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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...

The first performance in The Space, Tanika Gupta's Fragile Land is about what nationhood means for second generation immigrants: revealing the complexities of life for a new generation of young...

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...

In 1997, a BAFTA award-winning British film about six out of work Sheffield steelworkers with nothing to lose took the world by storm. And now they're back, live on stage, only for them, it really...

Future Conditional tackles the nightmare of British schooling through a myriad of characters including parents, teachers, and Alia, a prodigiously clever fourteen-year-old Afghan refugee and the...

"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...

Late August down on the Somerset levels: deep in the water and the silt, something is moving, unfurling... Suffused with the austere poetry of the West Country, Glass Eels tells the story of a girl's...

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...

'The past is a very dangerous place' Two people, united by blood and separated by time, weave the tapestry of their lives. Loretta arrives in Victorian England as a wide-eyed young Ayah for two...

In a world bound by iron laws and dead rituals, two young men are struggling to make their way: Steerpike, the renegade kitchen-boy who seduces and murders his way up the social ladder, and Titus...

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...

Originally a novel by Will Self, Great Apes is a hilarious, disturbing and dazzlingly original take on man's place in the evolutionary chain. When Turner Prize-winning artist Simon Dykes wakes up one...

Richard Bean's fast and furious new play is an anarchic and foul-mouthed satire about the press, the police and the political establishment. Paige Britain is the ambitious, morally-bankrupt young...

"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...

The first collected works of Hannah Nicklin: a writer, game designer and performance maker experimenting with socially engaged practices and storytelling in contemporary performance. This collection...