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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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Analogue Performance Company
In 2009 Patient H.M.’s brain is dissected live on the internet to a
global audience of 400,000 people, cut into carefully preserved slices:
manuscripts of tissue like the pages of a book.
In 1953 Henry Molaison emerges from experimental brain surgery
without any recollection of the last two years of his life or the
ability to form new memories.
In 1935 nine-year old Henry is knocked over by a bike, leaving him
unconscious for five minutes. Following Analogue's critically acclaimed
Mile End and Beachy Head and inspired by the world’s most important
neuroscientific case-study, 2401 Objects tells the remarkable story of a
man who could no longer remember, but who has proven impossible to
forget.
Cast : 4M, 3F
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Oberon Books, UK | 978-1-84943-195-8 | Sales rights: Australia/NZ | PB
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Hugh Whitemore
Britain in 1956: the Suez Crisis.
Prime Minister Anthony Eden, described by a colleague as ‘half mad baronet and half beautiful woman’, is faced with the terrible possibility of leading his country into war. His health is collapsing. His friends, colleagues and opponents, among them Hugh Gaitskell and Ian Fleming and his wife Ann, are facing crises of their own, crises of conscience and crises of the heart. Hugh Whitemore’s new play is a true epic: a suspenseful thriller, an achingly romantic love story and a fascinating examination of a flashpoint in our history which still resonates today. What is the cost of an ‘illegal’ war?
Review
A clever mix of high politics, private deception and a sprinkling of household names from Ian Fleming to John Prescott. A mixture too of humour and pathos and the feeling of sympathy with the characters at the same time as wanting to castigate them for having ‘made their own beds’.
- The Public Reviews
Cast : 7M, 3F (doubling required)
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Oberon Books UK | 978-1-84943-496-6 | 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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Rodney Ackland
Condemned as a 'libel on the British people' when it was first produced in 1951,
Absolute Hell is set in a decaying West End drinking club at the end of the Second World War.
Cast : 10M, 10F
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Oberon Books | 978-1-87025-919-4 | Sales rights: Australia/NZ | PB
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The Dark River / After October
Rodney Ackland
Rodney Ackland is belatedly acknowledged as a master of the British stage, now captivating new audiences.
The Dark River
Set in the late thirties, the flamboyant characters are cocooned in a Thames backwater ignoring the turbulent events of a politically unstable Europe.
After October
A young playwright dreams of escaping into an extravagant world.
Cast : The Dark River - M6, F3 / After October - M5, F6
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Oberon Books | 978-1-87025-954-5 | Sales rights: Australia/NZ | PB
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Moj of the Antarctic / Desert Boy / Matt Henson: North Star / Muhammad Ali and Me
Mojisola Adebayo
This collection of plays from Mojisola Adebayo, actor, writer, director, producer, workshop facilitator and teacher, signals the emergence of a distinctive new voice on the British theatre landscape.
Plays included in this collection are:
Moj of the Antarctic
Inspired by the true story of an African American woman who cross-dresses as a white man to escape slavery; taken on a fantastical odyssey to Antarctica.
Desert Boy
A time-travelling
a capella muscial, offers a sharp twist on the subject of knife crime, black youth and absent fathers.
Matt Henson, North Star
A biographical tale of Arctic betrayal, mixed with Greenlandic folk tales; all about love, climate and change.
Muhammad Ali
and Me
A lyrical coming of age story, following the parallel struggles of a
gay girl growing up in foster care and a black Muslim boxing
hero’s fight against racism and the Vietnam war.
These plays queer the boundaries of sex and race, fact and fiction, history and geography, poetry and politics to illuminate contemporary themes through a dynamic African Diasporic theatrical aesthetic that leaps off the page.
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Oberon Books, UK | 978-1-84943-075-3 | Sales rights: Australia/NZ | PB
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Glyn Maxwell
Troy is in ruins.
Its men are dead. Its women are captives and the victorious Greeks are camped
in the ashes prepared to sail home.
An epic tale of love, loss, song and
sarcasm in the smoking ruins of Troy. Award-winning poet and playwright, Glyn
Maxwell rips up two Greek tragedies and makes a witty, passionate play from the
fragments. A contemporary retelling of Euripides'
Women Of Troy
and
Hecuba
, After Troy
exposes the cruelties of war both then
and now.
Review
Glyn Maxwell’s drama does not so much conflate the two great tragedies of loss and revenge [
Women of Troy
and
Hecuba
] but rather alights, magpie-like, on what is shiny in each to create a brand new play – Lyn Gardner
,
Guardian
Cast : 4M, 4F
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Oberon Books, UK | 978-1-84943-026-5 | Sales rights: Australia/NZ | PB
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Peter Oswald
Augustine’s Oak is the story of St Augustine’s mission in 597AD to reconcile the Christians of the Celtic Church with the authority of Rome.
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Oberon Books | 978-1-84002-128-8 | Sales rights: Australia/NZ | PB
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Do Shaw
It's 1940 and across the country women are leaving their homes, shops and offices to take up new roles in the Women's Land Army. These Land Girls quickly learn new farming skills involving stock and crops.
Back to the Land takes a warm-hearted look at the lives and loves of a group of Land Girls making the best of their new situation in a hostel not very far from Berwick upon Tweed. Hailing from every class and county, sometimes jealousy and intrigue break out, but unity is ultimately achieved through the shared goal of safeguarding the nation's food production.
Based on the recollections of the women themselves, andliberally punctuated with the song and dance of World War II the play featured some Land Army veterans as themselves.
Cast : 5M, 15+F
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Oberon Books | 978-1-84002-330-5 | Sales rights: Australia/NZ | PB
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