Books in the Oberon Modern Plays series

A gruelling and haunting play which follows a couple's halting, humorous and devastating attempt at the impossible - to say goodbye after a lifetime together.

Two years after its disastrous opening in 1896, "The Seagull" was successfully revived at the Moscow Art Theatre. Checkhov's self-mocking description of the play was: "A comedy - 3F, 6M, four acts, rural scenery (a view over a lake); much talk of literature, little action, five bushels of love".

2013 Critics Award Scotland Best Technical Presentation WINNER 2013 Critics Award Scotland Best Children and Young People's Show NOMINEE A life-affirming tale about a 15-year-old who believes he has the power to turn invisible. However his powers start to desert him when his life suffers a tragic twist of fate.

A new version of Euripides's great antiwar play.

A contemporary adaptation of a classic German play, a comic satire on militarization and the 'cult of the uniform'.

Full of sharp humour, this play follows a character who is forced to confront the painful secrets of the past.

A surreal and wildly original story about connection - to our families, our memories, our moment in time, by one of the USA's leading playwrights.

Inspired by the birth of rave culture in the 1990s and its subsequent demonization, Beats uses immersive storytelling to explore contemporary society.

" A new play chronicling life in modern India, fusing verbatim testimony with Islamic folktale tradition to create a highly individual piece of contemporary drama. A story of conflict, family and football. "

A gloriously theatrical story of the birth and decline of the American Dream, told through the relationship of an immortal Dutch couple. From one of the USA's leading experimental theatre companies.

A bittersweet comedy on family life and lupus by up-and-coming playwright/director Melanie Spencer.

A stunning series of interlocking stories about the moments when life offers you a choice between heroism and compromise, and what happens after you choose, from Fringe First winning playwright and theatre-maker Chris Thorpe.

A witty and acerbic comedy exploring the trials of middle-class family life.

An electrifying dark morality tale by multi-award winning playwright and screenwriter Dennis Kelly.

Doonreagan explores the doomed relationship between Ted and Assia during their brief but intense spell in Connemara: an ultimate test of conjugality and family life, at which neither of them had excelled so far. A new play by Ann Henning Jocelyn.

Ghosts is published to coincide with the Gate Theatre's production of Amelia Bullmore's new translation of Ibsen's classic.

A year on from the hugely successful Wah! Wah! Girls, writer Tanika Gupta returns with a hilarious and touching story of love, attachment and what we mean by home.