Books in the Oberon Modern Plays series

An intense family drama, set in South London, about love, family and sordid secrets told through the eyes of four brothers.

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.

The stage play of the blockbuster film: an uproariously entertaining Eighties-set play in Sheffield.

Highly inventive and actable adaptation of Conan Doyle's most famous story.

"Witty, provocative and heartbreaking, the pieces in this first collection by Douglas Maxwell explore childhood trashed and innocence lost, reinvent and subvert the very idea of a play for young people. Contains the plays Decky Does A Bronco, Helmet, Mancub, The Mother Ship and Too Fast.

A thrilling and tragic play about an unsolved historical mystery, which asks whether a heroic Scottish General was smeared in a plot by the English establishment.

Dr Faustus is a highly popular text, this student edition uses the A text, widely excepted as the most authentic published edition. Fully revised by leading Renaissance scholar, Ros King, it contains a completely new Introduction containing the latest criticism and stage history and revised commentary and notes.

Surreal, dystopian comedy. This play won the 2011 Verity Bargate Award for new writing; impressing the judges with its amazing bravery, its stunning theatricality and its pure originality.

The first play by Dea Loher, one of Europe's foremost contemporary dramatists, is based on real events of the 1930s and 1940s focusing on the life of Olga Benario, a German-Brazilian communist militant.

A powerful coming-of-age story set in the heart of Liverpool in 1989. A funny and ultimately heartbreaking monologue.

The story of a man who preserves his youth while his portrait visibly deteriorates with time.