Faber and Faber, 2010

Faber Drama

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Acts: 2, Roles: Total (9), Female (5), Male (4), Unassigned (0)

...Celebrated children's writer Hans Christian Andersen arrives, unannounced, for a stay at Gad's Hill Place in the Kent marshes – home to Charles Dickens and his large, charismatic family. To the lonely and eccentric guest...

Faber and Faber, 2008

Faber Drama

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Acts: 2, Roles: Total (10), Female (6), Male (4), Unassigned (0)

...From his grave in the precincts of Canterbury Cathedral, Dallas Sweetman is called to give account. He tells a story of love and death, jealousy and miraculous happenings, of the divided loyalties of Protestants and Catholics...

Faber and Faber, 2004

Faber Drama

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Roles: Total (2), Female (2), Male (0), Unassigned (0)

...Fred and Jane explores the deep and sustaining friendship between two nuns, Anna and Beatrice, as they recall the trials and joys of religious life. Fred and Jane premiered at Bewley's Cafe Theatre...

Faber and Faber, 2002

Faber Drama

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Acts: 2, Roles: Total (7), Female (3), Male (4), Unassigned (0)

...Johnny Silvester, father of the nation, won the hearts and votes of Ireland. But that was in his heyday. Now, as this bright hinterland recedes, he finds himself revisited by a dubious past. An epic and lyrical tour de force, Hinterland...

Faber and Faber, 2017

Faber Drama

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

...PJ and Christy: sworn enemies destined to share one small room for twenty years. As the two men recall the joys and torments of life outside – the childhood excursions, a deadly brawl, past loves and summer dresses – slowly they uncover...

Faber and Faber, 2009

Faber Drama

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Scenes: 4, Roles: Total (5), Female (2), Male (3), Unassigned (0)

...Here, now, listen, I'll tell you a tale . Daffodils are in bloom as dawn breaks over the foothills of Ballycumber, ushering in hope for a new day and stirring the ghosts of a past fraught with sorrow...

Faber and Faber, 2007

Faber Drama

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

...In two poignant, interweaving monologues Janet and Joe tell the story of their lives of petty crime in Dublin, the act of violence that shattered their marriage and their long years of suffering before Joe’s final redemptive act. The Pride...

Faber and Faber, 2004

Faber Drama

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Roles: Total (2), Female (2), Male (0), Unassigned (0)

...A dark night, an old waiting room and two supposed strangers eager to reach their destinations. In the cold hours that rest between nightfall and daybreak, silent questions prompt unexpected revelations. Two souls share a passion...