Nick Hern Books, 2013

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

...Tom Basden's play Holes is an apocalyptic comedy in which four survivors of a plane crash realise they may be all that's left of the human race. It was first performed on 4 August 2013 at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in a production...

Nick Hern Books, 2010

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Scenes: 18, Roles: Total (17), Female (5), Male (12), Unassigned (0)

...Tom Basden's Joseph K is a darkly comic stage adaptation of Franz Kafka’s classic novel The Trial, relocating the source material to 21st-century Britain. It was first performed at the Gate Theatre, London, on 11 November 2010...

Nick Hern Books, 2015

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Scenes: 5, Roles: Total (13), Female (1), Male (12), Unassigned (0)

...Tom Basden's The Crocodile is a satirical play based on an 1865 short story of the same name by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. The play is about a struggling actor (a civil servant in Dostoyevsky's story) who begins to receive the recognition he feels...

Nick Hern Books, 2011

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Scenes: 10, Roles: Total (29), Female (6), Male (18), Unassigned (5)

...Tom Basden’s There is a War is a bleakly comic play about the absurdity of war. It was first performed as part of a double bill, Double Feature: Two, with Nightwatchman by Prasanna Puwanarajah, at the Paintframe, a specially converted space...