Peter Wood obituary by Michael Coveney

Director who worked with Tom Stoppard and was associate to Peter Hall at the National TheatreIn a long and illustrious career, the stage director Peter Wood, who has died aged 90, etched his name in the history books, not only by directing Harold Pinter's first major play, The Birthday Party, in 1958 " it was reviled by the critics and closed after eight performances at the Lyric, Hammersmith " but also by collaborat…

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