Books in the Oberon Modern Plays series

A new stage adaptation of the much-loved novel, from one of Britain's foremost directors, Matthew Dunster.

A new dramatization of one of the angriest, funniest and most deeply felt stories about childhood ever written.

Sad Little Man is a stand-up tragedy set performed by the mind of a young man in shock.

A chance meeting between two children on the streets of Edinburgh leads to a terrible reckoning, leaving Jenny and Tommy forever bound together by blood and fate.

A reclusive children's writer becomes wildly successful. Her books are treasured across the country. But when a troubling narrative starts to unfold, we find ourselves asking: What matters more, the storyteller or the story?

Five years ago, Annie Siddons found herself living in suburbia by accident. This show is a hilarious and touching account about her attempts to fit in.

Questions the value of art and the power of storytelling. Ticket proceeds in aid of Street Child United.

For anyone who has suffered mental illness themselves, or has lived with someone who is afflicted, this piece will cut close to the bone. Triple Fringe First winner Andrew Buckland stars in Lara Foot's powerful and poignant drama about friendship, dysfunction, addiction and angels.

A real-life story of gender transition and the search for identity

Two actors, one couple, swapping roles. A savage new play exploring violence in relationships and our expectations of gender.

Harry is a play about friendship and fandom, exploring the impact on young people of a celebrity-obsessed, Twitter-fuelled culture. Thick Skin is about millennials, but don't let that put you off. They're just trying to become decent people.

How to Act explores the contemporary realities of personal, cultural and economic exploitation through two individuals drawn together in the theatre.

A captivating, lively and poignant portrait of the pressures of being a teenager and the fight for acceptance in these intertwined monologues about three working class sisters sent to a private school.

Locker Room Talk is a provocative piece of event theatre. Inspired by Donald Trump's leaked sexually aggressive comments, the show is a confronting exploration of the phenomenon the then presidential candidate later dismissed as `locker room banter'.

The Flying Lovers of Vitebsk traces a young couple as they navigate the Pogroms, the Russian Revolution, and each other.

Letters to Morrissey is the third in a trilogy of often darkly comic works drawing on the joys and struggles of growing up in working class Scotland.

Two policemen are called out to a remote asylum to investigate the escape of a missing patient. Set in the twilight world of 1950s pulp, this creepy satire twists and turns towards its shocking climax.

When Paul meets Marie outside the headmaster's office it's hardly love at first sight. More like "what you playing at you frigging psycho?" And when the two sixteen-year-olds find out Marie is pregnant, things get a little dicey. But hindsight is a wonderful thing, and as a grown up Paul waits to meet his children for the first time it's time for some serious thinking."I drink too much, my toilet looks like a bomb site and I eat crisps for breakfast. I'm not fit to be someone's father".

Sabbat is based on an original account of the events which led to an extraordinary witchcraft trial in England in 1612. This tense and atmospheric play explores this mystery and the strange relationship between the accused and her accuser.

A poignant comedy about a terminally ill man's desire to reach his 90th birthday, upon which he believes the Queen will pay him a visit on the eve of her Diamond Jubilee.

The Fall is a play collaboratively written by the original cast as a reaction to and reflection on the South African student protests in 2015 and part of 2016.

Award-winning writer Tanika Gupta has created a wonderful re-telling of Marina Lewycka's best-selling dark family comedy, which continues to have sharp relevance to today's society.

A dark, contemporary fairytale about a woman who rebels against a life she didn't choose, from one of France's most important new playwrights.