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Nicholas Wright (playwright)
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Nicholas Wright is a British
dramatist. He opened and ran the Theatre Upstairs at the Royal Court Theatre, was joint artistic director of the Royal Court and is a former literary manager and associate director of the Royal National Theatre
. Wright began acting as a child, and trained at The London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA). His publications include "99 Plays", a survey of drama from Aeschylus to the present day, and "Changing Stages", co-written with Richard Eyre.
United Kingdom
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dramatist. He opened and ran the Theatre Upstairs at the Royal Court Theatre, was joint artistic director of the Royal Court and is a former literary manager and associate director of the Royal National Theatre
Royal National Theatre
The Royal National Theatre in London is one of the United Kingdom's two most prominent publicly funded theatre companies, alongside the Royal Shakespeare Company...
. Wright began acting as a child, and trained at The London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA). His publications include "99 Plays", a survey of drama from Aeschylus to the present day, and "Changing Stages", co-written with Richard Eyre.
Theatre work
- 1978 Treetops
- 1979 The Gorky Brigade
- 1980 One Fine Day
- 1983 The Crimes of Vautrin
- 1983 The Custom of the Country
- 1984 The Desert Air
- 1988 Mrs. Klein (i.e. Melanie KleinMelanie KleinMelanie Reizes Klein was an Austrian-born British psychoanalyst who devised novel therapeutic techniques for children that had an impact on child psychology and contemporary psychoanalysis...
) - 1993 More Tales of the City (tv adaptation)
- 1996 John Gabriel Borkman (adaptation)
- 1998 Naked (adaptation)
- 2000 Cressida
- 2001 Lulu (adaptation)
- 2003 Vincent in BrixtonVincent in BrixtonVincent in Brixton is a 2003 play by Nicholas Wright. The play premiered at London's National Theatre. It transferred to the Playhouse Theatre and later to Broadway....
- 2003 Three Sisters (adaptation)
- 2003 His Dark MaterialsHis Dark Materials (play)His Dark Materials is a play written by British playwright Nicholas Wright adapted from the Phillip Pullman fantasy novel trilogy of the same title. The production premiered in the Royal National Theatre's Olivier Theatre, London, in 2003...
- 2003 The Little Prince (adapted opera libretto)
- 2006 Man on the MoonMan on the Moon (opera)Man on the Moon is a 2006 television opera in one act by Jonathan Dove with a libretto by Nicholas Wright. It relates the story of the Apollo 11 moon landing on 20 July 1969 and the subsequent problems experienced by Buzz Aldrin, the second man to walk on the moon.The opera, about 50 minutes long,...
(TV opera libretto with music by Jonathan DoveJonathan DoveJonathan Dove is a British composer of opera, choral works, plays, films, and orchestral and chamber music. He has arranged a number of operas for English Touring Opera and the City of Birmingham Touring Opera , including in 1990 a famous 18-player two-evening adaptation of Wagner's Der Ring des...
) - 2006 Thérèse Raquin (adaptation)
- 2007 The Reporter
- 2008 He's Talking
- 2008 The Big Bonanza, Poison and The Boy with an African Heart for The No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency (TV)
- 2011 "Rattigan's Nijinsky"
- 2011 "The Last of the Duchess" adapted from the book by Caroline Blackwood.
- 2012 "Travelling Light"