Faber & Faber, 2007

Faber Drama

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Acts: 2, Scenes: 35, Roles: Total (19), Female (12), Male (7), Unassigned (0)

...All About My Mother is a passionate hymn to the strength and spirit of women; a kaleidoscopic drama embracing motherhood, love and desire; a homage to the great Hollywood movies...

Faber and Faber, 1999

Faber Drama

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Scenes: 8, Roles: Total (3), Female (1), Male (2), Unassigned (0)

...No one has recognised Reade Collins in the street for over a decade. Suddenly everyone seems to know who he is again – things are looking up. But there's a flip side to second-hand fame – and Reade discovers that there's more than one way...

Faber and Faber, 2013

Faber Drama

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Acts: 2, Scenes: 18, Roles: Total (56), Female (8), Male (48), Unassigned (0)

...This is noisily Protestant England - the England of William and Mary's Glorious Revolution at the end of a century of civil strife. This is London in the 1690s, the monster city tamed into awe by our only Orpheus: Henry Purcell...

Faber and Faber, 2009

Faber Drama

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Acts: 3, Roles: Total (11), Female (4), Male (5), Unassigned (2)

...I know. No country matters. Not in the kitchen. Not on a Sunday. Not in England. After six lonely weeks with nobody but her disabled boy...

Faber and Faber, 2016

Faber Drama

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Acts: 2, Scenes: 28, Roles: Total (21), Female (12), Male (9), Unassigned (0)

...For Lilly and her mother, going to Indonesia isn’t just another holiday. It’s an escape and a new start. But when Will takes a gentle ride along the beach on an elephant called Oona, calamity strikes. As a tsunami comes crashing towards...

Faber and Faber, 2007

Faber Drama

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Roles: Total (1), Female (1), Male (0), Unassigned (0)

...Today – after I had the electric sex, got clobbered, killed the dog and parked the hijacked ice-cream van – I found the pop legend’s house in Greenwich. Small-time hack and seeker of minor adventure, Rachel sets off down...

Faber and Faber, 2006

Faber Drama

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Acts: 2, Scenes: 8, Roles: Total (7), Female (2), Male (5), Unassigned (0)

...Simon is looking forward to lunch with Patrick Mulligan, the first man he slept with nearly twenty years previously, while playing Puck in a school production. It soon becomes apparent that Patrick is expecting to see not Simon, but the boy...

Faber & Faber, 2024

Faber Drama

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Acts: 2, Roles: Total (9), Female (8), Male (1), Unassigned (0)

...– Have we met? – No: you’re unforgettable. Do you want to play primo or secondo, James? At St Pancras International, a woman sits at the piano and begins to play. The music...

Faber & Faber, 2013

Faber Drama

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Acts: 2, Scenes: 30, Roles: Total (15), Female (2), Male (13), Unassigned (0)

...I’m done, Father, Keep your crown, I swear you’ll never bring me down! I am not queen material...

Faber and Faber, 2019

Faber Drama

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Acts: 4, Scenes: 1, Roles: Total (15), Female (6), Male (9), Unassigned (0)

...— And your husband forgave you. But what did you do? Decided that forgiveness was offensive and walked out on your marriage. With nothing. Into nothing. — Into everything, I think...