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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)
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Oberon Books | 978-1-84002-119-6 | Sales rights: Australia/NZ | PB
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Sweet Talk / Alterations / In the Mood / El Dorado
Michael Abbensetts
From the writer who gave Caribbeans a real voice in Britain.
Sweet Talk
A witty, energetic and finally moving account of a marriage in crisis.
Alterations
A comedy set in a tailor's shop, inspired by a real visit to a small room off Carnaby Street where two black tailors had set up shop with just two sewing machines and an ironing board.
In the Mood
Focuses on two Caribbean Second World War veterans, whose nostalgic Remembrance Sunday lunch is disrupted by a visit from a frivolous and irritating friend in search of a loan and as many free drinks as he can get his hands on.
El Dorado
Turns attention to a mixed-race, middle class family interred in their formerly grand but now dilapidated house. A grandson returns home to lay some ghosts to bed, and gains an alarming insight into the truths of home life.
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Oberon Books | 978-1-84002-179-0 | Sales rights: Australia/NZ | PB
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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.
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Oberon Books | 978-1-87025-945-3 | Sales rights: Australia/NZ | PB
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Simon Bent
'I should have kept my mouth shut, I should have said nothing.'
Eddie’s a handyman, Doreen keeps a clean house, John’s got a new hat and Paul’s back from college — but the Jacksons are living under siege. Sudden violence blows open their lives in the latest darkly comic play from Simon Bent, whose other acclaimed work includes
Sugar Sugar,
Bad Company and
Goldhawk Road.
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Oberon Books | 978-1-84002-171-4 | Sales rights: Australia/NZ | PB
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Anya Reiss
This has been the worst day of my life. So can you please get drunk with me?
Dana, Ruth and Jess down shots to console the heart-broken, to
comfort the anxious and just pass the time. Kicked out from the family
home Jess’s dad, Jim, invades the party with just as much recklessness
as the girls. As the night passes and vodka bottles are emptied, Friday
night in becomes high drama. An unruly new comedy asking if age equals
maturity.
Review
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t has wit and heart, and much of the dialogue is
disconcertingly authentic…. Adept at capturing the cadences of
post-adolescent chatter, Reiss also knows how to probe the most raw
emotions. -
The Evening Standard
Cast : 1M, 3F
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Oberon Books, UK | 978-1-84943-045-6 | Sales rights: Australia/NZ | PB
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Chris Goode
Shirley is a teenage boy with a girl’s name, growing up in suburbia and
feeling like the weirdest kid in the school. Nothing makes much sense to
him, and his heart belongs to a classmate who barely knows he exists.
Wound Man is an unconventional superhero, sprung from the pages of a
medieval medical textbook, with an alarming assortment of weapons
sticking out from every part of his body. Wound Man has just moved into a
house on Shirley’s street – and he happens to have a vacancy for a
teenage sidekick... A funny and touching story by Chris Goode about two
unlikely friends and the adventures they share.
Review
Told with humour and bags of charm…
The Adventures of Wound Man and Shirley
tells a familiar tale in a refreshing and imaginative way to leave us amused and moved. –
Whats On Stage
Cast : 1M
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Oberon Books, UK | 978-1-84943-180-4 | Sales rights: Australia/NZ | PB
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Georges Feydeau
Georges Feydeau, master of farce, displays all his tricks in this witty, seamless and acutely funny translation.
An Absolute Turkey was a West End hit following its London premiere at the Globe Theatre in 1993.
Review
Sharp, natty, decorously indecent dialogue - Sunday Times
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Oberon Books | 978-0-94823-074-5 | Sales rights: Australia/NZ | PB
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Catherine Tregenna
Lost in the big city, Art and Guff may just be 'two dull boys from Kidwelly', but they're still desperate to make it.
Time’s running out for Art. Are they destined to go right back to the mobile library and hardware store? There’s two wierdos downstairs, Auntie Jo has just died and their giros keep disappearing. Is somebody trying to tell them something? Is it any wonder they’re paranoid?
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Oberon Books | 978-1-84002-224-7 | Sales rights: Australia/NZ | PB
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Simon Bent
'It's not safe, the world is not a safe place. Have some more chicken.'
A pensioner has his council house redecorated by two self-employed chancers. But there are worse crimes than benefit fraud. A richly comic study of politics and wall-papering.
Review
This is disconcerting, constantly entertaining drama, full of good jokes, edgy dialogue and dramatic surprises. - The Daily Telegraph
Cast : 3M
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Oberon Books | 978-1-84002-278-0 | Sales rights: Australia/NZ | PB
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Richard Davidson
'I'm sitting here trying to think about important stuff and you're zappin' me with lust rays — juicin' me up when I'm tryin' to focus on my English. You gotta stop that shit.'
It's Jay's first day at St Peter's and two things are clear — one, she doesn't fit in, and two, neither does anyone else. Everyone has a story to tell: Patsy the 'baby borrower', Brendan the motor-mouth perve, and the live-wire Lanny, who could erupt at any time. What's Jay's story and why won't she tell it? Commissioned by Soho Theatre Company,
Badnuff is a brutally funny new play.
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Oberon Books | 978-1-84002-434-0 | Sales rights: Australia/NZ | PB
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