Faber and Faber, 2016

Faber Drama

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Acts: 4, Scenes: 63, Roles: Total (32), Female (11), Male (21), Unassigned (0)

...Russia is changing. Rules have been broken. Chaos is looming. Families are falling apart. Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina is an examination of a country in the midst of extraordinary change. Through the impact of one woman’s decision, it looks...

Faber and Faber, 2009

Faber Drama

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Acts: 3, Roles: Total (9), Female (4), Male (5), Unassigned (0)

...Fermoy Fitzgerald, a Irish midlands politician, haunted by the ghosts of the past and enthralled by dreams of the future, will sacrifice everything in pursuit of power – even the lives of his wife and family. On the day of his daughter...

Faber & Faber, 2024

Faber Drama

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Scenes: 12, Roles: Total (8), Female (5), Male (3), Unassigned (0)

...It was a terrible crossing. The worst yet. There weren't enough boats. I had to stab my way up the gangplank. It was pitch black and the ferryman hadn't an eye in his head. In a house, a young mother...

Faber and Faber, 2004

Faber Drama

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Acts: 3, Scenes: 6, Roles: Total (14), Female (7), Male (7), Unassigned (0)

...Set in the mysterious landscape of the bogs of rural Ireland, Carr's lyrical and timeless play tells the story of Hester Swane, an Irish traveller with a deep and unearthly connection to her land. Tormented by the memory of a mother who...

Faber & Faber, 2022

Faber Drama

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Acts: 2, Scenes: 16, Roles: Total (6), Female (3), Male (3), Unassigned (0)

...Clytemnestra’s world is torn apart when Agamemnon sacrifices their daughter for the sake of war. Ten years later, the couple are reunited. What follows is a dangerous battle fuelled by love, grief and power. Marina Carr...

Faber and Faber, 2015

Faber Drama

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Scenes: 6, Roles: Total (12), Female (4), Male (8), Unassigned (0)

...Hecuba was written in reaction to the bad press this Trojan queen receives, and reimagines how she may have suffered and reacted. The play was premiered by the Royal Shakespeare Company at the Swan Theatre...

Faber & Faber, 2021

Faber Drama

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Scenes: 21, Roles: Total (1), Female (1), Male (0), Unassigned (0)

...I Neanderthal Prince of the Plains I saw Eden It wasn't much I saw...

Faber and Faber, 2015

Faber Drama

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Roles: Total (11), Female (4), Male (7), Unassigned (0)

...Indigo is a dark and passionate romance amongst fairies, demons, ghouls and every sort of fantastic creature out of folklore and myth...

Faber & Faber, 1999

Faber Drama

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Acts: 2, Scenes: 16, Roles: Total (5), Female (3), Male (2), Unassigned (0)

...A mother and daughter bicker over who has just given birth. A couple discuss building walls and baking buns in the oven. A man gets pregnant. Marina Carr's witty and absurdist play Low in the Dark dismantles the myths...

Faber and Faber, 2009

Faber Drama

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Acts: 2, Scenes: 14, Roles: Total (4), Female (2), Male (2), Unassigned (0)

...A premonition of impending disaster precedes a collision between the conscious and subconscious lives of two married couples. Hidden fantasies and passions conflict with the calls of friendship and fidelity. The characters' everyday...

Faber and Faber, 2009

Faber Drama

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

...In Marina Carr's epic tragedy of rural life, three generations of the Rafterys live together in the midlands of Ireland. It's a closely knit farming community where hatred and rumours of incest, stillborn children, and abused families seem...

Faber and Faber, 2015

Faber Drama

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Scenes: 11, Roles: Total (14), Female (8), Male (6), Unassigned (0)

...Phaedra Backwards retells the Phaedra myth to discover what shaped her. The play was first performed at the McCarter Theatre Center for the Performing Arts, Princeton, in October 2011...

Faber & Faber, 1996

Faber Drama

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Acts: 3, Scenes: 15, Roles: Total (11), Female (5), Male (6), Unassigned (0)

...There’s a wolf tooth growin in me heart and it’s turnin me from everywan and everthin I am. A young woman unravelling. A twin reappearing. A family torn asunder by the living and the dead...

Faber and Faber, 2015

Faber Drama

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Acts: 2, Scenes: 14, Roles: Total (17), Female (4), Male (13), Unassigned (0)

...Sixteen Possible Glimpses imagines sixteen fleeting moments in Anton Chekhov’s short life and work. The play was first performed at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin, in September 2011...

Faber and Faber, 2009

Faber Drama

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

...Haunted by her dream of Cordelia and Lear, a woman confronts an elderly man, her lifelong antagonist and rival. During their passionate altercation he dismisses her success as a composer and demands she make the ultimate sacrifice: for him...

Faber & Faber, 1999

Faber Drama

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Acts: 2, Roles: Total (8), Female (7), Male (1), Unassigned (0)

...Set in the Irish midlands whose landscape becomes the arena in which Marina Carr’s Gothic epics expand, The Mai revolves around Millie’s harrowing narrative of the desperate loves of her mother, a woman faithful to a man incapable...

Faber and Faber, 2015

Faber Drama

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

...The Map of Argentina offers a meditation on love and what happens when it is denied, or pursued and hunted down...

Faber and Faber, 2009

Faber Drama

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

...A woman – gaunt and ill, haggard after giving birth eight times – faces death. What was life? What was love? What else could have been? Full of mordant, bitter humour, this is a passionate threnody from one of Ireland's leading playwrights....