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The Editing Process
by Meredith Oakes
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."






Scenes from the Back of Beyond
(Oberon Modern Plays)
by Meredith Oakes
Paperback, 96 Pages, Published 2007 by Oberon Books
ISBN-13: 978-1-84002-708-2, ISBN: 1-84002-708-8

"... 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
(Oberon Classics)
by Lope De Vega, Meredith Oakes
Paperback, 96 Pages, Published 2014 by Oberon Books
ISBN-13: 978-1-78319-049-2, ISBN: 1-78319-049-3

"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 Meredith Oakes
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 Meredith Oakes, 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."






Heldenplatz
by Professor Thomas Bernhard, Meredith Oakes, Andrea Tierney
Paperback, 96 Pages, Published 2010 by Oberon Books
ISBN-13: 978-1-84002-995-6, ISBN: 1-84002-995-1

"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 ..."






Meredith Oakes
Collected Plays (The Neighbour, the Editing Process, Faith, Her Mother and Bartok, Shadowmouth, Glide, the Mind of the Meeting) (Oberon Modern Playwrights)
by Meredith Oakes
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 Meredith Oakes
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 Meredith Oakes
Paperback, 96 Pages, Published 2007 by Oberon Books
ISBN-13: 978-1-84002-679-5, ISBN: 1-84002-679-0






Dead At Last, At Last No More Air
by Werner Schwab, Meredith Oakes, Diana Damian Martin
Paperback, 96 Pages, Published 2016 by Oberon Books
ISBN-13: 978-1-78319-145-1, ISBN: 1-78319-145-7

"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, Meredith Oakes
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 ..."






Von Horvath(1st Edition)
Plays Two
by Odon Von Horvath, Meredith Oakes, Christopher Hampton, Merideth Oakes
Paperback, 168 Pages, Published 2001 by Oberon Books
ISBN-13: 978-1-84002-152-3, ISBN: 1-84002-152-7

"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 ..."






The Three Plays
(Lenz)
by Meredith Oakes, Jacob Lenz, Robert David Macdonald, Anthony Meech, Jakob Lenz
Paperback, 204 Pages, Published 1993 by Oberon Books
ISBN-13: 978-1-870259-33-0, ISBN: 1-870259-33-5

"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 Meredith Oakes, Meredith Oakes 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, Meredith Oakes
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."






Dramatised Bible CB
by Michael Perry, Holy Bible, Meredith Oakes
Hardcover, 1,344 Pages, Published 1997 by Marshall Pickering
ISBN-13: 978-0-551-01779-5, ISBN: 0-551-01779-1

"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."






Scenes from the Back of Beyond
by Meredith Oakes
96 Pages, Published 2016 by Oberon Books
ISBN-13: 978-1-78319-237-3, ISBN: 1-78319-237-2

"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 Meredith Oakes
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 Meredith Oakes
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 Meredith Oakes
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 ..."



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