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Nicholas Wright

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.

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Treetops

Treetops

By Nicholas Wright

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 Plays
    One Fine Day

    One Fine Day

    By Nicholas Wright

    A play about the gulf that separates Britain and Black Africa.

    Published in volume Nicholas Wright: Five Plays
      The Custom of the Country

      The Custom of the Country

      By Nicholas Wright

      Fletcher and Massinger's bawdy Jacobean drama is transposed to 1890s Johannesburg.

      Published in volume Nicholas Wright: Five Plays
        The Desert Air

        The Desert Air

        By Nicholas Wright

        A wartime comedy set in Cairo.

        Published in volume Nicholas Wright: Five Plays
          Mrs Klein

          Mrs Klein

          By Nicholas Wright

          A play about the controversial psychoanalyst Melanie Klein, a haunting and poignant study of mother-daughter relationships.

          John Gabriel Borkman

          John Gabriel Borkman (National Theatre version)

          By Henrik Ibsen Adapted by Nicholas Wright

          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

          Naked

          By Luigi Pirandello Adapted by Nicholas Wright

          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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          The Reporter

          The Reporter

          By Nicholas Wright

          An enthralling detective story based on the true life story of BBC reporter James Mossman.

          Rattigan's Nijinsky

          Rattigan's Nijinsky

          By Nicholas Wright and Terence Rattigan

          The extraordinary story of the relationship between the famous dancer Vaslav Nijinsky and the impresario Sergei Diaghilev, drawing on an unproduced screenplay by Terence Rattigan.

          The Last of the Duchess

          The Last of the Duchess

          By Nicholas Wright

          A compelling study of the corruption of fame, the lure of money and the betrayal that lurks at the heart of portraying the people around us, or the people we love. Based on Caroline Blackwood's book of the same name.

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          Travelling Light

          Travelling Light

          By Nicholas Wright

          A funny and fascinating tribute to the Eastern European immigrants who became major players in Hollywood's golden age.

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          Lulu

          Lulu

          By Frank Wedekind Adapted by Nicholas Wright

          The 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.