Penny Black
Translations
BAAL by Bertolt Brecht for Elysium Theatre, 2023
SPORTS PLAY by Elfriede Jelinek, Just-a-Must Theatre, UK tour plus Cultural Olympics Pop-Up Production, 2012. Published by Oberon
VENEZUELA by Guy Helminger Arcola Theatre, 2002. (Time Out Critic’s Choice, ***** in The Guardian). Published by Oberon Books. Studied as part of the MPhil in Playwriting Studies at Birmingham University
SLADEK/ASEXUAL CONGRESS by Odon von Horvath for readings at the National Theatre, 2001 & 2003, published by Oberon Books
BISMARCK by Frank Wedekind, for Nottingham European Arts Festival neat14
SLAUGHTERING THE PIG by Peter Turrini (White Bear Theatre Club, Time Out Critic’s Choice) 1995
HAWKING’S DREAM by Erwin Riess (Mammoth Theatre Company, Teatro Technis); 2000 – published by Oberon Books
YOU SHALL GIVE ME GRANDSONS by Thomas Jonigk (Contact Theatre, Manchester and Aurora Theatre, Los Angeles); 1996 published by Goethe-Institut in their theaterbibliothek series
610 BEDFORD DRIVE (Attic Theatre, Melbourne 1997) by Michaele Ronzoni; SHOES (Royal Court, London 1997) by Michaele Ronzoni
THE RECKLESS ARE DYING OUT by Peter Handke (606 Theatre Company, Lyric Hammersmith, Time Out Critic’s Choice) 1998
KING KONG’S DAUGHTERS by Theresia Walser (Royal Court New Writers Season 1999)
MALARIA by Simone Schneider (Royal Court New Writers Season 1997) published by Nick Hern Books as German Plays 2.
YES, MY FUEHRER by Brigitte Schwaiger (Edinburgh 1996) the actress shortlisted for The Stage Award for Acting Excellence and Etcetera Theatre London 1998 (Time Out Critic’s Choice).
THE GALITZIAN JEWESS by Brigitte Schwaiger, Etcetera Theatre London 1998) (Time Out Critic’s Choice).
VICTOR’S LIFE by Sybille Berg for PLATFORM, an EU-funded project in conjunction with the Gate Theatre and Arcola Theatre, 2003.
STARSTONE by Christian Martin for the National Theatre’s International Connections seasons 2002, published by Faber and Faber
DEATH MESSAGE by Azar Mortazavi for Company of Angels, 2012. Published as part of the Goethe-Institut theaterbibliothek series
HARVEST by Claudia Grehn for Maria Aberg, 2013. Published as part of the Goethe-Institut theaterbibliothek series 2013.
CALL ME GOSPODIN by Philipp Loehle, 2014. Published as part of the Goethe-Institut theaterbibliothek series 2014.
WHAT THE RHINOCEROS SAW WHEN IT LOOKED OVER THE FENCE by Jens Raschke for Theatre Café Amsterdam, 2015.
THE BIRTHING INTERROGATION by Ursula Werdenberger, for 2017 KURIS Festival, supported by the Goethe-Institut
I ONLY EXIST IN A REFLEXION by Jelinek/Bachmann at the HEAR ME ROAR Festival, May 2017 in Lancaster
MINETTE by Thomas Bernhard for the Royal Lyceum Theatre 2014, published for Oberon Books