Books in the Oberon Modern Plays series

Following the acclaimed London premiere of the first two plays, now all four are collected together for the first time.

A new play by award-winning William Lyons inspired by Aristophanes' Clouds and Plato's Dialogues.

Radical new version of Chekhov's first play, set in modern-day Russia. This version is translated by Helena Kaut-Howson. This play is the untitled play from Chekhov known as Platonov.

A new play by Sir Arnold Wesker, one of the UK's best known living playwrights, whose plays have been produced in over 50 countries worldwide.

Winner of fourteen top South African awards, including Best New South African Play.

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.

German playwright Frank Wedekind has profoundly influenced modern drama, and became an inspiration to Brecht and Reinhardt among others. This is the first translation in English of his extraordinary play, of Franziska, a 'female Faust'. Translated by award-winning poet Eleanor Brown.

Inspired by the magazine problem pages they read growing up in the 90s and 00s, in Ask Me Anything, The Paper Birds become the agony aunts. Using the real letters sent to the company, this verbatim show explores what young people think, want and worry about today.

Reykjavik, 1972. All eyes are on Iceland ahead of 'the Match of the Century': Boris Spassky vs. Bobby Fischer.

Eve Leigh's new play explores what the internet means for those who are disabled - what does an online life feel like to those whose bodies are deemed out of the ordinary by the rest of society?

Four short plays by brand new writers each of whom has been mentored by an experienced playwright and supported by the Mono Box team.

It Never Happened (or State Terror in Eight Easy Stages) eavesdrops on eight different periods from the past: two soldiers reflect on the prospect of imminent death caused by their government's greed; a political fixer makes an awkward sex scandal go away; a young journalist discovers that integrity doesn't pay the mortgage; and a domestic assault turns into a witchcraft trial.

A new one-woman play from award winning playwright Matthew Bulgo collaborating with the multi-award winning The Other Room for the first time since their critically acclaimed production of Constellation Street.

Lands is a playful, intimate dissection of a relationship teetering on the edge of collapse by award-winning team Antler, exploring the impossibility of relationships, our inability to understand one another and the hills we're willing to die on.

Vira hasn't seen her sister Deesh for years. Deesh's kids, Amy and Bill, want to know why but nobody's telling them anything. Is it possible to forgive and forget? And when a family is built on lies, will it be destroyed by the truth?

One woman attempts to articulate her experience of physical pain.

The Believers Are But Brothers envelops its audience in the digital realm, weaving us into the webs of resentment, violence and power networks that are eating away at the structures of the twentieth century. This bold one-man show explores the smoke and mirrors world of online extremism, anonymity and hate speech.

Collective Rage is an outrageous comedy that packs the punch to shatter lacquered femininity into a thousand glittering pieces. Strongly influenced by cabaret and female drag, this exquisite rejection of shame and stereotype will punch you in the gut, break your heart and then take you dancing.

One girl's funny, frank account of losing her Mum to a cult.(As if growing up wasn't hard enough already...)

A haunting drama of self-revelation from the writer of Peter Pan. Darkly comic, and presented in a sumptuous production for the play's centenary year, Dear Brutus is J. M. Barrie at his most magical.

Inspired by the housing crisis and the reality of life on the North Cornish coast, Booby's Bay is a passionate, comic fable about the lengths one man will man go to have his voice heard.

The Claim gently invites you into the most British of interviews, then morphs into a dizzying onslaught of bureaucracy and prejudice. A bold, imaginative response to the stories of those seeking refuge in the UK, this play asks what happens when your life is at stake and all you have to save it are your words.

At a boy's boarding school in the late 1950s, a pupil accepts a challenge to seduce a younger student, setting in motion a dangerous game of manipulation and corruption.

A brand new piece of gig theatre by Ellen Brammar, with music by James Frewer, and in association with Middle Child.

On a stage that might be a painting or a page torn from a book, award-winning live art and experimental theatre group Sleepwalk Collective present Domestica: a woozy, deadpan, and extensively-annotated dismantling of high art and classical posturing that asks where exactly we might be going in this ever-louder, ever-accelerating new century.

A joyous and imaginative new play for families. An extraordinary Easter Holiday show for everyone who has ever wanted to be understood.

It's the future. But only slightly. There are blackouts. No one knows what's causing them, but that doesn't stop people going missing in them. Now Steph and Bell, a schoolgirl and barmaid, have to search for their missing friend, until the outside world starts infecting the theatre that stands around them.

Funny, provocative, and deeply moving, this new play by Judith Burnley explores the lives of refugees and what it means to be a 'citizen of nowhere'.

Love Song to Lavender Menace is a beautifully funny and moving exploration of the love and passion it takes to make something happen and the loss that is felt when you have to let it go.

Barrel Organ's new play about the long-lasting trauma of debt and eviction.