Oberon Books imprint: 1356 books

In the winter of 2036, in a shabby apartment in Port Elizabeth, two old men search for a way to say goodbye after a lifetime spent together. In the perfect summer of 1971, in a very different South Africa, their handsome younger selves search for the courage to fall in love. And poised halfway between...

In the back streets of Montmartre, the Theatre du Grand Guignol opens its doors to an unsuspecting public. The plays performed, rife with madness and murder, are sold out every night. A psychiatrist obsessed with the playwright’s gruesome dramas ingratiates his way into the company. But when he starts...

Les Enfants Terribles is a collection of three plays from one of Britain's most innovative theatre companies. It is also a document of the company's progress so far, featuring detailed production photos, design sketches and introductions to each play. The Terrible Infants (2007) blends puppetry, live...

On top of a mountain in the middle of a blizzard, you see a figure: eight foot tall, with white, matted hair covering his body. He stands upright on two legs. You see him. He sees you. But who will believe you and how far can you trust what you see?

Madeline wants a baby, so a baby she will have. It doesn't matter that she is in a relationship with a woman, or that they can't afford the high private clinic fees, she'll go about getting this child whichever way she can. Together with her partner, the selfless, kind, stable Toni, the two...

In classical mythology, Phaethon is the child of the sun god Helios, who tries to drive his father's chariot and is killed in the attempt. Euripides explains how this happened: Helios had seduced Phaeton's mother - already betrothed to another - and as the price of her seduction had promised to grant...

Richard III brings the Wars of the Roses cycle of history plays to a close in bloody fashion. Arguably Shakespeare’s most villainous king, we watch in horror and delight as Richard murders his way to the throne, unable to resist his cruel wit and dark humour. This is a hugely entertaining and diabolical adventure that tells the story of one man’s journey to heaven, then back to hell.

What are you when you are always the other? A play about identity, being mixed-race and always feeling like an outsider. Blending music and spoken word, WHITE considers the concept of mixed-race privilege, tries to connect clashing cultures, and explores what it means to grow up mixed in contemporary Britain.

‘Anyone who wants to live has got to change the world.’ Children of Fate exposes with tenderness, humour and infinite love the devastating effects of Thatcherite ideology on the forgotten lives of millions dispossessed and brutalised by years of the Pinochet dictatorship. Much like Las Brutas,...

‘We value truth in this family. Carpe Diem. Seize the day. We’re all just food for worms. So tell them you love them. Have fun, mount a donkey, whatever, just feel alive.’ Charades is fun, right, with those people, yes, your family, the ones you try to get away from at Christmas. For...

Football systems, changing room banter and a couple of mops solve the big questions of life – immortality, happiness and why England always lose, in a new play tackling the beautiful game. After several years of embedded research in the football darklands, a failed attempt to create a UK...

In this absurd and forceful play, two brothers, one weak, one strong, play out a primal scene of envy, cruelty and torture as the strong exerts his power and aggression over the weak. Involuntarily, the audience finds itself complicit in the brutality witnessed onstage through Gambaro's command of...

‘A terrific collection of work by writers I admire hugely. Each of them prove that there is no such thing as the black experience, but only black experiences.’ Roy Williams This second and sister volume to Hidden Gems showcases a further range of plays by Black British writers whose work...

This volume contains a translated collection of plays by the important Chilean playwright and director Ramón Griffero. Wellknown and respected in South America and Europe, Griffero is little-known to the English-speaking world. Forced to leave Chile at the time of the military coup in 1973 because...