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.

Irene works hard and lives alone after her mother's death. She is one of life's aunties. But why is she telling her story to an unknown man? His questions, some of them harsh and prurient, make for a gripping and grim interrogation.

Published in Popular Short Plays II

A one-act play first produced in Hobart in 1943 in which tension develops between a timid woman and her landlady.

Published in Playing the Past: Three Plays by Australian Women

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 surreal, sharp and comic social critique of male possessiveness and its impact on the lives of independent women.

Published in Playing the Past: Three 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

Two cargo packers at Sydney Airport are overcome by a trio of stowaway terrorists who think they have arrived in Argentina. A comedy thriller in which the terrorists prove as muddled as their victims.

Published in Popular Short Plays II