Böcker i Oberon Modern Plays-serien

A powerful teleplay by one of Britain's best-known and most-acclaimed living playwrights.

Stella Kirby spent nine years running away; leaving home to find her freedom as an actress. Now she has decided that the only role left to play is the prodigal daughter returned, hoping to rediscover herself amongst the familiar surroundings of her childhood home, Eden End.Priestley has a special tenderness for Eden End and for it he created some of his most fragile, gentle characters. The stoical Dr Kirby, his younger son Wilfred, desperate to prove himself a man of the world, and Lilian, the daughter who stayed at home, are a sharply observed and instantly recognisable family, with all its dreams and disappointments.

Ben, Howie, Jude and Tariq. Four guys caged in a hospital ward in the name of medical research. Take tablets, give blood, get paid, go home. And with no drink, no caffeine & no smokes, they're guinea pigs guzzling pills for a fast buck, happy to blank the consequences. All that time to think, and bounce off the walls - and each other. What's more, you couldn't find four lab rats more different. At least, that's what they think - but, deep down, they suspect they're all surplus to requirements, as obsolete as Betamax. Yet still holding on and still trying to control an uncertain world.

Production at the Birmingham Rep

The loss of faith and cynical corruption of the few priests left at the Abbey of Calcetto is unexpectedly challenged by the arrival of a young man with an unsullied and passionate belief in God. The boy Loftus gradually acquires a huge moral ascendancy through the intensity and purity of his faith, but he is then brutally punished by the priests.

An ambitious, poetic reworking of the story of Myrrah from Ovid's Metamorphosis, Poor Beck is a rich exploration of love, language and the senses. Poor Beck is Laurens' third play. The Three Birds, won her the Critics' Circle Most Promising Playwright Award and the Time Out Award for Most Outstanding new talent, and Five Gold Rings opened at the Almeida Theatre in December 2003.

An isolated house in a forgotten valley has only the litter and noise from the surrounding motorway above as company. A flash of lightning and a freak car crash leave three runaways stranded and seeking refuge. As society whizzes by all around, they enter a world of dreams and nightmares.This new play for our time is brimming with savage humour, touching humanity and visual invention. Lost Monsters was in production at the Liverpool Everyman Theatre Liverpool Everyman Theatre in May-June 2009.

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

Classic play adapted by award winning writer, Tanika Gupta.

From Fringe First winner Inua Ellams comes a new story about two foster brothers building a global t-shirt brand.

During a heady hot summer, a young girl's sexual awakening is coloured by shadows of her early childhood. This work dramatises the unconscious world of instinct where the lives of humans, plants and eels are all ruled by the primal rhythms of the wetlands.

An exploration of ageing and grief by Eve Leigh, The Trick is a magic show about the parts of life we don't talk about - the realities of getting older and coming to terms with loss.

This rhythmic, sizzling solo show conjures the violence of a city and imagines a more beautiful world beyond it.

A controversial 1912 classic: one of the first plays in modern British history to feature a female working-class protagonist.

Fast, furious and very funny, "Familyman" asks some vital questions about 21st-century parenting.

The acclaimed English Touring Theatre adaptation.

It's a simple idea, really. Wear a uniform. Protect who you love. Let nothing get in your way.

Based on the spoken testimony of veterans of the First World War, collected by the Sound Archive of the Imperial War Museum in 1970, this book contains memories of the war.

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

Part living-room gathering, part play, part gig session, Rantin draws on storytelling, live music and the Scottish folk tradition.

Seen from a British perspective, The Spalding Suite gets to the heart and soul of the gravity-defying game of basketball.

When reclusive crime writer Daniel Quinn receives a mysterious call seeking a private detective in the middle of the night, he quickly and unwittingly becomes the protagonist in a thriller of his own. As the familiar territory of the noir

While learning about stand-up comedy, Gary met a boy called Donald. This is Donald's story.

Bill is sustained by his sense of culture and an improving world. The only thing the human race needs to do is learn. When he meets a person who embodies this idea, he naturally likes them. Especially if his wife doesn't. Set at the end of the 1950s, this title explores the comfort, hopes and fragility of family life in a new Sydney suburb.

What makes a country? What makes a citizen?

From Pride in Poland and Windass at Wembley, to City of Culture and Brexit Britain, Us Against Whatever is an electrifying cabaret about the places we keep in our hearts, with support from Hull's finest voices - you!

A poetic meditation on the power of female beauty by Anne Carson.

A quirky modern fairy tale about impossible love.

Challenging perceptions of what it is to live with mental illness, Gods & Kings is a bracingly honest and darkly funny real-life tale, expressing what it is to live a life ruled by mental illness.

This is an emotionally charged journey through the last days of a young woman's battle with herself.