Faber and Faber, 1998

Faber Drama

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Acts: 3, Scenes: 23, Roles: Total (30), Female (4), Male (26), Unassigned (0)

...A Patriot for Me shows how a young, able and ambitious officer of the Imperial and Royal Army of the Austro-Hungarian Empire was, through his homosexuality, blackmailed into becoming a spy for Tsarist Russia. When John...

Faber and Faber, 1996

Faber Drama

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

...It's a Sunday morning. Jimmy Porter and his friend are going through the papers, from time to time scornfully reading out bits while Alison works busily at the ironing board. Déjàvu? It's not 1956, but a generation later...

Faber and Faber, 1996

Faber Drama

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Acts: 3, Scenes: 2, Roles: Total (9), Female (4), Male (5), Unassigned (0)

...'Epitaph for George Dillon absorbs and fascinates because it is that rarest of theatrical phenomena, a realistic modern drama which is not bourgeois in its underlying assumptions. It is like a familiar building caught at an angle which...

Faber and Faber, 1998

Faber Drama

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

...I can’t escape it. I can’t forget it. And I can’t begin again. Bill Maitland, a middle aged lawyer, struggles to avoid the harsh truths of his life. As those closest to him draw away, he puts himself on trial to fight...

Faber and Faber, 1996

Faber Drama

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

...‘Look Back in Anger presents post-war youth as it really is. To have done this at all would be a significant achievement; to have done it in a first play is a minor miracle. All the qualities are there, qualities one had despaired of ever...

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...Jimmy Porter barely ekes out a living running a candy stall by day and playing jazz trumpet by night. Although he usually takes his frustrations out on his emotionless wife, Jimmy's scathing tongue and self-loathing seems destined...

Faber and Faber, 1998

Faber Drama

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Acts: 3, Scenes: 12, Roles: Total (14), Female (1), Male (12), Unassigned (0)

...Luther is John Osborne's powerful drama about the German Protestant reformer Martin Luther (1483–1546). It was first performed in 1961 by the English Stage Company at Nottingham's Theatre Royal...

Faber and Faber, 1998

Faber Drama

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Scenes: 13, Roles: Total (7), Female (2), Male (5), Unassigned (0)

...This play about the life and work of a second-rate music hall comic (brilliantly created by Sir Laurence Olivier in the original production) and staged only eleven months after the opening of Look Back in Anger, secured John Osborne...

Faber and Faber, 1998

Faber Drama

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Acts: 2, Roles: Total (9), Female (4), Male (5), Unassigned (0)

...Six London friends, whose lives and work are overshadowed by a demanding film producer, flee the country for a weekend to escape his clutches. Safely ensconced in a hotel in Amsterdam, the uneasy equilibrium that has...

Faber and Faber, 1996

Faber Drama

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Acts: 2, Scenes: 11, Roles: Total (27), Female (11), Male (15), Unassigned (1)

...John Osborne's first musical is an outrageous romp through the mad sub-world of the gossip columns in the tow of a columnist to end all columnists, the great Paul Slickey himself. The World of Paul...

Faber and Faber, 1998

Faber Drama

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

...Time Present premiered at the Royal Court Theatre, London, in 1968...

Faber and Faber, 1998

Faber Drama

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Acts: 2, Scenes: 2, Roles: Total (14), Female (2), Male (12), Unassigned (0)

...West of Suez was first performed at the Royal Court Theatre, London, in August 1971...