Bücher der Reihe Oberon Modern Plays

A hilarious Spanish Golden Age play, adapted for the Royal Shakespeare Company by British translator Catherine Boyle

A collection of works by one of Germany's leading contemporary playwrights. This title features three plays such as: "The Park is Strauss'", "Seven Doors", and "Time and the Room".

Juan Mayorga's work has been produced in Spain and around Europe as well as the USA.

A play of wit, romance, misunderstandings and the mysteries of communication.

An adaptation of Max Arthur's bestselling and acclaimed book, "Forgotten Voices", based on the spoken testimony of veterans of the First World War, collected by the Sound Archive of the Imperial War Museum in 1970. In this, five ordinary survivors - four men and one woman - reveal their memories, which make up a narrative of an awesome war.

'A very tough piece of goods-dynamite, hard-edged and brilliant.'--New York Post.

Yael Farber uses the Oresteia trilogy as a metaphor through which to revisit the horrors endured by the black majority at the hands of the white minority. But unlike the original, Farber breaks the cycle of violence, reflecting South Africa's own transformation in the 1990s.

In this new production of "Piaf", Gems has reworked her celebrated 1978 original.

Frantic Assembly fuses a taut adaptation of the classic text with its trademark hard-hitting choreography.

Adapted by Phil Wilmott for the stage. Perhaps Maxim Gorky's best-known play. It was written during the winter of 1901 and the spring of 1902. Subtitled "Scenes from Russian Life," it depicted a group of impoverished Russians living in a shelter near the Volga

A play by Bryony Lavery in collaboration with Sound&Fury.A submarine is on patrol in the arctic. The crew sleep, eat, drill, long for word from home, and silently shadow their target. Their lives, at once extraordinary and mundane, are shattered by a global crisis from which uniquely personal stories emerge.Inspired by the Russian submarine disaster of August 2000, in collaboration with Sound&Fury, Bryony Lavery's play imagines the life of submariners, deep below the icy seas on the fraying front line of the cold war. Kursk was iproduced at the Young Vic Theatre 2009 and revived to great acclaim in 2010.

Nominated for four Naledi Awards (South Africa's equivalent of the Olivier Awards) including Best New South African Play.

Regarded as Von Kleist's masterpiece. Prince Friedrich of Homburg is the indisputable dramatic masterpiece of Heinrich von Kleist (1777-1811), a leading figure, along with Goethe and Schiller, among early German Romantics.

Fun for all the family, and fizzing with drama and magic.

2011 Olivier Award nomination for Best Revival.

From award winning theatre company On Theatre. Perfect for all fans of innovative drama.

For theatre lovers, teachers & students, fans of Faulks and all fans of classic literature, romance and period drama.

Topical, controversial production, likely to garner National Press attention. Wide-appeal especially to young adults.

An inspiring play from Eduardo Erba and translated into English by celebrated playwright and translator Colin Teeven.

This is the unreal journey through two disturbed minds and the unfolding events leading up to the self crucifixion of their father in the front room. Enter the insane world of siblings Michael and Michelle.

What happens when a teenage boy invades your weekend and refuses to go away? Kevin, a divorced school teacher visits the Cornish coast expecting to spend some time with his son. But at the same hotel Lego, a troubled 14 year-old, is determined to compete for Kevin's attention. Dino Mahoney draws his audience into the teacher's dilemma with humour and a lightness of touch that skilfully illuminates the play's deeper, disturbing concerns.

This stage revival has been brilliantly adapted by the prolific and award-winning playwright Richard Bean.

Carrie Willow and her brother Nick are evacuees transported to the safety of the countryside in the 1940s. There they stay with Mr Evans; Auntie Lou, and Albert Sandwich and Mr Johnny, who speaks his own language, and Hepzibah, the witch at Druid's Grove who makes perfect mince pies. And then there's the ancient skull with its terrifying curse.

A new children's play from the brilliant playwright Dennis Kelly, a Tony Award-winner for Matilda the Musical.

Ei jente sit på ein sofa, ho veit ikkje kva ho skal finne på. Ho kranglar med mora og er sjalu på den eldre søstra. Ho lengtar også etter den fraverande faren, ein sjømann.

"Shakespeare's dexterous comedy of two twin masters and two twin servants continually mistaken for one another is both farce and more than farce. The Comedy of Errors examines the interplay between personal and commercial relationships, and the breakdown of social order that follows the disruption of identity" --

'We are not beggars. I am not here for you to cast your pity at me like breadcrumbs tossed to a cripple. Because I know you're listening to me; and my voice won't be silent, not yet.'Tejas Verdes ('Green Gables'), once a sea-side resort, was an infamous Chilean torture and detention centre during the early years following the Pinochet coup in 1973. Fermin Cabal's humane and powerful play traces the life of a young woman who vanished one night in Santiago. Beneath the tolling of the church bells, her voice and the voices of those who share her story ring out with poetic beauty and overwhelming love.

A moving and powerful play about the joy and the heartbreak that motherhood brings to three very different mothers. Ali was always going to be a dancer. She was still dancing the day she gave birth. Careful Kitty, housewife and mother, sits in her silent home and waits for the daughter who doesn't return. And Milena, desperate to protect her children and carrying a terrible secret.

Winner Evening Standard Most Promising Playwright.Shortlisted for Susan Smith Blackburn Award.Autumn, and the orchard is full of cider apples: Beauty of Bath, Kingston Black and Glory of the West. Inside the farmhouse, the rule of the matriach Irene is challenged when her estranged daughter returns and her middle-aged son, beginning to tire of being tied to the unprofitable farm, grows restless.A richly evocative tale about life in our changing rural landscape.