{"id":408,"date":"2016-08-18T16:23:18","date_gmt":"2016-08-18T16:23:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/britishjewishtheatre.org\/?page_id=408"},"modified":"2024-05-06T11:16:10","modified_gmt":"2024-05-06T11:16:10","slug":"bernard-kops","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/britishjewishtheatre.org\/?page_id=408","title":{"rendered":"Kops, Bernard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Bernard Kops was a dramatist, novelist, and poet born to immigrants of Dutch-Jewish origin in the East End of London in 1926. Most of Kops\u2019 relatives in Holland died during the Nazi regime, a traumatic experience which influenced Kops\u2019 work throughout his life. Kops\u2019 debut play <em>The Hamlet of Stepney Green<\/em> (1957) is generally viewed to have significantly shaped the landscape of so-called \u2018kitchen sink drama\u2019 in its depiction of individuals dissatisfied with modern society. Many of his later plays such as <em>Ezra<\/em> (1981) or <em>The Dreams of Anne Frank<\/em> (1992) explicitly dealt with Jewish topics and themes.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Kops was also successful in the fields of radio and television production. He recounted his experience of evacuation in the TV series <em>The World at War<\/em> (1973) and wrote the script for the film\u00a0<em>Just One Kid<\/em> (1974), which won a Silver Hugo award at the Chicago International Film Festival. Kops\u2019 television mini-series <em>It\u2019s a Lovely Day Tomorrow<\/em> (1976), which describes the story of the Bethnal Green Disaster of 1943, was nominated for an International Emmy Award for Drama Series.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Kops wrote a number of novels and volumes of poetry including <em>Awake for Mourning<\/em> (1958), <em>Dissent of Dominick Shapiro<\/em> (1966), and <em>Barricades in West Hampstead<\/em> (1988), as well as\u00a0travelogues for\u00a0<em>The Guardian<\/em>\u00a0and a memoir of the East End,\u00a0<em>Bernard Kops&#8217; East End\u00a0<\/em>(2006).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Kops was awarded a Civil List pension by the Queen in 2009.<\/p>\n<p>Bernard Kops died on the 25th February 2024, at the age of 97.<\/p>\n<p>Plays<\/p>\n<p class=\"western\" align=\"LEFT\"><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><i>&#8212;. Plays 1: Playing Sinatra, the Hamlet of Stepney Green, Ezra<\/i>. London: Oberon Books, 1999.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\" align=\"LEFT\"><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">&#8212;. <i>Plays 2: Dreams of Anne Frank, On Margate Sands, Call In the Night<\/i>. London: Oberon Books, 2000.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\" align=\"LEFT\"><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">&#8212;. <i>Shalom Bomb: Scenes From My Life<\/i>. London: Oberon Books, 2000.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"LEFT\"><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">&#8212;. <i>Plays 3: The Dream of Peter Mann, Enter Solly Gold, Who Shall I Be Tomorrow<\/i>. London: Oberon Books, 2001.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bernard Kops was a dramatist, novelist, and poet born to immigrants of Dutch-Jewish origin in the East End of London in 1926. Most of Kops\u2019 relatives in Holland died during the Nazi regime, a traumatic experience which influenced Kops\u2019 work throughout his life. 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