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Books in the Oberon Modern Playwrights series

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  • by Richard (Author) Bean
    £21.49

    The new collection from Richard Bean, one of Britain's leading playwrights and the author of One Man, Two Guvnors.

  • - A Trilogy
    by George (Author) Whyte
    £18.49

    Great for fans of Jewish and historical dramas. Includes an epilogue by the author, "My Burning Protest" after Emile Zola. The Dreyfus affair was a political scandal that divided France from its inception in 1894 until its resolution in 1906. It was a series of events that brought into the spotlight a host of political, social and moral issues.

  • by Edoardo Erba
    £15.49

    An inspiring play from Eduardo Erba and translated into English by celebrated playwright and translator Colin Teeven.

  • by Meredith (Author) Oakes
    £23.99

    Contains all seven plays previously published by Oberon individually. Also contains a revised version of The Editing Process.

  • - The Dybbuk / Dead Woman on Holiday / Theresa
    by Julia (Author) Pascal
    £25.99

    Theresa draws from secret research into the Nazi occupation of Channel Island, and the collaboration of local residents, with terrifying results. A Dead Woman on Holiday is an unlikely love story set during the Nuremberg trials. The Dybbuki, in homage to Anski's Russian classic, traces the last moments of five irreligious Jews.

  • - I Saw Myself; The Dying of Today; Found in the Ground; The Road, The House, The Road
    by Howard (Author) Barker
    £22.99

    Howard Barker is one of the most significant and controversial dramatists of his time. This book features his plays.

  • - A Queer Trilogy
    by Ben (Author) Webb
    £12.99

    This collection of short plays tells the story of a love affair from three different angles.

  • by Aleksander Pushkin
    £22.99

    Prize winning adaptations of four seminal Russian plays collected together for the first time. A collection of plays from Richard Crane, these four plays flourished out of a unique collaboration of author and director, which saw them progressing from fringe to mainstream, West End and Off-Broadway.

  • by Company of Angels
    £15.49

    A collection of compelling new plays for young audiences, by London theatre group Company of Angels.

  • by Arnold Wesker
    £21.49

    A collection of Wesker's most famous social plays. A book which will be of interest to general readers and theatre-goers.

  • by Henrik Ibsen
    £19.49

    A triology of plays from the famous playwright Henrik Ibsen. This is collection of three of Ibsen's most famous plays and is translated by David Rudkin. Includes the plays Peer Gynt, Rosmersholm, When We Dead Waken

  • - A Voyage Round My Father; Collaborators; The Dock Brief; Lunch Hour; What Shall We Tell Caroline?
    by Sir John Mortimer
    £23.99

    Includes: "A Voyage Around My Father," one of Mortimer's greatest theatrical successes and a celebration of the Shakespeare-quoting, eccentric, brave, and impossible barrister the author had as a father. Also includes: "The Collaborators, The Dock Brief, Lunch Hour, "and "What Shall We Tell Caroline?"

  • - 11 Josephine House; the Death of a Black Man; Lonely Cowboy
    by Alfred Fagon
    £21.49

    "11 Josephine House" is set in Bristol in the 1970s, and pushed froward by religion, drink, love and hate. "Death of a Blackman" unfolds like a dream, created a reality in which the only thing to be sure of is the need to make it in a white man's world. "Lonely Cowboy" is play about searching for identity in Brixton in the eighties.

  • by Ivan Turgenev
    £23.99

    "Turgenev (1818-1883) tends to be seen in Chekhov's shadow, yet his plays pre-date Chekhov's work by nearly half a century. A Month in the Country is Turgenev's acknowledged masterpiece. This selection not only reveals the extent of Turgenev's achievement as a dramatist, but sheds an interesting light on the great novels that followed.

  • by Yael (Author) Farber
    £18.49

    Three unique testimonial plays from South Africa by a hugely influential and highly acclaimed young playwright.

  • - Four Plays by John Retallack
    by John Retallack
    £19.49

    Presents four plays exploring issues with particular relevance to young audiences. This work deals with issues such as friendship, sexuality, migration and identity. It is a fusion of dance, theatre and music.

  •  
    £25.99

    A distinctive new volume of six plays by Britain's best black writers.

  • - Trafford Tanzi; The Dramatic Attitudes of Miss Fanny Kemble; The Seduction of Anne Boley
    by Claire (Author) Luckham
    £23.99

    Luckham's plays are both gritty and comic, often historical and/or musical.

  • - An Anthology
    by Boguslaw (Author) Schaeffer
    £21.49

    A collection of avant garde instrumental performance pieces by Poland's greatest polymath. Formally innovative, these plays defy categorisation, conventions and the expected, and instead challenge and perplex the reader. Contains Scenario for a Non-Existing, but Possible Instrumental Actor, Quartet for Four Actors, and Scenario for Three Actors.

  • - Four One-Act Plays
    by David (Author) Pinner
    £14.99

    A collection of one-act plays by one of British Theatre's most distinctive voices, these short plays parade David Pinner's enthrallment with the political, the farcical, the sexual and, above all, the miserable. Contains the plays Cartoon, An Evening with the G.L.C., Shakebag, and Succubus.

  • - Get Up And Tie Your Fingers; Safe; Devil's Ground
    by Ann Coburn
    £23.99

    Three dramas, ranging from historical to domestic.

  • by Katarina Gericke & Moritz Rinke
    £20.49

    Two plays from two German playwrights. This collection, published by Oberon Books, is translated by David Tushingham and Meredith Oakes. Includes the plays The Man Who Never Yet Saw Woman's Nakedness and Warweser

  • - The Forest; Artistes & Admirers; Wolves & Sheep; Sin & Sorrow; The Power of Darkness
    by Alexander Ostrovsky
    £23.99

    A native Muscovite, Ostrovsky became Russia's most prolific painter of Mercantile Society and the common people, writing over fifty plays, mostly comedies. Includes: "The Forest, Artistes and Admirers, Wolves and Sheep, Sin and Sorrow, "and "The Power Darkness."

  • by Bernard Kops
    £23.99

    Three plays from the Jewish playwright Bernard Kops. Kops is one of the best known Jewish playwrights of his time. Also published by Oberon Books is Kops: Plays One and Kops: Plays Two

  • by Gregory (Author) Motton
    £22.99

    Three stage plays and one play for BBC Radio from a unique and comic playwright.

  • by Howard (Author) Barker
    £23.99

    Includes the plays The Castle, Gertrude - The Cry, Animals in Paradise and 13 Objects.

  • - Inventing Anton Chekhov
    by Michael (Author) Pennington
    £22.99

    Includes accounts of the writer's work on Dostoevsky's "Crime and Punishment", Tolstoy's "Strider" and other Russian projects, as well as essays on how Anton Chekhov's four masterpieces actually work in the theatre. This book is a study of the great writer, a partial autobiography, and, an actor's search for identification with the Anton.

  • by Carlo Goldoni & Goldoni
    £19.49

    This collection of plays by Italian playwright Carlo Goldoni includes the plays Mirandolina and The Housekeeper. Both are comedies about women surviving in a man's world. All plays here are translated by Scottish playwright Robert David MacDonald and were produced at Glasgow's Citizens Theatre.

  • - Piaf; Camille; Queen Christina
    by Pam Gems
    £22.99

    Three plays from author of Stanley and Marlene.

  • by Reza de Wet
    £23.99

    Three plays in the first of the collections from one of South Africa's finest playwrights. Translated by Steven Stead.

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