Bøker i Oberon Modern Plays-serien

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

Two actors, one couple, swapping roles. A savage new play exploring violence in relationships and our expectations of gender.

Harry is a play about friendship and fandom, exploring the impact on young people of a celebrity-obsessed, Twitter-fuelled culture. Thick Skin is about millennials, but don't let that put you off. They're just trying to become decent people.

How to Act explores the contemporary realities of personal, cultural and economic exploitation through two individuals drawn together in the theatre.

A captivating, lively and poignant portrait of the pressures of being a teenager and the fight for acceptance in these intertwined monologues about three working class sisters sent to a private school.

Locker Room Talk is a provocative piece of event theatre. Inspired by Donald Trump's leaked sexually aggressive comments, the show is a confronting exploration of the phenomenon the then presidential candidate later dismissed as `locker room banter'.

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

Letters to Morrissey is the third in a trilogy of often darkly comic works drawing on the joys and struggles of growing up in working class Scotland.

Two policemen are called out to a remote asylum to investigate the escape of a missing patient. Set in the twilight world of 1950s pulp, this creepy satire twists and turns towards its shocking climax.

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".

Sabbat is based on an original account of the events which led to an extraordinary witchcraft trial in England in 1612. This tense and atmospheric play explores this mystery and the strange relationship between the accused and her accuser.

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.

The Fall is a play collaboratively written by the original cast as a reaction to and reflection on the South African student protests in 2015 and part of 2016.

In Minefield six Falklands/Malvinas war veterans who once faced each other across a battlefield now face each other across a stage. Together they share memories, films, songs and photos as they recall their collective war and embody the political figures that led them into it.

When did our obsession with wellness start making us sick? Daniella Isaacs peels back the Instagram filter to reveal the dirty truth behind clean living. A blistering piece of theatre about restriction, control and too much turmeric.

Award-winning writer Tanika Gupta has created a wonderful re-telling of Marina Lewycka's best-selling dark family comedy, which continues to have sharp relevance to today's society.

A dark, contemporary fairytale about a woman who rebels against a life she didn't choose, from one of France's most important new playwrights.

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.

Safe is a powerful verbatim theatre piece exploring some of the untold stories of young homeless people who identify as LGBT.

Venus in Fur is an intoxicating dark comedy of desire, fantasy and the innate love of fur. An exploration of gender roles and sexuality, in which desire twists and turns in on itself, Venus in Fur is also a witty, unsettling look at the art of acting-onstage and off.

A claustrophobic family play from award-winning writer Barney Norris.

Maureen Duffy's double-bill tells the story of two remarkable women: Hilda of Whitby and Virginia Woolf.

A new play about mixed-race identity, blending spoken word with live vocal looping.

Instructions for Correct Assembly is a witty, pointed satire on parenthood and perfect lifestyles.

Berlin. Eleven past eleven. Art teacher Melissa is about to do something drastic. Seeking a place to hide, her ex-pupil Mehdi interrupts her momentum. This explosive new play about self-destruction and rebirth attempts to understand the fear currently gripping the European psyche, and the threats that may be posed by our own alienated youth.

The final part in the war trilogy dedicated to the memory of the 306 British soldiers of the 1914-18 war who were shot at dawn, by their own side, for what was then called cowardice or desertion.

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.