The Editing Process by MeredithOakes Paperback, 74 Pages, Published 1998 by Oberon Books ISBN-13: 978-1-870259-46-0, ISBN: 1-870259-46-7
"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."
"... Associate Director International Eh/se Dodgson Associate Director Ramin Gray
Associate Director Casting Lisa Makin Associate Director (50th) Emily
McLaughlin + Associate Directors* James Macdonald, Max Stafford-Clark,
Richard Wilson ... Associate Tamsin Treverton Jones* Press Assistant Steve
Pidcock Press Intern Amanda Dekker Marketing Consultant Kym Bartlett*
Advertising and Marketing Agency aka Marketing Assistant Gemma Frayn ..."
"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 unconventional life. An infamous womanizer ..."
Mr Modernsky How Stravinsky Survived Schoenberg by MeredithOakes Hardcover, 96 Pages, Published 2011 by Oberon Books ISBN-13: 978-1-84943-048-7, ISBN: 1-84943-048-9
"Of interest to music lovers, students, academics, practitioners and theatre buffs."
Faith (Oberon Books) by MeredithOakes, Royal Court Theatre Paperback, 72 Pages, Published 1999 by Oberon Books ISBN-13: 978-1-870259-80-4, ISBN: 1-870259-80-7
"Play about a group of soldiers fighting for a small island, but not sure in their own minds, why they fight."
"Thomas Bernhard is widely considered to be one of the most important German playwrights in the post-war era. Highly acclaimed, he has written over twenty plays and novels and gained a reputation as one of Austria's most controversial authors. He wrote Heldenplatz in 1988 as a response to the fiftieth anniversary of the Anschluss (annexation) of Austria by Hitler's Germany. Highly controversial in Austria, the play concerns a Jewish prof ..."
MeredithOakes Collected Plays (The Neighbour, the Editing Process, Faith, Her Mother and Bartok, Shadowmouth, Glide, the Mind of the Meeting) (Oberon Modern Playwrights) by MeredithOakes Paperback, 320 Pages, Published 2010 by Oberon Books ISBN-13: 978-1-84002-966-6, ISBN: 1-84002-966-8
"Contains all seven plays previously published by Oberon individually. Also contains a revised version of "The Editing Process.""
Oberon Bks. The Neighbor by MeredithOakes Paperback, 64 Pages, Published 1998 by Oberon Books ISBN-13: 978-1-870259-31-6, ISBN: 1-870259-31-9
"The community takes sides like spectators cheering from a grandstand as the conflict escalates into tragedy. With unnerving precision, Meredith Oakes explores this terrifying darkness in the heart of the community."
Shadowmouth by MeredithOakes Paperback, 96 Pages, Published 2007 by Oberon Books ISBN-13: 978-1-84002-679-5, ISBN: 1-84002-679-0
"Foreword by Diana Damian Martin Werner 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 'forgotten and dispossessed' gradually start t ..."
Holy Mothers (Oberon Book) by Werner Schwab, MeredithOakes Paperback, 48 Pages, Published 2000 by Oberon Books ISBN-13: 978-1-84002-113-4, ISBN: 1-84002-113-6
"... Stafford-Clark* Lisa Makin Julia Horan Graham Whybrow Stephen Jeffreys*
Rebecca Prichard+ Mary Peate Nathalie Bintener Edwyn ... Rayne Ruth Rogers
James L Tanner Finance Director Finance Officer Finance Officer Finance &
Admii RE-DEVELOPMENT Project ... Glen Bowman Clare Christou Valli
Dakshinamurthi Sophie Dart FRONT OF HOUSE Acting Theatre Manager Acting
Deputy Theatre ..."
"MARTIN: Go to it. (Silence) BETZ: Martin, you know how highly I think of you,
despite the fact that you're sometimes disagreeably bad-tempered - I think you're
overlooking something very important in your assessment of the political situation
worldwide, namely the role of love-life in nature. I've recently been coming to
grips, I should tell you, with the works of Professor Freud. You shouldn't forget
that all around the Ego are gr ..."
