Faber and Faber, 2008

Faber Drama

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Scenes: 2, Roles: Total (11), Female (4), Male (7), Unassigned (0)

...This epic sweep of a play takes us from a contemporary Westminster Abbey to the Arctic ship Fram – or Forward – specially built by Norwegian explorer Fridtjof Nansen who, with his suicidal companion, Johansen, makes a bid on foot...

Faber and Faber, 2002

Faber Drama

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

...Phaedra Britannica (after Racine) was first performed by the National Theatre Company at the Old Vic in September 1975...

Faber and Faber, 1996

Faber Drama

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

...Poetry or Bust was first performed at Salts Mill, Saltaire, in September 1993...

Faber and Faber, 2004

Faber Drama

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Scenes: 2, Roles: Total (10), Female (3), Male (6), Unassigned (1)

...How did the utopian promise of science lead to the release of chemical weapons? Written to be performed almost entirely by women, in verse, song and dance, Square Rounds explores a horrifying, awe-inspiring chain reaction which continues...

Faber and Faber, 1996

Faber Drama

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

...The Kaisers of Carnuntum was first performed in the roman amphitheatre at Petronell-Carnuntum, Austria, June 1995...

Faber and Faber, 1996

Faber Drama

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

...The Labourers of Herakles was first performed on an excavated site intended for the New Theatre of the European Cultural Centre of Delphi, Greece, in August 1995...

Faber and Faber, 2002

Faber Drama

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Acts: 3, Roles: Total (11), Female (3), Male (8), 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...

Faber and Faber, 2002

Faber Drama

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Acts: 5, Scenes: 7, Roles: Total (24), Female (7), Male (17), Unassigned (0)

...Tony Harrison’s radical reassessment of French Classical drama continues with Victor Hugo’s Le Roi s’amuse. The play was banned after only one performance in 1832 and became better known later as the basis for Rigoletto...

Faber and Faber, 2004

Faber Drama

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Roles: Total (6), Female (1), Male (4), Unassigned (1)

...The Trackers of Oxyrhyncus had a unique one-performance world premiere in the ancient stadium of Delphi in 1988. During 1989 it was performed at the National Theatre, London, and in unique historical spaces in Saltaire and Carnuntum...

Faber and Faber, 2004

Faber Drama

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

...The Trackers of Oxyrhyncus had a unique one-performance world premiere in the ancient stadium of Delphi in 1988. During 1989 it was performed at the National Theatre, London, and in unique historical spaces in Saltaire and Carnuntum...