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Books in the Oberon Modern Plays series

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  • by Frank Wedekind
    £11.49 - 14.49

    Wedekind's play about adolescent sexuality is as disturbing today as when it was first produced

  • by Erich Kastner
    £12.49

    A new Christmas show adapted from the classic German children's novel, first published in the UK in 1931.

  • by Barney (Author) Norris
    £12.49

    Eventide tells the story of three people whose worlds are disappearing. John is a landlord forced to sell up; Liz is a church organist who can't get a gig; Mark takes what work he can just to pay the rent.

  • by Avaes (Author) Mohammad
    £14.49

    Two plays, companion pieces, portraying two different realities of a British White male and a British Asian male.

  • by Steve Gilroy
    £14.49

    This powerful and moving drama shares the stories of women whose everyday lives have been touched by the recent conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan. Winner of The Stage's Best Ensemble at the 2008 Edinburgh Festival.

  • by Tadeusz Slobodzianek
    £12.49

    Written by one of Poland's leading playwrights, Tadeusz Slobodzianek. Based on a tragic, historic event that happened in the town of Jedwabne , Poland in 1941, Our Class chronicles the lives of ten classmates from their childhood in the 1920s to the beginning of the new millennium. Translated by Ryan Craig

  • by Tanika (Author) Gupta
    £14.49

    Good for youth theatre. "Dynamo of a play-an exuberant tragedy."--Kate Kellaway, The Observer

  • by Richard Bean
    £14.49

    A riotous journey through four waves of immigration from the seventeenth century to today.

  • by Simon McBurney (Theatre Complicite)
    £12.49

    Winner of the 2008 Olivier Award for Best New Play.

  • by Sam Ward
    £12.49

    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.

  • by Pam Gems
    £14.49

    Pam Gems' tribute to Marlene Dietrich.

  • by Douglas Maxwell
    £14.49

    Decky Does a Bronco is the tragi-comic story of a gang of nine-year-old boys who spend the summer of 1983 'Broncoing swings' in Girvan, on the west coast of Scotland. Broncoing (kicking the swing over the bar) is the social bench mark and a dangerous mixture of vandalism and sport.Decky is the smallest of the group and the only one who cannot Bronco. His friend David remembers the event of that summer, which at first seem hilarious but ultimately remain painful, as the boys are faced with an unthinkable tragedy and are thrown into a restless adulthood.

  • by Roland (Author) Schimmelpfennig
    £12.49

    Arabian Nights, translated by David Tushingham is a story of intertwining lives, neighbours, lovers and friends. A story of strangers, setting out on different paths, some find peace and others tragedy.

  • by Rahila Gupta
    £11.49

    Don't Wake Me: The Ballad Of Nihal Armstrong is the unforgettable true story of a mother and her disabled son; a dramatic and poetic testimony of one woman's tireless battles in the struggle for her son's rights.

  • by Wolfram Lotz
    £13.49

    Critically acclaimed dark comedy The Ridiculous Darkness, by award-winning German playwright Wolfram Lotz, is a surreal, hilarious and powerful response to Heart of Darkness and Apocalypse Now that invites us to rethink colonial narratives, confront our ideas of each other and question what we imagine is in the darkness.

  • by David (Author) Rudkin
    £13.49

    The harvest is ripe in a Black Country pear orchard. Seasoned hands settle to familiar tasks and the ritual education of newcomers. But corrupted lands yield a bitter crop. The weather turns, friction mounts, and pesticide begins to fall.

  • by Morna Young
    £12.49

    A poetic tale of grief and resilience set in the Scottish fishing community.

  • - The Ice Cream Boys; Being Brahms; A Life Twice Given; Killing Faith
    by Gail Louw
    £17.49

    A third collection of plays by South African writer, Gail Louw. Includes the plays The Ice Cream Boys, Being Brahms, A Life Twice Given, and Killing Faith.

  • - Three Performance Texts by Third Angel
    by Third Angel .
    £17.49

    There's A Room brings together three works by Third Angel: Where From Here, Presumption and What I Heard About the World.

  • by Abhishek (Author) Majumdar
    £10.49

    Based on real stories during the 2008 Lhasa riots, Pah-la is an examination of the future of non-violence.

  • by Simon (Author) Bent
    £12.49

    Meet Elling and Kjell Bjarne, the Odd Couple of the dysfunctional world. Given a flat in the centre of Oslo by social services, their mission is to re-assimilate themselves back into society. It's that or return to the asylum. All they have to do is convince their social worker, Frank, that they really are 'normal'.

  • by Sergio (Author) Blanco
    £10.49

    The Rage of Narcissus is the latest collaboration between Sergio Blanco and Daniel Goldman (Thebes Land) - a fascinating and disturbing journey into the writer's psyche and the depths of obsession.

  • by Zawe Ashton
    £10.49

    Zawe Ashton's awaited playwriting debut for all the women who thought they were Mad is an urgent piece of theatre examining the myriad of forces that collide and conspire against women of colour in Britain today.

  • by Maria (Author) Ferguson
    £10.49

    Maria Ferguson explores what it's like to be an Essex Girl through the eyes of a sixteen-year-old girl growing up in '00s Brentwood.

  • by Luke (Author) Barnes
    £12.49

    A humorous and heartfelt look into the lives of the youth of one northern new town, where the weight of identity, place, and masculinity threaten everything they've ever known.

  • by Adrian (Theatre Company) Jackson
    £10.49

    True stories (and wild speculations) about the lives and deaths of homeless people, uncovered by the UK's leading homelessness theatre company.

  • by Third Angel .
    £10.49

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

  • by Stephen Adly Guirgis
    £13.49

    Love and addiction in New York City.

  • by ThisEgg
    £12.49

    A true story about the aftermath of sexual assault, dressed. celebrates the power clothes have to define us, to liberate us, to hide us and to embellish us.

  • by Oliver (Author) Emanuel
    £11.49

    Set in the Canadian wilds, The Monstrous Heart is a play about motherhood, the cycle of trauma, and how you can never really leave your past behind.

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