Böcker i Oberon Modern Plays-serien

Tom and Jess have grown disillusioned with a world full of people who'll murder you as soon as look at you--or else systematically overcharge you for building work. They are going to make life simple from now on: just the two of them rescuing starfish washed up by the tides and strictly no contact with other human beings. Until the mysterious Slippy decides to die on their doorstep.

The 40 Minute Tempest recreates the world of Shakespeare's great play as told by Prospero and Ariel as they journey towards Prospero's retirement and Ariel's freedom. Using puppetry, the modern idiom and Shakespeare's verse it magically brings to life the world of Prospero's island. King Ram, based on King Lear, is the story of an old king with a foolish plan to split his lands between his two daughters, and of a ten year old boy's desperate search for a baby's father. Songs and verse create a roller-coaster dramatic ride for children.

A comedy assumptions and appearances.

Award-winning playwright Roland Schimmelpfennig is one of the most exciting voices in European drama. This is a translation by David Tushingham.

Adapted by Robert David MacDonald from Gitta Sereny's Into That Darkness"Robert David MacDonald's In Quest of Conscience, based on Gitta Sereny's Into That Darkness, a record of her interviews with death camp commandant Franz Stangl, takes it for granted that the Holocaust was a shocking crime against humanity; what it wants to know, with an urgency amounting to desperation, is how it happened, and how it can be prevented from happening again." - Joyce Macmillan, Scotland on Sunday"Stangl... bureaucrat of death who administered as massive an evil as the Holocaust in the same routine spirit in which he would have administered butter rationing ... What manner of man can be responsible for the slaughter of 1,200,000 of his fellows in the space of 14 months?" - Joseph Farrell, The Scotsman"Plays such as In Quest of Conscience are messengers of the unspeakable, which is why they should be listened to as this powerful, dignified piece was in complete moral silence." - John Peter, The Sunday Times"A brilliant and important play which is based on the actual interviews with the death camp commandant Franz Stragl by Gitta Sereny searching desperately to discover how the Holocaust happened, how one worked and lived with it, and how to prevent it occurring again" Blanche Marvin

Sophocles' age-old existential questions are asked again, and are found to be as relevant as ever. In a translation from playwright, tv presenter and journalist Keith Dewhurst. The play was written during the Peloponnesian War. It was first performed at the Festival of Dionysus in 409 BC, where it won first prize.

In May 1875 Lord Primrose Agar, wagered one of his tenant farmers, Orlando Harrison, that his new border collie pup Jip would outlive the 94 year old Harrison. The prize would be the 82-acre Kilham Wold Farm. Thirteen years later, having buried his dog, Agar shook hands with Orlando and conferred on the Harrisons a century of struggle...

It's 1899 and the world crackles with possibilities. Swinging above them all is a showbiz sensation; a fierce, vulgar, pant-droppingly sexy trapeze artist called Fevvers. This story charts her unlikely love affair with Walser, a world-weary journalist on a mission to expose her as a fake.

In his Aberdeen flat, a young man stakes everything on a one-night stand. But does she give a fuck? This is a play about life in the Granite City, a world where work is meaningless and emasculating, where drink an drugs are the only painkillers, and where cheap sex can cost you everything.

Growing up in the shadow of the brilliant barrister, who adored his garden and hated visitors, and whose blindness was never mentioned, the son continually yearns for his father's love and respect. This autobiographical play is the portrait of a son's relationship with his father.

Based on the fables of "Kalila wa Dimna", one of the masterpieces of Eastern culture. Locating Ibn Al-Muqaffa's work in its original historical context, this drama, part history, part political fable, explores the creation of these tales amidst the tragedy that unfolds around the author himself.

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.

An ancient Greek tragedy from Athenian playwright Euripides. This is a new translation from Colin Teevan. The tragedy is based on the mythological story of King Pentheus of Thebes and his mother Agaue, and their punishment by the god Dionysus (who is Pentheus' cousin) because he refuses to worship him.

A hilarious Spanish Golden Age play, adapted for the Royal Shakespeare Company by British translator Catherine Boyle

A collection of works by one of Germany's leading contemporary playwrights. This title features three plays such as: "The Park is Strauss'", "Seven Doors", and "Time and the Room".

Juan Mayorga's work has been produced in Spain and around Europe as well as the USA.

Features poetic tales of modern masculinity inspired by the Greek myth.

Mrs Patrick Campbell is England's most celebrated and notorious actress. An acclaimed beauty, loved by many, she is remembered for her wit, for bad behaviour, and her close friendship with George Bernard Shaw. This play is about the art and craft of acting and the turmoil of being a woman who was meant to please but couldn't resist using her mind.

Beane is an exile from life - an oddball. His well-meaning sister Joan and brother-in-law Harry try and make time for him in their busy lives, but no one can get through. Following a burglary on his apartment, Joan is baffled to find her brother blissfully happy and tries to unravel the story behind Beane's mysterious new love Molly.

A play of wit, romance, misunderstandings and the mysteries of communication.

A passionate clear-sighted look at the day-to-day life of a working actor, Leigh Lawson.

An enchanting, zany abdaptation of one of Philip Pullmans fictional tales. For young readers and performers.

A critically acclaimed stage adaptation of the short story A Report to an Academy by Franz Kafka.

Confronts the ethics of HIV/AIDS drug trials in Africa. Performed at Theatre Royal Stafford East.

A stage adaptation of the classic novel, the ultimate romantic comedy about five sisters and their pursuit of suitable husbands.

A fiercely funny and moving new play, based on real events, about the difficulties of uniting divided racial communities.

Students, teachers, youth theatres, theatre lovers and those involved in the presentation of youth drama.

Winner of 2011 What's On Stage award for Best Off-West End Production and Olivier Award for Best Opera Production 2011.

This startling and dark play by film maker Hassan Abdulrazzak, was the winner of the George Devine, Meyer-Whitworth (2008) and Pearson (2009) awards.

Accompanied by Sancho Panza, and inspired by stories of daring deeds, Don Quixote sets out to recreate an imaginary world and to convince his family, friends, and all he meets of its reality. But this is no ordinary journey as he gallops through 17th century Spain, encountering a host of characters including star-crossed lovers and army of giants.