Stage Fright Nina Boyd Bernard Kops celebrated his 80th

Bernard Kops celebrated his 80th birthday with a new BBC Radio 4 play and the launch of Bernard Kops’ East End last year

and in many respects his masterpiece

He teaches English and Creative Writing at the University of Winchester

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A haunting story told in exquisite prose

Stage Fright Nina Boyd Bernard Kops celebrated his 80thWho is lurking beneath the stage? What emerges from the shadows, when the audience has gone home? Naughty schoolboys, Dan and Jas are about to find out, when they stumble into a rundown theatre and get talking to the old man at the Box Office These spine tingling short stories are all set in the same south London Victorian theatre but at different points in its history: first in its Victorian heyday, then during World War II and lastly in the 1970s