Faber and Faber, 2004

Faber Drama

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Scenes: 16

...A young woman from high society is wrenched from her world of luxury and incarcerated in St. Dymphna’s Hospital for the Criminally Insane. With no idea of the reason of her imprisonment, bewildered Persephone retreats into her own fantasy...

Faber and Faber, 2004

Faber Drama

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

...Humble Boy is a comedy about broken vows, failed hopes and the joys of bee-keeping. All is not well in the Humble hive. Thirty-five-year-old Felix Humble is a Cambridge astro-physicist in search of a unified field theory...

Faber and Faber, 2004

Faber Drama

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Acts: 2, Scenes: 26, Roles: Total (3), Female (2), Male (1), Unassigned (0)

...The first collection of plays by Charlotte Jones includes her multi-award winning Humble Boy (Susan Smith Blackburn Award 2001, the Critics' Circle Best New Play Award 2002, and the People's Choice Best New Play Award 2002...

Faber and Faber, 2004

Faber Drama

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

...Four disappointed people assemble in Bolton for Josie Bottling’s sixtieth birthday party. Josie is a dominatrix who has lost the will to dominate. Martha is her cleaner. (When she’s not being obsessive, she’s being compulsive.) Brenda...

Faber and Faber, 2004

Faber Drama

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Scenes: 19, Roles: Total (7), Female (3), Male (4), Unassigned (0)

...John lives with his elderly mother and is helping the police with their enquiries. Brian and Janet's teenage son only talks to strangers. Barnaby and Louisa feel unable to give their new baby a name. Three households live side by side...

Faber and Faber, 2006

Faber Drama

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Acts: 2, Scenes: 11, Roles: Total (8), Female (4), Male (4), Unassigned (0)

...North London at Halloween. Celebrity ghost-writer Max Villiers and his wife Harriet, a talented shopper, host a party. As Max connects his first plasma TV, the evening is hijacked by interference from the past. There are trick-or-treaters...

Faber and Faber, 2018

Faber Drama

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Acts: 2, Scenes: 22, Roles: Total (7), Female (4), Male (3), Unassigned (0)

...Rachel has been the voice for her deaf mother since she was born, but now she is restless to be heard for herself. Together, they have found sanctuary in a Quaker community that reveres silence. But the world is at war and it is becoming...