Alexandra Wood (dramatist)
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Alexandra Wood is a British dramatist. She is a winner of the George Devine Award in 2007.


Plays

*''The Human Ear'' (
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) *''Ages'' ( Old Vic New Voices) *English version of German dramatist
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's version of Brecht's ''Man to Man'' (
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) *''Merit'' ( Theatre Royal, Plymouth) 2015 *''The Initiate'' (Paines Plough), winner of
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2014, restaged
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2015 *adaptation of Jung Chang's
Wild Swans ''Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China'' is a family history that spans a century, recounting the lives of three female generations in China, by Chinese writer Jung Chang. First published in 1991, ''Wild Swans'' contains the biographies of her g ...
(ART/Young Vic) *''The Empty Quarter'' ( Hampstead Theatre) *''The Centre'' (Islington Community Theatre) *''Decade'' (co-writer, Headlong) *''Unbroken'' (Gate) *''The Lion's Mouth'' (Royal Court Rough Cuts) *''The Eleventh Capital'' (Royal Court) 2007Theatre Record -2007 Page 224 "The Eleventh Capital is part of the Court's Young Writers' Festival, and its author, Alexandra Wood, is in her early 20s. Yet it feels as if it's been written by an even younger writer. It's stuck in some Orwellian totalitarian regime." *''Twelve Years'' (
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).


References

Living people 1982 births Place of birth missing (living people) British dramatists and playwrights {{UK-playwright-stub