Faber and Faber, 1996

Faber Drama

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Acts: 3, Roles: Total (8), Female (4), Male (4), Unassigned (0)

...Nora Helmer, wife to Torvald and mother of three children, appears to enjoy living the live of a pampered, indulged child. But as her economic dependence becomes brutally clear, Nora’s acceptance of the status quo undergoes a profound...

Faber and Faber, 1996

Faber Drama

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

...Baglady was first performed at the Peacock Theatre, Dublin, in March 1985...

Faber and Faber, 1996

Faber Drama

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

...A dramatic and poetic meditation on the history and present plight of Derry. McGuinness develops the non-naturalistic techniques of his celebrated Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme, to produce a testament...

Faber and Faber, 2012

Faber Drama

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Acts: 2, Scenes: 37, Roles: Total (26), Female (2), Male (23), Unassigned (1)

...Obsessed with his own salvation, the hermit Paulo dedicates himself to ten years of prayerful penance. When his faith wavers, the ever-watchful Devil seizes the moment to convince him that he shares the fate of one Enrico, a notorious...

Faber & Faber, 2022

Faber Drama

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

...I am honoured to meet you. You are, as they say, a man after my own heart. And you have lifted mine. My heart, that is....

Faber and Faber, 2016

Faber Drama

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Scenes: 8, Roles: Total (9), Female (5), Male (4), Unassigned (0)

...The Day family are Irish country-music royalty and Irene is their queen. Her relatives are completely dependent on her success. But as Irene's star fades, the Days are facing financial destruction. When the heir to her...

Faber and Faber, 2002

Faber Drama

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Scenes: 7, Roles: Total (5), Female (2), Male (3), Unassigned (0)

...Conrad and Gabriel are lovers but when Alma arrives to tend the sick Gabriel, their lives are unpicked and remade. Frank McGuinness's powerful, subtle and funny play explores the territory where boundaries of love, devotion and hate...

Faber and Faber, 2010

Faber Drama

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

...In the summer of 1967 Greta Garbo comes to Donegal. Ireland is on the verge of violent change. Two couples are on the verge of parting. A woman tries to save her family, while a girl tries to save her future. Seemingly...

Faber and Faber, 1996

Faber Drama

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

...Set in Rome on May 29, 1606 (the day Caravaggio killed Rannuccio Tomassoni), this play shows the artist/hero consorting with whores and rent boys, pimping for his patron, suffering for his lust for blood and violence and, in a death-filled...

Faber and Faber, 2003

Faber Drama

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

...‘There is a sordid and disgusting atmosphere, which makes the immorality of the play glaring and crude. There is the very questionable theme in these days of the relationship between masters and servants, which this play tends...

Faber and Faber, 1997

Faber Drama

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Acts: 5, Scenes: 17, Roles: Total (13), Female (4), Male (8), Unassigned (1)

...Set in Ireland in the sixteenth century, Mutabilitie explores the area where myth meets and transforms reality and where the harshness of life is transmuted into hope by the chance meeting of a poet and a playwright...

Faber and Faber, 1996

Faber Drama

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Scenes: 4, Roles: Total (9), Female (0), Male (9), Unassigned (0)

...‘This powerful and subtle play… follows the experience of eight men who volunteer to serve in the 36th (Ulster) Division at the beginning of the First World War. It reaches a climax at the start of the terrible battle of the Somme on July...

Faber and Faber, 2006

Faber Drama

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

...The King is missing, presumed dead. His warrior son is braced for inheritance but is betrayed by his heart. Phaedra, the tormented Queen, has a terrifying secret that will shake Athens to its core. Based on Euripides...

Faber and Faber, 1992

Faber Drama

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Scenes: 10, Roles: Total (3), Female (0), Male (3), Unassigned (0)

...An Englishman, an Irishman and an American are locked up together in a cell in the Middle East. As victims of political action, powerless to initiate change, what can they do? How do they live and survive? Frank McGuinness...

Faber and Faber, 2005

Faber Drama

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Scenes: 15, Roles: Total (20), Female (6), Male (14), Unassigned (0)

...But I can hear them speaking like magpies, And they mean to thieve his life, The Lord's anointed servant...

Faber & Faber, 2023

Faber Drama

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Acts: 5, Roles: Total (12), Female (5), Male (7), Unassigned (0)

...Let’s see how crafty a picture you paint. You’re making a demon out of a saint. In this spectacular dramatic comedy, the villainous Tartuffe shocks and enthrals with his deceptive powers. Charming to some, a danger...

Faber and Faber, 2012

Faber Drama

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Acts: 2, Roles: Total (20), Female (10), Male (10), Unassigned (0)

...The year is 1904 in the city of Dublin. Gretta and Gabriel Conroy attend the Morkan Sisters annual dinner on the Feast of the Epiphany and the last day of Christmas. An evening of laughter, music and dance ends in an epiphany for Gabriel...

Faber and Faber, 1996

Faber Drama

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Scenes: 8, Roles: Total (7), Female (5), Male (2), Unassigned (0)

...The Factory Girls was first performed at the Peacock Theatre, Dublin, in March 1982...

Faber and Faber, 2013

Faber Drama

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Scenes: 6, Roles: Total (5), Female (2), Male (3), Unassigned (0)

...Now we have a family, a rivalry, a purpose. A writer and his wife sit together in their garden. They are surrounded by a lifetime's work; their home, their gardens...

Faber and Faber, 2012

Faber Drama

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

...The ties that bind can never be broken. For Sal, they hang like a noose around her neck, just loose enough to keep a small but potent flame burning inside. A passionate story of love and hate, The Match Box by Frank...