Faber and Faber, 2019

Faber Drama

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

...I had no idea what was going on. Or very little. No more than most people. So you can't make me feel guilty. Brunhilde Pomsel's life spanned the twentieth century. She struggled...

Faber and Faber, 2013

Faber Drama

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Acts: 2, Scenes: 27, Roles: Total (51), Female (11), Male (40), Unassigned (0)

...4th March, 1865: On the night of his second inauguration, a few weeks before his assassination, Abraham Lincoln meets the veteran black abolitionist Frederick Douglass in the White House to discuss the prospect of extending the vote...

Faber and Faber, 2006

Faber Drama

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

...A remote 18th-century Hungarian castle is the setting for a dramatic meeting. Forty-one years after a tragic event two former friends must confront each other in a devastating bid to lay the past to rest. Betrayal, love, truth...

Faber and Faber, 1985

Faber Drama

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Acts: 2, Scenes: 18, Roles: Total (9), Female (6), Male (3), Unassigned (0)

...The scandalous reputation of Laclos's novel, first published in 1782, is based on its chilling portrayal of the mannered decadence and sexual cynicism of the French aristocracy in the last years of the ancien regime. Christopher Hampton has...

Faber and Faber, 1997

Faber Drama

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Scenes: 22, Roles: Total (11), Female (1), Male (10), Unassigned (0)

...An English diplomat, Alan West, is kidnapped by a political movement in Brazil and kept as a prisoner. Meanwhile, hundreds of Brazilian natives are being slaughtered in countless brutal ways – but the public’s focus is on one of these two...

Faber and Faber, 2001

Faber Drama

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Acts: 2, Scenes: 22, Roles: Total (23), Female (8), Male (15), Unassigned (0)

...With the Austro-Hungarian dramatist Odon Von Horvath as our guide, Christopher Hampton's witty and erudite play takes us on a tour of the sun-soaked boulevards of 1940s Los Angeles. Taking in such improbable residents as Thomas and Heinrich...

Faber and Faber, 2005

Faber Drama

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Scenes: 6, Roles: Total (7), Female (3), Male (4), Unassigned (0)

...The Prime Minister and his cabinet have been assassinated and England's most treasured writers are being murdered one by one. Back at the university, a bachelor don anguishes over sex, marriage, anagrams and the meaning of life...

Faber and Faber, 2002

Faber Drama

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Acts: 2, Scenes: 27, Roles: Total (10), Female (5), Male (5), Unassigned (0)

...Christopher Hampton's The Talking Cure deals with the early years of C. G. Jung, and his decision to experiment, using Freud's controversial new method of psychoanalysis, with a young Russian patient, Sabine Spielrein. The success...

Faber and Faber, 1997

Faber Drama

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Acts: 2, Scenes: 12, Roles: Total (13), Female (4), Male (9), Unassigned (0)

...Paris in the late 1800s: the place for artists and romantics. Arthur Rimbaud and Paul Verlaine, two of the greatest French poets, embark upon a near fatal affair that sparks questions about love, poetry and the importance of present...

Faber and Faber, 1997

Faber Drama

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Scenes: 9, Roles: Total (3), Female (1), Male (2), Unassigned (0)

...While her bullying and unfaithful boyfriend, Dave, is away reporting, Ann seizes the opportunity to change the locks and take up with her infinitely more considerate colleague Patrick. But Patrick proves no match against savagery...

Faber and Faber, 2019

Faber Drama

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Scenes: 23, Roles: Total (25), Female (6), Male (19), Unassigned (0)

...The old man started to talk about the trial. He blamed everyone involved, including the teacher, i.e. me. In his view the root cause of the problem was that everybody involved – teachers, parents, boys – behaved as if God no longer existed....