Current Theatre
Lucifer Saved (The Lion and the Unicorn Theatre, Camden)
The World at Your Feet (Barbican Theatre, Theatre Royal, and the community)
Short Shrifts (The Tobacco Factory)
Previous Theatre
Short Shrifts 2011
Soho Theatre
English Theatre Berlin
The Gododdin 2011
Verse Play
Ruskin Mills Trust, Glasshouse Theatre
I Have Spoken 2010
Theatre Forum Kreutzburg, Berlin
The Temple 2009
Ruskin Mills Trust, Glasshouse Theatre
Catherine 2009
Site specific musical drama
Lewinsky Centre, Plymouth
Mary Stuart
Dir Phyllida Lloyd
Donmar Wharehouse 2005,
Apollo Theatre 2005-6
Amherst Theatre, NYC 2009
Many others, including in Japanese and Swedish translations
The Storm 2005
Adaptation Plautus’ ‘Rudens’
Globe Theatre
Blighty 2004
Original play
Barbican Theatre Plymouth
White Crane to Litang
Oringinal play
Barn Theatre Dartington 2003
Dorchester Arts Centre 2004
Ash 2002
Original play
Civic Hall Totnes
Barn Theatre Dartington
The Shy Man 2003
Adaptation of Tirso de Molina
RADA
The Golden Ass 2002
Based on Apuleius
Globe Theatre
Ramayana
Based on the Hindu epic
Birmingham Rep 2000
National Theatre 2001
Augustine’s Oak 1999
Original play
Globe Theatre
Odysseus 1999
Gate Theatre and tour
The Prisoner’s Easter 1998
Original play
HMP Channings Wood
Phaedra 1998
Translation of Racine’s ‘Phedre’
Battersea Arts Centre 1998
Shakuntala 1997
Adaptation of Sanskrit play
Gate Theatre
Dona Rosita 1997
Adpatation of play by Lorca
Almeida
Fair Ladies at a Game of Poem Cards 1996
National Theatre
Barka Theatre, Budapest
Court Theatre Chicago
Royal Theatre, Copenhagen
The House of Desires 1996
Adaptation of a play by Sor Juana Inez de La Cruz
Battersea Arts Centre
Don Juan 1995
Adaptation of play by Tirso de Molina
Battersea Arts Centre
Oedipus Tyrannos 1995
Adaptation of play by Sophocles
Bridge End Theatre, Battersea
Don Carlos 1992
Adaptation of play by Schiller
Lyric Studio Hammersmith
Valdorama 1992
Original play
Latchmere Theatre, Battersea
Allbright 1991
Turtle Key Arts Centre, Fulham
The Swansong of Ivanhoe Wasteway
Monologue
Edinburgh Fringe 1987 and 1989
Brain Club, Soho, 1990
Peter Oswald was a founding member of Columbina Theatre Company, based in Devon; he has been Writer in Residence at Dartington Hall, Devon, and Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre, London. He was a Writer in Residence at the Finborough Theatre, London.
Plays published:
By Oberon Books: Augustine’s Oak, The Golden Ass, Odysseus, Ramayana, Mary Stuart, The Storm.
By Methuen: Fair Ladies at a Game of Poem Cards.
By Oxford University Press: Don Carlos and Mary Stuart.
Poetry
Peter has done poetry performances in venues including: The Rose Theatre, Southwark, 2004, South West Storytelling Festival, 2004, Crown Hill Fort, Plymouth, 2004, Globe Theatre 2005, The Barrel House, Totnes, 2006, Truckles Wine Bar, Bloomsbury, Blue Stage, Devon, 2007, York Minster (Jorvik Festival) 2010, Folger Theatre Washington with Simon Armitage, 2015, Hay Festival, 2016, Royal Drawing School (ongoing)
Poems Published:
Dyad (with Sean Borodale) – Isinglass Press 2003
Weyland, with Oberon Books, 2008
Village, joint pamphlet with Alice Oswald, 2009
Performance, joint pamphlet with Alice Oswald 2011
A Reply to the Light, published by Bright Pen Books, 2012
Sonnets of Various Sizes, with Shearsman, 2016
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