Oberon Books

May 2015: The most important General Election for a generation. All is not well for Tom Savage, an ex-Labour minister parachuted into a safe North East constituency, trying to win hearts and minds as...

Fatima Merchant is feisty and strong-willed. At 17, she drinks, smokes and parties. On the eve of her 18th birthday, without word or warning or explanation, she adopts the hijab. Suddenly, to her...

It's 1992. In a small town in Fife, a girl is busting to get out into the world and see what's on offer. And an ad in the local paper declares: Band Seeks Singer. Grunge has just gone global, scruffy...

NO! We can't change the subject! This is the subject! There is no other subject. Not for us.' Sickened by the everyday arguments and compromises he saw around him in his native London, the idealistic...

In the heart of Northern England, three respectable couples, married on the same day, at the same church, and by the same vicar, join to celebrate 25 years of blissful matrimony. Or so they think.....

To all intents and purposes Vernon has fulfilled his ambitions.He has a good job and a suburban lifestyle with his wife and teenage son. But things change when austerity measures put his job under...

What are you when you are always the other? A play about identity, being a mixed-race black woman and always feeling like an outsider. Blending music and spoken word, WHITE considers the concept of...

To this day The White Hart and The Red Lion are two of the most popular names for a public house in England - both talismans that served as the insignia for Richard II and the banished Henry...

In Brixton, Nora and Dora Chance ? twin chorus girls born and bred south of the river ? are celebrating their 75th birthday. Over the river in Chelsea, their father and greatest actor of his...

Join the jury as two of history's most stubborn intellectuals go head-to-head in a highly entertaining battle of reason versus faith. Set in late 1517, this smart, sprightly and audacious comedy...

All's fair in love, war and videogames. November 1998. As the war in Kosovo plays out, two families in London fight for their own freedom. But freedom takes courage and all Ben wants to do is finish...

Kat is moving out of the London flat she shares with ex-boyfriend, Ben. Helping her are best friend, Thea, and new man in her life, Josh. Ben (who's not even meant to be there) is hurt and angry, and...

Rachel and Scott are getting married. They are also buying a house together - never the easiest of things to do at the same time. When the house price goes up, their plans for the dream wedding have...

Peter Wright has been a dancer, choreographer, teacher, producer and director in the theatre as well as in television for over 70 years. In Wrights & Wrongs, Peter offers his often surprising views...

Writing 'Master Class' is a biography of David Pownall's play, Master Class (1983), from conception to coming of age. Threaded through the account of the inception and development of the piece are...

Trevor's in trouble with the law - again. But this time it's serious. He faces twelve years behind bars. Roddy, Trevor's dad, came to Britain in the Sixties and did the right thing - worked seven...

1948: George Orwell is attempting to finish his final novel - Nineteen Eighty Four - before ill-health forces him off the solated Scottish island he has made his home. Holed up with a shotgun and...

From poverty-sticken youth in Barcelona to international success as leading players in the artistic avant garde Pablo Picasso and Jaime Sabartes lived through much together. But now is the time of...

"I look at the pictures of James Dean on my wall and I reckon you know maybe I mean he died young and if he had come back I mean why not why not me?"Growing up's hard to do, and in a Pennine town it...

A collection of three plays for the Young Vic's participation programme Taking Part, written by award-winning playwright Luke Barnes: Men in Blue, Fable, The Jumper Factory 'This is a collection of...