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Bad Blood Blues
written by Paul Sirett, fl. 1992 (London, England: Oberon Books, 2013, originally published 2009), 64 page(s)
Are Africans being exploited as ‘guinea pigs’ to test new drugs for multi-national pharmaceutical companies? Why is HIV/AIDS treatment too expensive for countries where the virus is most rife? Is it okay to sacrifi ce lives to protect the integrity of medical studies? Bad Blood Blues is a powerfully intense new...
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written by Paul Sirett, fl. 1992 (London, England: Oberon Books, 2013, originally published 2009), 64 page(s)
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Are Africans being exploited as ‘guinea pigs’ to test new drugs for multi-national pharmaceutical companies? Why is HIV/AIDS treatment too expensive for countries where the virus is most rife? Is it okay to sacrifi ce lives to protect the integrity of medical studies? Bad Blood Blues is a powerfully intense new play that leads us deep into a personal and sexual moral maze while confronting the ethics of HIV/AIDS drug trials in Africa.
Field of Study
Theatre
Content Type
Play
Author / Creator
Paul Sirett, fl. 1992
Date Published / Released
2009, 2013
Publisher
Oberon Books
Topic / Theme
AIDS, Medical treatments and procedures, Clare, Patrice, Bluesman
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Copyright © Paul Sirett, 2009
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Compact Failure
written by Jennifer Farmer, fl. 2003 (London, England: Oberon Books, 2007, originally published 2004), 97 page(s)
Rules are rules. But in a place where true friendship is gold dust, rules beg to be broken. Chelle and Denise go way back. Denise, with her loud mouth and long extensions, made the same-old-same-old of prison life not so bad. But when Densie leaves, with no goodbye, no nothing, Chelle figures she's just run out of...
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written by Jennifer Farmer, fl. 2003 (London, England: Oberon Books, 2007, originally published 2004), 97 page(s)
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Rules are rules. But in a place where true friendship is gold dust, rules beg to be broken. Chelle and Denise go way back. Denise, with her loud mouth and long extensions, made the same-old-same-old of prison life not so bad. But when Densie leaves, with no goodbye, no nothing, Chelle figures she's just run out of friendships. Then Ruthie walks in...The story of their friendship unfolds in Jennifer Farmer's sharp and richly textured play. A produ...
Rules are rules. But in a place where true friendship is gold dust, rules beg to be broken. Chelle and Denise go way back. Denise, with her loud mouth and long extensions, made the same-old-same-old of prison life not so bad. But when Densie leaves, with no goodbye, no nothing, Chelle figures she's just run out of friendships. Then Ruthie walks in...The story of their friendship unfolds in Jennifer Farmer's sharp and richly textured play. A production of Compact Failure by Clean Break Theatre Company, opened at Manchester Contact in October 2004, followed by a UK tour.
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Theatre
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Play
Author / Creator
Jennifer Farmer, fl. 2003
Date Published / Released
2004, 2007
Publisher
Oberon Books
Topic / Theme
Friendships, Prisoners, Chelle, Ruthie, Maya, Senior Officer Chris Payne, Officer Lydia Harrison, Nadia, Officer Nutley
Copyright Message
Copyright © 2004 Oberon Books
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The Darker Face of the Earth
written by Rita Dove, 1952- (London, England: Oberon Books, 1996, originally published 1994), 134 page(s)
Published to coincide with its British premiere at the Royal National Theatre, The Darker Face of the Earth
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written by Rita Dove, 1952- (London, England: Oberon Books, 1996, originally published 1994), 134 page(s)
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Published to coincide with its British premiere at the Royal National Theatre, The Darker Face of the Earth
Field of Study
Theatre
Content Type
Play
Author / Creator
Rita Dove, 1952-
Date Published / Released
1994, 1996
Publisher
Oberon Books
Topic / Theme
Domestic matters, Family, Romance, Social problems, Phebe, Psyche, Ticey, Diana, Narrator, Hector, Alexander, Scipio, Augustus Newcastle, Amalia Jennings Lafarge, Louis Lafarge, Doctor, Jones, Leader, Benjamin Skeene, Henry Blake, Scylla
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Copyright © Rita Dove 1994, 1996
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The Empress
written by Tanika Gupta, 1963- (London, England: Oberon Books, 2013, originally published 2013), 147 page(s)
A passionate British queen. A fearless Indian woman. A silenced history revealedIt is Queen Victoria’s Golden Jubilee, 1887. At Tilbury Docks, Rani Das and Abdul Karim step ashore after the long voyage from India. One has to battle a society who deems her a second class citizen, the other forges an astonishing e...
