Oberon Books

Troy is in ruins. Its men are dead. Its women are captives and the victorious Greeks are camped in the ashes preparing to sail home. Four quarrelling women drawn together by grief... Four exhausted...

'bless this country, God bless karaoke and God save the Queen.' It's karaoke night at The Albion, a proper East End boozer and the unofficial home of the English Protection Army. Paul runs the pub,...

Alex wants Grandad home from hospital for Christmas, so he makes a foolish wish. In spite of Cat's warnings, he asks his favourite computer game character to come and help. But when The Warrior steps...

In this hilarious sequel to Alex and The Warrior, Alex and Cat are once again faced with keeping the unruly Warrior under control, not an easy feat for the pair as I'm sure you all know. One year...

Marianne, Fantasio, Don't Trifle With Love, The Candlestick, A Diversion, A Door Must be Open or Shut, You Can't Think of Everything The seven plays in this collection share a light-hearted tone,...

Feet of Clay Someone is killing Lord Vetinari, Patrician of Ankh-Morpork. No one knows who, no one knows why and, worst of all, no one knows how - he just gets weaker and weaker. But it's not just...

Would the world be a better place if we were all honest? Fringe First winner Katie Bonna is giving a TED talk on the science of lying. Well, that's not quite true. TED haven't actually asked her to...

Ontroerend Goed is a Belgian, Ghent-based theatre performance group of international renown. The group is made of young creators who explore the space between theatre and performance, writing their...

Ambivalences: A Portrait of Arnold Wesker from A to W is a document of Arnold Wesker in conversation with the Italian academic Chiara Montenero. In their wide-ranging discussions, Wesker and...

American Nightmare (Oberon Modern Plays)Author: Matthew BulgoPublisher: Oberon BooksPublication Date: November 11, 2019Number of Pages: 104 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10:...

An Elephant in the Garden is Simon Reade's new adaptation of Michael Morpurgo's best-selling children's novel. 1945. Dresden, Germany. Lizzie, her mother - and an elephant from the zoo, flee the...

I was born in 1994, then came windows 95, And I would dive online to be the true me ? A 2cm avatar with a denim mini and a high pony. Online all the time, to avoid conversation and the frustration of...

I?ll tell you what gets me riled up, what gets me dark and dirty, what Speaks to the Spiders living in my Soul and makeS me loSe my Shit' Are you Angry? We are, so we wrote a play and stole a bass...

I want shocks! I?ve heard they are fun and a lot of blood rushes to your head.' 77-year-old Norma is having a tricky day. She can?t finish the crossword and Joy keeps stealing her recliner. Not to...

Thebes is under attack. In a bloody battle outside the city's gates, the sons of Oedipus fight to the death. King Creon issues an edict: Eteocles, who nobly defended Thebes against his brother and...

Anyone's Guess How We Got Here is a road-trip. A haunted house. A bedtime story. A photo-album. An 80s fantasy film. A demolition project. A riot. Barrel Organ's new play about the long-lasting...

'We simply can't stop revealing our true natures' A tale for today set in a magical tower block where the water has gone missing and five extraordinary individuals from the east and from the west...

First published in hardback in 2003, Are You There Crocodile? is now available in paperback. Michael Pennington's work on his solo show about Anton Chekhov has taken London's 'Russian Actor' from the...

This new edition of Barker's seminal text Arguments for a Theatre outlinesthe theory and practice of his 'Theatre of Catastrophe'. Author of over thirty plays, Howard Barker has long been an...

Arthur is an OAP, hiding out from the world in his grotty high-rise. He'd move - if it weren't for his missing teenage son. Today is Michael's 18th birthday - will he finally come home? But the...

Elma is a singer in a sleazy 1930s Berlin nighclub. Having suffered an appalling assault during the First World War, she has no memory of her former life. A man appears and tells her that she is, in...

The 2009 winner of the Best Play Award at the Writers' Guild of Great Britain Award (Birmingham Rep and UK tour '08), published for the first time to coincide with the author's new play Upper Cut...

Atypical Plays For Atypical Actors is the first of its kind: a collection of dramas which redefines the notion of normalcy and extends the range of what it is to be human. From monologues, to...

Mike Poulton's all-new version of this dark and liberating play, co-conceived with choreographer Mark Bruce and director Braham Murray. Think Hair meets Titus AndronicusAuthor: Mike PoultonPublisher:...

'In Iraq, a wedding is not a wedding unless shots get fired. It's like in England where a wedding is not a wedding unless someone pukes or tries to fuck one of the bridesmaids. That's the way it goes...

Unexpected, quirky and provocative, BALL & Other Funny Stories About Cancer is a unique collection of performances about illness and the changing body over time. Documenting a trilogy of Brian...

The Trojan legend and the character of Helen form the basis for The Bite of the Night. As with all Barker's mythical and historical works, it is overlaid and undermined by a contemporary narrative,...

Includes the plays The Last Supper, Seven Lears, Hated Nightfall and Wounds to the Face Howard Barker is one of the most significant and controversial dramatists of his time. His plays challenge,...

Includes the plays I Saw Myself, The Dying of Today, Found in the Ground and The Road, the House, the Road Howard Barker is one of the most significant and controversial dramatists of his time. His...

As the Great War gathers pace, Agnes and her sister Edith revel in their new-found independence and prosperity as Barnbow lasses. Not only does their danger money buy them a new life of confidence,...