Oberon Modern Playwrights
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The new collection from Richard Bean, one of Britain’s leading playwrights and the fastest-selling playwright in the history of the West End.
This volume features an introduction by Mark Lawson and includes the plays: The Heretic, The Big Fellah and England People Very Nice.
This volume features an introduction by Mark Lawson and includes the plays: The Heretic, The Big Fellah and England People Very Nice.
The new collection from multi-award-winning playwright Richard Bean. Contains the plays, Great Britain, The Nap, Pub Quiz is Life, Pitcairn and Kiss Me.
Foreword by Sir Nicholas Hytner.
Foreword by Sir Nicholas Hytner.
Includes the plays Toast, Mr England, Smack Family Robinson, and Honeymoon Suite
'Suddenly with four new plays opening within 12 months, Richard Bean has become the playwright of the moment and now, in Honeymoon Suite, his most prestigious premiere to date, he has written what seems like the perfect play' The Financial Times on Honeymoon Suite
'Toast is as funny, touching, and brilliant an account of men at work as any we have had since David Storey's The Changing Room' The Spectator on Toast
'Cunningly effective' The Times on Mr England
'A brilliant black satire that plays on an Ortonesque reversal of values. Bean distributes deftly crafted, razor-sharp lines among a cast of characters who would sooner snort them than deliver them.' The Guardian on Smack Family Robinson
'Suddenly with four new plays opening within 12 months, Richard Bean has become the playwright of the moment and now, in Honeymoon Suite, his most prestigious premiere to date, he has written what seems like the perfect play' The Financial Times on Honeymoon Suite
'Toast is as funny, touching, and brilliant an account of men at work as any we have had since David Storey's The Changing Room' The Spectator on Toast
'Cunningly effective' The Times on Mr England
'A brilliant black satire that plays on an Ortonesque reversal of values. Bean distributes deftly crafted, razor-sharp lines among a cast of characters who would sooner snort them than deliver them.' The Guardian on Smack Family Robinson
Includes the plays The Mentalists, Under the Whaleback and The God Botherers
"The Mentalists confirms Richard Bean as a writer of beguilling originality with a gift for both laugh-out-loud dialogue and a sympathetic understanding of the darker recesses of the human heart" - Charles Spencer, Daily Telegraph on The Mentalists
"An instant modern classic" - Kate Bassett, The Guardian on Under the Whaleback
"Richard Bean must have had a hell of a life" - Michael Billington, The Guardian on The God Botherers
"The Mentalists confirms Richard Bean as a writer of beguilling originality with a gift for both laugh-out-loud dialogue and a sympathetic understanding of the darker recesses of the human heart" - Charles Spencer, Daily Telegraph on The Mentalists
"An instant modern classic" - Kate Bassett, The Guardian on Under the Whaleback
"Richard Bean must have had a hell of a life" - Michael Billington, The Guardian on The God Botherers
Four plays by Richard Bean with an introduction by Chris Campbell. Includes: Harvest, In the Club, The English Game, and Up on the Roof.
Four plays by Richard Bean with an introduction by Chris Campbell. Includes: Harvest, In the Club, The English Game and Up on Roof.
'Funny, poignant with a heart as big as a house, this is a rich Harvest indeed.' The Daily Telegraph on Harvest
'It is rare to spend two hours of unadulterated pleasure in a theatre, even for somebody who occupies theatre seats on a constant basis. This play...is beautifully crafted, well written and as funny as anything currently on stage.' British Theatre Guide on In the Club
'There have been many good plays about cricket before...but none that told us so much about our splintering land.' The Guardian on The English Game
'Wonderful lightness of touch...[his dialogue] takes your breath away.' The Daily Telegraph on Up on Roof
'Funny, poignant with a heart as big as a house, this is a rich Harvest indeed.' The Daily Telegraph on Harvest
'It is rare to spend two hours of unadulterated pleasure in a theatre, even for somebody who occupies theatre seats on a constant basis. This play...is beautifully crafted, well written and as funny as anything currently on stage.' British Theatre Guide on In the Club
'There have been many good plays about cricket before...but none that told us so much about our splintering land.' The Guardian on The English Game
'Wonderful lightness of touch...[his dialogue] takes your breath away.' The Daily Telegraph on Up on Roof