On the Frontier

On the Frontier: A Melodrama in Three Acts, by W. H. Auden and Christopher Isherwood, was the third and last play in the Auden–Isherwood collaboration, first published in 1938.

The play tells the story of the outbreak of war between the fictional European countries of Ostnia and Westland.

Other scenes take place in the office of the Westland dictator.

The play ends in a visionary scene between the two lovers who have never met in real life.

The incidental music for the play was composed by Benjamin Britten.