The Human Ear

An intriguing play about loss, renewal and knowing who to trust.

'An intriguing tale... maintains high drama throughout'

'Fascinating, intricate and tricky... keeps the audience on their toes... it reverberates quietly long after it's over'

Alexandra Wood's plays include The Human Ear (Paines Plough); Ages (Old Vic New Voices); an English version of Manfred Karge's Man to Man (Wales Millennium Centre); Merit (Theatre Royal Plymouth); The Initiate (Paines Plough, Scotsman Fringe First); an adaptation of Jung Chang's Wild Swans (ART/Young Vic); The Empty Quarter (Hampstead Theatre); The Centre (Islington Community Theatre); Decade (co-writer, Headlong); Unbroken (Gate); The Lion's Mouth (Royal Court Rough Cuts); The Eleventh Capital (Royal Court) and the radio play Twelve Years (BBC Radio 4). She is a winner of the George Devine Award and was the Big Room Playwright-in-residence at Paines Plough in 2013.