Oberon Books, 2008

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

...Five short plays about being alive. We'd like you to meet a bunch of people with something on their mind. There's a coach with an awkward confession to make and a spokeswoman who doesn't know what to say. This man and that woman...

Oberon Books, 2008

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

...Five short plays about being alive. We'd like you to meet a bunch of people with something on their mind. There's a coach with an awkward confession to make and a spokeswoman who doesn't know what to say. This man and that woman...

Oberon Books, 2013

Oberon Modern Plays

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Acts: 5, Scenes: 23, Roles: Total (1), Female (0), Male (1), Unassigned (0)

...Is the search for the Self for total nobodies? Watch closely as Peter Gnit, a funny-enough but so-so specimen of humanity, makes a lifetime of bad decisions, on the search for his True Self, which is disintegrating while he searches...

Oberon Books, 2003

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...“Two couples chat with one another at a play's intermission. From what we have heard, it sounds dreadful, which the cocky Jack points out. But his quibbles give way before Mr. Murray's torrent of memory and invective. He doesn't want...

Oberon Books, 2008

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

...Five short plays about being alive. We'd like you to meet a bunch of people with something on their mind. There's a coach with an awkward confession to make and a spokeswoman who doesn't know what to say. This man and that woman...

Oberon Books, 2011

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Acts: 2, Scenes: 25, Roles: Total (26), Female (13), Male (13), Unassigned (0)

...Mary Swanson just moved to Middletown. About to have her first child, she is eager to enjoy the neighbourly bonds a small town promises. But life in Middletown is complicated: neighbors are near strangers and moments of connection...

Oberon Books, 2008

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

...Five short plays about being alive. We'd like you to meet a bunch of people with something on their mind. There's a coach with an awkward confession to make and a spokeswoman who doesn't know what to say. This man and that woman...

Oberon Books, 2008

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

...Five short plays about being alive. We'd like you to meet a bunch of people with something on their mind. There's a coach with an awkward confession to make and a spokeswoman who doesn't know what to say. This man and that woman...

Oberon Books, 2003

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Acts: 2, Scenes: 22, Roles: Total (6), Female (2), Male (4), Unassigned (0)

...No one in the middle of being in love ever sat down to write a love story. It's only after the belongings are sorted and the shirts returned that the pencils are sharpened and the notebooks opened. So, in a serious way, love stories...

Oberon Books, 2014

Oberon Modern Plays

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

...People have been born into families since people started getting born at all. Playwrights have been trying to write Family Plays for a long time, too. And typically these plays try to answer endlessly complicated questions of blood and duty...

Oberon Books, 2014

Oberon Modern Plays

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Scenes: 12, Roles: Total (4), Female (2), Male (2), Unassigned (0)

...In The Realistic Joneses, we meet Bob and Jennifer and their new neighbours, John and Pony, two suburban couples who have even more in common than their identical homes and their shared last names. As their relationships begin...

Oberon Books, 2004

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

...From the last lonely wilderness, the last dark corner of these overlit times, in the camouflage of the common man, Thom Pain takes the stage, fumbling with his heart, squinting into the light. With terrible timing and impeccable regret...

Oberon Books, 2012

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

...Behold the newest nobody of the funniest century yet. He's almost Christ-like, from a distance, in terms of height and weight. Listen closely or drift off uncontrollably, as he speaks to you directly about the notion of home, about...

Oberon Books, 2001

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

...The sun has set over streets of houses, government buildings and American backyards everywhere. The world is dark. A news team is on the scene. Their report: someone left the lawn sprinklers on; someone's horse is loose; a seashell is lying...

Oberon Books, 2017

Oberon Modern Plays

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

...This funny, moving, and thought-provoking new play, written and directed by Lucille Lortel and Obie Award-winner Will Eno, challenges the notion of what really matters and recognizes the importance of life’s simple pleasures. (All of which...