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  • Meredith Oakes: Collected Plays (The Neighbour, the Editing Process, Faith, Her Mother and Bartok, Shadowmouth, Glide, the Mind of the Meeting)

    by Meredith Oakes ...
    Series series Oberon Modern Playwrights
    Includes the plays The Neighbour, The Editing, Faith, Her Mother and Bartok, Shadowmouth, Glide and The Mind of the MeetingTwo highly regarded early plays, The Neighbour and The Editing Process (here presented in a revised version) present a study in contrasts: the first a battle of wills between two young men on a housing estate; the second an urbane but despairing comedy set in a publisher's ... Read more

    $23.89 USD

  • The Editing Process

    by Meredith Oakes ...
    Series series Oberon Modern Plays
    Set in the offices of a magazine publishers, Meredith Oakes' comedy of fragile values in the media will not restore your faith in human nature, but it is guaranteed to help you get on in publishing without really succeeding. First performed at the Royal Court Theatre, directed by Stephen Daldry. ... Read more

    $15.39 USD

  • Scenes from the Back of Beyond

    by Meredith Oakes ...
    Series series Oberon Modern Plays
    Bill is sustained by his deep sense of a wider culture and an improving world. The only thing the human race needs to do is learn. When he meets a person who embodies this idea, he naturally likes them. Especially if his wife doesn't.Set at the end of the 1950s, Scenes from the Back of Beyond, explores the comfort, hopes and fragility of family life in a new Sydney suburb.Scenes from the Back of ... Read more

    $12.79 USD

  • Mr Modernsky

    How Stravinsky Survived Schoenberg

    by Meredith Oakes ...
    Series series Oberon Masters Series
    Mr Modernsky tells a story about two heavyweights of twentieth-century classical music: Igor Stravinsky and Arnold Schoenberg.It traces the gradual change there has been in the way these two great rivals are perceived, looks in their music for the reasons and reflects on the nature of modernity in art and the sometimes pernicious effects of ideology. Meredith Oakes explores the tension between ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • Shadowmouth

    by Meredith Oakes ...
    Series series Oberon Modern Plays
    'Daylight people scare me...The confident ring of their footsteps...Their desire for everyone to be up and in harness...Day is always fresh and new...Exhausting...'A fifteen-year-old runaway is taken in by an older man. Both live at night: the man on his balcony, watching from afar, while the boy is drawn deeper into the city's underworld.Inspired by the photography of Nan Goldin, Shadowmouth is ... Read more

    $12.79 USD

  • Dead At Last, At Last No More Air

    by Werner Schwab ...
    Translated by Meredith Oakes ...
    Series series Oberon Modern Plays
    Foreword by Diana Damian MartinWerner Schwab’s final work, also known as a theatre-extinction comedy, is a brutal, irreverent and bizarrely comical piece about what happens when an emerging stage production is sabotaged by outsiders. Following a dispute with the cast, the director replaces all the actors with pensioners from a nearby home for the elderly. At first compliant and polite, the ... Read more

    $15.39 USD

  • Punishment without Revenge

    by Lope De Vega ...
    Translated by Meredith Oakes ...
    Series series Oberon Classics
    Punishment without Revenge is a dark and thrilling drama, an audacious blend of unbearable tension and delicious comedy, which both terrifies and delights. Regarded as the greatest tragedy of the Spanish Golden Age and the finest play of its presiding genius, Lope de Vega, this elegant work is set in the dangerous and glamorous world of Renaissance Italy. The Duke of Ferrara has lived a wild and ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Faith

    by Meredith Oakes ...
    Series series Oberon Modern Plays
    A vision of military conflict as a testing-ground for English values. Nightmarish contradictions face a group of soldiers in an isolated farmhouse on the edge of battle.Premiered at the Royal Court Theatre in 1997.Cast size: 6 ... Read more

    $12.79 USD

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