"Introduction by Nicholas Dromgoole. Published to coincide with performances at the Edinburgh International Festival. Three forward-looking plays that question the abuse of privilege, attitudes to women and the values of the theatre by Goethe’s protegé, Jacob Lenz.“Lenz emerges…as a superb beady-eyed observer of garrison values” Guardian"
Iphigenia (Oberon Modern Plays) by MeredithOakes, MeredithOakes Goethe Paperback, 96 Pages, Published 2012 by Oberon Books ISBN-13: 978-1-84943-164-4, ISBN: 1-84943-164-7
"The Greek fleet bound for Troy is becalmed. For the sake of a wind, Agamemnon, leader of the Greek forces, is persuaded that he must sacrifice his daughter Iphigenia. But as the priest raises his knife to slit the child's throat, the goddess Diana spirits her away. Clytemnestra, Agamemnon's wife, believing her beloved daughter to be dead, slays her husband in revenge on hisreturn from the Trojan wars. Their son, Orestes, avenges his fat ..."
The Tempest Libretto (Libretto) (Faber Edition) by Thomas Adès, Thomas Adã¨S, MeredithOakes Paperback, 4 Pages, Published 2006 by Alfred Music ISBN-13: 978-0-571-52337-5, ISBN: 0-571-52337-4
"The Libretto of the Opera by Thomas Ades, adapted from the Shakespeare comedy by Meredith Oakes. The Opera was first performed at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden in February 2004."
"The Dramatised Bible is one of the most exciting innovations in worship in recent years. The culmination of many years work by the editor and compiler, Michael Perry, the book offers Churches, schools, and Christian groups the opportunity of presenting the extraordinary drama of the Bible text in new and colourful way."
"Martin Turner Theatre includes: Rabbit (Trafalgar Studios); Gaddafi (ENO);A
Midsummer Night's Dream (RSC with City of London Sinfonia/RSC with
Orchestra Age Enlightenment); Promises Promises (Sheffield Crucible); Silk
Stockings (Lost ..."
Shadowmouth by MeredithOakes 64 Pages, Published 2016 by Oberon Books ISBN-13: 978-1-78319-236-6, ISBN: 1-78319-236-4
"... with the following company: MAN, Tony Guilfoyle MOTHER, Joanne Howarth
BOY, Ryan O'Donnell PAUL, Eddie Kay DAISY, Imogen Knight Director, Dominic
Leclerc Designer, Liz Cooke Lighting Designer, Mark Jonathan Sound Designer,
..."
Faith by MeredithOakes 88 Pages, Published 2015 by Oberon Books ISBN-13: 978-1-78319-238-0, ISBN: 1-78319-238-0
"Timberlake Wertenbaker Nicholas Wright Alan Yentob Advisory Council Diana
Bliss Tina Brown Allan Davis Elyse Dodgson Robert Fox Jocelyn Herbert Michael
Hoffman Hanif Kureishi Jane Rayne Ruth Rogers James L. Tanner * =part-time #
=Arts Coucil of England/Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation/'Esmeè Fairbairn
Charitable Trust + =Arts Council Resident Dramatist ? -Chairman, Development
Board **=This theatre has the support of the Harold Hyam ..."
Iphigenia by MeredithOakes 75 Pages, Published 2012 by Oberon Books ISBN-13: 978-1-84943-514-7, ISBN: 1-84943-514-6
"Meredith Oakes, Goethe ... with the following cast: IPHIGENIA Laura Rees
THOAS Christopher Hunter ORESTES Tom Mothersdale PYLADES Adam
Jackson-Smith ARKAS David Fielder Director, Laurence Boswell Designer, Ti
Green Lighting Designer, Ben Ormerod Sound Designer, Fergus O'Hare
Composer, Mick Sands ..."