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.
He was writer-in-residence at Shakespeare's Globe theatre, London, for whom he wrote three new plays. He is currently Playwright-in-Residence at the Finborough Theatre, London.
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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.
