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TERRA FIRMA is set in a not-so-distant Beckettian future?years after a conflict known as the Big War, in which a tiny kingdom wrestles with the problems of running a nation?and opposing notions of...

In the wake of Ireland's recent economic rise, fall, and associated social crises, theatre and performance have played vital roles in reflecting on the past, engaging the present, and imagining...

1988: at four-years-old, he short-circuited his home with a silver spoon and a Betamax video player. 1989: stopped a 700-strong student assembly with a tantrum. 1995: was chased through jungle growth...

The 306: Day is the second part of Oliver Emanuel and Gareth Williams' powerful new First World War trilogy, charting the heart-breaking journey of the 306 men executed for cowardice and desertion...

The 306 trilogy is dedicated to the memory of the 306 British soldiers of the 1914-18 war who were shot at dawn, by their own side, for what was then called cowardice or desertion. This final play,...

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...

The 56 ?Nobody dies in football matches in fires. It doesn?t happen.? At 3.40pm on 11th May 1985, a small fire broke out in the main stand at Valley Parade football ground during the last game of the...

The accident did not take placeAuthor: Sam WardPublisher: Oberon BooksPublication Date: Mar 20, 2020Number of Pages: 72 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1913609014ISBN-13:...

A controversial new play which deals with issues such as Muslim fundamentalism, a jihad for an Islamic state, and the conflict between Cypriots living in North London.Directed by Kerry Michael, this...

One evening, Mr Ido arrives home from work to find his house surrounded by police and TV cameras. Inside, his wife and child are being held hostage by an escaped murderer. An otherwise normal day in...

The Believers are But Brothers (Oberon Modern Plays)Author: Javaad AlipoorPublisher: Oberon BooksPublication Date: January 24, 2018Number of Pages: 80 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10:...

Horv?th's setting for this black political farce is a seedy hotel in Central Europe in the 1920s where the only guest is a drunken, ageing nymphomaniac - wealthy and despotic. Under her sole...

Shortlisted for the Writers' Guild of Great Britain Best Theatre Play 2011 Young New Yorker Michael Doyle decides to live up to his Irish heritage by joining the IRA. He's recruited by Costello, the...

Think about it. Think what you could achieve without women in your life. If all the time you spent on them, you spent on yourself. Think how much money you could save. Think how much aggravation you...

Mogadishu, 1993. Paul is a Canadian photojournalist who is about to take a picture that will win him the Pulitzer Prize. Princeton, the present day, Dan is an American writer who is struggling to...

A young woman arrives in a strange country. A woman who has committed no crime. She is indefinitely confined, humiliated and racially and sexually abused. She witnesses her guards' petty dishonesty...

THE BOMB - A Partial History is a season of plays from leading contemporary dramatists, charting the political history of the Nuclear Bomb and its proliferation from 1940 to the present day. FIRST...

Winner of the 2020 George Devine Award Middle Child present The Canary and the Crow, brand new gig theatre about the journey of a working class black kid who is accepted to a prestigious school. A...

A nameless narrator meets a sexy boy on a Vauxhall night out, who introduces him to G?s pleasures; a club night poster boy gets taken to Old Mother Meth?s place by a porn star; Fag Hag Cath is...

December 1914. As families across Europe gather to celebrate Christmas, a generation of young men find themselves far away from their loved ones in the trenches of the Western Front. There they face...

The Comedy of Errors is a brilliant piece of theatrical mechanism, a story of mounting confusion involving two pairs of twins. But it also explores the relations between lovers and between husband...

Includes the plays Master Class, Elgar's Rondo, Music to Murder By and Elgar's Third The creative artist in conflict with destructive external pressures and corrosive internal tensions is a recurring...

A new live literature experience by award-winning poet Nick Makoha. On a November evening in 1978 after eight years of civil war, Nick Makoha and his mother fled their homeland of Uganda. Many people...

How is a woman ever to have a husband when the men all belong to their mothers? During the miner's strike of 1912, newly-married Minnie discovers her husband Luther has made another woman pregnant...

A young man lives alone with his mother and his beloved dog in a house in a small village overlooking the fjord. The dog has run off and gone missing. This has never happened before... In The Dead...

Two policemen are called out to a remote asylum to investigate the escape of a missing patient. Set in the twilight world of 1950s pulp, this creepy satire twists and turns towards its shocking...

The Department of DistractionsAuthor: Third AngelPublisher: Oberon BooksPublication Date: Mar 02, 2020Number of Pages: 88 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1786828634ISBN-13:...

A play by Paul Lucas, inspired by Luke Rhinehart's novel 'The Dice Man'.The Dice House unfolds in a commune run by maverick psychiatrist Dr. Ratner where the patients are encouraged to surrender all...

Surrounded by lies and deceit how do you work out who is telling the truth? When highly decorated war hero, Colonel Tariq joins the intelligence agency, his rise to the top seems assured. But in his...

What if four children had been kept locked away in darkness and complete isolation since birth? What if, tonight, they were to be released? How would bodies and minds reared in darkness respond to...