Books in the Oberon Modern Plays series

Barber Shop Chronicles is a generously funny, heart-warming and insightful new play set in five African cities, Johannesburg, Harare, Kampala, Lagos, Accra, and in London

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An edited and updated version of the script that ties in with the 2017 Broadway production.

The UK premiere of Dance Nation by Clare Barron and directed by Bijan Sheibani. A ferocious exploration of youth, ambition and self-discovery, Dance Nation is about an army of pre-teen competitive dancers plotting to take over the world one routine at a time.

A fantastic collection of plays, giving Shakespeare a new twist!

David conducts an office romance by e-mail. He has love at his fingertips. But a shocking admission unravels his relationship piece by chilling piece. Jess loves David. She believes happiness can be bought - but it doesn't come cheap i

A new play by Laura Wade adapted from the unfinished novel by Jane Austen. This sparklingly witty play looks under the bonnet and asks: what can characters do when their author abandons them?

A real-time picture of London's 2011 summer riots as they unfolded, told by the many voices affected by the riots.

Blood Wedding is set in a village community in Lorca's Andalusia, and tells the story of a couple drawn irresistibly together in the face of an arranged marriage. This edition includes a full commmenatry and notes.

A screenplay by Nick Dear, this text is an adaptation of Jane Austen's novel "Persuasion". It is the story of Anne Elliot who is engaged to a naval officer but is persuaded to abandon thoughts of marriage to him on the grounds of his dubious financial prospects.

Chekhov's first full-length play anticipates the explosive revolutionary atmosphere of Russia at the turn of the century. This edition has been translated to English by David Harrower.

In this translation from esteemed translator Ranjit Bolt, based on the original by Moliere. The play satirizes the hypocrisies of French aristocratic society, but it also engages a more serious tone when pointing out the flaws which all humans possess.

A play for younger people, DNA is a poignant and, sometimes, hilarious tale with a very dark heart. It opened at the National Theatre in February 2008.

An unexpected meeting at an airport leads to an intense, passionate, head-over-heels relationship. Before long they begin to settle down, buy a house, juggle careers, have kids - theirs is an ordinary family. But then their world starts to unravel and things take a disturbing turn.

Nicole Kidman makes her much anticipated return to the London stage in the role of Rosalind Franklin, the woman who discovered the secret to Life, in the UK premiere of Anna Ziegler's award-winning play.

Michael hasn't been back to Ireland in almost twenty years. Having been kicked out of the seminary and exiled from his family home, he found himself in London, by accident rather than design. But now, the death of his mother sees him back in the small town where he grew up. The place that chewed him up and spat him out.Reunited with his two brothers, their partners and the local clergy, there are questions that want answering and old scores that need laying to rest. Where do you find home, when your family and faith have abandoned you? An Irish funeral brings out the best and worst in people, and a long night of truths lies ahead.

This Songbook Edition contains the fully-transcribed piano and vocal arrangements for all fourteen songs from the show, so you can have a sherry and sing any of the glamorous roles: Prophetic Ghost! Prominent aesthete Lord Berners! Person from Didcot! etc.

A world premiere from Richard Bean, the award-winning writer of One Man, Two Guvnors, The Nap is a laugh out loud comedy thriller about love, honour and not getting snookered.

The acclaimed company behind the Olivier Award nominated production of La boheme present a radical reimagining of Verdi's La Traviata.

A contemporary retelling of a classic gothic story, inspired by Edgar Allan Poe's The Fall of the House of Usher, set against a background of cuts to our 70 year old NHS.

A new imaginative play for young people from award-winning writer Kieran Lynn, winner of the Alpine Fellowship Theatre Prize 2018.

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.

When Thomas reveals that he once fathered a son in a long-ago fling, the pair set off across the Irish countryside to seek the unknown child, with nothing more than a hobble and a limp to help them. A fable about tradition in a mad place, this title is a tale of the very old Thomas and his even more ancient 'da'.

And there is another planet, like ours. They can't see the sky, on that planet. Because their atmosphere is like a mirror. They look into the sky and see only themselves and the things they've made. So everything in their world can easily be understood. All they want is to be safe and comfortable. They fatten themselves on poison food. And when they look into the sky, they are struck dumb. By the greatness of their works.At the height of the Cold War, dissident writer Gavriil is detained in a Soviet mental prison as a punishment forprotesting against the government. His only escape is the prison library, a treasure store of banned literature available to the patients, but off-limits to the prison staff. His interrogator, Yurchak, offers to protect him from torture in exchange for sharing the forbidden stories. Their agreement will help them both find a kind of freedom, at the risk of their lives.Inspired by an incident in the life of writer, activist and neurophysiologist Vladimir Bukovsky, Silent Planet is a love story about our love of stories, a passionate and poetic fable about the power of literature in a world in which the wrong words can get you killed.

The acclaimed English Touring Theatre adaptation.

A fierce, fabulous, edgy musical comedy about the steady rise of the right wing in a small Welsh town.

Combining play text with experimental book design, the accident did not take place dissects the broadcast of a plane crash to explore the way we consume information, and the way information consumes us.

A new play about our prejudices and identity in the age of suicide bombings in Europe by award-winning Swedish playwright and novelist Jonas Hassen Khemiri.

Third Angel brings you a conspiracy theory documentary-exposedetective story for the 21st century that asks: What aren't youlooking at? #TheDepartmentOfDistractions