Nick Hern Books, 2011

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

...Mike Leigh’s play is a paean to loneliness and longing that paints a portrait of a group of old friends catching up on a Friday night. 1979. The winter of discontent is over and Margaret Thatcher’s regime is about...

Faber and Faber, 2012

Faber Drama

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Scenes: 22, Roles: Total (7), Female (5), Male (2), Unassigned (0)

...1957. War widow Dorothy lives in a London suburb with her 15-year-old daughter Victoria and her older bachelor brother Edwin. More and more isolated from her married friends with their successful children, Dorothy tries to cope...

Nick Hern Books, 1996

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

...Smelling a Rat is a black comedy drama from playwright and filmmaker Mike Leigh, which he memorably described as an ‘anti-farce’. Rex Weasel, owner of the Vermination Pest Control Company, has returned home from holiday...

Faber and Faber, 2006

Faber Drama

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Acts: 2, Scenes: 10, Roles: Total (8), Female (3), Male (5), Unassigned (0)

...In a comfortable North London borough a left-leaning, middle class and decidedly secular Jewish couple are unsettled when their son starts wearing a kippah and praying in the conservatory. Two Thousand Years follows the family...