Books in the Oberon Modern Playwrights series

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."

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

Three dramas, ranging from historical to domestic.

Three plays about America's troubled relationship with God. In "Suffering the Witch", a young woman returns to the small town she ran away from, "Mother Caldwell" tells the story of a candidate for governor whose campaign is undermined by an acquaintance of her gay son. "The Last Days" finds America's most famous atheist holed up on an island.

"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.

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

Contains five plays by the British-born Jewish playwright and author, Wolf Mankowitz.

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

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

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

Two never-before-published early plays by one of the most influential British playwrights of the last century.

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.

The fifth anthology from Howard Barker, one of the most significant and controversial dramatists of our time.

Ideal for students preparing an audition piece, as well as being perfect reading for all fans the movie icons.

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

Features two plays by a leading South African playwright. In "A Worm in the Bud", Katy stays in England while her sister travels to South Africa, leading to obsession and madness for both of them. "Concealment" concerns a doctor and his two daughters: one a spinster, the other a widow with secrets about the events surrounding her husband's death.

The extraordinary career and impressive literary output of the 'Father' of Polish comedy, Aleksander Fredro, was the subject of much celebration in Poland in 1993, the bicentenary of his birth. These new translations by Noel Clark of three of Fredro's best known plays should do much to repair the relative ignorance of his works in this country. Virgins' Vows- generally regarded as Fredro's most accomplished comedy - and The Annuity, both reflect the author's awareness of the disadvantages suffered by young women in a male-dominated society. Revenge is a seemingly innocent social comedy about a property dispute, but the Russian censors of his day were not slow to spot the subversive potential of the play.Noel Clark's translations of Revenge and Virgins' Vow's have been broadcast, to much acclaim, by the BBC World Service.

Two brand new plays from two acclaimed contemporary writers.

Two tragedies from Friedrich Schiller telling the stories of two separate strong women, Mary Stuart and Joan of Arc, sent to their deaths.

A collection of Wesker's plays including "The Four Seasons", "Love Letters on Blue Paper", and "Lady Othello". A collection of Wesker's Love Plays. Spanning three decades of impassioned and inspiring work, the three plays in this volume show in cross-section Arnold Wesker's development as one of the key figures of late-twentieth-century drama.

Four new short plays inspired by the 800th anniversary of the Magna Carta by internationally renowned playwrights Howard Brenton, Anders Lustgarten, Timberlake Wertenbaker and Sally Woodcock.

Equations for a Moving Body is a story about our bodies in a world that transports our minds places bodies can't follow. It's a story about the physiology of endurance - when our brains tell our bodies to stop - and the psychology of carrying on.

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.

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

Three short plays parodying some of the greats of the European dramatic and literary canon: Chekhov, Wagner, Wordsworth, Eliot, Strindberg, Milne and Goethe.

Using only Charles Dickens' extraordinary words, Neil Bartlett's powerful stage versions of Dickens have garnered wide critical acclaim.