 His other screenplays for Richard Lester were "The Bed Sitting Room" (1969), from the Spike Milligan play, and "Cuba" (1969).Inspired by stories by Yuri Krotkov, Wood wrote for Lester a script about the catastrophes suffered by a Russian actor who bears an uncanny resemblance to Stalin, but when financing fell through it was performed as "Red Star" by the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1984.Wood first worked with the director Richard Eyre when he directed the stage play "Jingo" (1975).