Books in the Oberon Modern Plays series

A comedy assumptions and appearances.

Award-winning playwright Roland Schimmelpfennig is one of the most exciting voices in European drama. This is a translation by David Tushingham.

Sophocles' age-old existential questions are asked again, and are found to be as relevant as ever. In a translation from playwright, tv presenter and journalist Keith Dewhurst. The play was written during the Peloponnesian War. It was first performed at the Festival of Dionysus in 409 BC, where it won first prize.

In May 1875 Lord Primrose Agar, wagered one of his tenant farmers, Orlando Harrison, that his new border collie pup Jip would outlive the 94 year old Harrison. The prize would be the 82-acre Kilham Wold Farm. Thirteen years later, having buried his dog, Agar shook hands with Orlando and conferred on the Harrisons a century of struggle...

It's 1899 and the world crackles with possibilities. Swinging above them all is a showbiz sensation; a fierce, vulgar, pant-droppingly sexy trapeze artist called Fevvers. This story charts her unlikely love affair with Walser, a world-weary journalist on a mission to expose her as a fake.

In his Aberdeen flat, a young man stakes everything on a one-night stand. But does she give a fuck? This is a play about life in the Granite City, a world where work is meaningless and emasculating, where drink an drugs are the only painkillers, and where cheap sex can cost you everything.

Growing up in the shadow of the brilliant barrister, who adored his garden and hated visitors, and whose blindness was never mentioned, the son continually yearns for his father's love and respect. This autobiographical play is the portrait of a son's relationship with his father.

Based on the fables of "Kalila wa Dimna", one of the masterpieces of Eastern culture. Locating Ibn Al-Muqaffa's work in its original historical context, this drama, part history, part political fable, explores the creation of these tales amidst the tragedy that unfolds around the author himself.

In this new thriller of a play from Irish playwright Colin Teevan, a journalist and some British soldiers set off across Iraq on a mercy mission to absolve themselves from the guilt of past misdemenours.

An ancient Greek tragedy from Athenian playwright Euripides. This is a new translation from Colin Teevan. The tragedy is based on the mythological story of King Pentheus of Thebes and his mother Agaue, and their punishment by the god Dionysus (who is Pentheus' cousin) because he refuses to worship him.

A hilarious Spanish Golden Age play, adapted for the Royal Shakespeare Company by British translator Catherine Boyle

A collection of works by one of Germany's leading contemporary playwrights. This title features three plays such as: "The Park is Strauss'", "Seven Doors", and "Time and the Room".

Juan Mayorga's work has been produced in Spain and around Europe as well as the USA.

Features poetic tales of modern masculinity inspired by the Greek myth.

Mrs Patrick Campbell is England's most celebrated and notorious actress. An acclaimed beauty, loved by many, she is remembered for her wit, for bad behaviour, and her close friendship with George Bernard Shaw. This play is about the art and craft of acting and the turmoil of being a woman who was meant to please but couldn't resist using her mind.

Beane is an exile from life - an oddball. His well-meaning sister Joan and brother-in-law Harry try and make time for him in their busy lives, but no one can get through. Following a burglary on his apartment, Joan is baffled to find her brother blissfully happy and tries to unravel the story behind Beane's mysterious new love Molly.

What happens when a 78 year old woman, who was an escapee from the Warsaw Ghetto, visits Venice Ghetto and meets a group of actors performing "The Merchant of Venice?" This play within a play is the starting point for an exploration of "The Merchant of Venice."

A play of wit, romance, misunderstandings and the mysteries of communication.

An enchanting, zany abdaptation of one of Philip Pullmans fictional tales. For young readers and performers.

A critically acclaimed stage adaptation of the short story A Report to an Academy by Franz Kafka.

Confronts the ethics of HIV/AIDS drug trials in Africa. Performed at Theatre Royal Stafford East.

A stage adaptation of the classic novel, the ultimate romantic comedy about five sisters and their pursuit of suitable husbands.