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The Oikos Project and the two plays Oikos and Protozoa are an attempt to take responsibility for creating a different future in relation to the coming threat of climate change. Can we createa future...

Since its first presentation of Twelfth Night in 1932, London's most famous al fresco theatre has wowed millions of playgoers with its dazzling productions and pastoral charm. Originally inspired by...

A new imaginative play for young people from award-winning writer Kieran Lynn, winner of the Alpine Fellowship Theatre Prize 2018. Alex and Sara are worried. Their daughter Lee starts school soon and...

Don Pedro has it all - high position, wealth, a beautiful family - and enjoys the good life in the heart of the Spanish capital. But now he faces a challenge that would test the patience of a saint...

The Plague (After La Peste) (Oberon Modern Plays)Author: Neil BartlettPublisher: Oberon BooksPublication Date: Apr 05, 2017Number of Pages: 88 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10:...

Based on J M Synge's Playboy of the Western World. Playboy of the West Indies opened at the Oxford Playhouse in 1984 and subsequently toured the UK finishing at the Tricycle Theatre in London. It has...

'Tell me, please - is this a dream?'The night before he leads his troops into battle, the prince of Homburg strips off his uniform and goes sleepwalking. Moonstruck, his mind races with a young man's...

Foreword by Cate Blanchett With contributions by Geoffrey Rush, Baz Luhrmann, Miranda Otto and Hugo Weaving amongst others. From the writings of Keith Bain, Michael Campbell has collated a...

As a punishment, failed wizard Rincewind is given the task of guiding and safeguarding the Disc's first tourist, Twoflower (with his magical luggage on legs). As they travel the city and beyond, they...

If you could lie without flinching, corrupt without caring and succeed at all costs - how far could you go...how much could you make? From the early promise of the '70s through to unrelenting...

Outrageously zany and filed with non-stop surprises, Simon Reade's theatrical adaptation of The Scarecrow and His Servant, renowned author Philip Pullman's fictional children's tale, is an enchanting...

When Aubrey Tanqueray marries for the second time, he knows that his new wife, Paula, is a 'woman with a past'. But he has no idea how that past will catch up with himin the end. More probing than...

The Secret Lives of Baba Segi's Wives is a scandalous, engrossing tale of sexual politics and family strife in modern-day Nigeria. Lola Shoneyin's bestselling novel bursts on to the stage in a vivid...

Set at the time of the Dissolution of the Monasteries during the English Reformation, The Seduction of Almighty God describes the spiritual ascendancy of an adolescent priest and the apalling...

One woman attempts to articulate her experience of physical pain. Pain with no apparent cause. Also, she's met someone, and they want to make this work. Words, light and an original sound score...

Hajja Souad, an 80-year old Palestinian woman living on the besieged Gaza Strip, knows about business. She has survived decades of wars and oppression through making shrouds for the dead. A...

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...

'Would you ever want to sit with me in the dark? Just sit with the lights out, barely even touching, maybe not touching at all, and just listen to me breathe?' Everybody wants a piece of Stephanie...

"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...

When we were young, we worshipped stars, gleaming long-limbed godsframed in the act of impossible flight.For a time we tried to follow, to carve out our own piece of skywith a butter-smooth arc of an...

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...

Tom and Jess have grown disillusioned with a world full of people who'll murder you as soon as look at you - or else systematically overcharge you for building work. They are going to make life...

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...

Tom and Clem are deep in debt. Alan, Tom's boss, owes big bucks. Meryl, Alan's manager, is mortgaged to the hilt. Their lives revolve around Debt Duck, payday loan company lending money to the...

A new play inspired by the true story of a miner who became entombed in a tunnel during World War One. As the horror threatens to engulf him, he discovers another world beneath the mud and death...