Oberon Books, 2002

Oberon Modern Plays

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Acts: 2, Scenes: 4, Roles: Total (11), Female (4), Male (7), Unassigned (0)

...Produced at Stratford East, A Night in Tunisia plays on a stage split between past and present, and describes the fall of a great jazz musician through self-doubt and guilt...">

...Produced at Stratford East, A Night in Tunisia plays on a stage split between past and present, and describes the fall of a great jazz musician through self-doubt and guilt...

Oberon Books, 2009

Oberon Modern Plays

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Scenes: 11, Roles: Total (3), Female (1), Male (2), Unassigned (0)

...Are Africans being exploited as 'guinea pigs' to test new drugs for multi-national pharmaceutical companies? Why is HIV/AIDS treatment too expensive for countries where the virus is most rife? Is it okay to sacrifice lives to protect...">

...Are Africans being exploited as 'guinea pigs' to test new drugs for multi-national pharmaceutical companies? Why is HIV/AIDS treatment too expensive for countries where the virus is most rife? Is it okay to sacrifice lives to protect...

Oberon Books, 2018

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Acts: 2, Scenes: 22, Roles: Total (7), Female (3), Male (4), Unassigned (0)

...A contemporary retelling of a classic gothic story, inspired by Edgar Allan Poe's The Fall of the House of Usher, set against a background of cuts to our 70 year old NHS. Alison is heading to her first shift at St Nicholas...">

...A contemporary retelling of a classic gothic story, inspired by Edgar Allan Poe's The Fall of the House of Usher, set against a background of cuts to our 70 year old NHS. Alison is heading to her first shift at St Nicholas...

Oberon Books, 2008

Oberon Modern Plays

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Scenes: 3, Roles: Total (8), Female (2), Male (6), Unassigned (0)

...In Crusade a group of Western tourists break down in the West Bank, reacting in different ways to their situation. Written by Paul Sirett, the play was first performed at the Theatre Royal, Stratford East. London, in 1994...">

...In Crusade a group of Western tourists break down in the West Bank, reacting in different ways to their situation. Written by Paul Sirett, the play was first performed at the Theatre Royal, Stratford East. London, in 1994...

Oberon Books, 2008

Oberon Modern Plays

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

...The short play International Café brings together the stories of a restaurant's staff and customers, and was specifically written to be performed in restaurants...">

...The short play International Café brings together the stories of a restaurant's staff and customers, and was specifically written to be performed in restaurants...

Oberon Books, 2002

Oberon Modern Plays

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

...First produced at The Theatre Royal Stratford East on 23 June 1998, Jamaica House features two characters in a tower block that is due to be demolished shortly, deciding whether their lives are worth leaving the building for....">

...First produced at The Theatre Royal Stratford East on 23 June 1998, Jamaica House features two characters in a tower block that is due to be demolished shortly, deciding whether their lives are worth leaving the building for....

Oberon Books, 2008

Oberon Modern Plays

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Scenes: 20, Roles: Total (9), Female (3), Male (5), Unassigned (1)

...Exhilarating and refreshing, Running the Silk Road blends East and West, telling a modern story mixed with Chinese myths. In the year of the Beijing Olympics, a group of friends from London set themselves an epic challenge –...">

...Exhilarating and refreshing, Running the Silk Road blends East and West, telling a modern story mixed with Chinese myths. In the year of the Beijing Olympics, a group of friends from London set themselves an epic challenge –...

Oberon Books, 2002

Oberon Modern Plays

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Scenes: 9, Roles: Total (4), Female (2), Male (2), Unassigned (0)

...A homage to two-tone and ska, Skaville is about desire, escape, violence and music in the late seventies, as a stranger arrives in town to transform the fortunes of a lonely man’s record shop...">

...A homage to two-tone and ska, Skaville is about desire, escape, violence and music in the late seventies, as a stranger arrives in town to transform the fortunes of a lonely man’s record shop...

Oberon Books, 2005

Oberon Modern Plays

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Acts: 2, Scenes: 18, Roles: Total (11), Female (6), Male (5), Unassigned (0)

...Think about it. Think what you could achieve without women in your life. If all the time you spent on them, you spent on yourself. Think how much money you could save. Think how much aggravation you could avoid. Journeying over...">

...Think about it. Think what you could achieve without women in your life. If all the time you spent on them, you spent on yourself. Think how much money you could save. Think how much aggravation you could avoid. Journeying over...

Oberon Books, 2008

Oberon Modern Plays

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Acts: 5, Scenes: 6, Roles: Total (9), Female (2), Male (7), Unassigned (0)

...This Other Eden portrays the disastrous personal and political divisions within a classical string quartet...">

...This Other Eden portrays the disastrous personal and political divisions within a classical string quartet...

Oberon Books, 2008

Oberon Modern Plays

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Acts: 2, Roles: Total (11), Female (5), Male (6), Unassigned (0)

...Set in an airport immigration office, Worlds Apart interweaves the fates of five detainees and the officers handling them, with the Tibetan folk tale of Sukyi Nyima...">

...Set in an airport immigration office, Worlds Apart interweaves the fates of five detainees and the officers handling them, with the Tibetan folk tale of Sukyi Nyima...