Faber & Faber, 2024

Faber Drama

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Scenes: 8, Roles: Total (1), Female (0), Male (1), Unassigned (0)

...He told me about some bloke who was sick and then got well – by placing a poem by William Blake in his shirt pocket . . . Heading for the West Country by train, an actor takes the scenic route from Waterloo to spend a weekend...

Theatre Communications Group, 2011

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

...A stunning play from one of America’s best contemporary playwrights, Frank's Home is a lyrical, heartbreaking story about Frank Lloyd Wright, one of our greatest — if less than perfect — visionaries, a man who created a new architectural...

Faber & Faber, 2012

Faber Drama

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Scenes: 8, Roles: Total (6), Female (5), Male (1), Unassigned (0)

...Summer, 1957. The streets of Greenwich Village sizzle with the insistent rhythm of jazz. Accompanied by their grandmother, two teenage sisters from the country visit their married cousin in the city. Soon, the young women have embarked...

Faber & Faber, 2012

Faber Drama

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Scenes: 8, Roles: Total (7), Female (4), Male (3), Unassigned (0)

...Set against the chaotic aftermath of World War II, this play intimately explores the fragility of family relationships. In 1945, five years after being evacuated to Canada, 17-year-old Peter returns to London. His parents are now dead...

Theatre Communications Group, 2019

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Scenes: 3, Roles: Total (10), Female (4), Male (6), Unassigned (0)

...It is 1958. In the midst of a building boom in New York City, Joe Papp and his colleagues are facing pressure from the city’s elite as they continue their free Shakespeare in Central Park. From the creator of the most celebrated...

Faber & Faber, 1999

Faber Drama

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Acts: 2, Scenes: 12, Roles: Total (8), Female (5), Male (3), Unassigned (0)

...The Left is personified in Richard Nelson's idealistic and intellectual characters, whose fascinating friendships are as fraught as the political history through which they've lived...

Faber & Faber, 2012

Faber Drama

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

...Madame Melville, set in Paris in 1966, before that city exploded in protest, presents the story of a fifteen-year-old American, Carl, and his beautiful teacher, Claudie Melville. Madame Melville is included...

Faber & Faber, 1999

Faber Drama

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

...The barbarians are sweeping over us and all we do is kiss their ass. An Englishman and his family live far-flung across the vast American continent. Brought together by tragedy, they find comfort in attacking...

Faber & Faber, 1999

Faber Drama

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

...In Principia Scriptoriae, two young writers meet in prison under an unnamed right-wing Latin American regime. Fifteen years later they find themselves on opposite sides of a conference table, bargaining for the freedom of a poet who has...

Theatre Communications Group, 2006

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

...A study in dissolution by a leading American playwright who has written prolifically, and with fine detail, on the perplexities of everyday living. A fading American actor in Rome for the filming of a 1960s spaghetti Western...

Faber & Faber, 1999

Faber Drama

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Acts: 2, Scenes: 11, Roles: Total (11), Female (6), Male (5), Unassigned (0)

...A group of American academics and students visit London to experience some English culture and visit the theatre. With them they have brought their personal and professional problems and anxieties, and a campus comedy develops against...

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...When a group of American professors gathers in London to teach a theatre course, the sparks fly as they squabble over academic politics, with egos, reputations, and careers at stake. An L.A. Theatre Works full cast production, starring Ken...

Faber & Faber, 2021

Faber Drama

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

...What Do We Need to Talk About? is the first part of the Apple Family Trilogy. These three plays were written and performed over the memorable summer of 2020. Forced into isolation as the pandemic raged and protests against...

Faber & Faber, 2021

Faber Drama

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Scenes: 4, Roles: Total (5), Female (3), Male (2), Unassigned (0)

...And So We Come Forth is the central play in the Apple Family Trilogy. These three plays were written and performed over the memorable summer of 2020. Forced into isolation as the pandemic raged and protests against racism...

Faber & Faber, 2021

Faber Drama

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

...Incidental Moments of the Day is the concluding part of the Apple Family Trilogy. These three plays were written and performed over the memorable summer of 2020. Forced into isolation as the pandemic raged and protests against...

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...He was a friend of George Washington and a decorated hero of the Revolutionary War. What caused Benedict Arnold to renounce his country and become one of America’s most reviled figures? Richard Dreyfuss stars in Richard Nelson’s dramatic...

Faber & Faber, 1999

Faber Drama

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Acts: 2, Scenes: 15, Roles: Total (25), Female (9), Male (16), Unassigned (0)

...In New York City in 1849, not one but two productions of the Scottish play are planned for the same night: one by English actor/manager William Charles Macready, the other by American matinée idol Edwin Forrest. This tempts the fates too...