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1984 (Playscript) by George Orwell; Robert Icke (Adapted by); Duncan Macmillan (Adapted by)
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Oberon Modern Plays Ser.
The most iconic novel ever written about the dangers of totalitarianism, media manipulation and the rewriting of history. The quotidian tragedy of Winston and Julia is an exemplary and cruel portrait of an unhappy world, a prophecy that chills our blood and moves us in equal measure.
A Disappearing Number (Play) by Simon McBurney & Theatre Complicite
Category: Performing Arts | Series: Oberon Modern Plays Ser.
A man mourns the loss of his lover, a mathematician mourns her own fate. A businessman travels from Los Angeles to Chennai pursuing the future; a physicist in CERN looks for it too. The mathematician G H Hardy seeks to comprehend the ideas of the genius Srinivasa Ramanujan in Cambridge during the First ...Show more
A VOYAGE ROUND MY FATHER by MORTIMER JOHN
Category: Drama | Series: Oberon Modern Plays Ser.
There were days when the Father could see and days when the Father could not see in this tale seen through the eyes of the perennial Son as viewed from the trellis surrounded, as if for protection, by an enormous garden. The tale grows in turns and twists upon allusion and reversals, all crisply dramati ...Show more
Feet of Clay by Terry Pratchett
Category: Sci-fi & Fantasy | Series: Oberon Modern Plays
Someone is killing Lord Vetinari, Patrician of Ankh-Morpork. No one knows who, no one knows why and, worst of all, no one knows how - he just gets weaker and weaker. But it's not just Vetinari - across the city, people are being murdered, but there's no trace of anything alive having been at the cri ...Show more
Home, I'm Darling by Laura Wade
Category: Fiction | Series: Oberon Modern Plays Ser.
How happily married are the happily married? Every marriage needs a little fantasy to keep it sparkling. But behind the gingham curtains, being a domestic goddess isn't as easy as it looks... Home, I'm Darling is Laura Wade's new dark comedy about sex, cake and the quest to be the perfect 1950s housewif ...Show more
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott; Emma Reeves (Adapted by)
Category: Performing Arts Drama Plays | Series: Oberon Modern Plays Ser.
Best known for the novels Little Womenand Little Men,Louisa May Alcott brought the story of her feisty protagonist Jo and the adventures and misadventures of the March family to an entertaining, surprising, and bittersweet conclusion in Jo's Boys. Beginning ten years after Little Men,Jo's Boysrevisits P ...Show more
Lungs by Duncan Macmillan
Category: Young Adult Fiction | Series: Oberon Modern Plays Ser.
'I could fly to New York and back every day for seven years and still not leave a carbon footprint as big as if I have a child. Ten thousand tonnes of CO2. That's the weight of the Eiffel Tower. I'd be giving birth to the Eiffel Tower.'In a time of global anxiety, terrorism, erratic weather and politica ...Show more
M. Rock by Lachlan Philpott
Category: Performing Arts Drama Plays | Series: Oberon Modern Plays
M.Rock is a magical new play, based on a true story, about the enduring joys of music, dancing and self-discovery. In his distinctive language, Philpott charts the fortunes of 18-year-old Tracey and her grandmother Mabel. Tracey has just finished school, she's bought a round-the-world ticket and is fly ...Show more
Missing Persons - Four Tragedies and Roy Keane by Colin Teevan; Edith Hall (Introduction by)
Category: Reference | Series: Oberon Modern Plays Ser.
"Like a quiet, lethal explosion somewhere in the very heart of you."--Guardian A father denied access to his children, a footballer deserting his team, a terrorist lost in the politics of peacetime. Five monologues in the voices of contemporary men, inspired by the heroes and heroines of classical myths ...Show more
Nineteen Eighty-Four (1984) - Playscript by George Orwell
Category: Fiction | Series: Oberon Modern Plays Ser.
The definitive book of the 20th century is re-examined in this radical new staging by Headlong, the 'country's most exciting touring company' (Telegraph), who brought us Romeo & Juliet in 2012, directed by Robert Icke. April, 1984. 13:00. Comrade 6079, Winston Smith, thinks a thought, starts a diary ...Show more
Norma Jeane Baker of Troy by Anne Carson
Category: Poetry | Series: Oberon Modern Plays Ser.
Norma Jeane Baker of Troy is a meditation on the destabilizing and destructive power of beauty, drawing together Helen of Troy and Marilyn Monroe, twin avatars of female fascination separated by millennia but united in mythopoeic force. Norma Jeane Baker was staged in the spring of 2019 at The Shed's Gr ...Show more
Photograph 51 by Anna Ziegler
Category: Performing Arts Drama Plays | Series: Oberon Modern Plays Ser.
Nicole Kidman made her much-anticipated return to the London stage in the fall 2015 West End production of this new play by Anna Ziegler, about the woman who discovered DNA. Does Rosalind Franklin know how precious her photograph is? In the race to unlock the secret of life, it could hold the key.