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. Includes: The Hamlet of Stepney Green; Ezra; Playing Sinatra.