Faber and Faber, 2013

Faber Drama

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Acts: 2, Scenes: 2, Roles: Total (17), Female (6), Male (11), Unassigned (0)

...N. F. Simpson, whose work includes One Way Pendulum, led the twentieth century British Absurdist movement. His first play, A Resounding Tinkle, was one of the winners in the Observer play competition in 1957. The 'incessant ambush...

Faber and Faber, 2013

Faber Drama

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

...N. F. Simpson led the twentieth-century British absurdist movement. Gladly Otherwise is an early sketch of his, first performed as part of the revue One to Another, which opened at the Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith, on 15 July 1959...

Faber and Faber, 2010

Faber Drama

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

...I shall shortly be eighty-eight. High time to be giving serious thought to the direction my life should be taking. In an upper-crust retirement home, Geoffrey Wythenshaw sits down to write his memoir...