Bücher der Reihe Oberon Modern Plays

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.

A real-life story of gender transition and the search for identity

The Flying Lovers of Vitebsk traces a young couple as they navigate the Pogroms, the Russian Revolution, and each other.

When Paul meets Marie outside the headmaster's office it's hardly love at first sight. More like "what you playing at you frigging psycho?" And when the two sixteen-year-olds find out Marie is pregnant, things get a little dicey. But hindsight is a wonderful thing, and as a grown up Paul waits to meet his children for the first time it's time for some serious thinking."I drink too much, my toilet looks like a bomb site and I eat crisps for breakfast. I'm not fit to be someone's father".

A poignant comedy about a terminally ill man's desire to reach his 90th birthday, upon which he believes the Queen will pay him a visit on the eve of her Diamond Jubilee.

What does it mean to be an adult and when do you become one? Alicia is a hot mess. She doesn't know what she's doing with her life. Swiping left, swiping right to find the perfect match. Even though she's a Londoner, born and bred, the scent of Lagos peppers her existence in the ends.

A deeply felt, funny and thought-provoking play about date rape, from the acclaimed author of Photograph 51.

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 screen vamp Pola Negri. As punishment, his films were removed from release and sealed in the MGM vaults never to be seen again, and his studio photographs destroyed.It was an attempt to erase him completely from movie history. But Billy and Jimmy's turbulent, passionate love affair was to survive and lasted over 50 years... This is their story.

This collection contains Soleimanpour's international hit White Rabbit Red Rabbit and his second play BLANK.

Two new plays by a major award-winning voice in queer writing and queer politics.

Callisto is a swirling constellation of remarkable queer stories. Hurtle across time and space with this scintillating and extraordinary new play.

A tale of Love, Grief and Turkey Basting. "You're manipulative. You're beautiful and manipulative but it won't last."People are manipulated, games are played and hearts ultimately shattered in this tale of one woman's longing for a child.

A new dark family drama from award-winning American playwright and screenwriter Mary Laws.

Queens of Sheba tells the stories of four Black women who have been turned away from a night club for "being too Black" (based on the DSTRKT Night spot incident of 2015).

Penelope Skinner's new play is a haunting vision of ruthless state control, tense friendships and one woman's determination not to be broken.

Tartuffe, or The Impostor (pronounced: [taRtuf]; French: Tartuffe, ou l'Imposteur), first performed in 1664, is one of the most famous theatrical comedies by Moliere, and the characters of Tartuffe, Valere, and Dorine are considered among the greatest classical theatre roles. This is a translation for the stage by Ranjit Bolt.

Love Song to Lavender Menace is a beautifully funny and moving exploration of the love and passion it takes to make something happen and the loss that is felt when you have to let it go.

It's the future. But only slightly. There are blackouts. No one knows what's causing them, but that doesn't stop people going missing in them. Now Steph and Bell, a schoolgirl and barmaid, have to search for their missing friend, until the outside world starts infecting the theatre that stands around them.

One woman attempts to articulate her experience of physical pain.

A new imaginative play for young people from award-winning writer Kieran Lynn, winner of the Alpine Fellowship Theatre Prize 2018.

Jean Cocteau's iconic play explores our desperate need for human relationships - and the machine that has changed them forever. A brand new version of this classic text is translated by Daniel Raggett and staged at the Gate Theatre 34 years since it was first produced there.

A new live literature experience by award-winning poet Nick Makoha, retelling his childhood escape from the Ugandan civil war.

"Magnificent pure theatre at its astonishing best." - Whats on Stage

Stella Kirby spent nine years running away; leaving home to find her freedom as an actress. Now she has decided that the only role left to play is the prodigal daughter returned, hoping to rediscover herself amongst the familiar surroundings of her childhood home, Eden End.Priestley has a special tenderness for Eden End and for it he created some of his most fragile, gentle characters. The stoical Dr Kirby, his younger son Wilfred, desperate to prove himself a man of the world, and Lilian, the daughter who stayed at home, are a sharply observed and instantly recognisable family, with all its dreams and disappointments.

Winner of fourteen top South African awards, including Best New South African Play.

During a heady hot summer, a young girl's sexual awakening is coloured by shadows of her early childhood. This work dramatises the unconscious world of instinct where the lives of humans, plants and eels are all ruled by the primal rhythms of the wetlands.

Based on the spoken testimony of veterans of the First World War, collected by the Sound Archive of the Imperial War Museum in 1970, this book contains memories of the war.

Part living-room gathering, part play, part gig session, Rantin draws on storytelling, live music and the Scottish folk tradition.

Seen from a British perspective, The Spalding Suite gets to the heart and soul of the gravity-defying game of basketball.

When reclusive crime writer Daniel Quinn receives a mysterious call seeking a private detective in the middle of the night, he quickly and unwittingly becomes the protagonist in a thriller of his own. As the familiar territory of the noir