Play Collections

The 24 Hour Plays Viral Monologues

New Monologues Created During the Coronavirus Pandemic The 24 Hour Plays Edited by Howard Sherman, Independent scholar, USA Since 1995 The 24 Hour Plays have been responding to theatre in the moment. As the 2020 Coronavirus pandemic brought an end to live theatre in the USA and Europe, the company sprang to work to keep the arts alive. Bringing together some of America's most prolific writers for the stage and screen, this unique and contemporary book of monologues collates the responses in dramatic fashion, making for an anthology of work that is timely, moving, irreverent and at its best, transcendent.

UK June 2020 • US June 2020 • 176 pages PB 9781350187542 • £14.99 / $19.95 ePub 9781350187566 • £13.49 / $17.24 ePdf 9781350187559 • £13.49 / $17.24 Series: Audition Speeches • Methuen Drama World English

Oberon Modern Playwrights

Robert Icke: Works One

Oresteia; Uncle Vanya; Mary Stuart; The Wild Duck; The Doctor Robert Icke Robert Icke’s thrilling and radical adaptations of some of the great texts of Western theatre have enthralled theatregoers in London, in New York and around the world. This is the first collection of his multi-award-winning work, up to his most recent work The Doctor.

UK September 2020 • US February 2021 • 464 pages PB 9781786829078 • £17.99 / $22.95 ePub 9781786829085 • £16.19 / $20.93 Series: Oberon Modern Playwrights • Oberon Books World English

Hanoch Levin: Selected Plays Two

Suitcase Packers; The Lost Women of Troy; The Labour of Life; Walkers in the Dark; Requiem Hanoch Levin Translated by Jessica Cohen, Evan Fallenberg & Naaman Tammuz Brand new translations of one of Israel's most important 20th-century dramatists. Plays Two includes Suitcase Packers (1983), The Lost Women of Troy (1984), The Labour of Life (1989), Walkers in the Dark (1998) and Requiem (1999).

UK March 2020 • US May 2020 • 488 pages PB 9781786829146 • £17.99 / $22.95 ePub 9781786829160 • £16.19 / $20.93 Series: Oberon Modern Playwrights • Oberon Books World English

My White Best Friend

(And Other Letters Left Unsaid) Edited by Rachel De-lahay Originally commissioned by The Bunker Theatre as a critically-acclaimed festival that ran in 2019, My White Best Friend collects 23 letters that engage with a range of topics, from racial tensions, microaggressions and emotional labour, to queer desire, prejudice and otherness. Featuring work from some of the most exciting voices in the UK and beyond, such as Travis Alabanza, Inua Ellams and Jasmine Lee-Jones, this exceptional anthology transforms letter writing into a provocative act of candour.

UK September 2020 • US September 2020 • 288 pages PB 9781786829016 • £14.99 / $19.95 ePub 9781786829009 • £13.49 / $17.24 ePdf 9781350225947 • £13.49 Oberon Books World English

Hanoch Levin: Selected Plays One

Krum; Schitz; The Torments of Job; A Winter Funeral; The Child Dreams Hanoch Levin Translated by Jessica Cohen, Evan Fallenberg & Naaman Tammuz In these brand new translations of the works of Hanoch Levin - one of Israel's most important 20th-century dramatists - a highly influential voice of the Middle East finally claims its place among Englishspeakers in the great canon of world drama. Plays One contains the plays Krum (1975), Schitz (1975), The Torments of Job (1981), A Winter Funeral (1978), and The Child Dreams (1993).

UK March 2020 • US May 2020 • 488 pages PB 9781786829139 • £17.99 / $22.95 ePub 9781786829153 • £16.19 / $20.93 Series: Oberon Modern Playwrights • Oberon Books World English

Hanoch Levin: Selected Plays Three

The Thin Soldier; Bachelors and Bachelorettes; Everyone Wants to Live; The Constant Mourner; The Lamenters Hanoch Levin Translated by Jessica Cohen, Evan Fallenberg & Naaman Tammuz Brand new translations of the late-career works of one of Israel's most important 20th-century dramatists. Plays Three includes The Thin Soldier, Bachelors and Bachelorettes (2002), Everyone Wants to Live, The Constant Mourner (2019) and The Lamenters (2000).

