A wry, anarchic farce about women with a passion for passion.

Published in Passion: Six New Short Plays by Australian Women

An unsuccessful barrister and even more unsuccessful murderer are the subjects of Mortimer’s first play, The Dock Brief. This was followed by What Shall We Tell Caroline? and then Lunch Hour, another short play about love and lies in the lunch-hour. The Collaborators covers the wear and tear of a marriage subsequently fortified by the threat of a third party.

A Voyage Round My Father, one of Mortimer’s greatest theatrical successes, is a celebration of the Shakespeare-quoting, eccentric, brave and impossible barrister who was John Mortimer's father.

This second volume of Oberon's new edition of John Mortimer's Collected Plays contains two full-length works, The Wrong Side of the Park and Edwin, and four short plays known collectively as Come As You Are and individually named after parts of London: Mill Hill, Bermondsey, Marble Arch and Knightsbridge.

In Edwin, young Edwin  whom we never see is coming from Canada to meet the family; but is he the son of a retired judge who can't stop trying things, or of a free-living, opera-whistling potter?

In The Wrong Side of the Park, a wife's romantic memories of her husband are disturbed by a new lodger.

Mill Hill concerns a dentist, his wife and a friend who likes to dress up as Sir Walter Raleigh for the purpose of making love; in Bermondsey, the well-adjusted life of a London publican, his wife and the man who loves him is disturbed by the presence of a young girl at Christmas time. Knightsbridge deals with the misunderstandings and confusions that arise when the mother of a girl about to be married puts up a number of dubious advertisements in and around Knightsbridge. Marble Arch is the story of an ageing film star who believes that her rich lover has died in her bathroom and that it falls on her to dispose of the body.

Against a backdrop of chip fat, blowflies and Country & Western tunes, a waitress hungers for a new life.

Published in Passion: Six New Short Plays by Australian Women

A woman encounters her dead husband in this raw, intense and poetic play.

Published in Passion: Six New Short Plays by Australian Women

A cutting-edge study of the nexus between sex and violence across three generations.

Published in Passion: Six New Short Plays by Australian Women

Five bite-size pieces of theatre that deal with perception.

The characters in these theatrical hors d'oeuvres find their view of themselves at odds with the way the rest of the world sees them. Bittersweet and highly original, these 'mini marvels' cleverly break down the barrier between audience and actor, whether it's backstage at an opera, lost in the mind of would-be film-maker Margaret, or on a flight of freedom with air stewardess Polly.

The pieces are: A New York Threesome (My Brother's Conversion; Madam Butterfly's Child; Manhattan Breast Company), Mad Margaret's Revenge and The Jolly Folly of Polly, The Scottish Trolley Dolly.

A long one-act play based on a real-life murderer, devised for the Australian Performing Group's Portable Theatre Company.

Published in Plays of the 70s Volume 1

A witty contemporary satire on the possibilities of passion.

Published in Passion: Six New Short Plays by Australian Women