Olwen Wymark obituary by Michael Coveney

American-born dramatist known for her affinity with French absurdist theatre and her many BBC radio adaptationsOlwen Wymark, who has died aged 81, was an American-born fringe theatre and BBC radio dramatist particularly active in the 1970s and 80s. Her writing was characterised by a flickering sense of reality, game playing, sparse (often abstract) settings and elements of fantasy with what the critic John Russell Br…

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