UK March 2020 • US May 2020 • 488 pages PB 9781786829122 • £17.99 / $22.95 ePub 9781786829115 • £16.19 / $20.93 Series: Oberon Modern Playwrights • Oberon Books World English

Theatre in Times of Crisis

20 Scenes for the Stage in Troubled Times This anthology brings together a collection of 20 scenes from 20 playwrights that each respond to the world in crisis. Twenty of the world’s most prolific playwrights were asked to select one scene from across their published work that speaks to the current world situation in 2020. As COVID-19 continues to challenge every aspect of global life, contemporary theatre has long predicted a world on the edge. Through these scenes we see how theatre has the capacity to respond, comment on and grapple with global challenges that in turn speak to the current time in which we are living.

UK April 2021 • US April 2021 • 224 pages PB 9781350188785 • £24.99 / $34.95 ePub 9781350188822 • £22.49 / $28.32 ePdf 9781350188815 • £22.49 / $28.32 Methuen Drama World English

Contemporary Dramatists Lucy Prebble Plays 1

The Sugar Syndrome; Enron; The Effect; A Very Expensive Poison Lucy Prebble Lucy Prebble is one of Britain's foremost writers for the stage and screen. This eagerly anticipated play collection brings together her landmark plays for the first time, showcasing her work from 2003 to 2019. Beginning with her George Devine Award-winning play The Sugar Syndrome it continues through her explosive look at the biggest financial scandal in history, concluding with her pointed dramatization of the one of the most shocking news stories of the 2010s. Series: Contemporary Dramatists • Methuen Drama World English

Clare Barron Plays 1

I'll Never Love Again; You Got Older; Dance Nation; Dirty Crusty Clare Barron In recent years Clare Barron has emerged as one of the most acclaimed and exciting new voices in American drama. The first ever collection of her work, this volume contains I'll Never

Heather Raffo's Iraq Plays: The Things That Can't Be Said

9 Parts of Desire; Fallujah; Noura Heather Raffo Edited by Michael Malek Najjar, University of Oregon, USA In these three works Raffo explores the indelible effects of war on Iraqis, Americans, and the refugees caught between the two cultures. When considered together, these three works give voice to nearly two decades of rarely examined traumas that have reshaped cultural and national identity for both Americans and Iraqis since the events of 9/11. Heather Raffo is a renowned playwright and performer whose work has been described by The New Yorker as an example of “how art can remake the world.” An American with Iraqi heritage, her work is seen as a rare bridge between western and eastern cultures.

UK February 2021 • US February 2021 • 192 pages PB 9781350145177 • £24.99 / $34.95 • HB 9781350145160 • £75.00 / $100.00 ePub 9781350145191 • £22.49 / $28.32 ePdf 9781350145184 • £22.49 / $28.32 Methuen Drama

UK September 2020 • US October 2020 • 384 pages PB 9781350175099 • £19.99 / $26.95 ePub 9781350175112 • £17.99 / $22.16 ePdf 9781350175105 • £17.99 / $22.16

World English Love Again, You Got Older, Dance Nation and Dirty Crusty.

UK October 2020 • US October 2020 • 400 pages PB 9781350188518 • £19.99 / $26.95 ePub 9781350188532 • £16.66 / $20.93 ePdf 9781350188525 • £16.66 / $20.93 Series: Contemporary Dramatists • Methuen Drama World English

Richard Bean Plays 6

One Man, Two Guvnors; Young Marx; The Hypocrite Richard Bean The sixth collection of plays from award-winning playwright Richard Bean, including the worldconquering hit One Man, Two Guvnors, as well as Young Marx, his riotous take on Karl Marx's life in London, which launched London's new Bridge Theatre and The Hypocrite, a historical-farcical romp that lit up Hull's year as City of Culture.

UK September 2020 • US October 2020 • 320 pages PB 9781350183650 • £19.99 / $26.95 ePub 9781350183674 • £17.99 / $22.16 ePdf 9781350183667 • £17.99 / $22.16 Series: Contemporary Dramatists • Methuen Drama World English

Laura Wade Plays 2

Posh; Home, I'm Darling; The Watsons; Kreutzer vs. Kreutzer Laura Wade The second collection of work by Olivier awardwinning playwright Laura Wade includes satirical cult sensations Posh and The Watsons, West End hit Home, I'm Darling (Best New Comedy, Olivier Awards 2019), and the previously unpublished play for voices Kreutzer vs Kreutzer.

UK October 2020 • US October 2020 • 416 pages PB 9781350189096 • £19.99 / $26.95 ePub 9781350189119 • £17.99 / $22.16 ePdf 9781350189102 • £17.99 / $22.16 Series: Contemporary Dramatists • Methuen Drama World English