Oberon Books

The wind gathers, rising up suddenly. Two men on a fragile boat, a trip to sea - a few drinks, a bite to eat - when one of them decides to push on to the open ocean. Suddenly there they are: among...

A car has exploded. A city has been crippled by fear. Amor wanders around the city, doing his best to blend in. He's going to exchange a drill head. He's going to call his brothers. He's going to...

'Not as if I always lived here, mind you...I started off in Govan. Never dreamt in those days I'd end up this side of the river. Real step up in the world that was...I'm grateful for it. Despite...

Kelly, right, Kelly the bitch decides to have a party on the very same night as my sleep over - the very same night! And I know she's done it on purpose. And she invites everybody - absolutely...

Includes the plays I'm the King of the Castle!Sam Smith, Crime BusterThe Tale of Thomas Mead Three fun-packed plays for children with illustrated suggestions for staging by Laurence Hutchins.Author:...

I, Cinna (The Poet) has one short scene in Shakespeare's Julius Caesar where he is mistaken for someone else and killed by the mob. Now, in a new play by Tim Crouch, this unlucky man is given a...

"This brilliant collection of re-imagined stories is a perfect introduction to Shakespeare for students of all ages. They are funny, fresh, intriguing and poignant, and use a supreme storyteller's...

'A promise is a promise. A promise is a promise.' Idomeneus, King of Crete, has killed his son. Or maybe not. Maybe he's let his son live, but angered the gods in doing so. Or maybe the person he...

An ordinary school day. But today, there is no going home. When the rest of the world has forgotten your existence, where do you run when the Apocalypse looms? The dock? The navy base? Or do you just...

London. 2016. A strange and unsettled time ? where men and the violence of gangs rules the streets. In a dangerous world we hear a new voice ? Imogen?s. Suffocated by her father's aggression ? her...

"You know when a song gets stuck in your head? Round and round ... over and over. I've got that right now ... only it's not a piece of music ... it's not a tune ... it's a phrase: home is where the...

"That photo; that wasn't who Baylee was. She wasn't 'the baby in the fireman's arms'. She was my child." In Oklahoma City on the morning of April 19th 1995, Timothy McVeigh detonated a truck bomb...

"When we came for a romantic walk in the park, we didn't think we would be involved in an international crisis...This side of the line, that side of the line. Does it really make that much of a...

2013 Critics Award Scotland Best Technical Presentation WINNER 2013 Critics Award Scotland Best Children and Young People's Show NOMINEE Sam McTannan is just a typical 15 year old, with one exception...

Lost-in-translation business trips and global travel are put under the microscope in The Internationalist, a play of wit, romance, misunderstandings and the mysteries of communication. Lowell goes...

Since it premiered in Athens in 405 BC alongside Bacchai, Euripides' Iphigeneia in Aulis has been one of the most performed and re-imagined of Ancient Greek Tragedies. The story of how Iphigeneia,...

The Greek fleet bound for Troy is becalmed. For the sake of a wind, Agamemnon, leader of the Greek forces, is persuaded that he must sacrifice his daughter Iphigenia. But as the priest raises his...

It Is Easy To Be Dead tells the story of war poet Charles Sorley's brief life through his work and music and songs from some of the greatest composers of the period. Born in Aberdeen, Sorley was...

It Never Happened (or State Terror in Eight Easy Stages) eavesdrops on eight different periods from the past: two soldiers reflect on the prospect of imminent death caused by their government's...

Winner of the James Tait Black Prize for Drama 2020 ?What people you know can party through all of the earth's elements?? Carnival is here. The streets of Notting Hill are alive with history and...

In BULLISH, ancient mythology meets modern gender negotiation. Inspired by Ovid?s Minotaur, a gender fierce ensemble of hopers and renegades try to pass, pack and blag their way out of the labyrinth...

The first collection of plays from the multi-award-winning legendary screenwriter and playwright. Contains the plays RED, PETER AND ALICE and I'LL EAT YOU LAST. Contents: Introduction by Michael...

John Mortimer: Plays Two: The Wrong Side of the Park; Mill Hill; Bermondsey; Knightsbridge; Marble Arch; EdwinAuthor: John MortimerPublisher: Oberon BooksPublication Date: Sep 01, 2004Number of...

Includes the plays A Sense of Detachment, The End of Me Old Cigar, Jill and Jack and A Place Calling Itself Rome Osborne here delivers his trademark eloquence, rage and devastating wit. A Sense of...

R C Sherriff's Journey's End is a syllabus text and the most famous play about World War One. First staged in 1928, this book tells the story of what went into the making of this extraordinary and...

Sex, political violence in Stockholm, Tel Aviv and Paris.Political murder in suburban London.Death, love and homicide in New York.War in the belly of a whale. These are the themes in Julia Pascal's...

And now for something completely different - Simon Callow, theatrical treasure extraordinaire, reprises a success from early in his career. The writer, Juvenal born circa 55AD, wrote sixteen satires...

'Esteemed members of the Academy! You have done me the great honour of inviting me to give you an account of my former life as an ape.' Imprisoned in a cage and desperate to escape, Kafka's monkey...

In a remote and impoverished village in the Karoo, South Africa, a young girl, Thomaza, struggles to survive. A violent and terrifying incident and a chance encounter with an escaped moose changes...

"People of the internet, people of the world, you wanna see your Environment Minister SOLVE some shit, this is the soundtrack..." What happens when the unstoppable force of climate change meets the...