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In 2011, all over the Arab World, veiled women took to the streets to protest. Their calls for change were briefly celebrated, soon derided, and eventually ignored. For the first time on stage, The...

"I was born a Goose of Southwark by the Grace of Mary Overie, Whose Bishop gives me licence to sin within The Liberty.In Bankside stews and taverns you can hear me honk right daintily, As I unlock...

In 2004 the Royal Shakespeare Company produced a ground-breaking season of Spanish Golden Age plays in English which pioneered a new approach to translating these works for the modern stage. As well...

Includes the plays Lenin in Love, The Teddy Bears' Picnic and The Potsdam Quartet Three gripping political plays: Lenin in Love takes up the alleged sexual troika and sadistic inclinations of one of...

Descending from the heavenly sphere of the gods to the mortal world below, Arcturus raises a mighty storm. For Labrax, a 'procurer' of women, the storm brings shipwreck and ruin. For his two female...

Three not-so-alpha males are AWOL in Iceland. Then the Vikings arrive. Mountains, myths and middle-class angst, in a new play about friendship and modern masculinity. And the weather. The Summer...

Coco, Mari and Helena are The Sweethearts, a manufactured girl band who are rarely off the front page of the tabloids. In need of some positive publicity, they travel to Afghanistan to do a special...

William ?Billy? Haines was a popular silent screen MGM movie star who was fired by Louis B Mayer because he was gay and refused to give up his lifelong partner, Jimmie Shields, and marry the silent...

Based on the lost Sophoclean play Tereus, The Three Birds explores the extremes of love as two Athenian sisters are separated by a man who marries one but desires the other. The epic images of...

The Welsh Boy is a scintillating rediscovery of one of the hidden gems of eighteenth-century literature and brings back to life a true story of passionate love and outrageous sexual scandal in the...

It?s Dougie?s birthday. He just turned 50 and his family are throwing him a party. But it?s he who has a surprise for them. A bombshell proposal. He wants his ex-wife Arlene to back his new endeavour...

Includes the plays: Sense, Nightblind and Blowing. Following on from the success of the first collection of Theatre Caf? plays in 2008, this new collection includes 3 plays from this astonishing...

Seven self-regarding critics assemble at a disused theatre in response to a mysterious invitation. Too late they discover its gruesome purpose as Edward Lionheart, an actor frenzied by a lifetime of...

When life offers you a choice between heroism and compromise - what happens? Sometimes planes don't land the way they're supposed to. The people of a country have had enough of their leaders, but...

This Beautiful Future (Oberon Modern Plays)Author: Rita KalnejaisPublisher: Oberon BooksPublication Date: Apr 25, 2017Number of Pages: 72 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10:...

On a quiet suburban street in Dublin, a piece of graffiti tears apart a group of neighbours, exposing a deep divide between them. In one long scene over one night, six people must confront their...

After their parent's death, siblings Han and Miso are forced into destitution and life upon the streets of Korea.However, Miso is rescued from poverty at the age of ten by an English family, and...

?You can't even shit... You're being outskilled by the most primitive life forms on Earth? Repressed rage; entrenched isolation; compacted bowels. Staring deep into the destructive ego of the modern...

Thomas Eccleshare: Plays One: I'm Not Here Right Now; Heather; Instructions for Correct Assembly (Oberon Modern Playwrights)Author: Thomas EcclesharePublisher: Oberon BooksPublication Date: January...

Includes the plays Peer Gynt, Rosmersholm, When We Dead Waken The three plays in this volume are representative of Ibsen's extraordinary achievement as a playwright. The first is perhaps his best...

Features the plays White Sea, A Break in Berlin and Partisans. These plays are set in the cruelest decades of 20th century Europe. Their characters suffer extreme conditions which are at the same...

It's 1887 and Nancy Astley sits in the audience at her local music hall: she doesn't know it yet, but the next act on the bill will change her life. Tonight is the night she'll fall in love... with...

Three pitch-black comedies from an exciting new writer: A Listening Heaven, Mummies and Daddies and Clockwatching A Listening Heaven, which focuses on one family's painful inability to grieve for a...

by Jon Haynes and David Woods (Ridiculismus)A secret, a spa in Bangkok and two naked Germans...In a world where anything can be indulged in and everything is permissible, Martin, a disturbed ex-pat,...

Ellen thought she'd end her life where it began - in a rundown flat in Dublin's north inner city. Now her building is sold, and she's being moved into a box room in her snooty sister's house in the...

A fable about tradition in a mad place, Trad is the hilarious tale of the very old Thomas and his even more ancient 'da'. When Thomas reveals that he once fathered a son in a long-ago fling, the pair...

Author: Sylvan OswaldPublisher: Oberon BooksPublication Date: Feb 27, 2020Number of Pages: 64 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 178682857XISBN-13: 9781786828576

What this book most definitely is not is yet another academic discussion of Lope de Vega, Calderon and their contemporaries, divorced from any understanding of what makes these plays work so...

In a writing career of over 60 years, Ben Travers is regarded as the master of the 'Aldwych Farces'. This collection is being published at a time where farces are coming back into fashion following...

?Oh, it?s a funny sensation, having money in your pocket, I can tell you... Money warms you. If you knew how warm and safe I feel. Like a new creature in a new skin.? In a production commissioned by...