Faber and Faber, 2014

Faber Drama

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

...1920s Moscow, a small run-down café. Uncle Vanya's niece, Sonya Serebriakova, now in her forties, is the only customer. Until the arrival of Andrey Prozorov, the put-upon brother from Three Sisters...

Faber and Faber, 2001

Faber Drama

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Acts: 3, Roles: Total (10), Female (4), Male (6), Unassigned (0)

...When I think of Ballybeg Hall it's always like this: the sun shining; the doors and windows all open; the place filled with music. A family gathers for a wedding at the ancestral home in County Donegal...

Faber and Faber, 1999

Faber Drama

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Acts: 2, Roles: Total (8), Female (5), Male (3), Unassigned (0)

...It is 1936 and harvest time in County Donegal. In a house just outside the village of Ballybeg live the five Mundy sisters, barely making ends meet, their ages ranging from twenty-six up to forty. The two male members of the household...

Faber and Faber, 2001

Faber Drama

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Scenes: 4, Roles: Total (3), Female (1), Male (2), Unassigned (0)

...An acknowledged masterpieces, Faith Healer weaves together the stories of a travelling healer, his wife and his manager. From their different versions of the healer's performances and a terrible event at the centre of the drama, Friel...

Faber and Faber, 1999

Faber Drama

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Acts: 2, Scenes: 7, Roles: Total (15), Female (6), Male (9), Unassigned (0)

...Set in rural Russia of the mid-nineteenth century. A brilliant, anarchic young medical student, Bazarov, arrives at the provincial family villa of his best friend, Arkady, for the summer vacation. He wants to despise the family...

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...The epic sweep of Turgenev’s 19th century literary masterpiece is brought to the stage by one of Ireland’s greatest dramatists. Fathers and Sons captures the ongoing clash of generations and philosophies. Set in a Russian country estate...

Faber and Faber, 2001

Faber Drama

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Acts: 2, Roles: Total (9), Female (4), Male (5), Unassigned (0)

...Drawing on the Greek myth of Hippolytus, Living Quarters concerns an Irish army officer who becomes a national hero, and explores the effects this has on his relationship with his family. Living...

Faber and Faber, 1999

Faber Drama

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

...The central character of this play is Hugh O’Neill, Earl of Tyrone, who led an Irish and Spanish alliance against the armies of Elizabeth I in an attempt to drive the English out of Ireland. The action takes place before and after...

Faber and Faber, 1999

Faber Drama

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

...This version of Molière's Le Misanthrope was first produced by the National Theatre Company at the Old Vic, London, in February 1973...

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...Molly Sweeney, by the great Irish playwright Brian Friel, tells the story of married couple Molly and Frank, who live in a remote Irish village. Molly has been blind since birth, but now a surgeon – Mr. Rice – believes he may be able...

Faber and Faber, 2005

Faber Drama

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

...This enthralling play considers the relationship between the private life and public work of the composer Leoš Janácek, the passion he felt for a married woman nearly forty years his junior, and his final surge of creative energy...

Faber and Faber, 2001

Faber Drama

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Acts: 3, Scenes: 2, Roles: Total (14), Female (3), Male (11), Unassigned (0)

...Fed up with the dreary round of life in Ballybeg, with his uncommunicative father and the humiliating job in his father's grocery shop, with his frustrated love for Kathy Doogan who married a richer, more successful young man...

Faber and Faber, 2014

Faber Drama

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

...Elena Popova, a young and attractive widow, has immersed herself in the role of mourning for her once philandering late husband. Luka, her frail and ancient man-servant, tries in vain to snap her out of it. Then Smirnov barges in....

Faber and Faber, 2001

Faber Drama

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Acts: 2, Roles: Total (15), Female (1), Male (14), Unassigned (0)

...In the aftermath of an unauthorised civil rights march in Derry, three demonstrators take refuge in the mayor's parlour of the town hall. As rumours spread that their presence is an occupation, these ordinary people find themselves besieged...

Faber and Faber, 2005

Faber Drama

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Acts: 2, Roles: Total (12), Female (4), Male (8), Unassigned (0)

...The year is 1878. The widowed Christopher Gore, his son David and their housekeeper Margaret, the woman with whom they are both in love, live at The Lodge in Ballybeg. But in this era of unrest at the dawn of Home Rule, their seemingly...

Faber and Faber, 2014

Faber Drama

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

...Two strangers meet on holiday and almost manage to convince one another that disappointments are 'merely the postponement of the complete happiness to come'. Developed from a theme in Chekhov's 1899 story 'The Lady...

Faber and Faber, 2001

Faber Drama

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Acts: 3, Scenes: 2, Roles: Total (10), Female (3), Male (7), Unassigned (0)

...A hedge-school in the townland of Baile Beag, an Irish-speaking community in County Donegal, August 1833. In a nearby field camps a recently arrived detachment of the Royal Engineers, making the first Ordnance Survey. For the purposes...

Faber and Faber, 1999

Faber Drama

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

...'Three married couples arrive at Ballybeg pier to celebrate the birthday of Terry by visiting an island he has acquired, Oilean Draíochta, the enchanted island… has the echoes of Hy-Breasil, the isle of the blest where, like Avalon, mortals...