Books in the Oberon Modern Plays series

Cities are full of stories - it's amazing what you hear if you stop and listen. Drawing on her decade of singing on the tube, Danusia Samal's Busking It is a journey through the tunnels of the London Underground. A fun, moving and vibrant piece of gig-theatre giving voice to the passers-by, blending chance encounters with original live music.

A new play examining the dynamics of a gay interracial relationship and how sometimes it takes a disaster in order to make sense of the present, written by award-winning American playwright Charles Gershman.

It's the future; just like now, but a bit more... well, shitey. Jim and Agnes have worked hard their whole lives and now Agnes needs a life-saving operation. With the NHS as we know it a thing of the past, they must take matters into their own hands in this darkly comic tale showing the lengths people go to for life and love.

Penelope Skinner's new play is a haunting vision of ruthless state control, tense friendships and one woman's determination not to be broken.

A darkly comic new play about masculinity in crisis from award-winning Penelope Skinner.

From the team who brought you The Diary of a Hounslow Girl. Writer Ambreen Razia returns with her second play, POT, exploring the landscape of Britain's invisible children, adrift in the care system and inadvertently impacted by gang culture.

A coming of age story inspired by Dizzee Rascal's seminal album. In this semi-autobiographical piece, step into a technicolour world where music, dance and spoken word collide, and discover how grime allowed Debris Stevenson to redefine herself.

Inspired by the true story of Ann Lovett, a 15-year-old girl who died giving birth beside a grotto in Granard in Co Longford in 1984, Mary and Me is an acclaimed new play written & performed by Irene Kelleher.

Desperately hilarious and achingly bleak, this is an intricate and tender question mark around our attempts to encounter each other in a technologized world.

Tartuffe, or The Impostor (pronounced: [taRtuf]; French: Tartuffe, ou l'Imposteur), first performed in 1664, is one of the most famous theatrical comedies by Moliere, and the characters of Tartuffe, Valere, and Dorine are considered among the greatest classical theatre roles. This is a translation for the stage by Ranjit Bolt.

A Story of Friendship, Migration and Karaoke.

In summer 1988, young BBC World Service reporter Christopher Gunness found himself at the centre of Myanmar's `Students' Revolution. His main source was lawyer U Nay Min, the chief architect of the Revolution. At the anniversary of the uprising decades later, a difficult and painful encounter, fraught with guilt and recrimination, takes place.

A big, bawdy tangle of theatrical joy and heartbreak, Wise Children is a celebration of show business, family, forgiveness and hope, adapted by Emma Rice from the novel by Angela Carter.

Inside Bitch questions what is lost when we try to tell a story.

In 1970s Scotland, an adopted mixed race woman sets out to find her birth parents. Red Dust Road takes you on a journey full of heart, humour and deep emotions.

Acclaimed Chilean playwright Guillermo Calderon explores what it takes to trigger social change

A biting new topical comedy about the perils of a capitalist world - payday loans, debt & bureaucracy

Barrel Organ's new play about the long-lasting trauma of debt and eviction.

Love Song to Lavender Menace is a beautifully funny and moving exploration of the love and passion it takes to make something happen and the loss that is felt when you have to let it go.

It's the future. But only slightly. There are blackouts. No one knows what's causing them, but that doesn't stop people going missing in them. Now Steph and Bell, a schoolgirl and barmaid, have to search for their missing friend, until the outside world starts infecting the theatre that stands around them.

On a stage that might be a painting or a page torn from a book, award-winning live art and experimental theatre group Sleepwalk Collective present Domestica: a woozy, deadpan, and extensively-annotated dismantling of high art and classical posturing that asks where exactly we might be going in this ever-louder, ever-accelerating new century.

At a boy's boarding school in the late 1950s, a pupil accepts a challenge to seduce a younger student, setting in motion a dangerous game of manipulation and corruption.

The Claim gently invites you into the most British of interviews, then morphs into a dizzying onslaught of bureaucracy and prejudice. A bold, imaginative response to the stories of those seeking refuge in the UK, this play asks what happens when your life is at stake and all you have to save it are your words.