Faber and Faber, 1997

Faber Drama

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Acts: 2, Scenes: 11, Roles: Total (7), Female (2), Male (5), Unassigned (0)

...This play 'is an ambitious work which brings together in heated discussion a young left wing journalist and a right wing expatriate Indian novelist. The settings are a Bombay hotel where they are attending a world poverty conference...

Faber and Faber, 2008

Faber Drama

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

...It is 1979. Esme Allen is a well-known West End actress at just the moment when the West End is ceasing to offer actors a regular way of life. The visit of her young daughter, Amy, with a new boyfriend sets in train a series of events which...

Faber & Faber, 2020

Faber Drama

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...Covid-19 seems to be a sort of dirty bomb, thrown into the body to cause havoc. On the same day that the UK government finally made the first of two decisive interventions that led to a conspicuously late lockdown...

Faber and Faber, 2009

Faber Drama

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...In two contrasted readings for the stage – Berlin and Wall – David Hare visits a place where a famous wall has come down; then another where a wall is going up. For his whole adult life, David Hare has been visiting...

Faber and Faber, 1997

Faber Drama

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Acts: 12, Scenes: 29, Roles: Total (32), Female (11), Male (21), Unassigned (0)

...In vividly dramatic form, this play tells how a remote Chinese village comes to terms with Communism. Every revolution creates new words. The Chinese revolution created a whole new vocabulary in which a very important word is 'fanshen...

Faber and Faber, 2008

Faber Drama

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Acts: 2, Scenes: 17, Roles: Total (9), Female (4), Male (5), Unassigned (0)

...Nothing is more important to a modern political party than fund-raising. But the values of the donors can't always coincide with the professed beliefs of the party. And family scandal within the cabinet has the potential to throw both...

Faber and Faber, 2018

Faber Drama

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Acts: 2, Scenes: 16, Roles: Total (6), Female (3), Male (3), Unassigned (0)

...Should I run? This is the question Pauline Gibson is asking herself. She has spent her adult life as a doctor, the inspiring leader of a campaign for local health provision. When she crosses paths with her old boyfriend, Jack Gould, who has...

Faber and Faber, 1996

Faber Drama

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Acts: 2, Scenes: 16, Roles: Total (10), Female (2), Male (8), Unassigned (0)

...Knuckle combines surrealism and satire in a breathlessly fast-moving plot when Curly Delafield, mercenary soldier and gun-runner, returns to Guilford to find out what has happened to his sister Sarah...

Faber and Faber, 2002

Faber Drama

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Acts: 2, Scenes: 15, Roles: Total (25), Female (6), Male (17), Unassigned (0)

...A young lawyer’s involvement in her first case leads her through a criminal justice system – police, courts and prisons – which is cracking at the seams. Murmuring Judges is the second play in David...

Faber and Faber, 2008

Faber Drama

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Scenes: 11, Roles: Total (3), Female (1), Male (2), Unassigned (0)

...David Hare's play My Zinc Bed continues the run of work in which he has sought to describe the atmosphere of contemporary Britain. A successful entrepreneur, Victor Quinn, employs a young poet, Paul Peplow, to decorate the legend of his...

Faber and Faber, 1996

Faber Drama

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Scenes: 12, Roles: Total (14), Female (5), Male (9), Unassigned (0)

...Plenty ran at the National Theatre, London, throughout 1978 and the New York production in the autumn of 1982 was equally well received. In counterpointing the experiences of an Englishwoman helping the French Resistance during the war...

Methuen Drama, 1985

Modern Plays

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Acts: 2, Scenes: 10, Roles: Total (37), Female (6), Male (31), Unassigned (0)

...Pravda (which means ‘truth’) is a comedy of excess which put modern Fleet Street on the stage for the first time. It is an acerbic satire on the ruthless newspaper culture of the 1980s, in particular an insatiable media mogul eating...

Faber and Faber, 2001

Faber Drama

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Acts: 2, Scenes: 23, Roles: Total (11), Female (3), Male (8), Unassigned (0)

...How do you fight without hate? Racing Demon reveals the struggle of four clergymen to make sense of their mission. David Hare's play opened at the National...

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...Four clergymen seek to make sense of their mission while being torn in all directions by the Church of England. After a critically lauded debut in 1990 at London’s National Theatre, Racing Demon went on to earn universal acclaim. More than...

Faber and Faber, 2008

Faber Drama

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

...This is a new collection of some of David Hare's finest work, including Skylight (Winner of the Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Play, 1996), Amy's View, The Judas Kiss and My Zinc Bed...

Faber and Faber, 1996

Faber Drama

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

...Slag is about women's rights, revolutionary feminism, girls' boarding schools, hysterical pregnancy, hockey and sex, in no particular order. David Hare sets his three characters at each other's throats, mouths, and occasionally feet...

Faber and Faber, 2011

Faber Drama

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Scenes: 12, Roles: Total (9), Female (2), Male (7), Unassigned (0)

...1962: A public school on the South Downs. John Blakemore is a solitary boy who finds it impossible either to understand or adapt to the ways of the school. His adolescent earnestness put off teacher and pupil alike...

Faber & Faber, 2022

Faber Drama

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Acts: 2, Scenes: 16, Roles: Total (13), Female (6), Male (7), Unassigned (0)

...For forty uninterrupted years, Robert Moses was the most powerful man in New York. Though never elected to office, he manipulated those who were through a mix of guile, charm and intimidation. Motivated at first...

Faber and Faber, 2006

Faber Drama

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Acts: 2, Scenes: 24, Roles: Total (36), Female (3), Male (33), Unassigned (0)

...Stuff happens... And it's untidy, and freedom's untidy, and free people are free to make mistakes and commit crimes and do bad things. The famous response of Donald Rumsfeld, American Secretary...

Faber and Faber, 1996

Faber Drama

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Scenes: 11, Roles: Total (12), Female (2), Male (10), Unassigned (0)

...June 9th 1969. A warm night in Cambridge. A rock band plays the May Ball gig for £120. A great deal of champagne, a good deal of hashish, some acid and a very little preludin. And the band still have three sets to play...