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The power and magic of the Faust story, the man who, in a pact with the Devil, trades his soul in return for a period of total knowledge and absolute power, is one of the most potent of all European...

As thousands have been tortured, jailed, maimed or killed by the Syrian regime, The Fear of Breathing is not only a new play based entirely on verbatim reports from inside Syria itself, but is also a...

Feeding the Dragon (Oberon Modern Plays)Author: Sharon WashingtonPublisher: Oberon BooksPublication Date: December 30, 2019Number of Pages: 72 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10:...

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 its not just Vetinari across...

"Look. no one cares. no one cares what we do as long as we're here, doing what we're told" Welcome to Fiji Land. Things are very simple here. Follow orders. Fight the good fight. You can even take...

First Love is the RevolutionAuthor: Rita KalnejaisPublisher: Oberon BooksPublication Date: September 27, 2016Number of Pages: 96 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1783192992ISBN-13:...

The volume comprises both the original text and the French translation of Peter Darney's play; a graphic, gripping, funny and frank verbatim drama exposing the chill-out chem-sex scene. ?Wanna pair...

Includes the plays: Give Up! Start Over! (In the darkest of times I look to Richard Nixon for hope); A Thousand Natural Shocks; Particularly in the Heartland; Architecting; Mission Drift. Founded in...

"they like to see us fallto slip on branches full of fruit we have not tasted" Lately, it's small things.Pop songs.The radio.Every day, anguish becomes madness.Call on your family.Call on the...

Includes the plays Flesh to a Tiger, Skyvers and The White Witch Barry Reckord's place in the history of black playwriting in the United Kingdom unfortunately has been almost unrecognised previously...

An essential introduction to the British East Asian theatrical community, this is a collection of full plays, short plays and monologues from British East Asian writers, including Jingan Young,...

Adapted from Forgotten Voices of the Great War by Max Arthur. Based on the oral testimonies of First World War veterans, collected by the Sound Archive of the Imperial War Museum, Forgotten Voices...

Frankenstein (Oberon Modern Plays)Author: Carl MillerPublisher: Oberon BooksPublication Date: December 20, 2019Number of Pages: 72 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1786829363ISBN-13:...

In Fred's American Diner on a busy English motorway, people dream of better lives. You'll find friendly staff and get service with a smile, but not far beneath lies a deadly secret. Penelope...

Free and Proud dissects the disintegrating relationship between two American men from different backgrounds. Hakeem is an immigrant from Nigeria, a driven, loyal, righteous guy who's worked hard to...

From Morning To Midnight, among the most frequently performed German Expressionist works, charts the life of a cashier who steals money from the bank and flees to Berlin. The un-named protagonist's...

Includes the plays The Lady's Not for Burning, A Yard of Sun and Siege In this volume of Christopher Fry's original stage work, his most famous play The Lady's Not for Burning - 'Spring' in his set...

Includes the playsThe Firstborn, A Phoenix Too Frequent, A Sleep of Prisoners, Thor, With Angels, The Boy With a Cart, Caedmon Construed and A Ringing of Bells The third volume of Christopher Fry's...

"What I'm asking is, can you really erase things? Wipe them completely?"When smart young lawyer Peter's computer malfunctions, he asks his whiz-kid brother to wipe the hard drive. But the real cause...

The second collection of plays from Gail Louw, including the plays Duwayne, The Mitfords, The Half Life of Love and Joe Ho Ho. DUWAYNE: Traumatised by his best friend's murder, Duwayne Brooks was...

When Danielle was a child, three women loomed large in her life: her gritty, responsible mother, her wild-child Aunt, and their best friend. Now a young woman herself and facing the break-up of...

Sibylla Kellaway's volatile marriage to unfaithful David is ending. She has flown the marital nest and taken refuge in a summer-house at Silversands, a remote coastal promontory. Sibylla's flight has...

On the eve of his release from Feltham Young Offenders Institution, Zahid Mubarek, a young British Asian man, was attacked by his racist cellmate. One week later he died of his injuries. How was this...

Includes the plays The Lifeblood, Wolfpit, The Only Girl in the World A history, a legend, a rumour - three stories drawn from the shadows of England. The Lifeblood depicts the last days of Mary...

Gods & Kings (Oberon Modern Plays)Author: Paul WhittakerPublisher: Oberon BooksPublication Date: October 09, 2019Number of Pages: 112 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10:...

Carlo Goldoni (1707 - 1793) was one of the most prolific and versatile playwrights of his century, even though most of his vast output deals with life confined to a few square miles of Northern Italy...

Harry is a dedicated actor, often out of work, rejected and desperate for opportunities to practise his art. Brief moments of success only serve to increase his thirst for fulfilment. In these...

1903. In the back streets of Montmartre, the Theatre du Grand Guignol opens its doors to an unsuspecting public. The plays performed, rife with madness and murder, are sold out every night. A...

"I don't know what crime I am supposed to have committed for which not only I but my wife and children should continually suffer." - British detainee Moazzam Begg This verbatim play, drawn from...

Dead Centre?s new solo work for an eleven -year-old boy is devoted to Shakespeare?s only son, Hamnet, who died in 1596, only eleven himself. A single letter separates Hamnet from the philosophical...