Methuen Drama, 2022

Modern Plays

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Scenes: 7, Roles: Total (13), Female (4), Male (9), Unassigned (0)

...I want theatre to be sweaty, exciting, unpredictable…. Mike Bradwell is on a mission to revolutionise British theatre. He's sick of fancy plays by dead blokes and wants to tell stories about real people, living real...

Oberon Books, 2009

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Acts: 5, Scenes: 2, Roles: Total (13), Female (6), Male (7), Unassigned (0)

...'Fucking Frogs! My grandfather didn't die in the English Civil War so's half the population of France could come over here and live off the soup!' A riotous journey through four waves of immigration from the 17th...

Oberon Books, 2015

Oberon Modern Plays

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Acts: 2, Scenes: 32, Roles: Total (25), Female (11), Male (14), Unassigned (0)

...Richard Bean’s fast and furious new play is an anarchic and foul-mouthed satire about the press, the police and the political establishment. Paige Britain is the ambitious, morally-bankrupt young news editor of The Free Press, a tabloid...

Oberon Books, 2005

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Scenes: 7, Roles: Total (16), Female (4), Male (12), Unassigned (0)

...In May 1875 Lord Primrose Agar, drunk as a skunk, wagered one of his tenant farmers, Orlando Harrison, that his new border collie pup Jip would outlive the 94 year old Harrison. The prize would be the 82-acre Kilham Wold Farm in East...

Oberon Books, 2003

Oberon Modern Plays

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Roles: Total (6), Female (3), Male (3), Unassigned (0)

...You love someone, you can feel it, like a lump, summat you carry around with yer. Bloody hell, it's either there or it int, like a hat. If Romeo and Juliet had lived, would their marriage have survived? How long...

Oberon Books, 2007

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Acts: 3, Roles: Total (8), Female (4), Male (4), Unassigned (0)

...Hapless MEP Philip Wardrobe has a busy day ahead of him, balancing his less-than-irreproachable political career with his attempts to start a family. As he prepares for his girlfriend to fly in from Kettering for an afternoon...

Oberon Books, 2017

Oberon Modern Playwrights

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Scenes: 3, Roles: Total (2), Female (1), Male (1), Unassigned (0)

...I’m thirty two and I want a baby. There are no men. A desperate woman. A chivalrous man. And a forbidden kiss that changes everything. Richard Bean’s play is a beautiful and unorthodox love story about...

Oberon Books, 2000

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Acts: 2, Roles: Total (4), Female (2), Male (2), Unassigned (0)

...Why has middle manager Stephen England got up in the night and defecated on the living room carpet? His wife Judith doesn't know, nor does his mother Irene. Only Andy, the gauche youth who regularly turns up uninvited to borrow his power...

Oberon Books, 2011

Modern Plays

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Acts: 2, Scenes: 9, Roles: Total (9), Female (3), Male (6), Unassigned (0)

...Fired from his skiffle band, Francis Henshall becomes minder to Roscoe Crabbe, a small time East End hood, now in Brighton to collect £6,000 from his fiancee's dad. But Roscoe is really his sister Rachel posing as her own dead brother...

Oberon Books, 2014

Oberon Modern Plays

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Acts: 5, Scenes: 24, Roles: Total (20), Female (6), Male (14), Unassigned (0)

...In the southern Pacific Ocean on the remote island of Pitcairn, the infamous mutineers of The Bounty, led by Fletcher Christian (or should it be Titreano?) begin to establish a new society alongside their Tahitian followers. Tensions...

Oberon Books, 2009

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Acts: 5, Scenes: 16, Roles: Total (10), Female (6), Male (3), Unassigned (1)

...Lee, a soldier returning to Hull from two tours of Afghanistan, joins a losing pub quiz team. The team is: Lee, specialist subject - 'how to kill a man with your bare hands'; Woody, specialist subject - 'hallucinogenic drugs'; and Bunny...

Oberon Books, 2003

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Acts: 2, Scenes: 7, Roles: Total (5), Female (2), Male (3), Unassigned (0)

...‘Doesn’t smoke. Doesn’t drink. Doesn’t do drugs. I’m worried about her, she’s not normal.’ ‘It’s the modern world. You can’t judge kids by your own standards.’ Things have...

Oberon Books, 2010

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Acts: 4, Scenes: 10, Roles: Total (7), Female (2), Male (5), Unassigned (0)

...Shortlisted for the Writers' Guild of Great Britain Best Theatre Play 2011 Young New Yorker Michael Doyle decides to live up to his Irish heritage by joining the IRA. He’s recruited by Costello, the charismatic “Big...

Oberon Books, 2008

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Acts: 3, Roles: Total (14), Female (0), Male (14), Unassigned (0)

..."I've wasted the whole of my life playing this game. It's claimed my knees and it occupies every spare synapse in my brain. I'm not even sure I like it anymore..." The Nightwatchmen: an amateur London cricket team...

Oberon Books, 2003

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Scenes: 10, Roles: Total (5), Female (3), Male (2), Unassigned (0)

..."The borders don't make any sense, there's no rule of law, no running water, you never know when the electric's on, the last war's fucked everything, and the next war will fuck everything else" A dark and deeply...

Oberon Books, 2011

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Acts: 5, Scenes: 5, Roles: Total (6), Female (3), Male (3), Unassigned (0)

..."I'm a scientist. I don't 'believe' in anything." The study of climate science is the cool degree at the university where Dr Diane Cassell is a lead academic in Earth Sciences. At odds with the orthodoxy over...

Oberon Books, 2017

Oberon Modern Plays

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Acts: 5, Scenes: 7, Roles: Total (20), Female (7), Male (13), Unassigned (0)

...A riotous new comedy from award-winning playwright Richard Bean, author of One Man, Two Guvnors. April 1642. Sir John Hotham, Governor of Hull, is charged by Parliament to secure the arsenal at Hull and deny entry...

Oberon Books, 2002

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Scenes: 2, Roles: Total (2), Female (0), Male (2), Unassigned (0)

...War, poverty, corruption, spiralling taxes, bad behaviour, inter-personal violence and over-population. Do these things worry you? Middle-aged manager Ted, hits on a utopian plan to change the way we live in this darkly funny...

Oberon Books, 2016

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Acts: 2, Scenes: 9, Roles: Total (9), Female (3), Male (6), Unassigned (0)

...Dylan isn't your typical snooker player. He's a vegetarian, for starters. This is the biggest week of his life and everybody wants a piece of him – his ex-con Dad, local gangster Waxy Chuff and the snooker corruption squad...

Methuen Drama, 2023

Modern Plays

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Acts: 4, Scenes: 4, Roles: Total (6), Female (3), Male (3), Unassigned (0)

...He talks about going to Switzerland, to that place where you pay them to kill you… And I say “go! It'll do you good. Broaden your horizons…you've never been abroad! After sixty years of marriage, happily settled...