Bøker i Oberon Modern Plays-serien

A collection of radical queer performance texts from visionary theatre-maker Neil Bartlett. Effortlessly straddling the political and the personal, these highly theatrical monologues display a searing intelligence from a unique voice in the British counterculture.

A powerful and award-winning story of the terrifying complexities of contemporary sex trafficking, based on real experiences.

The newest play from innovative and exciting playwright Oliver Lansley, part of the Enfant Terribles theatre company.

A three-play collection from up-and-coming Scottish writer James Ley.

A play in which an audience are invited to wander and explore the undiscovered places that lurk behind the scenes in theatres and travelling shows before being taken to a private audience with Jessie and Bessie the famous Siamese Twins. A touching play about disability and identity.

Written in English and in British Sign Language, the two languages and two scripts work both in opposition and in harmony to test and stretch the capacities of language.

A hilarious new play from critically acclaimed British playwright & director Matthew Dunster.

A powerful and disturbing verbatim play, based on the testimonies of people within Syria at the heart of the uprising, which provides a troubling account of life under Assad's oppressive regime. The stories were gathered by British journalists who travelled into Syria covertly.

A young couple in a war-torn country are stranded on opposite sides of a newly-militarised border, in a sinister yet absurdly funny satire.

The stage play of the blockbuster film: an uproariously entertaining Eighties-set play in Sheffield.

A contemporary and dynamic play from a thrilling new voice in British theatre.

Morgan Lloyd Malcolm's explosive new play delves into one woman's quest for identity and a place she can call home.

Journey's End is one of the best known, and most studied First World War plays. This comprehensive and detailed book tells the story of what went into the making of this extraordinarily powerful first world war drama, and why it means so much to so many people across the word and through the years.

Highly inventive and actable adaptation of Conan Doyle's most famous story.

Three short plays parodying some of the greats of the European dramatic and literary canon: Chekhov, Wagner, Wordsworth, Eliot, Strindberg, Milne and Goethe.

A forgotten play by JB Priestley. Last seen at the Duke of York's Theatre in the West End in 1977, starring Arthur Lowe, this edgy comedy was revived in London in 2013.

A delicate and beautifully wrought South African drama, Solomon and Marion is the story of two injured souls searching for redemption in the fragile, post-apartheid South Africa. It won the Fleur Du Cap Award for Best New South African Play in 2011.

"Witty, provocative and heartbreaking, the pieces in this first collection by Douglas Maxwell explore childhood trashed and innocence lost, reinvent and subvert the very idea of a play for young people. Contains the plays Decky Does A Bronco, Helmet, Mancub, The Mother Ship and Too Fast.

A thrilling and tragic play about an unsolved historical mystery, which asks whether a heroic Scottish General was smeared in a plot by the English establishment.

Dr Faustus is a highly popular text, this student edition uses the A text, widely excepted as the most authentic published edition. Fully revised by leading Renaissance scholar, Ros King, it contains a completely new Introduction containing the latest criticism and stage history and revised commentary and notes.

Surreal, dystopian comedy. This play won the 2011 Verity Bargate Award for new writing; impressing the judges with its amazing bravery, its stunning theatricality and its pure originality.

A British Bollywood musical, written by leading British playwright Tanika Gupta, and directed by Kneehigh's Emma Rice. A gritty and entertaining story about British-Asian communities in contemporary London.

The story of Amina Arraf, the blogger known as "A Gay Girl in Damascus," based on real events.

The first play by Dea Loher, one of Europe's foremost contemporary dramatists, is based on real events of the 1930s and 1940s focusing on the life of Olga Benario, a German-Brazilian communist militant.

A business man who has lost everything searches for a sense of place and identity through the language of his dying father.

An investment banker is mugged by London street gang, in a play which allegorises contemporary greed and materialism.

A trivial event causes the lives of six disparate characters to intertwine, in a beguiling tale set in contemporary Dublin.

A gritty drama set in Derbyshire. Family loyalties are tested as an elderly woman fights to prevent her local chapel from being redeveloped into luxury flats by her own son.

Acclaimed poet and playwright Glyn Maxwell's sequel to Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, which revolves around the characters' search fro Malvolio, who hasn't been seen since his humiliation twelve years earlier, where Shakespeare's play ended.

Adaptation of a classic British farce written in 1887 by Arthur Wing Pinero, an actor and important British dramatist and stage director.