Bernard Kops
Bernard Kops is a British Dramatist, born in the East End of London in 1926.
His first play, The Hamlet of Stepney Green, was produced at the Oxford Playhouse in 1957. It is considered to be one of the keystones of the "New Wave" in British Kitchen Sink Drama.
Subsequent plays include Enter Solly Gold (1962), Ezra (1981, about Ezra Pound), Playing Sinatra (1991) and The Dreams of Ann Frank (1992, about Ann Frank). He has also written extensively for radio and television.
He has published volumes of poetry, autobiography, and a memoir of the East End, Bernard Kops' East End (2006).
Selected Bibliography
Kops, Bernard -
- Plays One (Playing Sinatra, The Hamlet of Stepney Green, Ezra) (Oberon Books, 1999)
- Plays Two (Dreams of Anne Frank, Cafe Zeitgeist, Call in the Night) (Oberon Books, 2000)
- Plays Three (The Dream of Peter Mann, Enter Solly Gold, Who Shall I Be Tomorrow?) (Oberon Books, 2001)
- Shalom Bomb: The Autobiography of Bernard Kops (Oberon Books, 2000)
- Bernard Kops East End (Five Leaves Publications, 2006)
See Also
Cultural depictions of Anne Frank
Links
- List of Bernard Kops theatre plays [1]
- Bernard Kops at Internet Movie Database [2]
- List of Bernard Kops radio plays [3]
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