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written by Tanika Gupta, 1963- (London, England: Oberon Books, 2013, originally published 2013), 147 page(s)
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A passionate British queen. A fearless Indian woman. A silenced history revealedIt is Queen Victoria’s Golden Jubilee, 1887. At Tilbury Docks, Rani Das and Abdul Karim step ashore after the long voyage from India. One has to battle a society who deems her a second class citizen, the other forges an astonishing entanglement with the ageing Queen who finds herself enchanted by stories of an India she rules but has never seen.Blending the true sto...
A passionate British queen. A fearless Indian woman. A silenced history revealedIt is Queen Victoria’s Golden Jubilee, 1887. At Tilbury Docks, Rani Das and Abdul Karim step ashore after the long voyage from India. One has to battle a society who deems her a second class citizen, the other forges an astonishing entanglement with the ageing Queen who finds herself enchanted by stories of an India she rules but has never seen.Blending the true story of Queen Victoria’s relationship with Abdul Karim with the experiences of the Indian ayahs who came to Britain during the nineteenth century, The Empress brings a hidden part of British history gloriously to life.
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Theatre
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Play
Author / Creator
Tanika Gupta, 1963-
Date Published / Released
2013
Publisher
Oberon Books
Topic / Theme
Ethnic relations, Racism, Imperialism, Monarchy, Nationalism, Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee, 1887, Rani Das, Hari Sharma, Abdul Karim, Dadabhai Naoroji, Queen Victoria, Lascar Sally, Lady Sarah, Georgina, Lord John Oakham, Firoza, Serang, MK Gandhi, Susan Matthews, Charlotte, Mary, William
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Copyright © Tanika Gupta, 2013
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The Fear of Breathing: Stories from the Syrian Revolution
written by Ruth Sherlock, fl. 2012, Zoe Lafferty, fl. 2012 and Paul Wood, 2012- (London, England: Oberon Books, 2012, originally published 2012), 83 page(s)
‘The most dangerous thing you can do in this country is speak the word freedom.’ The world premiere of a new play based entirely on verbatim reports from inside Syria itself. As thousands have been tortured, jailed, maimed or killed by the Syrian regime, The Fear of Breathing is a hard-hitting evocation of a l...
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written by Ruth Sherlock, fl. 2012, Zoe Lafferty, fl. 2012 and Paul Wood, 2012- (London, England: Oberon Books, 2012, originally published 2012), 83 page(s)
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‘The most dangerous thing you can do in this country is speak the word freedom.’ The world premiere of a new play based entirely on verbatim reports from inside Syria itself. As thousands have been tortured, jailed, maimed or killed by the Syrian regime, The Fear of Breathing is a hard-hitting evocation of a life or death fight for freedom, experienced from the inside. To uncover these personal stories from the uprising, award-winning journal...
‘The most dangerous thing you can do in this country is speak the word freedom.’ The world premiere of a new play based entirely on verbatim reports from inside Syria itself. As thousands have been tortured, jailed, maimed or killed by the Syrian regime, The Fear of Breathing is a hard-hitting evocation of a life or death fight for freedom, experienced from the inside. To uncover these personal stories from the uprising, award-winning journalists Paul Wood of the BBC and Ruth Sherlock of The Daily Telegraph, together with theatre director Zoe Lafferty, travelled into Syria covertly, circumventing the ban on journalists and restrictions on movement for all non-Syrians. Immersed in Syria’s suffocating environment of oppression and fear, they spoke to protesters facing tanks and guns, soldiers who deserted to form the Free Army, activists who dream of change, as well as citizens who love President Bashar al-Assad and are terrified of a future without him. Featuring verbatim scenes, interviews and stories, The Fear of Breathing is a powerful and profoundly disturbing portrait of a revolution struggling to survive.
