Stephen Wood, who has died aged 73 after a stroke, was a press officer, administrator and former stage manager who worked closely with Alan Ayckbourn at Scarborough. He was at the National Theatre press office, of which he eventually became head, from 1982 to 1996, returning to Scarborough to become, until his retirement in 2016, executive director of the Stephen Joseph theatre in the reconstructed Odeon cinema.Criti…
