Simon Woods’s Celebrated Play Hansard Arrives in London

“I’D STARTED PLANNING to do a garden-design course,” says Simon Woods with a shy smile. “I’ve always liked nature, and I thought, Well, writing is never going to happen. I’ll never be able to finish anything that’s any good. So I started googling garden--design courses. They follow me around the internet to this day.”

“I knew a few pages in that it was something special,” says Rufus Norris, the director of the National. “It’s rare to encounter writing of such ease, wit, and such emotional and theatrical intelligence. To find it coming from an unproduced playwright is even rarer.” Norris decided to workshop the play with the actors Lindsay Duncan and Alex Jennings, both of whom are old friends of Woods’s from his acting days. When they join us, it is like witnessing a family reunion.

Around the same time, he had met Bailey—set up by mutual friends over a “long, wonderful, slightly drunken dinner”—and they were married in 2012. Their developing relationship has also played its part in Woods’s decision-making; with the arrival of their daughters—Iris, who is five, and Nell, who is three—Woods found that everything changed.

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