Writer for stage, film and TV and screen whose experience as a soldier gave a passionate intensity to scripts including The Charge of the Light BrigadeSeveral of the playwrights who transformed British theatre in the 1960s in the wake of John Osborne had experience in the armed services and the old days of repertory theatre. Charles Wood, who has died aged 87, was one of them, with this difference: he was a professio…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:06PM on February 7, 2020