Faber and Faber, 2012

Faber Drama

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Scenes: 15, Roles: Total (20), Female (7), Male (13), Unassigned (0)

...Born into a bourgeois family, Misail determines to find a way to lead an honest life free from privilege. To his father's disapproval and bewilderment, he renounces his heritage and becomes a workman before moving to the country to manage...

Faber and Faber, 2009

Faber Drama

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Scenes: 13, Roles: Total (3), Female (2), Male (1), Unassigned (0)

...Have you grown hard? Is that it? You were never hard then, you know. Just two spoiled daughters. Two little, selfish daughters. Two unemancipated daughters. Without her you have become hard, is that it? She was so soft, you see...

Faber and Faber, 2015

Faber Drama

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

...On a spring morning in London, eight women, young and old, speak for the continuity of everyday life. Over five choruses, these ordinary inhabitants of the city reveal a world that has an intensity and depth of emotion that make...

Faber and Faber, 2008

Faber Drama

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Scenes: 6, Roles: Total (17), Female (8), Male (9), Unassigned (0)

...Set in Cardiff's east side, Peter Gill's new play offers a vivid portrait of a community the Tories thought they'd got rid of, and New Labour would prefer to forget. Cardiff East raises essential questions: What is family value? What does...

Faber and Faber, 2008

Faber Drama

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

...What are two grown men doing living together faking all the stupidities of a fake straight relationship? A sharp and poignant comedy of contemporary manners, Certain Young Men explores the lives...

Faber and Faber, 2002

Faber Drama

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

...When Stewart, a hedonistic drifter, and Michael, a timid hospital auxiliary, embark on a love affair, the odds are set against them. For as much as Stewart is assertive and streetwise, Michael is introverted and awkward. In this two-hander...

Faber and Faber, 2002

Faber Drama

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

...Kick for Touch tells, in jumbled fragments, the story of a love triangle between two brothers, Joe and Jim, and Joe's wife Eileen. A difficult childhood has left the brothers loving, jealous and incredibly close, so close that – ultimately...

Faber and Faber, 2008

Faber Drama

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

...Cardiff East 'As scene melts into scene, one’s appetite for knowing more and more about these people is constantly whetted, even for the ones one would avoid in real life. Each and every [character] rings true and resonates further. A play...

Faber and Faber, 2002

Faber Drama

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Acts: 2, Scenes: 29, Roles: Total (5), Female (2), Male (3), Unassigned (0)

...When privileged and affected Julian is cast off into the world by his parents, he is left to negotiate the various power struggles within his love affairs and friendships. The result is a tale of romantic excess, set within the pervading...

Faber and Faber, 2008

Faber Drama

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

...Angel, a spell-bindingly beautiful boy, is plucked from the streets to be the plaything of a wealthy newspaper proprietor. This street-boy turned socialite moves with ease between the worlds of privilege and poverty in 1890s Paris...

Faber and Faber, 2002

Faber Drama

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Scenes: 12, Roles: Total (6), Female (2), Male (4), Unassigned (0)

...Frustrated with the tedium of suburbia, mummy’s boy Dennis is drawn to Borstal boy Jeffry in a camaraderie that veers into volatile and unarticulated eroticism. Deftly depicting the frustrations of 1960s living, Over Gardens Out is a finely...

Faber and Faber, 2002

Faber Drama

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

...Small Change is about two mothers and two sons, their attachments and emotional complexity, the endeavour of the two sons to make sense of their complicated inheritance and their adolescent friendship later in life...

Faber & Faber, 2022

Faber Drama

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

...You took relationships as if they were the next train. Alex and Colin’s stories flow like mist down the Thames, roll under Hammersmith Bridge, and slip past the windows of forgotten Soho restaurants. As the old...

Faber and Faber, 2008

Faber Drama

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Scenes: 3, Roles: Total (7), Female (1), Male (6), Unassigned (0)

...Cardiff East 'As scene melts into scene, one’s appetite for knowing more and more about these people is constantly whetted, even for the ones one would avoid in real life. Each and every [character] rings true and resonates further. A play...

Faber and Faber, 2002

Faber Drama

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Acts: 3, Roles: Total (6), Female (4), Male (2), Unassigned (0)

...Set in 1950s Cardiff, The Sleepers Den presents the struggle of the desperate Shannon family who, vulnerable and powerless, live in squalor and must fend for themselves in this story of everyday survival. Peter Gill...

Faber and Faber, 2008

Faber Drama

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

...When the farm labourer George is cast in an amateur revival of the York Mystery Plays he meets the assistant director John. John wants George to move to London, where he is working in theatre. George’s final decision has repercussions...

Faber and Faber, 2014

Faber Drama

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Acts: 3, Scenes: 2, Roles: Total (13), Female (6), Male (7), Unassigned (0)

...In the drawing room of the Rawlinson's late Victorian villa in Kent, life as it was lived before the war is quietly resuming. The family's son, Leonard Rawlinson, is among the British delegation sent to Versailles to draw...