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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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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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Nicholas Wright: Five Plays

Nicholas Wright: Five Plays

By Nicholas Wright

A rich selection of work by leading playwright Nicholas Wright, introduced by the playwright.

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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
          Cressida

          Cressida

          By Nicholas Wright

          A comedy drama set in the seedily glamorous world of 17th-century London theatre.

          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.

          Vincent in Brixton

          Vincent in Brixton

          By Nicholas Wright

          A moving portrait of the young Vincent van Gogh - a hit in the West End and on Broadway.

          Three Sisters

          Three Sisters

          By Anton Chekhov Translated by Nicholas Wright

          Nicholas 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

          His Dark Materials (stage version)

          By Philip Pullman Adapted by Nicholas Wright

          A two-play dramatisation of Philip Pullman's extraordinary award-winning fantasy trilogy, first seen at the National Theatre.