Books in the Oberon Modern Plays series

A new play written and directed by Ursula Rani Sarma, that premiered at Granary Theatre.

Explores the consequences which occur when an initially utopian world becomes a new form of prison.

Celebrating the seventieth anniversary of Coming up for Air and the sixtieth anniversary of 1984.

A fascinating new stage adaptation from an award winning writer.

What happens when a teenage boy invades your weekend and refuses to go away? Kevin, a divorced school teacher visits the Cornish coast expecting to spend some time with his son. But at the same hotel Lego, a troubled 14 year-old, is determined to compete for Kevin's attention. Dino Mahoney draws his audience into the teacher's dilemma with humour and a lightness of touch that skilfully illuminates the play's deeper, disturbing concerns.

They were all in the pub when the explosion happened. Louise wakes up to find herself trapped with Mark, who has saved her life. Mark is always prepared for the worst and has everything he thinks they will need to survive. Now all they need to do is to wait until it's safe to go outside. Can they survive the attack? Can they survive each other?

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?

Performance artist Travis Alabanza presents BURGERZ, an exploration of how the trans body is received, examined and dissected in public.

Mouthpiece takes a frank and unflinching look at the different Edinburghs which often exist in ignorance of one another, and examines whether it's possible to tell someone else's story without exploiting them along the way.

"[A] lively provocative play. . . . This is the work of a writer with a future."-Guardian

British playwright Meredith Oakes and Austrian translator Andrea Tierney translate here Austrian playwright Thomas Bernhard's controversial play Heldenplatz. In Heldenplatz, Bernhard's final play, he explores the shared isolation of people who have lost their bearings, along with most of their illusions.

This stage revival has been brilliantly adapted by the prolific and award-winning playwright Richard Bean.

Lovesong is the newest play from acclaimed playwright Abi Morgan.

Carrie Willow and her brother Nick are evacuees transported to the safety of the countryside in the 1940s. There they stay with Mr Evans; Auntie Lou, and Albert Sandwich and Mr Johnny, who speaks his own language, and Hepzibah, the witch at Druid's Grove who makes perfect mince pies. And then there's the ancient skull with its terrifying curse.

A new children's play from the brilliant playwright Dennis Kelly, a Tony Award-winner for Matilda the Musical.

Becca & Louise live together in what turns out to be an illegally sub-let council flat in North London. This housing crisis gets personal...

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.

Three generations of women. For each, the chaos of what has come before brings with it a painful legacy. "I have Stayed. I have Stayed - I have Stayed for as long as I possibly can."

"Shakespeare's dexterous comedy of two twin masters and two twin servants continually mistaken for one another is both farce and more than farce. The Comedy of Errors examines the interplay between personal and commercial relationships, and the breakdown of social order that follows the disruption of identity" --

Condemned as a "libel on the British people" when it was first produced in 1951, "Absolute Hell" is set in a decaying West End drinking club at the end of the Second World War. The 1995 production at the Royal National Theatre starred Judi Dench and was directed by Anthony Page.