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Alexandra Wood

ALEXANDRA WOOD

  
Nationality:    British
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Literary Agent:    Alan Brodie Representation Ltd  represented by Kara Fitzpatrick

Playwright Alexandra Wood was Literary Manager at the Finborough Theatre from 2006-2007. Her plays include the adaptation of Jung Chang's Wild Swans (Young Vic, A.R.T., Actors Touring Company), Decade (Headlong), Unbroken (Gate Theatre), the Lion's Mouth (Rough Cuts at the Royal Court Theatre), the Eleventh Capital (Royal Court Theatre) and the radio play Twelve Years (BBC Radio 4). Short plays include Binary (curious directive at the HighTide Festival), Expecting and Thirty Two Years is Nothing (Rose Bruford at the BAC) and Mile to Go (nabokov at the Latitude Festival). She won the George Devine Award and her work has been shortlisted for the Susan Smith Blackburn Award and the Patrick White Playwrights' Award.

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         Andes, The         Bay, The         Binary         Centre, The         Eleventh Capital, The         Empty Quarter, The         Expecting         Human Ear, The         Initiate, The         Lion's Mouth, The         Man To Man         Merit         miles to go         My Name is Tania Head         Spain         Thirty Two Years is Nothing         Tyler Sisters, The         Unbroken         Wild Swans
Andes, The

Synopsis:
Argentina, 2001. A young activist discovers she has a more personal link to her country's troubled past than she ever imagined. What if you're not who you thought you were? What if you're connected to everything you ever despised?

Notes:
short-listed for Susan Smith Blackburn Award, 2011

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Organisations:
Vibrant 2012  A Festival of Finborough Playwrights

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Bay, The

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Binary

Synopsis:
Binary is a new writer focused project from award winning devising company curious directive, which asks two playwrights to engage with an area of science they are curious about. the writers have been paired with a scientist of their choice and together they have created a new hybrid work. At the HighTide Festival, the process of the collaboration as well as the two world premieres of the new plays will be shared. During the performance of Binary, a scientist from the East of England will explain the writing process and a playwright from the East of England will explain the scientific process explored in the writing; thus creating a Binary.

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An experimental short piece created in collaboration with A meteorologist.

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curious directive / HighTide Festival

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Genre:
50 min piece

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Male:  -            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Centre, The

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Islington Community Theatre    

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Eleventh Capital, The

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Premiered as part of the Young Writers Festival 2007. From rural backwater to shiny new capital city in one easy move. Perfectly formed. Politically constructed. When your leader plays pin the tail on the donkey with the nation's map, the bureaucrats are bound to be moved and everyone will follow. "I don't want anything to do with it. It's a rat hole. People are only moving there because they have to. there's nothing here, it's a forgotten loggers' town".

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Young Writers Festival Season

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Play/Drama

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Male:  8            Female:  5            Other:  doubling possible

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Empty Quarter, The

Synopsis:
Dubai seems to offer British twenty-somethings Greg and Holly everything they could want: tax-free income, a brand new apartment and an exotic landscape waiting to be explored. But surviving on the edge of a desert, in a society they don't understand, proves more difficult than they could have imagined. In need of help they turn to fellow expats GEmma and Patrick but they soon start to question why it is they came, and whether they'll ever get home. . .

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Play/Drama

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Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Expecting

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Notes:
First directed by Claudia Jazz Haley

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Organisations:
Rose Bruford College

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Genre:
Short play

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Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  1 main part, at least 3 others, can be played by men or women

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Human Ear, The

Human Ear, The
A man turns up at Lucy's door claiming to be the brother she hasn't seen in ten years. But why has he come? Is it really him? And what happens when there's another knock at the door? An intriguing tale of loss, renewal and knowing who to trust, Alexandra Wood's The Human Earwas first produced by Paines Plough in their pop-up theatre, Roundabout, at the 2015 Edinburgh Festival Fringe, before touring.

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1st Produced:
Roundabout, Summerhall, Edinburgh Festival Fringe     06 Aug 2015

Organisations:
Paines Plough

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Genre:
Play/Drama

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Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Initiate, The

Synopsis:
A British couple are seized by Somali pirates. In East London, a Somali taxi driver decides to rescue them. Meeting disbelief with determination, he dismisses his wife's fears and flies out to negotiate their release. Speeding from the banks of the Thames to the now unfamiliar world of his homeland, he confronts the family he left behind and the bravado of the defiant men he once called brothers. A thrilling tale of altruism, greed, and the search for how to belong from George Devine award-winning playwright Alexandra Wood.

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1st Produced:
Summerhall @ Roundabout, Edinburgh Fringe Festival     02 Aug 2014

Organisations:
Paines Plough

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Genre:
New writing, Drama, 1 hour 20 minutes

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Male:  2            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Lion's Mouth, The

Synopsis:
Buses have stopped. Florists have run out of flowers. Body bags are filling up. Inside, a family struggle to cope with their rising panic.

