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Aubrey Field, thirty-five, balding, and not exactly slim, daydreams of a rich future. I want my life to bear fruit, he cries, but home is with his mother above a sweetshop in Whitechapel. They are among the few survivors of what was once a large local community and they live, surrounded by strangers, in the house where Aubrey was born. Suffocating but resigned, Aubrey cannot leave Whitechapel, and he cannot leave his mother. It was useless, he was trapped. She would never let him go. Then fate, in the guise of Zena, the beautiful blonde daughter of a kosher butcher, intervenes. From the...

Three plays from the Jewish playwright Bernard Kops. Kops is one of the best known Jewish playwrights of his time. Also published by Oberon Books is Kops: Plays One and Kops: Plays Two

The Dreams of Anne Frank examines the inner life of the girl whose fate has affected the world. On Margate Sands is a humorous and poignant portrait of a group of dispossessed mental patients, who manage to survive the odds. Call in the Night examines the guilt of a world-class violinist, the only survivor of a family wiped out by the Holocaust.

Kops: Plays One Bernard Kops Few writers, even fewer dramatists, have managed to explore so fully our inexhaustible capacity for trying to escape that endless series of traps called Life. In Kops' world, the escape is never conclusive or finite or romantic, but always an escape from the inescapable, from one kind of a trap to another.