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Peter Oswald

PETER OSWALD  

 Nationality:    British
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Literary Agent:    United Agents  

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         Allbright         Augustine's Oak         Cinderella and the Coat of Skins         Don Carlos         Dona Rosita: the Spinster         Fair Ladies at a Game of Poem Cards         Golden Ass, The         House of Desires         Last Days of Don Juan, The         Lucifer Saved         Mary Stuart         Odyssey, The         Oedipus Tyrranos         Phaedra         Ramayana, The         Shakuntala         Storm, The         Turn of the Screw, I he         Valdorama         Weyland

Allbright

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1st Produced:
Turtle Key Fulham , London    1991

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Augustine's Oak

Augustine's Oak
the first play to be commissioned for the new Shakespeare's Globe theatre, Augustine's Oak is the story of St Augustine's mission in 597AD to reconcile the Christians of the Celtic Church with the authority of Rome.

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1st Produced:
Shakespeare's Globe, London    1999

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1st Published:
Oberon Books, London, Aug 1999   978-1840021288

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Cinderella and the Coat of Skins

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From Grimm

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Don Carlos

Synopsis:
Revival

Notes:
written with Hilary Collier. Friedrich Von Schiller Play

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Dona Rosita: the Spinster

Synopsis:
Revival

Notes:
Original Playwright - Federico Garcia Lorca

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Fair Ladies at a Game of Poem Cards

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Fr Chikamatsu

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National Theatre, London

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Golden Ass, The

Golden Ass, The
comedy written for the Shakespeare's Globe, telling the story of an insatiably curious young man who, wishing to turn himself into a wise owl, takes the wrong drug and finds himself transformed into an ass. His subsequent travels lead him to encounter the chaos of human desire from the perspective of a servile donkey. the most exquisite tale in this wonderful epic, as originally told by Lucius Apuleius, is the first known account of the marriage of Cupid and Psyche, which is perhaps the archetypal myth behind modern psychology.

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Original Playwright - Apuleius

1st Produced:
Shakespeares Globe, London    2002

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1st Published:
Oberon Books, London, Aug 2002   978-1840022858

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comedy

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House of Desires

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Version Of Juana Ines De La Cruz

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Last Days of Don Juan, The

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From Tirso De Molina

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Lucifer Saved

Lucifer Saved
the story's thrust follows Lord Brook's attempt to convince an amnesiac priest of his innate evil in order to escape his own past.

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Oberon Books, London   -

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Mary Stuart

Synopsis:
Schiller's play of 1800 pits Mary Queen of Scots against her rival Elizabeth of England. the meeting never happened but, as Goethe said, "It will be good to see those two whores alongside each other." Schiller's Mary redeems her youthful crimes through an ordeal that lifts her into realms of spiritual serenity, while Elizabeth descends deeper into rage, revenge and deception. Peter Oswald, himself a verse Dramatist, has written this new version in a mixture of prose and poetry.

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Original Playwright - Friedrich von Schiller

1st Produced:
Union SE1, London    2005

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Scary Little Girls

1st Published:
Samuel French, London, 2006   -

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Genre:
Adaptation

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Male:  12            Female:  3            Other:  doubling possible

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Odyssey, The

Odyssey, The
After ten years at war, Odysseus returns to Ithaka to find his palace in the hands of violent men. these mortal enemies are overcome but the ghosts of war are not so easily vanquished. Drawing on the Iliad and Odyssey of Homer, and loosely following the model of classical Greek Drama, Peter Oswald explores the personal journey behind the fantastic one, and asks what it means to be a hero.

Notes:
Verse Adaptation From Home

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Oberon Books, London, Oct 1999   978-1840021387

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Oedipus Tyrranos

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from Sophocles

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Phaedra

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Version Of Racine

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Ramayana, The

Synopsis:
Prince Rama is the hero of the great Sanskrit cycle of adventures named after him.

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From Indian Legend of Prince Rama

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Organisations:
B'ham Rep

1st Published:
Oberon Books, London, Aug 2002   978-1840022018

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Shakuntala

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Original Playwright - Kalidasa

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Storm, The

Storm, The
Descending from the heavenly sphere of the gods to the mortal world below, Arcturus raises a mighty storm. For Labrax, a procurer' of women, the storm brings shipwreck and ruin. For his two female captives it offers a chance of escape. Washed up on a rocky coastline the two women seek refuge in the shrine of Venus, but it seems that the goddess alone cannot protect them. they are forced to rely instead on the help of the elderly Daemones, who is already struggling to control his reluctant slaves: the impudent Sceparnio and the inept Gripus.

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Original Playwright - Plautus (the Rope)

1st Produced:
Globe, London    Jul 2005

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1st Published:
Oberon Books, London, Jul 2005   978-1840025859

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Turn of the Screw, I he

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Notes:
From Henry James

1st Produced:
House of Detention, London    1998

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Valdorama

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Weyland

Weyland
Weyland is an epic poem which tells the story of Weyland, in Norse myth a smith who is crippled and imprisoned by the mad King Nud. This version of the poem has been created by Peter Oswald, in a composition devised with the help of the renowned trumpeter Martin Holland.

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1st Produced:
Ways with Words Festival at Dartington Hall,Totnes    Jul 2008

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1st Published:
Oberon Books, London, Aug 2008   978-1840027679

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Genre:
poem

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