Bøker i Oberon Modern Plays-serien

"Someone in a white coat said I was one of those who are addicted to the total all-embracing experience." On meeting Angel, Leigh's life is turned upside down. A roller-coaster of drugs and sex sees her transition from a devout single-white-mother into a dark world she never thought she would have to enter...

An explosive black comedy from actor, director and playwright Simon Paisley Day.

Lawrence's passionate belief in the power of intimacy and sexuality rings out in his finest play, one of the most memorable of the 20th century.

La Casa Azul is a collaboration between Quebecois playwright Sophie Faucher, who also played Frida Kahlo in this production, and internationally acclaimed director Robert Lepage. Translated by Neil Bartlett.

A hard-hitting, controversial new play about Muslim fundamentalism.

This latest creation from the Obie-winning company The Civilians asks the thorny question-how do we know what we know when everyone in power seems to be lying?

In 2006, two leading barristers: Philippe Sands QC and Julian Knowles tested the evidence of the grounds for an indictment of the British Prime Minister for the crime of aggression against Iraq. This book gathers the arguments and testimony, examining the criminal implications of the British Government's decision to use force against Iraq.

Veronica and her best friend create something magical within her ailing community.

A comedy set in a magazine publishers by dramatist Meredith Oakes.

New play from critically acclaimed poet, described as "the best dramatic poet now at work " by the Daily Telegraph

Raymondo is a story of brotherhood, loss, incarceration, escape, survival, desire, art and resilience.

Based on La Nona, Yer Granny is a riotous new comedy about a diabolical 100-year-old granny who's literally eating her family out of house and home.

A century apart, two people, united by blood and separated by time, weave the tapestry of their lives.

A site-responsive promenade production on an epic scale, fusing live interactive performance with innovative digital and new media technologies.

Whoever thought change would be this difficult, and what is Scott hiding under the bed?

A debut solo show combining theatre and spoken word to tell the story of the Christmas truce from WWI.

A biting cultural satire on media cynicism and the world of celebrity where you can go from nothing to everything and back again in the space of a YouTube video.

In a production commissioned by the Finborough Theatre, a unique opportunity to see a classic of Yiddish theatre for the first time in the UK - Treasure by David Pinski.

A queer coming-of-age remix, Bottom yanks the lid off the queer experience and questions if 'bottom' in the bedroom means 'bottom' in life.

A daring and unapologetic examination of religion, pop culture and Black representation.

Heart-wrenching short story about a doctor who falls in love with a patient. This is a translation of the original play from Turgenev, by the brilliant writer and producer, Simon Paisley Day.

Millicent has been computerised. After a lifetime's work in the Obituary Department of the Morning Telegraph she has been made redundant. The firm, however, has allowed her to go out in style - she can write her last obit in her own hand with her own fountain pen. But whose last obit will it be? An obscure failure? A giant of history? A personal friend? An old lover?She plunders her memories, her fantasies and her long friendship with the daft and the dead before she makes her decision. Peter Tinniswood's black comedy won the Edinburgh Festival Fringe First Award in 1998.

A sunny September day. Heather Smithson, a senior MI5 controller, has a dilemma. Her job is on the line. She pauses in the sunshine to brood on recent events and what they mean in her life. Seattle, Genoa, New York: What is the battleground? Who is the enemy?Hyperlynx was performed as a one act rehearsed reading at the Edinburgh Festival in August 2001. Its grim premonition of the terrorist activity of September 11th, necessitated that John McGrath wrote a second act. He completed the play in November before his death in January 2002.Hyperlynx was the winner of the Fringe First Award, Edinburgh 2002

Danny owes some bad people money. If he doesn't come up with it by tonight, a lady called Cathy will be calling with a baseball bat. So, Danny, Amy and her Dad set off on a quest through Leeds to get him the dosh. With Cathy and a psycho called Cauldron in pursuit, will Danny get his happy ending or is he just the no-hope Scuffer other people see?

Set against a bleak and bizarre bit of suburbia, this is a darkly hilarious chronicle of two brothers' attempt at reconciliation in the face of family tragedy.

A story of three women and their love for one man.

A warm and serious family comedy from acclaimed playwright Richard Everett.

And The Rest Of Me Floats is an autobiographical show about the messy business of gender, highlighting experiences across the trans, non-binary, and queer communities.

Pip, a poor village boy, finds two chance meetings set his life on an unexpected course. At the water's edge, he has a terrifying encounter with an escaped convict. In the decaying grandeur of Miss Haversham's house, he falls hopelessly in love with the heartless Estella. When an anonymous benefactor helps him move to Calcutta, the heart of the British Raj, Pip pursues his great expectations and his dream of winning Estella's heart. Relocating Pip's extraordinary journey to nineteenth-century India, this coming-of-age story, evoking some of Dickens' most colourful characters, is faithful to the period of the book and the richness of Dickens' language - a vivid theatrical retelling of a universally loved masterpiece.

This is the tale of Jonah, Sophie, and a fox called Scruffilitis. It's a love story. A dysfunctional, voyeuristic and darkly funny love story, but a love story all the same.