Faber and Faber, 2016

Faber Drama

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

...Patron? Collaborator? Employer? Voyeur? Lover? Questioned about the nature of his relationship with the 3rd Earl of Southampton, William Shakespeare is on trial. The evidence: tender poems, financial dependency, attempted revolution...

Faber and Faber, 2011

Faber Drama

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Scenes: 30, Roles: Total (18), Female (5), Male (11), Unassigned (2)

...Slowly I learnt the ways of humans: how to ruin, how to hate, how to debase, how to humiliate. And at the feet of my master I learnt the highest of human skills, the skill no other creature owns: I finally learnt how to lie...

Faber and Faber, 2000

Faber Drama

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

...Windsor Castle, 1817. King George III contemplates his life, drawing on his personal past as well as momentous political and historical events over the course of his reign. An almost uninterrupted monologue of digressive musings...

Faber and Faber, 2003

Faber Drama

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Acts: 2, Scenes: 19, Roles: Total (7), Female (3), Male (4), Unassigned (0)

...Some say power's an illusion. But Louis is the master of illusion. He has turned government into a spectacle, politics into a circus. Nick Dear's new play on the origins of the Sun King is a dark...

Faber and Faber, 2000

Faber Drama

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Acts: 2, Scenes: 12, Roles: Total (10), Female (5), Male (5), Unassigned (0)

...Eighteenth century London. The world of art is on the brink of transformation, about to spread from the drawing rooms of the rich to public houses across the country. Compressing the events of ten tumultuous years into a single night, Nick...

Faber and Faber, 2012

Faber Drama

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Acts: 2, Scenes: 28, Roles: Total (7), Female (2), Male (5), Unassigned (0)

...Deep in the Hampshire countryside Edward Thomas, disaffected husband, exhausted father and tormented writer, scrapes a living. In 1913 he meets American poet Robert Frost and everything changes. As their friendship blossoms Edward writes...

Faber and Faber, 2002

Faber Drama

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Acts: 3, Scenes: 14, Roles: Total (3), Female (1), Male (2), Unassigned (0)

...In the savage 1942 winter siege of Leningrad, as the Russians fight off the Nazi invaders, three teenagers - Lika, Marat and Leondik - are thrown together. Losing everything from their past, they forge a new love that binds them and a new...

Faber and Faber, 2018

Faber Drama

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Acts: 2, Scenes: 7, Roles: Total (14), Female (7), Male (7), Unassigned (0)

...A sequel to The Art of Success, The Taste of the Town begins in Chiswick some thirty years after the first play. Hogarth, now a famous artist, is still at odds with the world, and with his wife. Facing public ridicule for what he considers...

Faber and Faber, 2000

Faber Drama

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Acts: 2, Scenes: 19, Roles: Total (35), Female (15), Male (20), Unassigned (0)

...Under the cover of his South London pub, Peachum plies a successful trade in small-time scams. But his world is shattered when the charismatic villain, Macheath, not only plans to marry his daughter, Polly, but to move into dangerous levels...

Faber and Faber, 2000

Faber Drama

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Acts: 2, Scenes: 28, Roles: Total (25), Female (2), Male (23), Unassigned (0)

...'Zenobia pits a tribal monarch against the mighty republic of Rome. A middle-eastern state takes on the global superpower in a battle for control of trade and commodities. On a more personal scale, it’s a play about ambition...