Faber and Faber, 1998

Faber Drama

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Roles: Total (6), Female (1), Male (5), Unassigned (0)

...Sir Anthony Blunt is the director of the Courtauld Institute, London. While cleaning a Titian painting, Blunt has discovered a potential forgery in the Royal Collection. But the painting isn’t the only fake – Blunt himself is a spy...

Faber and Faber, 2018

Faber Drama

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Scenes: 2, Roles: Total (26), Female (11), Male (14), Unassigned (1)

...The Beth, an old fashioned cradle-to-grave hospital serving a town on the edge of the Pennines, is threatened with closure as part of an NHS efficiency drive. As Dr Valentine and Sister Gilchrist attend to the patients, a documentary crew...

Faber and Faber, 1998

Faber Drama

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Roles: Total (5), Female (1), Male (4), Unassigned (0)

...In 1958, actress Coral Browne met a spy in Moscow. And not just any spy – the exiled English spy, Guy Burgess, whom she visits in his seedy flat in Russia’s capital. Based on true events, Bennett’s play offers a portrait...

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...Alan Bennett's award-winning film drama based on a meeting between Australian actress, Coral Browne and British spy, Guy Burgess. Alan Bates stars in a story based on a true incident which took place in Moscow in 1958. British spy, Guy...

Faber and Faber, 1980

Faber Drama

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Acts: 2, Roles: Total (13), Female (4), Male (9), Unassigned (0)

...Enjoy uncannily foresaw the attitudes to English working-class life now enshrined in theme parks. ‘The classic tug in Bennett between childhood Yorkshire and intellectual sophistication had never been better, or more...

Faber and Faber, 2014

Faber Drama

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

...'Alan Bennett's most gloriously funny play... a brilliant, youthful perception of a nation in decline, as seen through the eyes of a home-grown school play... a classic.' Daily Mail...

Faber and Faber, 2014

Faber Drama

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Acts: 2, Roles: Total (11), Female (5), Male (6), Unassigned (0)

...‘After two elegiac comedies about the decline of old England, Mr Bennett has now written a gorgeously vulgar but densely plotted farce that is a downright celebration of sex and the human body... a combination of hurtling action with verbal...

Faber and Faber, 1998

Faber Drama

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Acts: 2, Scenes: 2, Roles: Total (6), Female (1), Male (5), Unassigned (0)

...Sydney and Linda are living perfectly normal lives in 1980s suburban Yorkshire, when they are visited by the esteemed (and long-dead) author Franz Kafka, as well as his (also long-dead) friend and work-guardian, Max Brod. Things get even...

Faber and Faber, 2009

Faber Drama

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Scenes: 2, Roles: Total (13), Female (2), Male (11), Unassigned (0)

...Auden often said that metre and rhyme led him down unexpected paths to thoughts he wouldn't otherwise have had, and in this respect versification and fornication are not so different. Benjamin Britten...

Faber and Faber, 2004

Faber Drama

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Acts: 2, Roles: Total (12), Female (1), Male (11), Unassigned (0)

...An unruly bunch of bright, funny sixth-form boys in pursuit of sex, sport and a place at university. A maverick English teacher at odds with the young and shrewd supply teacher. A headmaster obsessed with results; a history teacher who...

Faber and Faber, 2014

Faber Drama

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Acts: 2, Roles: Total (12), Female (5), Male (7), Unassigned (0)

...‘Alan Bennett's The Lady in the Van is a wonderfully bittersweet comic diary of the years in which a lethally dotty and very smelly old bat parked her unroadworthy vehicle in Bennett's Camden garden, thereby providing him with a roughly...

Faber and Faber, 1992

Faber Drama

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Scenes: 24, Roles: Total (27), Female (5), Male (22), Unassigned (0)

...George III's behaviour has often been odd, but now he is deranged, with rumours circulating that he has even addressed an oak tree as the King of Prussia. Doctors are brought in, the government wavers and the Prince Regent manoeuvres...

Faber and Faber, 1998

Faber Drama

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Acts: 2, Roles: Total (6), Female (3), Male (3), Unassigned (0)

...In what appears to be a very English scene, Hilary and Bron are sitting peacefully on a verandah, when Hilary’s sister and her husband show up. But this is more than just a family visit, and it is soon revealed that all...