Oberon Books, 2017

Oberon Modern Plays

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Scenes: 7, Roles: Total (9), Female (4), Male (5), Unassigned (0)

...Chick arrives back in Scotland for a reunion with his old mates Gary and Jackson only to find Gary's daughter has been the victim of a life-changing car accident. The antiseptic smell of the wards, the relentless beep of the life support...

Oberon Books, 2001

Oberon Modern Plays

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

...Decky Does a Bronco is the tragi-comic story of a gang of nine-year-old boys who spend the summer of 1983 'Broncoing swings' in Girvan, on the west coast of Scotland. Broncoing (kicking the swing over the bar) is the social bench mark...

Oberon Books, 2002

Oberon Modern Plays

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

...Helmet (a.k.a. Roddy) lives his life completely immersed in computer games. The little time he has away from his consoles is spent in The Zone, a low tech games shop, which has just this very day gone bankrupt. Sal, the down-trodden owner...

Oberon Books, 2019

Oberon Modern Plays

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

...Anyone can learn maps and battles. Geezer, I feel it! I live it! I'm giving everything to this beautiful, wild, absolutely pure British thing. Like, do you know what it took to get here, man? Stevie is a disillusioned academic...

Oberon Books, 2005

Oberon Modern Plays

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Scenes: 3

...Greetings from New Flood, which has just won the prestigious 'Worst Town in Scotland' award. The prize is £500,000 with which to 'improve' things. Vincent has always been original ever since his tragically miraculous birth. When...

Oberon Books, 2005

Oberon Modern Plays

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...Mancub is the beautiful and absurd story of a boy who seems to be turning into animals. Paul faces the usual struggles of growing up. Struggles for understanding with his father, struggles to work out what girls are about. But he also faces...

Oberon Books, 2006

Oberon Modern Plays

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

...My heart had broken. Cracked like a paving stone tapped by a mallet. All things in life which require effort - pleasure, passion, wit and thought - are impossible when your heart is cracked. And it's also very hard to get out of bed...

Oberon Books, 2001

Oberon Modern Plays

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

...Our Bad Magnet is an unashamedly dark and deliciously funny play from one of Scotland's brightest young writing talents, in which the boundaries between fantasy and reality merge with unpredictable results. Centering...

Oberon Books, 2010

Oberon Modern Plays

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...Given her disreputable past, retired teacher Maggie Brodie knows she was a last minute choice for supply cover. Being patronised by the idiotic young headmaster is an indignity she can just about endure. But her frustrations increase when...

Oberon Books, 2010

Oberon Modern Plays

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

...Holding on to your virginity, getting a ring for your pains and something to believe in, that's what Dawn, Rob and Fawziya want. Ozzy, their loser PE teacher needs to believe in something too. It will all be fine when the Miracle Man gets...

Oberon Books, 2008

Oberon Modern Plays

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Scenes: 27, Roles: Total (6), Female (2), Male (4), Unassigned (0)

...Eliot is 18 and under severe stress. There's no girlfriend in sight, his best mate has stopped swearing and his pregnant step-mum is even more stressed than he is.... and then, having got the call from outer space to say that The Mother...

Oberon Books, 2017

Oberon Modern Plays

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

...It’s Dougie’s birthday. He just turned 50 and his family are throwing him a party. But it’s he who has a surprise for them. A bombshell proposal. He wants his ex-wife Arlene to back his new endeavour. He wants to serve a good...

Oberon Books, 2011

Oberon Modern Plays

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Roles: Total (12), Female (8), Male (4), Unassigned (0)

...Sensation Nation is a vocal group founded and led by the unstoppable DD. Her grand plan is for the group to storm next year’s Britain’s Got Talent. But first they need a gig, and more importantly a heartbreaking backstory that will win them...

Oberon Books, 2002

Oberon Modern Plays

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Acts: 2, Scenes: 18, Roles: Total (8), Female (2), Male (6), Unassigned (0)

...Ladies and gentlemen! Let us present the romantic tenor, the couthy comedian, the speciality act and the equilibrist - a real Concert Party! In its halycon days variety theatre was part of the social life blood of the country...