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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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Roland Schimmelpfennig
Based in a run-down high-rise somewhere in contemporary Germany, Arabian Night takes us into the lives, dreams and fantasies of five unique individuals on one enchanted summer's evening.
Hans, the inquisitive caretaker, can't work out why the water has run dry above floor eight; he's gone to investigate... Fatima the sensitive lodger anxiously awaits her lover, Kalil, who is mysteriously trapped between floors in an elevator... Franziska, the dreamy amnesiac falls asleep each night and forgets her day every day... And Peter, the romantic voyeur, trespasses through unlocked doors least of all expecting what he finds...All of their lives cross on this fateful humid night: an Arabian Night for the modern age.
Cast : 3M, 2F
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Oberon Books | 978-1-84002-298-8 | Sales rights: Australia/NZ | PB
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Hassan Abdulrazzak
'In Iraq, a wedding is not a wedding unless shots get fired. It’s like in England where a wedding is not a wedding unless someone pukes or tries to fuck one of the bridesmaids. That's just the way it goes.'
Against a backdrop of London and war-torn Baghdad, three friends grapple with their sexual, cultural and political identity. This is a surprising first play from Iraqi writer Hassan Abdulrazzak.
Review
A work of considerable intelligence -
The Times
Cast : 10M, 2F
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Oberon Books | 978-1-84002-783-9 | Sales rights: Australia/NZ | PB
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Paul Sirett
A brand new musical, a wonderfully upbeat story of unrequited love and a great comedy all rolled into one.
Think about it. Think what you could achieve without women in your life. If all the time you spent on them, you spent on yourself. Think how much money you could save. Think how much aggravation you could avoid.
Journeying from the West Indies to England, Ferdy, Lennie, Dennis and Bernie are eager to make successes of themselves and take full advantage of what they think 'The Big Life' has to offer. So they pledge to abstain from women for three years. But Mary, Kathy, Zuleika and Sybil have other ideas. They know that man cannot live by bread alone! Will the men stick with their idea of
The Big Life, or will Cupid have the final say?
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Oberon Books | 978-1-84002-441-8 | Sales rights: Australia/NZ | PB
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Inua Ellams
The wild things they did with
those tees. Some held together by wooden pins. Some strung to wear just once.
Some of long thin detachable sleeves...
A
T-shirt is something most people have. It is a common denominator like a pair
of blue jeans or a pair of Converse All Stars. From Fringe First winner Inua
Ellams, comes a new story about two foster brothers building a global t-shirt
brand. On their journey from a market in Nigeria to a sweatshop in China,
Matthew and Muhammed discover the consequences of success. The play tackles
capitalism and exploitation, as well as sectarianism and homophobia in modern
day Nigeria.
Review
Ellams'
evocative writing conjures a Nigeria where myth and magic sit casually
alongside everyday life. -
The Guardian
Cast : 1M (multiple characters)
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Oberon Books UK | 978-1-84943-191-0 | Sales rights: Australia/NZ | PB
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Kay Adshead
'White people in their big shiny cars drive many kilometres with their
sickness which I heal; sickness of the mind, body and of the soul. I
charge a bit more for the soul'
At night, a young black boy is 'questioned' by a white South African
policeman... 36 years later, when the truth is dug up, a tortured Jennifer watches
over her dying husband. But does her maid Beauty have the power to
'save' him, and is the price of remembering a dreadful secret one that
Jennifer is prepared to pay?
Bones is a ruthless excavation of South Africa in 2005, and in an age of
threats, retribution and bloody revenge, it is an anthem for hope.
Cast : 2F
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Nirjay Mahindru
When dreamer Ravi inherits a stinking run-down Cafe in the back end of Kings Cross, he genuinely believes he's up on his luck. Calling on his two best friends, Suresh (a small-time enterpreneur) and Irvin (an out-of-work actor), Ravi proudly dreams of opening a chic new joint to entice a posher crowd. But their fun and friendship is interrupted by an unexpected visit from a quirky local called Ken, and a surprising discovery...
Dark, punchy and wickedly entertaining, this brilliant black comedy thriller rips apart the sensibilities of three British Asian Londoners striving for definition, as they tumble into a nightmarish sequence of frighteningly bizarre events and behaviour.
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Oberon Books | 978-1-84002-508-8 | Sales rights: Australia/NZ | PB
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Four Plays
John Retallack
Hannah & Hanna
Having escaped from Kosovo, Hanna, 16 meets
Hannah, 16, from Margate. An unlikely friendship develops when they find
that music is a common bond between them despite their different
cultures and circumstances.
Virgins
Explores issues of sexuality for young people: How do you
explore your sexuality when you are still living at home with your
parents? How do your parents sustain their love life with you in the
house? And why do we find it so difficult to talk about?
Risk
Asks how young people can discover their limits, how can they find
out who they are? It asks why young people are drawn to danger; why they
risk their freedom, their bodies, their minds and their futures,
through dangerous activities and crime.
Club Asylum
A devised dance theatre piece about teenage asylum
seekers in Glasgow based on research with both young asylum seekers and
residents. A thrilling fusion of dance, theatre and music.
Cast : Hannah & Hanna - F2, M3 / Virgins - F2 / Risk - M2, F2 / Club Asylum - M3, F2
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Oberon Books | 978-1-84002-725-9 | Sales rights: Australia/NZ | PB
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Concealment / Fever
Reza de Wet
Two plays from South Africa’s most significant playwright since Athol Fugard. A prolific writer—writing primarily in Afrikaans—Reza de Wet has written eleven plays in fourteen years, and won more theatre and literary awards than any other South African playwright.
Set in England's colonial outposts in South Africa during the 19th
Century, both of the plays in this volume feature sisters forced by a
deeply conservative, patriarchal society to resist the powerful call of
their vivid surroundings and to stifle the demands of their own rich,
feminine sexuality.
Concealment
Amy and her father travel to South Africa to
retrieve her recently widowed sister, but are disturbed to find her
untouched by grief, unwilling to return and drawn instead to the wild,
natural beauty of her moonlit garden.
Fever
Emma corresponds
with Katy back in England, who learns the full and terrible extent of
her sister's yearning and isolation when she discovers her hidden diary.
Cast : Concealment - 1M, 2F / Fever - 2F
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Oberon Books | 978-1-84002-492-0 | PB
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Amber Lone
Deema is a good daughter and a loving sister. It's her family that's the
problem. In their back garden in Birmingham, her mum Zainab is
nurturing plants from Kashmir and her dad Rafique is day-dreaming of
million-pound homes in the Cotswolds.
Meanwhile, out on the streets,
her mixed up brother Tariq is rapidly going from bad to worse. She's
doing her best to hold it all together, but it's time for them to learn a
few home truths.
Deadeye paints a fresh and uncompromising portrait of modern life,
exposing the misunderstandings and hypocrisies that divide the
generations.
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Oberon Books | 978-1-84002-707-5 | Sales rights: Australia/NZ | PB
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