Faber and Faber, 2002

Faber Drama

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Acts: 2, Scenes: 15, Roles: Total (27), Female (8), Male (19), Unassigned (0)

...It's 1773 at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane. The crowd is getting restless. The leading man's unconscious but the show must go on. This irreverent version of real-life events tells the story of David Garrick, Dr Johnson...

Faber and Faber, 1999

Faber Drama

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Scenes: 21, Roles: Total (13), Female (9), Male (4), Unassigned (0)

...The past: the ‘big house’, the servant class, the close-knit family ties of a bygone generation. Rural idyll or claustrophobic hellhole? Desperate to get away from her family and from a culture where everybody knows everything about...

Faber and Faber, 2015

Faber Drama

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Scenes: 7, Roles: Total (8), Female (5), Male (3), Unassigned (0)

...It's Virgie's eighty-fourth birthday and she is bucking convention. But, always more committed as an artist than a mother, Virgie has not reckoned on her family and friends' determination to thwart her plans. A black...

Faber and Faber, 2009

Faber Drama

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

...Journalist Lara and her ex-MP and crime-writer husband Richard are happy and successful. Having moved to a fashionable gated community they invite their old neighbours Caitlin and Joe to dinner. When the security system fails, the food...

Faber & Faber, 2021

Faber Drama

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

...I want you to imagine me in a crowd of people. It’s 2030 and the mean temperature this summer has been 40 degrees celsius. It’s midday. The sun is nuclear hot. There have been spontaneous outbreaks of fires round the country, the closest...

Faber & Faber, 2022

Faber Drama

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Scenes: 24, Roles: Total (17), Female (9), Male (8), Unassigned (0)

...A booze soaked love ballad from the women of Gin Lane. Two lovers, each with hidden secrets, struggle to prosper as gin hawkers. At a time in the 18th century when the average Briton drank 1.5 litres of gin every day, women were...

Faber and Faber, 1999

Faber Drama

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Acts: 2, Scenes: 15, Roles: Total (6), Female (3), Male (3), Unassigned (0)

...Hush was premièred at the Royal Court Theatre, London, in August 1992...

Faber & Faber, 2023

Faber Drama

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Scenes: 7, Roles: Total (6), Female (4), Male (2), Unassigned (0)

...Famous and respectable? Can a woman be both? Emma Hamilton is the name on everyone’s lips. Her attitudes are the latest dance craze sweeping Europe, inspiring a generation of artists from Romney to Goethe. But Emma...

Faber and Faber, 1999

Faber Drama

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

...Ironmistress was first performed at the Young Vic Theatre Studio, London, in January 1989...

Faber and Faber, 2012

Faber Drama

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Scenes: 19, Roles: Total (9), Female (5), Male (4), Unassigned (0)

...Hilary once protested at Greenham. Now her protests tend to focus on persuading her teenage daughter to go out fully clothed. A frank and funny family drama questioning parental anxieties and life after fifty, Jumpy...

Faber & Faber, 2022

Faber Drama

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Acts: 2, Scenes: 15, Roles: Total (6), Female (3), Male (3), Unassigned (0)

...You can’t wait to meet her. El Barco is the newest tapas restaurant in fashionable Walthamstow Village, and it’s Kerry Jackson’s pride and joy. Wearing her working-class roots as a badge of honour, Kerry navigates...

Faber and Faber, 1999

Faber Drama

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Acts: 2, Scenes: 1, Roles: Total (8), Female (6), Male (2), Unassigned (0)

...Playhouse Creatures was first performed at the Old Vic Theatre, London, in September 1997...

Faber & Faber, 2022

Faber Drama

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

...Rune is part of a series of plays commissioned to commemorate the discovery in 2009 of the Staffordshire Hoard, the largest ever find of Saxon gold by a first-time metal-detectorist. Many of the recovered items are still a mystery and full...

Faber & Faber, 2024

Faber Drama

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Scenes: 18, Roles: Total (12), Female (8), Male (4), Unassigned (0)

...This was your first go. Did Shakespeare let Titus Andronicus put him off? An experimental tragedy about a pie. You've just begun. Mrs Sarah Siddons, acclaimed as the greatest actress of all time, holds complete...

Faber and Faber, 1999

Faber Drama

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Acts: 2, Scenes: 16, Roles: Total (7), Female (5), Male (2), Unassigned (0)

...April De Angelis’s earlier plays, Ironmistress, Crux and Hush marked the arrival of a bold new talent in the theatre. With The Positive Hour, she more than fulfilled that promise. Miranda is a social worker, with no shortage of problems...

Faber and Faber, 2018

Faber Drama

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Acts: 3, Scenes: 17, Roles: Total (15), Female (7), Male (8), Unassigned (0)

...Village life for Jyoti is simple: the people work hard, sing and live off the earth. She would rather devour a delicious meal than think about a suitable partner. But when the Inspector and his men arrive in town, things begin to sour...

Faber and Faber, 2005

Faber Drama

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

...Frank's got the interview; it's his big break. He just has to convince two formidable women from the corporation and he'll have his chance to get back to Russia. But somehow, history is working against them all...