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Theatre
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Play
Author / Creator
Ruth Sherlock, fl. 2012, Zoe Lafferty, fl. 2012, Paul Wood, 2012-
Date Published / Released
2012
Publisher
Oberon Books
Topic / Theme
Civil war, Revolutions, Oppression (Psychology), Civilian war casualties, Syrian Civil War, 2011-, Omar, Quataba, Muhummad, Faha, Ahmad, Peter, Mother, Qais, Photographer, Khaled, Idris, Adnan, Ismail, Girl, Doctor, Guards, Activists, Demonstrators, FSA Soldiers, Civilians
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Copyright © Ruth Sherlock, Paul Wood and Zoe Lafferty, 2012
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The Free State: A South African Response to Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard
written by Janet Suzman, 1939- (London, England: Oberon Books, 2011, originally published 2000), 115 page(s)
This powerful version of Chekhov’s famous drama reflects the South African phenomenon of the 1990s. With the hindsight of the new millennium we can look back and see that the miracle did happen. The new order did take over from the old. The fruitless cherry orchard was chopped down. The old men who couldn’t mo...
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written by Janet Suzman, 1939- (London, England: Oberon Books, 2011, originally published 2000), 115 page(s)
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This powerful version of Chekhov’s famous drama reflects the South African phenomenon of the 1990s. With the hindsight of the new millennium we can look back and see that the miracle did happen. The new order did take over from the old. The fruitless cherry orchard was chopped down. The old men who couldn’t move with the times have been left behind and forgotten. Chekhov’s great pre-revolutionary drama, dreaming of youthful energy replacing...
This powerful version of Chekhov’s famous drama reflects the South African phenomenon of the 1990s. With the hindsight of the new millennium we can look back and see that the miracle did happen. The new order did take over from the old. The fruitless cherry orchard was chopped down. The old men who couldn’t move with the times have been left behind and forgotten. Chekhov’s great pre-revolutionary drama, dreaming of youthful energy replacing the worn-out inertia of a dying world, lends itself vividly to this new setting in a post-revolutionary South Africa.
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Theatre
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Author / Creator
Janet Suzman, 1939-
Date Published / Released
2000, 2011
Publisher
Oberon Books
Topic / Theme
Social conflict, Race relations, Post Apartheid South Africa, 1994-, Lucy Rademeyer, Leo Guyver, Maria, Anna, Putswa, Nyatso, Dikeledi, Khokoloho, Karlotta, Alexander Masopha Lebaka, Pitso Thekiso, B. S. Pickett, Stranger
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Copyright © Janet Suzman, 2000
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Great Expectations
written by Charles Dickens, 1812-1870 (London, England: Oberon Books, 2011, originally published 2011), 125 page(s)
Pip, a poor village boy, finds two chance meetings set his life on an unexpected course. At the water’s edge, he has a terrifying encounter with an escaped convict. In the decaying grandeur of Miss Haversham’s house, he falls hopelessly in love with the heartless Estella. When an anonymous benefactor helps him...
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written by Charles Dickens, 1812-1870 (London, England: Oberon Books, 2011, originally published 2011), 125 page(s)
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Pip, a poor village boy, finds two chance meetings set his life on an unexpected course. At the water’s edge, he has a terrifying encounter with an escaped convict. In the decaying grandeur of Miss Haversham’s house, he falls hopelessly in love with the heartless Estella. When an anonymous benefactor helps him move to Calcutta, the heart of the British Raj, Pip pursues his great expectations and his dream of winning Estella’s heart.Relocati...
