Bücher der Reihe Oberon Modern Plays

An uncompromising political drama, traveling backwards through time.

Thomas Bernhard's rarely performed masterpiece, a moving portrait of a once celebrated actor now isolated and forgotten.

The English-language premiere from one of Europe's stars of speaking theatre - great material for amateur groups seeking something original

A dark, volatile new play by the George Devine Award-winning playwright Alice Birch.

The Master and Margarita is a novel by Mikhail Bulgakov, written between 1928 and 1940 but not published in book form until 1967. It is woven around a visit by the Devil to the fervently atheistic Soviet Union. Many critics consider it to be one of the best novels of the 20th century, and the foremost of Soviet satires.

It's 1887 and Nancy Astley sits in the audience at her local music hall: she doesn't know it yet, but the next act on the bill will change her life. Tonight is the night she'll fall in love... with the thrill of the stage and with Kitty Butler, a girl who wears trousers.

A new play by one of German's most prominent playwrights, for the first time available in English.

As the Great War gathers pace, Agnes and her sister Edith revel in their new-found independence and prosperity as Barnbow lasses. Not only does their danger money buy them a new life of confidence, men, work and politics but the thrill of a new future, full of fun, friendship and freedom.

Imagine being told to leave your home... Imagine American soldiers occupying your house and land... Imagine being 12 and angry, with only a cat to tell your secrets to...Based on Michael Morpurgo's The Amazing Story of Adolphus Tips, this play explodes everything we thought we knew about the D-Day landings.

What is the entity that calls itself Islamic State? Why are some young Muslim men and women from across Western Europe leaving their homes to answer the call of Jihad? And what should we do about it?

The first full-length play from the critically acclaimed author of Last Christmas.

Full of humour and bawdy wit, this new comedy transports us into the wanton world of the English Restoration. A new comedy by Steve Trafford with songs by Henry Purcell.

A fictional account of the night Muhammad Ali. then Cassius Clay, celebrated his world heavyweight title victory with Malcolm X, singer Sam Cooke and footballer Jim Brown. A powerful, funny play taking us to the heart of a pivotal moment in the history of a nation.

A collection of intertwined monologues that explore the nuances of living with HIV and its effects, both emotional and physical.

A modern take on a Feydeau classic: an ingenious look at the game of infidelity and marriage.

Seventeen is set in that time after the end of the last day of school, but just before everyone moves on. It's about the cusp of adulthood, the cusp of complete change. Funny, immature, wise and a little bit sad, Seventeen performed by a cast of septuagenarians, will turn our notions of adulthood and adolescence on their head.

A verbatim play exploring the Hillsborough disaster, on the twenty-fifth anniversary of the tragedy. This play includes teachers' notes.

John van Druten's 1930s workplace drama. First produced in 1931, this new edition marks the acclaimed revival production in London in 2013.

It starts with one dead rat; it ends with an entire city engulfed by catastrophe. The Plague is Albert Camus' electrifying story of living through a time of crisis and fighting back against despair.

A new play exploring the gay chem-sex scene, The Chemsex Monologues is a funny, moving examination of the chillouts and the people who know them.

A single play edition of The Dead Dogs, translated by May-Brit Akerholt written by Jon Fosse, Europe's most performed playwright. In The Dead Dogs, lives are shockingly disrupted by an event that changes the directions of their future.

The Seven Pomegranate consists of seven contemporary monologues for female speakers based on Euripides' plays. Each one looks at an aspect of mother/child relations. There is a unified structure which relates to Demeter and Persephone and the Moors Murders.

When highly decorated war hero, Colonel Tariq joins the intelligence agency, his rise to the top seems assured. But in his first case he discovers a CIA agent has killed a young prostitute and a diplomatic crisis erupts.

The Iphigenia Quartet sees four of the UK's most exciting and radical playwrights - Caroline Bird, Suhayla El Bushra, Lulu Raczka, and Chris Thorpe - create explosive responses to Iphigenia at Aulis by Euripides.

P'yongyang tells the epic love story of two North Korean childhood sweethearts spanning three decades.

Olivier Award nominee Matthew Dunster's ambitious new play exposes the business of today's Government.

Adapted solely from real testimonies and interviews, The 56 and E15 are plays about modern injustice and tragedy which look at the housing crisis and the Bradford City football ground fire in 1985.

A wickedly heart-warming and funny celebration of the wonders and pitfalls of the human brain.

A graphic, gripping, funny and frank verbatim drama exposing the chill-out chem-sex scene.

Dead Centre's new solo work for an eleven -year-old boy is devoted to Shakespeare's only son, Hamnet, who died in 1596 at the age of eleven.