Profile: Anne Wood

Loft credits (click a play title to view details)

• Anfisa, Three Sisters (2015)
• Phantom/Party Guest/Shopper, Scrooge The Musical (2014)
• Mrs Ogmore-Pritchard, Under Milk Wood (2014)
• Ghost of Wuthering Heights, Wuthering Heights (2013)
• Doris, Talking Heads (2012)
• Mrs Lipari, A View From the Bridge (2012)
• Old Crone, The Miracle Worker (2012)
• Company, Women’s Words (2011)
• Company, Women’s Writes (2009)
• Mrs Hepworth, Hobson’s Choice (2009)
• 1st Witch, The Wizard of Oz (2008)
• Assistant stage manager, Dry Rot (2008)
• Anne Marie, A Doll’s House (2007)
• Elijah, Inherit the Wind (2007)
• Peasant, ’Allo ’Allo! (2006)
• Mammy, The Cripple of Inishmaan (2006)
• Mrs Hudson, The Final Problem for Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson (2005)
• Nana, Peter Pan (2004)
• Mrs Ogmore-Pritchard/Mary Ann Sailors, Under Milk Wood (2003)
• Messenger, The Theban Plays (2002)
• Mrs Northrop, When We Are Married (2002)
• Miss Erikson, Present Laughter (2001)
• Helicanus, Pericles, Prince of Tyre (2000)
• Lady Jedburgh, Lady Windermere’s Fan (2000)
• Marjorie, Just Between Ourselves (1999)
• Aunt Julie, The Mai (1999)
• Company, Mother Courage and her Children (1999)
• Muriel, Talking Heads (1998)
• Miss Marple, Murder at the Vicarage (1998)
• Nell, Endgame (1997)
• Mrs Eynsford-Hill, Pygmalion (1997)
• Mrs Henderson, The Shadow of a Gunman (1997)
• Clara, Hay Fever (1997)
• Muriel, Woman in Mind (1996)
• The Servant, Salomé (1995)
• Madame Raquin, Therese Raquin (1994)
• Hecuba, The Trojan Women (1994)
• Aemilia, The Comedy of Errors (1994)
• Company, Five Women Alone (1994)
• Miss Preen, The Man Who Came to Dinner (1993)
• Company, Anthem for Doomed Youth (1993)
• Elizabeth, Gaslight (1993)
• Lotte Schoen, Lettice and Lovage (1992)
• Pawnbroker/Doctor, Woyzeck (1992)
• Clairee, Steel Magnolias (1991)
• Washerwoman, Toad of Toad Hall (1990)
• Queenie, The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole (1990)
• Mrs Rockett/Mrs Wadhurst, Tonight at 8.30 (1990)
• Martha Brewster, Arsenic and Old Lace (1990)
• Miss Gulch/Wicked Witch of the West, The Wizard of Oz (1989)
• Mrs Tancred, Juno and the Paycock (1989)
• Hairdresser, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (1988)
• Maria Josefa, The House of Bernarda Alba (1988)
• Company, A Christmas Carol (1987)
• Nana, Peter Pan (1986)
• Violet, The Winslow Boy (1986)
• Crabby ‘B’/Granny Trill, Cider With Rosie (1986)
• Grace Lancaster, Something Unspoken (1985)
• Miss McKenzie, No More Sitting on the Old School Bench (1984)
• Company, The Wizard of Oz (1984)
• General Matilda B. Cartwright/Company, Guys and Dolls (1983)
• Phoebe, The Voysey Inheritance (1981)
• Old peasant woman/Gossip, The Suicide (1981)
• Bargewoman, Toad of Toad Hall (1981)
• Duchesse de la Tremouille, Saint Joan (1980)
• Company, The Wizard Who Worked Wonders (1979)
• Matron, The White Devil (1979)
• Miss Madrigal, The Chalk Garden (1978)

Notes

Anne started her acting career at the age of nine, playing Puck in A Midsummer Night’s Dream on the vicarage lawn in front of the Bishop of Hereford. She also performed at the Talisman Theatre, Kenilworth. For many years she ran the Loft’s coffee team with legendary efficiency, and was a familiar sight pedalling her bicycle along the roads around Leamington and Warwick.

Anne passed away on 12 February 2019, aged 87.

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