Pip, a poor village boy, finds two chance meetings set his life on an unexpected course. At the water’s edge, he has a terrifying encounter with an escaped convict. In the decaying grandeur of Miss Haversham’s house, he falls hopelessly in love with the heartless Estella. When an anonymous benefactor helps him move to Calcutta, the heart of the British Raj, Pip pursues his great expectations and his dream of winning Estella’s heart.Relocating Pip’s extraordinary journey to nineteenth-century India, this coming-of-age story, evoking some of Dickens’ most colourful characters, is faithful to the period of the book and the richness of Dickens’ language – a vivid theatrical retelling of a universally loved masterpiece.
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Field of Study
Theatre
Content Type
Play
Author / Creator
Charles Dickens, 1812-1870
Date Published / Released
2011
Publisher
Oberon Books
Topic / Theme
Orphans, Self-improvement, Loyalty, Ambition, Pip, Abel Magwitch, Compeyson, Joe Gargery, Mrs. Gargery, Mr. Pumblechook, Biddy, Miss Havisham, Estella, Herbert Pocket, Jaggers, Wemick, Dolge Orlick, Young Pip, Young Estella
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High Life
written by Lizzy Dijeh, fl. 2007 (London, England: Oberon Books, 2009, originally published 2009), 115 page(s)
‘I don’t want to go back inside there. All around…her eyes will be staring at me like fi ngers. I will be like the devil invited to a christening.’
Two Nigerian families bound together by grief. One devastating secret set to tear them apart.
When two families living in East London reunite after a family tragedy t...
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written by Lizzy Dijeh, fl. 2007 (London, England: Oberon Books, 2009, originally published 2009), 115 page(s)
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‘I don’t want to go back inside there. All around…her eyes will be staring at me like fi ngers. I will be like the devil invited to a christening.’
Two Nigerian families bound together by grief. One devastating secret set to tear them apart.
When two families living in East London reunite after a family tragedy their union exposes a wealth of secret motives, jealousy, insecurities and some very different refl ections on a young girl’s short li...
‘I don’t want to go back inside there. All around…her eyes will be staring at me like fi ngers. I will be like the devil invited to a christening.’Two Nigerian families bound together by grief. One devastating secret set to tear them apart.
When two families living in East London reunite after a family tragedy their union exposes a wealth of secret motives, jealousy, insecurities and some very different refl ections on a young girl’s short life. A mother’s loss turns into obsession, a father’s ambition turns into contradiction and a child’s innocence is forever lost.
High Life is an explosive domestic drama set within East London’s Nigerian community.
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Field of Study
Theatre
Content Type
Play
Author / Creator
Lizzy Dijeh, fl. 2007
Date Published / Released
2009
Publisher
Oberon Books
Topic / Theme
Bereavement, Secrets, Jealousy, Suicides, Mighty Omoro, Chinwe Omoro, Christopher Omoro, Ikeye Otulu, Ira Otulu, Ifanyi Otulu, Reverend Isaac
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Copyright © Lizzy Dijeh, 2009
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Hobson's Choice
written by Harold Brighouse, 1882-1958 (London, England: Oberon Books, 2003, originally published 2003), 114 page(s)
Widower Hari Hobson has a successful dress-making business and three daughters. The oldest, Durga, is the brains behind the operation. 'Can't we choose husbands for ourselves?'
I've been telling you for the last five minutes, you're not even fit to choose dresses for yourselves. 'But when Hobson says that Durga is...
I've been telling you for the last five minutes, you're not even fit to choose dresses for yourselves. 'But when Hobson says that Durga is...
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written by Harold Brighouse, 1882-1958 (London, England: Oberon Books, 2003, originally published 2003), 114 page(s)
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Widower Hari Hobson has a successful dress-making business and three daughters. The oldest, Durga, is the brains behind the operation. 'Can't we choose husbands for ourselves?'
