Faber and Faber, 2010

Faber Drama

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

...Sean, just out of prison, invites Lisa back to his flat for a drink. Lisa says she's Norwegian. Is Sean Norwegian too? In this dark, funny encounter two outsiders reach out to each other across the deep fjords of the heart...

Faber and Faber, 2010

Faber Drama

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Scenes: 25, Roles: Total (5), Female (2), Male (3), Unassigned (0)

...David Greig: Plays 1 brings together four key plays by the playwright described by the Daily Telegraph as 'one of the most interesting and adventurous British dramatists of his generation'. In Outlying Island two young...

Faber and Faber, 2001

Faber Drama

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Acts: 2, Scenes: 42, Roles: Total (11), Female (8), Male (3), Unassigned (0)

...Suspect Culture's Casanova follows the travels of an internationally renowned artist who is curating the final exhibition of his illustrious career: an account of his life as the world's greatest lover. As the exhibition nears completion...

Faber & Faber, 2007

Faber Drama

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Acts: 2, Scenes: 20, Roles: Total (5), Female (1), Male (4), Unassigned (0)

...A brief encounter in a Syrian hotel finds a Scotsman grappling with language and love, meanings and misunderstandings. Welcome to Damascus. The oldest continuously inhabited city on earth, a jewel of the Arab world and the crossroads...

Faber and Faber, 2010

Faber Drama

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Scenes: 4, Roles: Total (18), Female (4), Male (14), Unassigned (0)

...Late at night in a foreign land, an English army sweeps through the landscape under cover of darkness and takes the seat of power. Struggling to contain his men and the ambitions of his superiors, the commanding officer attempts...

Methuen Drama, 2002

Contemporary Dramatists

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Acts: 2, Scenes: 20, Roles: Total (8), Female (2), Male (6), Unassigned (0)

...Europe is set in an empty railway station at an unnamed border town, where the trains don’t stop anymore, and the town is turning hollow and introverted. Sava and Katia are economic refugees, waiting at the station so...

Faber and Faber, 2010

Faber Drama

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

...Dan and Lucie first met fifteen years ago at the Kyoto world conference on climate change. He was a young civil servant, and she a polar scientist. Despite knowing they were meant for each other, they missed their opportunity for happiness...

Faber and Faber, 2009

Faber Drama

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Scenes: 19

...Midsummer's weekend in Edinburgh. It's raining. Bob's a failing car salesman on the fringes of the city's underworld. Helena's a high-powered divorce lawyer with a taste for other people's husbands. She's totally out of his league; he...

Faber and Faber, 2010

Faber Drama

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Scenes: 8, Roles: Total (5), Female (1), Male (4), Unassigned (0)

...Outlying Islands offers a poetic and intense glimpse of an innocence, a way of seeing and a way of being young that is about to be destroyed forever. In 1939, on the eve of the Second World War, two young Cambridge...

Faber and Faber, 2010

Faber Drama

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

...A man is found lying in the snow at the foot of the Pyrenees. He remembers nothing. He believes he is British. A young woman from the British Consulate is dispatched to confirm his nationality and piece together his identity. When Vivienne,...

Faber and Faber, 2010

Faber Drama

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Acts: 4, Scenes: 15, Roles: Total (20), Female (8), Male (12), Unassigned (0)

...San Diego weaves together a series of connecting and diverging stories that stretch around the globe into a single compelling narrative of tremendous scope; stories of illegal immigrants, of pilots, film stars and whores, of the making...

Faber and Faber, 2010

Faber Drama

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Acts: 2, Scenes: 18, Roles: Total (10), Female (2), Male (8), Unassigned (0)

...A spy plane crash-lands in a remote valley in a distant country. The local villagers take in the wounded pilot and argue his fate. The American Pilot explores the way the world sees America and the way America sees the world...

Methuen Drama, 2002

Contemporary Dramatists

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Acts: 2, Scenes: 49, Roles: Total (7), Female (3), Male (4), Unassigned (0)

...The Architect is a play of crumbling walls and relationships, about the eternally disappointing gap between an idea and its reality. At the play’s centre is Leo, once a highly successful architect, now in charge...

Methuen Drama, 2002

Contemporary Dramatists

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Acts: 2, Scenes: 42, Roles: Total (11), Female (4), Male (6), Unassigned (1)

...An elusive, enchanting play about disconnection in which everything is intricately connected. Two Soviet cosmonauts, losing contact with the world they left behind; a Scottish civil servant in the throes of a midlife crisis; a Norwegian...

Faber and Faber, 2013

Faber Drama

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

...When Claire, a priest, survives an atrocity she sets out on a quest to answer the most difficult question of all: 'Why?' It's a journey that takes her to the edge of reason, science, politics and faith. David Greig...

Faber and Faber, 2011

Faber Drama

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

...Duck Macatarsney cares for her biker dad, Duke, whose MS is getting worse. Duke is a spliff-smoking (for medicinal reasons you understand), bike-riding, heavy-metal- and horror-movie-loving, pizza-eating widower who has brought up Duck...

Methuen Drama, 1999

Modern Plays

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Acts: 2, Scenes: 27, Roles: Total (19), Female (4), Male (14), Unassigned (1)

...The Speculator is an intelligent, passionate costume drama with anachronisms about the illusionary quality of wealth, set in Paris in 1720. Europe is in chaos. The French playwright Pierre Marivaux is playing games...

Faber and Faber, 2013

Faber Drama

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Scenes: 31

...One wintry morning academic Prudencia Hart sets off to a conference in the Scottish Borders. Stranded there by snow, she is swept off on a dream-like journey of self discovery, complete with magical moments, devilish encounters and wittily...

Faber & Faber, 2024

Faber Drama

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Acts: 5, Roles: Total (4), Female (2), Male (1), Unassigned (1)

...Is this Paradise? Holiday Heaven. I remember it all being brighter, somehow Emma and Amy return to their childhood paradise, a seaside...

Methuen Drama, 2000

Modern Plays

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Scenes: 72

...A rich epic work, Victoria is a trilogy in one play: three separate but interweaving narratives forming a vast and bold panorama. The same actress plays three women who witness the shifting political and social history of Britain...