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  • The Unconquered

    by Torben Betts ...
    Series series Oberon Modern Plays
    "One day you will say something from the heart, a truth forced raw and screeching from the howling depths of your soul."Powerful poetic language, dark humour and provocative ideas build a fast moving story around a fiercely intelligent young girl and her relentless refusal of the establishment. When suddenly a people’s revolution breaks out and a mercenary soldier intrudes the family home, the ... Read more

    $12.79 USD

  • Torben Betts: Plays One

    by Torben Betts ...
    Series series Oberon Modern Playwrights
    Three pitch-black comedies from an exciting new writer: A Listening Heaven, Mummies and Daddies and ClockwatchingA Listening Heaven, which focuses on one family’s painful inability to grieve for a dead son, was first produced in 1999 to critical acclaim at the Stephen Joseph Theatre in Scarborough, where Betts was the resident dramatist.Mummies and Daddies, developed at the RNT Studio, brutally ... Read more

    $22.19 USD

  • The Lunatic Queen

    by Torben Betts ...
    Series series Oberon Modern Plays
    At the turn of the sixteenth century the two most powerful people on the planet, Queen Isabella of Castile and King Ferdinand of Aragon are making plans to expand their empire. They are plundering the riches of the New World, removing all Jews and Moors from their territories and waging war on the infidels in the East. At home they seek to assert the dominance of Spain by marrying their daughters ... Read more

    $12.79 USD

  • The National Joke

    by Torben Betts ...
    Series series Oberon Modern Plays
    Will the Prime Minister give Rupert the political prize he’s been hoping for? How much more can Olivia take of her mother Mary and her withering put-downs? Will Charlie get off her phone for long enough to listen to anyone, let alone her boyfriend?Home truths emerge and a reputation could tumble as Rupert St John-Green MP and three generations of women gather in the family garden to watch a total ... Read more

    $12.79 USD

  • Caroline's Kitchen

    by Torben Betts ...
    Series series Oberon Modern Plays
    Monogamy means sharing your life with one person, but what if you shared your kitchen with 5.6 million?Caroline Mortimer, the nation's favourite TV cook, has it all – a sparkling career, a big house in Highgate, a (golf) loving husband, smart kids and the best kitchen money can buy.But beneath the immaculate furnishings, studio lighting and away from the glare of the ever-present cameras – ... Read more

    $12.79 USD

  • Lie of the Land

    by Torben Betts ...
    Series series Oberon Modern Plays
    Set in the future, this savagely funny poetic drama deals with a city couple who relocate to a remote rural wilderness to escape the rat race and the rising anarchy of city life. But will a desolate house by the sea provide them with The Answer?Lie of the Land premiered at the Pleasance at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in August 2008. ... Read more

    $15.39 USD

  • Muswell Hill

    by Torben Betts ...
    Series series Oberon Modern Plays
    One night in January 2010 and an earthquake in Haiti leaves around a hundred thousand people dead and almost two million homeless. Meanwhile, somewhere in a leafy North London suburb, a group of six individuals convene over avocado and prawns, followed by a monkfish stew. They struggle with worries over their mortgages, their mobile phone tariffs, their Facebook friends, their careers, their love ... Read more

    $15.39 USD

  • Betts: Plays Three

    The Optimist; The Swing of Things; The Company Man

    by Torben Betts ...
    Series series Oberon Modern Playwrights
    Includes the plays The Optimist, The Swing of Things and The Company ManIn this third volume of his collected plays Torben Betts portrays a world of floundering, sub-alpha males and suicidally miserable women, of bullying parents, torturous childhoods and failing relationships, characters all baffled by the most basic question: how do we live good lives and be happy in the modern world?Set on Guy ... Read more

    $22.19 USD

  • The Error of Their Ways

    by Torben Betts ...
    Series series Oberon Modern Plays
    From a playwright rated by Alan Ayckbourn and Howard Barker to be the most exciting new voice in British theatre comes a shattering re-imagining of life as we live it now, set in the context of a bloody revolution.Witness to a brutal political assassination, we are introduced to a society fractured by a lack of belief in anything meaningful, in which everyone has something to protest against. This ... Read more

    $12.79 USD

  • Betts: Plays Two

    Incarcerator; Five Visions of the Faithful; Silence and Violence; The Biggleswade; The Last Days of Diser

    by Torben Betts ...
    Series series Oberon Modern Playwrights
    Includes the plays Incarcerator, Five Visions of the Faithful, Silence and Violence, The Last Days of Desire, The Biggleswades.With an Introduction by David Pownall, and an essay by Peter CrazeA volume of language-rich, theatrically-ambitious tragedies. Betts’ hugely popular verse drama Incarcerator (White Bear and BAC) was a Time Out Critics' Choice, while his Five Visions of the Faithful (White ... Read more

    $18.79 USD

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  • Mexico

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