Oberon Books, 2010

Oberon Modern Plays

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Scenes: 5, Roles: Total (33), Female (13), Male (18), Unassigned (2)

...Described variously as ‘a dangerous playwright, ‘a melancholy optimist’, and ‘the unique outsider in the British Theatre’, Arnold Wesker is one of Britain’s most celebrated playwrights. This latest volume in Oberon Books’ Wesker series...

Oberon Books, 2012

Oberon Modern Playwrights

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Scenes: 22, Roles: Total (34), Female (9), Male (25), Unassigned (0)

...Presented here are four epic history plays from Sir Arnold Wesker, which touch on the age-old conflicts caused by religion, science and the Establishment. Blood Libel (1991) investigates a calumny which persists...

Oberon Books, 2012

Oberon Modern Playwrights

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Scenes: 3, Roles: Total (16), Female (8), Male (6), Unassigned (2)

...Bluey (1993) is a play about repressed memory resurfacing and three imagined futures that the protagonist cannot muster the courage to confront...

Oberon Books, 2012

Oberon Modern Playwrights

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Acts: 2, Scenes: 16, Roles: Total (8), Female (3), Male (5), Unassigned (0)

...Presented here are four epic history plays from Sir Arnold Wesker, which touch on the age-old conflicts caused by religion, science and the Establishment. Caritas (1980) is at once the story of a monastic young...

Methuen Drama, 2011

Modern Plays

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Acts: 3, Scenes: 6, Roles: Total (10), Female (4), Male (6), Unassigned (0)

...This landmark state-of-the-nation play is a panoramic drama portraying the age-old battle between realism and idealism. The kettle boils in 1936 as the fascists are marching. Tea is brewed in 1946, with disillusion...

Oberon Books, 2010

Oberon Modern Plays

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Acts: 2, Scenes: 23, Roles: Total (17), Female (0), Male (17), Unassigned (0)

...Described variously as ‘a dangerous playwright, ‘a melancholy optimist’, and ‘the unique outsider in the British Theatre’, Arnold Wesker is one of Britain’s most celebrated playwrights. This latest volume in Oberon Books’ Wesker series...

Oberon Books, 2009

Oberon Modern Playwrights

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Scenes: 21, Roles: Total (7), Female (5), Male (2), Unassigned (0)

...This volume of Oberon Books' Wesker series includes the author's most performed work The Kitchen (1957) produced in sixty cities from Rio de Janeiro to Tokyo, from Paris to Moscow, from Montreal to Zurich. This volume also...

Oberon Books, 2011

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Acts: 2, Scenes: 51, Roles: Total (2), Female (1), Male (1), Unassigned (0)

...Mattie Beancourt, a 61- year-old woman, reads the autobiography of Mark Gorman, a famous painter. Having grown up in the same East End streets she writes to him. A correspondence develops. She visits him unannounced, and discovers he lives...

Oberon Books, 2011

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Scenes: 28, Roles: Total (9), Female (5), Male (3), Unassigned (1)

...‘My preoccupation,’ says Arnold Wesker in his interview/portrait Ambivalences (published by Oberon Books) ‘with-violence-stemming from-perceived-intimidation-by-the-bright-ones who dare to be clever or simply different, began...

Oberon Books, 2000

Oberon Modern Playwrights

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Acts: 2, Scenes: 27, Roles: Total (10), Female (4), Male (5), Unassigned (1)

...Spanning three decades of impassioned and inspiring work, the three plays in this volume show in cross-section Arnold Wesker's development as one of the key figures of late-twentieth-century drama. Each play grapples...

Oberon Books, 2012

Oberon Modern Playwrights

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Acts: 2, Roles: Total (16), Female (1), Male (14), Unassigned (1)

...Presented here are four epic history plays from Sir Arnold Wesker, which touch on the age-old conflicts caused by religion, science and the Establishment. Longitude (2002) tells of the eighteenth-century race...

Oberon Books, 2000

Oberon Modern Playwrights

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Scenes: 18, Roles: Total (4), Female (1), Male (3), Unassigned (0)

...Spanning three decades of impassioned and inspiring work, the three plays in this volume show in cross-section Arnold Wesker's development as one of the key figures of late-twentieth-century drama. Each play grapples...

Oberon Books, 2012

Oberon Modern Playwrights

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Acts: 2, Scenes: 29, Roles: Total (6), Female (3), Male (3), Unassigned (0)

...In Men Die Women Survive (1990) a trio of estranged wives gather around the dinner table. As they conduct a post-mortem on their failed relationships a tale of betrayal and revenge emerges...

Oberon Books, 2012

Oberon Modern Playwrights

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Acts: 2, Scenes: 4, Roles: Total (9), Female (4), Male (5), Unassigned (0)

...One More Ride on the Merry-Go-Round features a comic plot involving academics who get high on a hash birthday cake, a recalcitrant daughter, and the appearance of an illegitimate son who is a magician...

Oberon Books, 2010

Oberon Modern Plays

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Acts: 2, Scenes: 17, Roles: Total (7), Female (4), Male (3), Unassigned (0)

...Described variously as ‘a dangerous playwright, ‘a melancholy optimist’, and ‘the unique outsider in the British Theatre’, Arnold Wesker is one of Britain’s most celebrated playwrights. This latest volume in Oberon Books’ Wesker series...

Methuen Drama, 2013

Modern Plays

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Acts: 3, Scenes: 2, Roles: Total (9), Female (4), Male (5), Unassigned (0)

...It’s 1958. Beatie Bryant has been to London and fallen in love with Ronnie, a young socialist. As she anxiously awaits his arrival to meet her family at their Norfolk farm, her head is swimming with new ideas. Ideas of a bolder, freer world...

Oberon Books, 2012

Oberon Modern Playwrights

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Acts: 2, Scenes: 13, Roles: Total (15), Female (5), Male (10), Unassigned (0)

...Presented here are four epic history plays from Sir Arnold Wesker, which touch on the age-old conflicts caused by religion, science and the Establishment. Set in the Jewish ghetto of Venice, 1563, Shylock (1972) is based...

Oberon Books, 2000

Oberon Modern Playwrights

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Acts: 2, Scenes: 4, Roles: Total (2), Female (1), Male (1), Unassigned (0)

...Spanning three decades of impassioned and inspiring work, the three plays in this volume show in cross-section Arnold Wesker's development as one of the key figures of late-twentieth-century drama. Each play grapples...

Oberon Books, 2012

Oberon Modern Playwrights

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Acts: 2, Scenes: 7, Roles: Total (7), Female (3), Male (4), Unassigned (0)

...In The Friends (1970), Esther is diagnosed with leukaemia, causing her friends to reassess their working-class identity, their imagined achievements as well as their own mortality...

Oberon Books, 2010

Oberon Modern Plays

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Acts: 2, Scenes: 4, Roles: Total (29), Female (9), Male (20), Unassigned (0)

...Described variously as ‘a dangerous playwright, ‘a melancholy optimist’, and ‘the unique outsider in the British Theatre’, Arnold Wesker is one of Britain’s most celebrated playwrights. This latest volume in Oberon Books’ Wesker series...