Oberon Books, 2001

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Scenes: 34, Roles: Total (9), Female (4), Male (5), Unassigned (0)

...Stewart is an award-winning photo-journalist who specialises in recording atrocities around the world. A young woman, a journalist herself, who is an admirer of his work, starts to investigate Stewart's life and in doing so uncovers...">

...Stewart is an award-winning photo-journalist who specialises in recording atrocities around the world. A young woman, a journalist herself, who is an admirer of his work, starts to investigate Stewart's life and in doing so uncovers...

Oberon Books, 2007

Oberon Modern Plays

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Acts: 2, Scenes: 17, Roles: Total (21), Female (7), Male (14), Unassigned (0)

...Meet Ugly, he's no ordinary duck. In fact he might not even be a duck at all! An embarrassment to his brothers and sisters, Ugly eats snails, speaks funny and looks even funnier. Fed up with being the butt of all the pond jokes, he strikes...">

...Meet Ugly, he's no ordinary duck. In fact he might not even be a duck at all! An embarrassment to his brothers and sisters, Ugly eats snails, speaks funny and looks even funnier. Fed up with being the butt of all the pond jokes, he strikes...

Methuen Drama, 1997

Contemporary Dramatists

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Scenes: 15, Roles: Total (4), Female (2), Male (2), Unassigned (0)

...In Flesh and Blood, Philip Osment concludes his Devon series of plays with an exploration of the claustrophobia of rural farm life. Three siblings inherit their family farm and struggle with the weight of their responsibilities...">

...In Flesh and Blood, Philip Osment concludes his Devon series of plays with an exploration of the claustrophobia of rural farm life. Three siblings inherit their family farm and struggle with the weight of their responsibilities...

Oberon Books, 2016

Oberon Modern Plays

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Scenes: 21, Roles: Total (6), Female (3), Male (3), Unassigned (0)

...Hearing Things explores the dilemmas of psychiatry from the points of view of patients, relatives and staff. Based on experiences of psychiatrists and patients, the 'healthy' and the 'ill', the play examines how and if people heal...">

...Hearing Things explores the dilemmas of psychiatry from the points of view of patients, relatives and staff. Based on experiences of psychiatrists and patients, the 'healthy' and the 'ill', the play examines how and if people heal...

Oberon Books, 2010

Oberon Modern Plays

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Scenes: 21, Roles: Total (9), Female (0), Male (9), Unassigned (0)

...Looking for relief from boredom and a chance to get off the wing, seven young fathers in prison sign up for an education programme. They try to use the workshops to settle scores and to rise up the prison pecking order. But they're...">

...Looking for relief from boredom and a chance to get off the wing, seven young fathers in prison sign up for an education programme. They try to use the workshops to settle scores and to rise up the prison pecking order. But they're...

Oberon Books, 2001

Oberon Modern Plays

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Scenes: 10, Roles: Total (10), Female (4), Male (2), Unassigned (4)

...Philip Osment’s magical play is funny, tender and true. Gabriel has to earn his stripes as a guardian angel to a poor orphaned girl as she grows up with her adoptive parents. Along the way he learns things about his own history and the real...">

...Philip Osment’s magical play is funny, tender and true. Gabriel has to earn his stripes as a guardian angel to a poor orphaned girl as she grows up with her adoptive parents. Along the way he learns things about his own history and the real...

Oberon Books, 2004

Oberon Modern Plays

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Scenes: 16, Roles: Total (12), Female (3), Male (3), Unassigned (6)

...A play combining fantasy and realism about two children coping with their mother's depression and learning how to overcome their own fears. Palace of Fear was developed in primary schools and toured Leicester schools in 2004...">

...A play combining fantasy and realism about two children coping with their mother's depression and learning how to overcome their own fears. Palace of Fear was developed in primary schools and toured Leicester schools in 2004...

Methuen Drama, 1997

Contemporary Dramatists

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Acts: 4, Scenes: 4, Roles: Total (9), Female (5), Male (4), Unassigned (0)

...The residents of a small town in Devon populate the pages of Philip Osment’s The Dearly Beloved, an exploration of rural life and spiritual longing. In always dreaming of a better life, the townspeople fail to see...">

...The residents of a small town in Devon populate the pages of Philip Osment’s The Dearly Beloved, an exploration of rural life and spiritual longing. In always dreaming of a better life, the townspeople fail to see...

Oberon Books, 1997

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Scenes: 7, Roles: Total (5), Female (1), Male (4), Unassigned (0)

...Award-winning playwright Philip Osment's sad, touching and sometimes comic story of five friends who journey into the Irish countryside to scatter the ashes of Henry, who has died of AIDS...">

...Award-winning playwright Philip Osment's sad, touching and sometimes comic story of five friends who journey into the Irish countryside to scatter the ashes of Henry, who has died of AIDS...

Oberon Books, 2019

Oberon Modern Plays

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Scenes: 34, Roles: Total (1), Female (0), Male (1), Unassigned (0)

...1988. THATCHER'S BRITAIN. Seventeen-year-old Luke runs away to London – away from homophobic playground slurs, headlines that scream 'Don't Teach Our Children To Be Gay' and a family who wouldn't understand him – to Uncle...">

...1988. THATCHER'S BRITAIN. Seventeen-year-old Luke runs away to London – away from homophobic playground slurs, headlines that scream 'Don't Teach Our Children To Be Gay' and a family who wouldn't understand him – to Uncle...

Methuen Drama, 1997

Contemporary Dramatists

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Scenes: 6, Roles: Total (8), Female (3), Male (5), Unassigned (0)

...Philip Osment draws on his own childhood on a farm in What I Did in the Holidays, the second of his Devon series of plays. When two hitchhikers hire on at an isolated farm, they discover themselves amongst a family with many secrets...">

...Philip Osment draws on his own childhood on a farm in What I Did in the Holidays, the second of his Devon series of plays. When two hitchhikers hire on at an isolated farm, they discover themselves amongst a family with many secrets...

Oberon Books, 2013

Oberon Modern Plays

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Scenes: 19, Roles: Total (4), Female (2), Male (2), Unassigned (0)

...What happens when you're in a hole? What happens when that hole's inside you? What do you fill it with to make yourself feel whole? Last year, 3 teenagers emailed the 20 Stories High Theatre Company to ask them if they could...">

...What happens when you're in a hole? What happens when that hole's inside you? What do you fill it with to make yourself feel whole? Last year, 3 teenagers emailed the 20 Stories High Theatre Company to ask them if they could...