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Actually (Oberon Modern Plays)Author: Anna ZieglerPublisher: Oberon BooksPublication Date: October 31, 2017Number of Pages: 88 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 178682308XISBN-13:...

'You'd like that, would you, your most private, pinkest, tenderest - small bird, small bird, small fragile - stolen from you, slammed down onto the slab, the block, poked at and paraded.' The...

'Someone in a white coat said I was one of those who are addicted to the total all-embracing experience.' Leigh meets Angel and her life is turned upside town. Sex, race, drugs and verbals collide in...

'I keep trying to find something a bit exotic in my family tree. Best I could do was a great-grandma who looks a bit tanned in the old photos.' US election night 2008. A smart inner-London 'village'...

Sure there's no end to the disasters that could choose to unfurl themselves on the world. The harvest is ripe in a Black Country pear orchard. Seasoned hands settle to familiar tasks and the ritual...

I think it's queer. And it's about to get queerer...' Edward II wanders on to the empty stage, bloodied and confused. He has no idea where he is, or how he got here, but he does have an ominous...

Hampstead, 1936. In a shabby basement flat, aspiring playwright Clive Monkhams dreams of a West End hit and winning Francie?s heart. With opening night approaching and finances fast running out,...

It's the future; just like now, but a bit more... well, shitey. Jim and Agnes have worked hard their whole lives and now Agnes needs a life-saving operation. With the NHS as we know it a thing of the...

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...

The U.S. Senate?s 2017 confirmation process for President Trump?s Cabinet. It forensically reveals the ethics, beliefs and philosophy behind four key Cabinet figures: Rex Tillerson, the former CEO of...

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...

Meet Leah and Chris; raised on Harry Potter, New Labour and a belief that one day they would be as ?special? as their parents promised. But what happens when those dreams don?t become reality? Follow...

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...

Looking out over the country, this country, where I was born and raised, I wonder what's going to become of us. Because this can't be the future, can it? Everyone just... changing the rules?' Roger...

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...

Apprenticeship is Peter Gill's potent recollection of the changing theatrical landscape of the 1960s. Part history, part memoir, part polemic, it puts into context his recently discovered diary of...

'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...