Oberon Books, 1990

Oberon Modern Plays

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Acts: 2, Scenes: 4, Roles: Total (21), Female (10), Male (11), Unassigned (0)

...Condemned as a "libel on the British people" when it was first produced in 1951, Absolute Hell is set in a decaying West End drinking club at the end of the Second World War...

Oberon Books, 1997

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Acts: 2, Scenes: 4, Roles: Total (11), Female (5), Male (6), Unassigned (0)

...After October introduces us to Clive, a young playwright struggling to make ends meet, find love and complete his masterpiece. Not easy whilst being hounded by bailiffs and a feckless family...

Oberon Books, 2001

Oberon Modern Plays

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

...But darling what will people think if the sister's wearing mourning and the widow's dressed in pink? The war is over and the Skinner family are trying to return to normal. If only the blasted Government weren't...

Oberon Books, 2001

Oberon Modern Plays

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Acts: 3, Roles: Total (12), Female (7), Male (5), Unassigned (0)

...Includes the plays Smithereens, Strange Orchestra, Before The Party and The Old Ladies With an Introduction by Michael Hastings. No other major British playwright of the last 50 years has undergone...

Oberon Books, 2001

Oberon Modern Plays

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Acts: 3, Roles: Total (11), Female (6), Male (5), Unassigned (0)

...This play takes place in a large Chelsea flat, run as a boarding house by a slatternly Bohemian with a heart of gold. Her paying guests are young, poor and uncertain of their jobs. They squabble hysterically, make love and dance...

Oberon Books, 1997

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Acts: 4, Roles: Total (9), Female (3), Male (6), Unassigned (0)

...In The Dark River, set in the late thirties, the flamboyant characters are cocooned in a Thames backwater ignoring the turbulent events of a politically unstable Europe...

Oberon Books, 2001

Oberon Modern Plays

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Acts: 3, Roles: Total (4), Female (3), Male (1), Unassigned (0)

...This play was produced at the Booth Theatre in New York City, under the title Night in the House. In a tumble down house, three poor old ladies live out their lives in an imaginary past. One lives in hopes that her boy...