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Švejk
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Švejk

Colin Teevan
 
Based on The Good Soldier Švejk by Jaroslav Hašek. 

Since Hašek’s comic masterpiece was first produced in 1920s Prague, there have been countless attempts to stage this sprawling story of the seeming idiot, Švejk, who survives the horrors of the First World War by undermining the institutions of state and army through his very idiocy.





Cast : 10M, 2F (doubling required)
Oberon Books | 978-1-84002-119-6 | Sales rights: Australia/NZ | PB
1984
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1984

George Orwell (adapted by Matthew Dunster)
 
Winston Smith rewrites history for the Ministry of Truth, but when he's handed a note that says simply 'I love you' by a woman he hardly knows, he decides to risk everything in a search for the real truth. In a world where cheap entertainment keeps the proles ignorant but content, where a war without end is always fought and the government is always watching, can Winston possibly hold onto what he feels inside? Or will he renounce everything, accept the Party's reality and learn to love Big Brother? 

This is a sensual and sinister adaptation of George Orwell's classic.
Cast : 7M, 2F
Oberon Books, UK | 978-1-84943-226-9 | Sales rights: Australia/NZ | PB
Abducting Diana
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Abducting Diana

Dario Fo (translated/adapted by Stephen Stenning)
 

Anarchic and inspired comedy in which a kidnapped heiress proves to be a more competent criminal than those who abducted her. An adaptation of Il ratto della Francesca, one of Fo’s great Italian farces written for and with Franca Rame.

Oberon Books | 978-1-87025-945-3 | Sales rights: Australia/NZ | PB
Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass
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Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass

Lewis Carroll (adapted by Adrian Mitchell)
 

On a glorious summer's afternoon, young Alice happens upon a smartly dressed rabbit looking at his watch and muttering 'I'm too late!' This being an unexpected occurrence, she follows him down a nearby rabbit hole and falls in Wonderland.

Lewis Carroll's timeless children's stories Alice in Wonderland, Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There are magically brought to life in this new adaptation by Adrian Mitchell, specially commissioned for a Christmas production by the RSC. The amazing Lobster Quadrille, the Queen of Hearts' infamous croquet match and the Mad Hatter's Tea Party are just a few of the remarkable events and characters in this enchanting play.


Oberon Books | 978-1-84002-256-8 | Sales rights: Australia/NZ | PB
Anne of Green Gables
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Anne of Green Gables

Emma Jane Reeves (adapted from the novel by Lucy Maud Montgomery)
 

'Do you never imagine things different from what they really are?' asked Anne, wide-eyed. 'No.' 'Oh!' Anne drew a long breath. 'Oh Marilla, how much you miss!'

Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert advertise for a boy to help on their farm. Due to a misunderstanding, Anne Shirley arrives instead. To stay at Green Gables would be a dream come true for Anne, but she just keeps getting into scrapes. She dyes her hair green, accidentally gets her best friend drunk and smashes her slate over the head of the handsomest boy in school...

Impetuous, rebellious and gloriously red-headed, Anne is one of literature's most appealing heroines, brought faithfully and imaginatively to life by Emma Reeves in her stageplay for all the family.


Oberon Books | 978-1-84002-538-5 | Sales rights: Australia/NZ | PB
Antony and Cleopatra
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Antony and Cleopatra

Edited by Janet Suzman

William Shakespeare (edited by Janet Suzman)
 

Desire and duty collide in Shakespeare’s captivating tragedy of politics, passion and power. Two charismatic leaders, Mark Antony of Rome and Cleopatra, Queen of Egypt, are caught in an all - encompassing love that threatens the Empire. Rome will do all it can to pull them apart. Or it will destroy them both.

This classic Shakespeare tale is edited by Dame Janet Suzman, making this an authoritative edition. As she says in her book Not Hamlet: Meditations on the Frail Position of Women in Drama which studies the role of, and for, women in Shakespeare’s canon, Suzman knows this play better than anyone else in the world, having played Cleopatra twice and having now directed the play twice. 



Cast : 1F, 18M (doubling)
Oberon Books, UK | 978-1-84943-406-5 | Sales: Australia/NZ only | PB
Apples
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Apples

Richard Milward/adapted by John Retallack
 
Set on a Middlesbrough council estate, this astonishing piece of writing by 23 year old Richard Milward, is an electrifying collision of Irvine Welsh and Virginia Woolf.

Streams of poetic, impassioned and often hilarious words pour forth from five fifteen-year-olds as they negotiate a world where the adults are absent, drugs are everywhere, sex is desperate and life is both terrifying and thrilling.

A dazzling, tragicomic love story of adolescence based on the astonishing debut novel by Richard Milward. Shameless, ruthless and intensely poetic, Apples articulates what it is like to be young. 

Review
An astonishing debut... It is  Catcher in the Rye   meets the  Arctic Monkeys  -  Times Magazine  (on the novel)

Oberon Books, UK | 978-1-84943-098-2 | Sales rights: Australia/NZ | PB
Bacchai
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Bacchai

Euripides (translated/adapted by Colin Teevan)
 

Dionysos, the God of wine and theatre, has returned to his native land to take revenge on the puritanical Pentheus, who refuses to observe his rites. Remorselessly, savagely and with black humour, Dionysos drives Pentheus and an entire city to a shocking fate.

Translated and adapted by Colin Teevan. This version was commissioned by the Royal National Theatre for a production directed by Sir Peter Hall and scored by Sir Harrison Birtwhistle.

Review
It draws on the contemporary vernacular to ripping, rollicking, rumbustious effect...and [Teevan] has given us a piece of theatre that is wonderfully robust, resolute and resonant' - Paul Muldoon 


Cast : 3M
Oberon Books | 978-1-84002-261-2 | Sales rights: Australia/NZ | PB
Before The Party
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Before The Party

Rodney Ackland
 

Based on a short story by Somerset Maugham, Before The Party tells the story of a family attempting to return to normal in the wake of the Second World War. With daughter Laura returned from Africa, widowed but not alone, they prepare for the latest social gathering. Amidst the never-ending whirl of hats and dresses and below stairs skirmishes, Laura reveals a shocking secret that threatens to ruin more than one party on the climb to social success.


 

Cast : 2M, 5F
Oberon Books, UK | 978-1-84943-442-3 | Sales: Australia/NZ only | PB
Birdsong
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Birdsong

Sebastian Faulks/adapted by Rachel Wagstaff
 
A beautiful terrible story about love, courage and the endurance of the human spirit

Based on Sebastian Faulk's international best-selling novel, Birdsong tells the story of one man's journey through an all consuming love affair and into the horror of the First World War.

While staying as the guest of a factory owner in pre-First World War France, Stephen Wraysford embarks on a passionate affair with Isabelle, the wife of his host. The affair changes them both for ever.

For the first time, this beautiful haunting story about love, courage and the endurance of  the human spirit is brought to the stage in a version by Rachel Wagstaff.

Cast : 11M, 3F (doubling possible)
Oberon Books, UK | 978-1-84943-068-5 | Sales rights: Australia/NZ | PB
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