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Organisations:
Royal Court Theatre Rogh Cuts

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Play/Drama

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Male:  4            Female:  5            Other:  -

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Man To Man

Synopsis:
After her husband dies, Ella Gericke adopts his identity and continues working his job as a crane operator in order to survive in Nazi Germany. Compromising her own identity for survival, Ella is plunged into a new masculine world of beer, schnapps and poker; a claustrophobic existence dominated by the fear of discovery and the changing face of authority in a volatile twentieth century Germany. Reworking the original German masterpiece into an intimate and all-consuming piece of physical theatre, Man to Man confronts the horrors of World War Two from a unique and deeply personal perspective.

Notes:
Original Playwright - Manfred Karge from his masterpiece Jacke wie Hose' first staged at the Scgauspeilhaus Bocehum in 1982. Man to Man is part of WOW Caerdydd, a festival celebrating, provoking and expressing female achievements, struggles and future challenges

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Genre:
adaptation

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Male:  -            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Merit

Merit
A rapacious banker, corrupt, corrupting, you thought he would steal my soul Against all odds, young, attractive Sofia has got a job as PA to one of the wealthiest bankers in the country. Sofia's mother questions whether she gave more than just a good interview to get it. . .In these times of financial chaos, the bankers are getting filthy rich whilst others are left unable to support their families. A storm is brewing, people are desperate - just what will they be driven to? Suicide? Murder? In a subtle game of cat and mouse, split loyalties and questionable morals, Alexandra Wood's thrilling and darkly funny new play looks at the complexities of a mother daughter relationship and, in the growing argument between rich and poor, the girl who is stuck in between.

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miles to go

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1st Produced:
Latitude Festival, Suffolk     2008

Organisations:
Nabokov

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Genre:
short play

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Male:  3            Female:  1            Other:  -

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My Name is Tania Head

My Name is Tania Head
No-one can forget the moment they heard the news. September 11th, 2001 sent shockwaves across the globe. It was a day that was supposed to change the world forever.Ten years on, a team of major writers and thinkers explore our responses to the defining event of our times in a new production from Headlong, creators of the multi award-winning ENRON. Rupert Goold's theatre company transforms a former trading hall into an immersive theatrical experience, taking you from the tranquil setting of St Katharine Docks on the River Thames to the bright blue skies of downtown Manhattan and beyond.

Notes:
part of Decade: Two towers. Ten years. Twenty plays. Ten years After 9/11, twenty international writers respond to the defining event of our times. Published here Are their individual plays, which woven together formed the basis of Decade, An immersive theatrical production from Headlong theatre company. the writers: Samuel Adamson, Mike Bartlett, Alecky Blythe, Adam Brace, Ben Ellis, Ella Hickson, Samuel D. Hunter, John Logan, Matthew Lopez, Mona Mansour, DC Moore, Abi Morgan, Rory Mullarkey, Janine Nabers, Lynn Nottage, Harrison David Rivers, Simon Schama, Christopher Shinn, Beth Steel, Alexandra Wood.

1st Produced:
Commodity Quay, St Katharine Docks, London E1W 1Az     01 Sep 2009

Organisations:
Headlong

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short piece

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Spain

Synopsis:
International writers join up with their British counterparts to bring their experiences to the Royal Court. What is life really like for those living in todays austerity. Daily dispatches from Portugal, Ireland, Italy, Greece and Spain will invade the Jerwood theatre Upstairs. "With unemployment reaching almost 30% in Greece, soup kitchens springing up and immigrants being physically assaulted by Neo-Nazis on a regular basis it seems like the right time to put the lives of those affected by the eurozone crisis centre-stage at the Royal Court. Collaborating with writers from the countries on the frontline of austerity and using a variety of theatrical forms we will bring the PIIGS into the heart of London for a week of tragedy, comedy and rage" - Alexi Kaye Campbell, Playwright

Notes:
Vanessa Montfort (Madrid), Alexandra Wood (London), Translated by William Gregory

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Genre:
short play

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Thirty Two Years is Nothing

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First directed by Nick Borsack.

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Rose Bruford College

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Genre:
Short play

Parts:
Male:  6            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Tyler Sisters, The

Synopsis:
Three women, forty years, one ever-evolving bond. Alexandra Wood's innovative play explores the deep and unruly waters of sisterhood. Fake sick days, Stonehenge, roller skates, champagne and glow-in-the-dark stars. The Tyler Sisters is a funny, heartening exploration of time, and the unassuming moments that make up our lives.

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1st Produced:
Hampstead Theatre Downstairs, London     07 jan 2020

Organisations:
Hampstead Theatre

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Genre:
Play/Drama 2hrs

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Male:  0            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Unbroken

Unbroken
Sexual brief encounters are exposed and explored in this interpretation of Schnitzler's radical 1897 play. Dance and text intertwine to reveal the spoken and unspoken, seen and unseen dynamics between people in search of physical and emotional fulfilment.

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By Alexandra Wood, inspired by Arthur Schnitzler's La Ronde

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Genre:
Play/Drama

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Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  playing 6 characters

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Wild Swans

Synopsis:
Through the eyes of one fiercely courageous family, Wild Swans takes us on a journey from the early days of Communist hope and struggle, through the chaos and confusion of Mao's Cultural Revolution to the birth of a superpower.

Notes:
By Jung Chang,adapted by Alexandra Wood

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A Young Vic/American Repertory Theater/Actors Touring Company co-production

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Genre:
adaptation

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Male:  7            Female:  8            Other:  -

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