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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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.
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Cressida
A comedy drama set in the seedily glamorous world of 17th-century London theatre.
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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 PlaysNaked
By Luigi Pirandello Adapted by Nicholas WrightPirandello'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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By Henrik Ibsen Adapted by Nicholas WrightNicholas 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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