Books in the Oberon Modern Plays series

Jamaica: a sensual paradise where the sun, sea and sand are free but anything more comes at a price.Welcome to the 21st century where women travel across the world in search of sex, love, and liberation but the reality is that hard cash equals hard men. Toned torsos and slick sweet talk meets orange peel beneath the coconut trees in an exchange that leaves everyone short-changed.Sugar Mummies is a funny, provocative and revealing study of the pleasures and pitfulls of female sex tourism.It was a huge success at the Royal Court Theatre in August 2006, and proceeded to tour throughout the UK.

Somebody hit Tracy on the head with a brick. And something just as bad has happened to Julia. But how can you hang on to your identity when you don't know who you are anymore? Head/Case is a powerful drama about identity and a mind damaged almost beyond repair.How do you define yourself when you literally don't know who you are anymore? How do you begin to heal when you cannot fix your sense of self? And how much does nationality, culture and memory shape who you actually are?Produced at the Soho Theatre in January 2005.

'We are not beggars. I am not here for you to cast your pity at me like breadcrumbs tossed to a cripple. Because I know you're listening to me; and my voice won't be silent, not yet.'Tejas Verdes ('Green Gables'), once a sea-side resort, was an infamous Chilean torture and detention centre during the early years following the Pinochet coup in 1973. Fermin Cabal's humane and powerful play traces the life of a young woman who vanished one night in Santiago. Beneath the tolling of the church bells, her voice and the voices of those who share her story ring out with poetic beauty and overwhelming love.

Inspired by Intimate Death by Marie de Hennezel.Can the dying teach us how to live? Inspired by the experiences of psychologist and palliative careworker Marie de Hennezel, we are asked to accompany people towards death. Characters explain to the audience the nature and progress of their disease and share final thoughts and deeds. A beautifully simple piece. On Death is part of a groundbreaking series of 'theatre essays', which use drama as a way of exploring the fundamental preoccupations of modern life. Other works include On Love and On Ego.

A moving and powerful play about the joy and the heartbreak that motherhood brings to three very different mothers. Ali was always going to be a dancer. She was still dancing the day she gave birth. Careful Kitty, housewife and mother, sits in her silent home and waits for the daughter who doesn't return. And Milena, desperate to protect her children and carrying a terrible secret.

Friendships grow in the most unlikely of places. Mrs Reynolds is a little old lady. Jay is a troubled youth. When he vandalises her lovingly tended garden, the authorities send him back to help her fix it. It seems a recipe for disaster - but human beings are more complex than the headlines.At first glance this is a simple tale of two generations locked in battle, Mrs Reynolds standing up for traditional values with her "e;nice little house, nice little garden and nice little life"e; vs. Jay, the textbook chain-smoking hoodie prowling the urban jungle demanding respect but offering little in return. But there is more to these characters than the other suspects. Just as they think they have the measure of each other, something is revealed and they are shocked by what they find out.Mrs Reynolds and the Ruffian explores human nature and friendship alongside the social climate of modern Britain giving a warm, funny and wise glimpse into the way we live now.

On the eve of his release from Feltham Young Offenders Institution, Zahid Mubarek, a young British Asian man, was attacked by his racist cellmate. One week later he died of his injuries.How was this allowed to happen? This new play traces the Mubarek family's pursuit of the truth. Based on evidence given to the Zahid Mubarek Inquiry and interviews taken, one of Britain's leading writers examines the incompetence of the official response to Zahid Mubarek's death.

Winner Evening Standard Most Promising Playwright.Shortlisted for Susan Smith Blackburn Award.Autumn, and the orchard is full of cider apples: Beauty of Bath, Kingston Black and Glory of the West. Inside the farmhouse, the rule of the matriach Irene is challenged when her estranged daughter returns and her middle-aged son, beginning to tire of being tied to the unprofitable farm, grows restless.A richly evocative tale about life in our changing rural landscape.

'None of this is the truth. It's just people saying things. It's all subjective. There's the truth, and there's what people think is the truth, and it all depends on how you slant it...'Taking Care of Baby tackles the complex case of Donna McAuliffe, a young mother convicted of the murder of her two infant children. In a series of probing interviews the people in this extraordinary story, including Donna herself and her bewildered mother Lynn, reveal how they may have harmed those they sought to protect.Dennis Kelly's ambitious play uses the popular techniques of drama-documentary and verbatim theatre to explore how truth is compromised by today's information culture.

Philip Osment's final play, Can I Help You? is a magical realist examination of the role race and gender have to play in mental health and suicide.

In Sylvan Oswald's brand-new play Trainers, two queer radicals meet in the fallout of a future Second American Civil War. But can their desire survive the revolution?

A new live literature experience by award-winning poet Nick Makoha, retelling his childhood escape from the Ugandan civil war.

Mother and Father are in the bedroom, preparing for parents' evening. This rare opportunity to check in triggers a volatile, passionate and surprising confrontation. A painfully witty, perceptive exploration of the landlines of parenting in modern marriage.

A humorous and moving response to the elders who leave the next generation uncertain of what is expected of them, Yomi Sode's hit show COAT tackles immigration, identity and displacement.

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.

Sixteen short satires attacking the decadence of Rome - hilarious monologues performed by Simon Callow.

An uncompromising political drama, traveling backwards through time.

A monologue for younger actors seeking new writing from an up-and-coming playwright.

One of the greatest tales from the American West - on stage for the first time. Set in the Wild West, a classic story of good versus evil.

Velocity is a wildly theatrical, irreverently funny, horrifying European premiere from multi-award-winning Canadian playwright Daniel Macdonald.

Albion examines the turbulent rise of the new far right in modern-day Britain. When they embrace diversity, just how far can the far right go?

The Body of an American speaks to a moment in recent history when a single, stark photograph - of the body of an American dragged from the wreck of a Blackhawk through the streets of Mogadishu - reshaped the course of global events.

A new play by the multi-award winning Australian dramatist Lachlan Philpott, one of the most acclaimed queer playwrights.

The story of four middle-age mothers on a night away from their kids, as they get together to watch the 2008 US election. A new play on race and political correctness by Sarah Rutherford premiering at the Park Theatre.

A gloriously theatrical story of the birth and decline of the American Dream, told through the relationship of an immortal Dutch couple. From one of the USA's leading experimental theatre companies.

A thrilling black comedy set in an off-motorway restaurant, from one of the UK's most exciting young writers.

Morgan Lloyd Malcolm's explosive new play delves into one woman's quest for identity and a place she can call home.

A young couple in a war-torn country are stranded on opposite sides of a newly-militarised border, in a sinister yet absurdly funny satire.

A powerful and disturbing verbatim play, based on the testimonies of people within Syria at the heart of the uprising, which provides a troubling account of life under Assad's oppressive regime. The stories were gathered by British journalists who travelled into Syria covertly.