Peter Oswald
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Peter Oswald is a well-known English playwright. He is married to the poet Alice Oswald, with whom he has three children. They live in Devon, South of England.
For some years he has been writer-in-residence at Shakespeare's Globe theatre, London, UK, for which he had written three new plays.
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[edit] Plays - an overview
- The Storm (after the comedy Rudens (The Rope) by Plautus) - First Produced 2005 Shakespeares Globe, London, UK
- Maria Stuart (Synopsis: The events leading up to the trial and execution of Mary Queen of Scots in 1587, after a play by Friedrich von Schiller) - First Produced 2005 Union SE1, London, UK
- The Golden Ass (after the comedy Metamorphoses by Lucius Apuleius) - First Produced 2002 Shakespeares Globe, London, UK
- The Ramayana (after an Indian legend of Prince Rama) - First Produced 2000 Birmingham Rep, Birmingham, UK
- Augustine's Oak (ref. to St. Augustine of Canterbury and the christianization of Roman Britain) - First Produced 1999 Shakespeare's Globe, London, UK
- The Odyssey (verse adaptation after Homer)- First Produced 1999 Gate Theatre, Notting Hill, London, UK
- The Haunted House (after a play by Plautus)
- Oedipus Tyrranos (after the tragedy by Sophocles) - First Produced 1998 Battersea Arts Centre (BAC), London, UK
- The Turn of the Screw (after Henry James) - First Produced 1998 House of Detention, London, UK
- Shakuntala (after a play by Kalidasa) - First Produced 1997 Gate Theatre, Notting Hill, London, UK
- House of Desires (after a version of Juana Inés De La Cruz) - First Produced 1997 BAC 2, London, UK
- Dona Rosita: The Spinster (after a play by Federico García Lorca) - First Produced 1997 Almeida, UK
- Fair Ladies at a Game of Poem Cards A drama in verses after an eighteenth century Japanese puppet play by the Kabuki playwright Chikamatsu Monzaemon - First Produced 1996 Cottesloe auditorium of the Royal National Theatre, London, UK
- Cinderella and the Coat of Skins - First Produced 1995 BAC Main, London, UK
- The Last Days of Don Juan - First Produced 1995 BAC 1, London, UK
- Don Carlos (written with Hilary Collier after a play by Friedrich von Schiller) - First Produced 1992 Lyric Studio Theatre, Hammersmith, London, UK
- Valdorama - First Produced 1992 Latchmere, London, UK
- Allbright First Produced 1991 Turtle Key Fulham , London, UK
- The Swansong of Ivanhoe Westeway First Produced at the Edinburgh Festival and the Brain Club, London, UK
[edit] Books
- Peter Oswald; The Golden Ass or the Curious Man. Comedy in three parts after the novel Metamorphoses by Lucius Apuleius. Oberon Books: London, GB. 2002. ISBN 1-84002-285-X.
- Peter Oswald; Earth Has Not Any Thing to Shew More Fair: A Bicentennial Celebration of Wordsworth's Sonnet Composed upon Westminster Bridge (co-editor with Alice Oswald and Robert Woof) Shakespeare's Globe & The Wordsworth Trust, 2002 ISBN 1-870787-84-6
- Peter Oswald; Fair Ladies at a Game of Poem Cards. A drama in verses after an eighteenth century Japanese puppet play by the Kabuki playwright Chikamatsu Monzaemon. Methuen Drama, London, GB. 1996 (USA: Heinemann, Portsmouth, New Hampshire). ISBN 0-413-71510-8.
