Bøger i Oberon Modern Plays serien

A daring and unapologetic examination of religion, pop culture and Black representation.

Heart-wrenching short story about a doctor who falls in love with a patient. This is a translation of the original play from Turgenev, by the brilliant writer and producer, Simon Paisley Day.

Millicent has been computerised. After a lifetime's work in the Obituary Department of the Morning Telegraph she has been made redundant. The firm, however, has allowed her to go out in style - she can write her last obit in her own hand with her own fountain pen. But whose last obit will it be? An obscure failure? A giant of history? A personal friend? An old lover?She plunders her memories, her fantasies and her long friendship with the daft and the dead before she makes her decision. Peter Tinniswood's black comedy won the Edinburgh Festival Fringe First Award in 1998.

A sunny September day. Heather Smithson, a senior MI5 controller, has a dilemma. Her job is on the line. She pauses in the sunshine to brood on recent events and what they mean in her life. Seattle, Genoa, New York: What is the battleground? Who is the enemy?Hyperlynx was performed as a one act rehearsed reading at the Edinburgh Festival in August 2001. Its grim premonition of the terrorist activity of September 11th, necessitated that John McGrath wrote a second act. He completed the play in November before his death in January 2002.Hyperlynx was the winner of the Fringe First Award, Edinburgh 2002

Danny owes some bad people money. If he doesn't come up with it by tonight, a lady called Cathy will be calling with a baseball bat. So, Danny, Amy and her Dad set off on a quest through Leeds to get him the dosh. With Cathy and a psycho called Cauldron in pursuit, will Danny get his happy ending or is he just the no-hope Scuffer other people see?

Set against a bleak and bizarre bit of suburbia, this is a darkly hilarious chronicle of two brothers' attempt at reconciliation in the face of family tragedy.

A story of three women and their love for one man.

A warm and serious family comedy from acclaimed playwright Richard Everett.

And The Rest Of Me Floats is an autobiographical show about the messy business of gender, highlighting experiences across the trans, non-binary, and queer communities.

Pip, a poor village boy, finds two chance meetings set his life on an unexpected course. At the water's edge, he has a terrifying encounter with an escaped convict. In the decaying grandeur of Miss Haversham's house, he falls hopelessly in love with the heartless Estella. When an anonymous benefactor helps him move to Calcutta, the heart of the British Raj, Pip pursues his great expectations and his dream of winning Estella's heart. Relocating Pip's extraordinary journey to nineteenth-century India, this coming-of-age story, evoking some of Dickens' most colourful characters, is faithful to the period of the book and the richness of Dickens' language - a vivid theatrical retelling of a universally loved masterpiece.

This is the tale of Jonah, Sophie, and a fox called Scruffilitis. It's a love story. A dysfunctional, voyeuristic and darkly funny love story, but a love story all the same.

Future Conditional tackles the nightmare of British schooling through a myriad of characters.

'The Dice House' unfolds in a commune run by maverick psychiatrist Dr Ratner where the patients are encouraged to surrender all their decisions to the roll of the dice. When Ratner's rival Dr Drabble hurls one of his own patients into the clinic to kidnap an inmate - his wife - a comic romp ensues.

In their mock Georgian house on an exclusive estate, Rob and Hattie are preparing Sunday lunch for friends and neighbours - but all is not going to plan. Their seemingly cosy world of comfort and safety is about to explode. When you've got everything you thought you wanted, how come you still want more?

A daring new play written specifically for the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse in response to Christopher Marlowe's Edward II, After Edward is Edward II as you've never seen him before: a chaotic world of pride and shame, with moments of elation, outrageous humour and heart-breaking tenderness.

Individual stories of first loves and old flames, alliances and abandonment, missed opportunities and new chances intertwine to paint a vivid picture of Eighties Britain

Acclaimed Danish playwright Line Morkeby shines a light on how we talk about death in I Run: a fast-paced, explosive and moving one-man play about running, grief and missing someone we love.

David Finnigan's daring new play Kill Climate Deniers asks: what would it take to stop climate change? Science? Recycling? Experts? Or maybe: techno, guns and revolution?

In PEN America award-winning The House in Scarsdale, playwright Dan O'Brien traces the roots of his estrangement from his family, uncovering deep-buried secrets and rumours along the way.

Life, Alice thinks, isn't worth living. So she kills herself. But she's stuck. A fly on the wall. Forced to watch the aftermath of her suicide and its ripple effect on her family and friends, Alice quickly learns that death changes people. And discovers that death isn't the change she hoped for.

With songs and searing honesty, Shuck 'n' Jive is the laugh-out-loud story of two friends trying to break out of racist typecasting and create a story for themselves.

The Girl who Fell is a poignant and darkly funny play about loss, guilt and Snapchat from the "provocative and entertaining" Sarah Rutherford

Inspired by real events and a lawsuit initiated by Stevens herself, Scrounger drives towards the realities of how Britain is failing its most vulnerable and the extreme cost paid by those seeking justice.

A reportage play. Valerie wants a job, Frank wants to run the marathon--Paul, Philip and Alan just want to hold on. This dramatic piece of reportage draws on interviews with murderers to create stark, uncompromising portraits of people rebuilding their lives.

Henry, now in the autumn of his years, is transported back to the key episodes of his life. At once ironic and affectionate, he speaks with his younger self both man and boy, offering warnings of a life to come and advice on how he might live it without the small self-delusions and regrets that leave him ultimately unfulfilled.Warm, funny and entertaining Hock and Soda Water is a nostalgic lament for a life never lived.

Two plays from two German playwrights. This collection, published by Oberon Books, is translated by David Tushingham and Meredith Oakes. Includes the plays The Man Who Never Yet Saw Woman's Nakedness and Warweser

A black political farce set is a seedy hotel in Central Europe by OEdoen von Horvath.

Duncan Macmillan takes on some of the most pressing issues of our time.

Funny and moving - an insight into 30's Hollywood and an epic of laughter.

OEdoen von Horvath's startling tale of displacement and isolation in the aftermath war, boldly adapted by Duncan Macmillan.