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Drawing on the themes of cruelty, imperialism and betrayal, Hideki Noda and Colin Teevan's new play, The Diver, ingeniously links the ancient Japanese Tales of Genji with a Noh theatre play and a...

The Djinns Of Eidgah (Oberon Modern Plays)Author: Abhishek MajumdarPublisher: Oberon BooksPublication Date: Apr 01, 2014Number of Pages: 112 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10:...

The Spanish Golden Age celebrated one of the most dynamic, energetic and stylish periods of world drama which exploded onto the stages of Madrid at the turn of the seventeenth century. It was a...

Set in the offices of a magazine publishers, Meredith Oakes' comedy of fragile values in the media will not restore your faith in human nature, but it is guaranteed to help you get on in publishing...

Mediterranean roasted vegetables. Finnish Folk and Margaret Drabble. Adolf Hitler and the knitted cover for a toilet roll. An audience split in two experiencing auditory hallucinations. The new work...

Lila dreams to become a firework-maker, just like her father. In order to become a true firework-maker, she sets off alone on a perilous journey to reach the terrifying Fire-Fiend. She travels...

The Flu Season No one in the middle of being in love ever sat down to write a love story. It's only after the belongings are sorted and the shirts returned that the pencils are sharpened and the...

Partners in life and on canvas, Marc and Bella are immortalised as the picture of romance. But whilst on canvas they flew, in life they walked through some of the most devastating times in history...

South African writer Craig Higginson's powerful new play is a dark, witty and sexually-charged psychological drama told through the eyes of a beautiful English teacher and her French-Congolese pupil...

A girl sits on a sofa, not knowing what to do with herself. She argues with her mother and envies her older sister. She also longs for her absent father, a seaman. A middle-aged woman paints a...

Sam's dead at fifteen. It's a social media thing. Maybe. When bereaved mother and chaplain Thea sets off on a mission to follow her daughter somehow, she's joined on her journey by bickering teen...

In a safe-house in the suburbs, human rights lawyer Myles Brody meets with a high-profile and controversial historian. She has been charged with denying the Holocaust, and he has agreed to defend her...

A comedy written for the Shakespeare's Globe, telling the story of an insatiably curious young man who, wishing to turn himself into a wise owl, takes the wrong drug and finds himself transformed...

The Great Game: Afghanistan is an extraordinary cycle of plays by some of Britain's leading contemporary playwrights. "The Great Game" was a term used for the strategic rivalry and conflict between...

"How I deplore the bogus waysOf society these days -A sort of national contestTo find out who can a se-lick best!"In this witty cutting version of Le Misanthrope Moli?re's angry hero Alceste becomes...

Should some secrets never be kept no matter what the cost? Five women come together to help clear out a run-down cottage a week before the wedding of its new owner, Una. Joining her on this hen night...

"I'm a scientist. I don't 'believe' in anything." The study of climate science is the cool degree at the university where Dr Diane Cassell is a lead academic in Earth Sciences. At odds with the...

He?s just your type. But hold on. He?s about to tell you he?s got HIV. How will you respond emotionally? Brush it aside and practise safe sex? Go on to a deeper relationship? Or do you walk away? In...

Includes the plays Theresa, A Dead Woman on Holiday and The Dybbuk Presented as a trilogy at the New End Theatre in 1995 before touring much of Europe, The Dybbuk pays homage to Anski's great Russian...

Three British Asians are incarcerated in an unfamiliar land. Guilty or innocent? The journey of five characters is explored at their point of intersection. All is not what it seems. Truth and...

Winner of the 2018 PEN America Award in Drama As Tolstoy said, ?All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.? In The House in Scarsdale, playwright Dan O'Brien traces...

Originally written by seventeenth century nun Sor Juana In?z de la Cruz and adapted here by Catherine Boyle, House of Desires is a romantic farce involving a brother and sister entangled in a web of...

I'm whispering into your ear - and we couldn't be further apart.' A woman, a phone call, a final conversation. In this extraordinary and prophetic monologue a woman fights for the person she loves...

It's Aya's wedding day. Her third. Her current two husbands aren't too fussed. In a society in which there are few women, that's just what happens. But as the household prepares for the wedding...

Includes the plays The Hypochondriac, George Dandin and Scapin Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, dit Moli?re (1622-1673) was originally intended for a career at court. His legal training was to stand him in...

A riotous new comedy from award-winning playwright Richard Bean, author of One Man, Two Guvnors. April 1642. Sir John Hotham, Governor of Hull, is charged by Parliament to secure the arsenal at Hull...

The Ice Cream Boys (Oberon Modern Plays)Author: Gail LouwPublisher: Oberon BooksPublication Date: October 09, 2019Number of Pages: 88 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10:...

Set in a landscape of memory and dreams, The Inconvenience of Wings tackles the issues of friendship, dysfunction, addiction and angels. This dynamic new drama was inspired by author Abraham J...

The world does not care. The world doesn?t even know. There are European tourists sipping cocktails right now on the beaches in the south, who have no idea what?s happening in the north. Sri Lanka,...

Includes the plays A New York Threesome, (My Brother's Conversion; Madam Butterfly's Child; Manhattan Breast Company), Mad Margaret's Revenge andThe Jolly Folly of Polly, the Scottish Trolley Dolly...