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Bridget Boland was born on 13 March 1913 in St George's Hanover Square, London as Bridget Mary Boland. She was a writer, known for Anne of the Thousand Days (1969), The Prisoner (1955) and Gaslight (1940). She died on 19 January 1988 in Surrey.

Philip Wilson’s theatre credits include: This Island’s Mine (King’s Head), Perfect Nonsense, After the Dance (Theatre By The Lake); A Fox on the Fairway (Queen’s, Hornchurch); The Star, The Norman Conquests, Noises Off, Dr Faustus, The Astonished Heart/Still Life (Liverpool Playhouse); As You Like It (Storyhouse, Chester); Beacons (Park Theatre); his own adaptations of Philip Pullman’s Grimm Tales (Oxo Tower Bargehouse & Shoreditch Town Hall); The Three Lions (St. James Theatre, Edinburgh and UK tour); How Many Miles to Babylon? (Lyric Belfast), Toro! Toro! (national tour); Twist of Gold (Polka); The books of Ruth and 2 Samuel in Sixty-Six Books (Bush Theatre and Westminster Abbey); The Importance of Being Earnest/Travesties (Birmingham Rep); In Praise Of Love (Minerva, Chichester); The Found Man (Traverse); Un Uomo Trovato (Teatro della Limonaia, Florence); Ain’t Misbehavin’ (Sheffield Crucible); Breaking The Code (Northampton Theatre Royal). As Artistic Director of Salisbury Playhouse (2007-2011): The Game of Love and Chance, The Constant Wife, The Picture, Private Lives, Arsenic and Old Lace, The Winslow Boy, his own adaptation of JL Carr’s A Month in the Country, What the Butler Saw, People At Sea, Alphabetical Order, Corpse! As director and designer: Blackbird, Faith Healer and Toro! Toro! Writing: Dramatic Adventures in Rhetoric, with Giles Taylor (Oberon Books); Grimm Tales (Nick Hern Books).

Contains themes of an adult nature and scenes of a distressing nature.

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