In 1942 Anne Frank, a young Jewish girl, was forced into hiding with seven others in a secret annexe in Amsterdam. Dreams of Anne Frank vividly brings her story to life in a poignant and highly charged drama. Using actors, movement and song Bernard Kops re-imagines and explores Anne Frank's hidden world, a world in which she lived, fell in love and dreamed of freedom.

Dreams of Anne Frank won the 1993 Time Out award for best children's production and has been performed around the world.

Commentary and notes by Bernard Kops

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.

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.

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

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...