28 April 2023
Bloomsbury have announced the launch of Oberon Books Collection 2, with 199 new titles now live on Drama Online. The full collection will include a total of 400 titles by the end of February 2024. Oberon Books has long been recognised as one of the most exciting imprints specialising in drama and the performing arts, with a reputation for publishing challenging and compelling works. This second collection includes 39 plays by the renowned and prolific British playwright Howard Barker, such as Scenes from an Execution, The Europeans, and Victory. Other highlights of the collection include:
- A selection of stand-out plays by contemporary writers such as Aamina Ahmad, Koko Brown, Rhiannon Faith, Gabriel Gbadamosi, Lauren John Joseph, Nick Makoha, Yolanda Mercy, and Leo Skilbeck.
- 11 Josephine House, the debut play by Alfred Fagon who is remembered as one of the most eminent Black British playwrights of the 1970s and 1980s, alongside the final play in his oeuvre, Lonely Cowboy.
- Three plays by Karen Zacarías, one of the ten most-produced playwrights in the US, including the critically acclaimed Destiny of Desire.
- Eight plays by the experimental Belgian theatre collective Ontroerend Goed, including the divisive Audience and Internal, and acclaimed The Smile off Your Face.
- The Special Relationship, a new play by award-winning playwright Hassan Abdulrazzak, alongside his earlier work, such as Baghdad Wedding and Love, Bombs, and Apples.
- Canonical plays by Rodney Ackland, one of the twentieth-century’s major English playwrights, including Absolute Hell and Before the Party.
Drama Online originally launched in 2013 with its Core Collection. It now offers 30 collections including 4,000 playtexts from 1,400 playwrights, 700 hours of video, 400 audio plays and nearly 500 scholarly books.