DINGO (Penguin Modern Playwrights 8)

Charles Wood wrote his first play, Prisoner and Escort, in 1959. It was a play for television which was first performed on radio, then on the stage and later on television.

His plays include: Cockade, three one-act plays (the already mentioned) Prisoner and Escort, John Thomas, and Spare, Arts Theatre, (1963); Meals on Wheels, Royal Court Theatre, (1965); Don’t Make Me Laugh, Aldwych Theatre, Royal Shakespeare Company, (1966); Fill The Stage With Happy Hours, Nottingham Playhouse, Vaudeville Theatre, (1967); Dingo, Bristol Arts Centre, Royal Court Theatre, (1967), Jingo Aldwch Theatre, Royal Shakespeare Company (1975), and many others. His last play was Across From the Garden of Allah, Comedy Theatre (1986).

He has written many works for television, including the story of Robert Lawrence MC in Tumbledown, which he wrote first as a feature film after many interviews with Robert Lawrence. Lawrence later wrote his own version of his story called When the Fighting is Over”. He adapted three episodes of Sharpe