I've been telling you for the last five minutes, you're not even fit to choose dresses for yourselves. 'But when Hobson says that Durga is too valuable to lose and must give up all idea of getting married, she takes her fate into her own hands and starts her own rival shop... Widower Hari Hobson has a successful dress-making business and three daughters. The oldest, Durga, is the brains behind the operation. 'Can't we choose husbands for ourselves?'
I've been telling you for the last five minutes, you're not even fit to choose dresses for yourselves. 'But when Hobson says that Durga is too valuable to lose and must give up all idea of getting married, she takes her fate into her own hands and starts her own rival shop nearby. Tanika Gupta's new version of this classic 1916 comedy sets the play in a modern day Salford Asian community, giving a new generation a chance to enjoy the play's sharp wit and charm. This version of Hobson's Choice Show more Show less
I've been telling you for the last five minutes, you're not even fit to choose dresses for yourselves. 'But when Hobson says that Durga is too valuable to lose and must give up all idea of getting married, she takes her fate into her own hands and starts her own rival shop... Widower Hari Hobson has a successful dress-making business and three daughters. The oldest, Durga, is the brains behind the operation. 'Can't we choose husbands for ourselves?'
I've been telling you for the last five minutes, you're not even fit to choose dresses for yourselves. 'But when Hobson says that Durga is too valuable to lose and must give up all idea of getting married, she takes her fate into her own hands and starts her own rival shop nearby. Tanika Gupta's new version of this classic 1916 comedy sets the play in a modern day Salford Asian community, giving a new generation a chance to enjoy the play's sharp wit and charm. This version of Hobson's Choice Show more Show less
Field of Study
Theatre
Content Type
Play
Author / Creator
Harold Brighouse, 1882-1958
Date Published / Released
2003
Publisher
Oberon Books
Topic / Theme
Fathers, Dowry, Marriage, Durga Hobson, Sunita Hobson, Ruby Hobson, Hari Hobson, Ali Mossop, Tubby Mohammad, Steve Prosser, Jim Heeler, Dr. Bannerji, Pinky Kahn, Robbie Ash
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This adaptation © Copyright by Tanika Gupta and Samuel French Ltd on behalf of the Estate of Harold Brighouse, 2003
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How Many Miles to Basra?
written by Colin Teevan, 1968- (London, England: Oberon Books, 2006, originally published 2006), 102 page(s)
Southern Iraq, April 2003. Four soldiers, a journalist and their Iraqi translator set off on an unauthorised journey deep into the Iraqi countryside in a disastrous attempt to make amends for the deaths of some local men at a vehicle checkpoint. Developed from Teevan's highly acclaimed BBC Radio 3 play, How Many M...
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written by Colin Teevan, 1968- (London, England: Oberon Books, 2006, originally published 2006), 102 page(s)
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Southern Iraq, April 2003. Four soldiers, a journalist and their Iraqi translator set off on an unauthorised journey deep into the Iraqi countryside in a disastrous attempt to make amends for the deaths of some local men at a vehicle checkpoint. Developed from Teevan's highly acclaimed BBC Radio 3 play, How Many Miles to Basra? is a superb examination of how definitions of truth and responsibility become blurred in times of war - not just in the...
Southern Iraq, April 2003. Four soldiers, a journalist and their Iraqi translator set off on an unauthorised journey deep into the Iraqi countryside in a disastrous attempt to make amends for the deaths of some local men at a vehicle checkpoint. Developed from Teevan's highly acclaimed BBC Radio 3 play, How Many Miles to Basra? is a superb examination of how definitions of truth and responsibility become blurred in times of war - not just in the armed forces and political arena, but in the media too. How Many Miles to Basra? was performed at the West Yorkshire Playhouse (Leeds) in September 2006.
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Author / Creator
Colin Teevan, 1968-
Date Published / Released
2006
Publisher
Oberon Books
Topic / Theme
War, Civilian war casualties, Armed forces, Iraq War, 2003-2011, Sophie, Ursula, Freddie, Stewart, Dangermouse, Geordie, Sayed, Malek, Tariq, Jeannie, Bandit
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Copyright © Colin Teevan, 2006
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