Methuen Drama, 2000

Oberon Modern Playwrights

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Acts: 2, Scenes: 8, Roles: Total (6), Female (4), Male (2), Unassigned (0)

...A Listening Heaven, which focuses on one family’s painful inability to grieve for a dead son, was first produced in 1999 to critical acclaim at the Stephen Joseph Theatre in Scarborough, where Betts was the resident dramatist...

Methuen Drama, 2018

Oberon Modern Plays

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

...Monogamy means sharing your life with one person, but what if you shared your kitchen with 5.6 million? Caroline Mortimer, the nation's favourite TV cook, has it all – a sparkling career, a big house in Highgate, a (golf) loving...

Methuen Drama, 2000

Oberon Modern Playwrights

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

...In Clockwatching, produced at both the SJT and the Orange Tree Theatre in 2001, a despotic man descends into helplessness when his servile wife falls seriously ill...

Methuen Drama, 2001

Oberon Modern Playwrights

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Scenes: 5, Roles: Total (21), Female (7), Male (11), Unassigned (3)

...Waiting for life. Waiting for sex. Waiting for death, love, punishment. Everybody is waiting for something. But who is waiting for salvation? Five shocking visions. Seven deadly sins. Ten broken commandments. These are five very...

Methuen Drama, 2001

Oberon Modern Playwrights

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Scenes: 33, Roles: Total (6), Female (2), Male (3), Unassigned (1)

...A volume of language-rich, theatrically-ambitious tragedies. Betts’ hugely popular verse drama Incarcerator (White Bear and BAC) was a Time Out Critics' Choice...

Methuen Drama, 2014

Oberon Modern Plays

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

...The recession is biting hard and so Emily and Oliver have decided to downsize and shift their middle-class London lifestyle to a small town in the north of England. They want to live and to work and to raise their two young children...

Methuen Drama, 2019

Oberon Modern Plays

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Scenes: 8, Roles: Total (29), Female (14), Male (15), Unassigned (0)

...It Never Happened (or State Terror in Eight Easy Stages) eavesdrops on eight different periods from the past: two soldiers reflect on the prospect of imminent death caused by their government's greed; a political fixer makes an awkward sex...

Methuen Drama, 2008

Oberon Modern Plays

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Scenes: 5, Roles: Total (2), Female (1), Male (1), Unassigned (0)

...Set in the future, this savagely funny poetic drama deals with a city couple who relocate to a remote rural wilderness to escape the rat race and the rising anarchy of city life. But will a desolate house by the sea provide them...

Methuen Drama, 2000

Oberon Modern Playwrights

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Acts: 2, Scenes: 4, Roles: Total (6), Female (3), Male (2), Unassigned (1)

...Mummies and Daddies was developed at the RNT Studio. Charting a marketing man's collapsing personal life, it brutally yet hilariously lays bare the soullessness of consumerism...

Methuen Drama, 2012

Oberon Modern Plays

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Acts: 2, Scenes: 10, Roles: Total (6), Female (3), Male (3), Unassigned (0)

...One night in January 2010 and an earthquake in Haiti leaves around a hundred thousand people dead and almost two million homeless. Meanwhile, somewhere in a leafy North London suburb, a group of six individuals convene over avocado...

Methuen Drama, 2001

Oberon Modern Playwrights

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

...A volume of language-rich, theatrically-ambitious tragedies. In Silence and Violence the wife of a war hero seduces a much-reviled sculptor as Betts examines the artist’s quest for self-expression in a Philistine state...

Methuen Drama, 2001

Oberon Modern Playwrights

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Scenes: 8, Roles: Total (3), Female (1), Male (2), Unassigned (0)

...A volume of language-rich, theatrically-ambitious tragedies...

Methuen Drama, 2008

Oberon Modern Playwrights

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Acts: 2, Scenes: 11, Roles: Total (5), Female (2), Male (3), Unassigned (0)

...In The Company Man (2006) a dying woman's last night is marred by the conflict between her accomplished yet emotionally damaged husband and their deeply troubled son...

Methuen Drama, 2007

Oberon Modern Plays

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Scenes: 7, Roles: Total (6), Female (2), Male (3), Unassigned (1)

...From a playwright rated by Alan Ayckbourn and Howard Barker to be the most exciting new voice in British theatre comes a shattering re-imagining of life as we live it now, set in the context of a bloody revolution. Witness...

Methuen Drama, 2001

Oberon Modern Playwrights

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Scenes: 23, Roles: Total (5), Female (2), Male (3), Unassigned (0)

...A volume of language-rich, theatrically-ambitious tragedies. Betts’ first radio play, The Last Days of Desire, was commissioned by the BBC...

Methuen Drama, 2005

Oberon Modern Plays

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Acts: 2, Scenes: 20, Roles: Total (12), Female (3), Male (9), Unassigned (0)

...At the turn of the sixteenth century the two most powerful people on the planet, Queen Isabella of Castile and King Ferdinand of Aragon are making plans to expand their empire. They are plundering the riches of the New World, removing all...

Methuen Drama, 2016

Oberon Modern Plays

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

...Will the Prime Minister give Rupert the political prize he’s been hoping for? How much more can Olivia take of her mother Mary and her withering put-downs? Will Charlie get off her phone for long enough to listen to anyone, let alone her...

Methuen Drama, 2008

Oberon Modern Playwrights

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Acts: 2, Scenes: 20, Roles: Total (6), Female (2), Male (4), Unassigned (0)

...Set on Guy Fawke's Night The Optimist (2002) concerns a Government Defence Minister who must face up to the consequences of the choices he has made, both professionally and personally...

Methuen Drama, 2008

Oberon Modern Playwrights

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Acts: 2, Scenes: 5, Roles: Total (6), Female (3), Male (3), Unassigned (0)

...The Swing of Things (2005) hilariously examines a world where status anxiety and affluenza seem to have corrupted the soul of a whole generation...

Methuen Drama, 2007

Oberon Modern Plays

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

...One day you will say something from the heart, a truth forced raw and screeching from the howling depths of your soul. Powerful poetic language, dark humour and provocative ideas build a fast moving story around...