Olwen Wymark

Olwen Wymark
Born	Olwen Margaret Buck February 14, 1932 (1932-02-14) (age 79) Oakland, California, U.S.
Occupation	Writer
Nationality	American
Period	1966–1992
Spouse(s)	Patrick Wymark (1953–1970) (his death)
Children	4 (including Jane Wymark)

Olwen Wymark (born Olwen Margaret Buck on February 14, 1932) is an American writer and playwright.

Biography

Early life

Olwen Margaret Buck was born on February 14, 1932 in Oakland, California her parents being Philip W. (a professor of political science) and Barbara (Jacobs) Buck. She attended Pomona College from 1949–51 and University College, London from 1951–52.

She has written many plays, including Gymnasium (1972), Find Me (1980), Loved (1980), Best Friends (1984) and Strike Up The Banns (1990).^[1] She was at her most prolific in the 1970s, with her most recent published play to date being Mirror Mirror, released in 1992.^[2]

Her most successful play is probably Find Me, a play about mental illness, which still features frequently on UK school syllabi as one of the set texts for drama qualifications^{[citation needed]}.

Personal life

Her husband was British actor Patrick Wymark with whom she had four children Jane Wymark, Rowan, Dominic, and Tristram. Wymark currently resides in London.

Bibliography

Plays

• Lunchtime Concert (one-act), first produced in Glasgow, Scotland, at Citizens Theatre, (1966)
• Triple Image (three one-act plays) (1967)
  • Coda
  • Lunchtime Concert
  • The Inhabitants (1967)
• The Gymnasium (one-act) (1967)
• "The Technicians" (one-act) (1969)
• Stay Where You Are (one-act) (1969)
• Neither Here Nor There (one-act) (1971)
• Speak Now (two-act) (1971)
• The Committee (one-act) (1971)
• Jack the Giant Killer (one-act) (1972)
• Tales From Whitechapel (one-act) (1972)
• Watch the Woman (two-act), (1973) with Brian Phelan
• The Twenty-Second Day (one-act) (1975)
• We Three (one-act) (1977)
• After Nature, Art (one-act) (1977)
• Find Me (two-act) (1977)
• Loved (two-act) (1979)
• Please Shim Down on Me (1980)
• Best Friends (1981)
• One Woman Plays (adapted from three plays by Dario Fo and Franca Rame) (1981)
• Lessons and Lovers: D.H. Lawrence in New Mexico: a Play (1986)

Quotes

In an interview with Contemporary Authors: "From the fifties until my husband died in 1970 I wrote plays because I wanted to; now I write them for a living. Although I have never written `a commercial' play, I have to sell my work. Consequently I think my plays have become less obscure (and pretentious), and I find myself more drawn to comedy. The theatre is my first passion, but I love to write for radio and would like to write more for TV and would really like to write a film."

Notes

1. ^ Amazon.co.uk: Olwen Wymark: Books
2. ^ Olwen Wymark - complete guide to the Playwright and Plays

See also

• W. W. Jacobs, Olwen Wymark's grandfather

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Date of birth	February 14, 1932
Place of birth	Oakland, California, United States
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