
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