Oslo

By J.T. Rogers

Winner of the 2017 Tony Award for Best Play

 

Winner of the 2017 Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Play

 

Winner of the 2017 New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Play

 

“Oslo is a wonderful and moving work that portrays how real diplomacy works. The play shows us what can happen when men and women on opposite sides of what is perceived as an intractable divide strive to create a shared humanity.” – Ban Ki-moon, former Secretary-General of the United Nations

 

“A disarmingly funny masterpiece.” – Huffington Post

 

“So human and so funny. Oslo is gripping, compelling, and compulsively watchable. This is what we call drama, and it’s what we live for. So, go, already—live!” – Variety

 

“The stuff of crackling theater…Oslo is a vivid, thoughtful, and astonishingly lucid account of a byzantine chapter in international politics.” – New York Times

 

“Big-boned and gripping.” – New York Magazine

 

“A riveting political thriller.” –

• Language: English
• Publisher: Theatre Communications Group
• Release date: Apr 24, 2017
• ISBN: 9781559368766

J.T. Rogers

J. T. Rogers is the author of The Overwhelming, Madagascar, White People, Murmuring in a Dead Tongue, and other plays. His works have been produced in London by the National Theatre, Tricycle Theatre and Theatre 503; toured the UK with Out of Joint; and been heard on BBC Radio. In New York City his plays have been seen at the Roundabout Theatre, the SPF Play Festival and commercially Off Broadway; they have also been staged in Australia, Canada, Israel, Germany, and throughout the United States. His essays have appeared in The Independent, New Statesman, and American Theatre. In New York City, Rogers is a resident playwright at New Dramatists and a member of the Dramatists Guild. He holds an honorary doctorate from the University of North Carolina School of the Arts.

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Reviews for Oslo

[mickyfine · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

An audio production of the play, the stage version of which won the Tony award for Best play in 2017. It's 1993 and the Norwegian foreign ministry and one of the country's think tanks are the unlikely architects of secret peace talks between Israel and Palestine. The play recounts how a small group of individuals worked to create the Oslo Peace Accords. Filled with plenty of political intrigue, a healthy dose of humour, and beautiful moments exploring the humanity of all of the diplomats involved this is an excellent play and recommended.