Methuen Drama, 2019

Oberon Modern Playwrights

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Scenes: 13, Roles: Total (5), Female (1), Male (4), Unassigned (0)

...Say the worst thing imaginable happens to you. It affects your life, your identity, your relationships, everything about you. But you know you can reverse it. The only thing standing in your way is not science or technology, it’s the person...

Methuen Drama, 2019

Oberon Modern Playwrights

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...Anton does his best but it’s a tough world out there - what with the Nazis, internment, a loveless marriage and a son he can’t communicate with. Being Brahms is a much better option, a world of soothing lullabies...

Methuen Drama, 2015

Oberon Modern Playwrights

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

...Stella Goldschlag, a Jewish woman living illegally in war-torn Berlin, is betrayed and tortured. When offered the chance of saving herself and her parents from the death camps, she agrees to be a ‘Greifer’ for the Gestapo and inform on Jews...

Methuen Drama, 2018

Oberon Modern Playwrights

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

...Traumatised by his best friend's murder, Duwayne Brooks was treated as a potential criminal instead of a witness. He faced years of torment by those who should have been on his side. He survived Stephen Lawrence's killers, but can he...

Methuen Drama, 2018

Oberon Modern Playwrights

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

...The parallels of Linda's life are extreme; on the one hand is the deep despair of life with a demented mother. On the other is a life of passion and sex with Joe, the man of her dreams. Using humour and tension, the play explores how...

Methuen Drama, 2019

Oberon Modern Playwrights

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

...A four-hander set in October 1973 in Kiryat Shemona, the most northern town of Israel, near the border with the Lebanon...

Methuen Drama, 2015

Oberon Modern Playwrights

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

...A moving two-hander which depicts the end of Marlene’s life, now a recluse within the confines of her bedroom. Her daughter, Maria, has tried unsuccessfully to move her to a care home, but Dietrich believes this will destroy the glamorous...

Methuen Drama, 2015

Oberon Modern Playwrights

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

...Shackleton’s ship, Endurance, sank in Antarctica, leaving him and his crew of 27 stranded. Harry McNish, Shackleton’s carpenter and brilliant shipwright, challenged The Boss, but went all the way with him, ensuring all lives were saved...

Methuen Drama, 2018

Oberon Modern Playwrights

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

...Junot Diaz said the half life of love is forever. It remains toxic, poisoning life long after love is over. How does love and nurture turn to rejection and hatred...

Methuen Drama, 2019

Oberon Modern Playwrights

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

...There are some enemies you’d wait a lifetime to see face-to-face. Charismatic, corrupt and dangerous, Jacob Zuma was until recently President of South Africa. But before Zuma came to power, Ronnie Kasrils masterminded the intelligence...

Methuen Drama, 2018

Oberon Modern Playwrights

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

...Diana was married to Oswald Mosley and a lifelong fascist. Unity was a great close friend of Hitler. Jessica was a dyed-in-the-wool communist. Nancy was a well-loved novelist. This one-woman play follows four of the Mitford Sisters...

Methuen Drama, 2015

Oberon Modern Playwrights

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

...Is it possible to lose your innocence at 70? Rika and Edith, close and caring sisters, finally discover the truth about their past. Can they adapt or will they now, after all these years, become strangers? This heartwarmng play reveals...