Faber & Faber, 1996

Faber Drama

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

...After Magritte explains the inexplicable. After Magritte is published in Tom Stoppard: Plays 1, a collection of plays that reveal in combination the 'frivolous' and 'serious' aspects of Tom Stoppard's talent: his...

Faber and Faber, 2012

Faber Drama

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Roles: Total (12), Female (2), Male (10), Unassigned (0)

...A philosophy graduate takes on the job of painting the Forth Bridge solo, from which lofty perspective he finds a new view on life. Albert's Bridge is a 1967 radio play by Tom Stoppard...

Faber and Faber, 1993

Faber Drama

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Acts: 2, Scenes: 7, Roles: Total (13), Female (4), Male (9), Unassigned (0)

...In a large country house in Derbyshire in April 1809 sits Lady Thomasina Coverly, aged thirteen, and her tutor, Septimus Hodge. Through the window may be seen some of the '500 acres inclusive of lake' where Capability Brown's idealized...

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...Tom Stoppard’s “Arcadia” merges science with human concerns and ideals, examining the universe’s influence in our everyday lives and ultimate fates through relationship between past and present, order and disorder and the certainty...

Faber and Faber, 2012

Faber Drama

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Roles: Total (7), Female (1), Male (6), Unassigned (0)

...The discovery of the body of an aged avant garde, leads to an investigation not only of murder but also life and art. Artist Descending a Staircase is a 1972 radio play by Tom Stoppard...

Faber & Faber, 1996

Faber Drama

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Roles: Total (19), Female (5), Male (14), Unassigned (0)

...Written to be performed with Dogg's Hamlet, Cahoot's Macbeth subverts Shakespeare. Cahoot's Macbeth is published in Tom Stoppard: Plays 1, a collection of plays that reveal in combination the 'frivolous...

Faber and Faber, 1999

Faber Drama

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Acts: 3, Roles: Total (14), Female (5), Male (9), Unassigned (0)

...Tom Stoppard's two adaptations from plays by Arthur Schnitzler, Dalliance and Undiscovered Country, explore in contrasting ways the workings of Viennese society in the 1890s, setting the upper-class stylized codes of behaviour against...

Faber & Faber, 1996

Faber Drama

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

...Dirty Linen moves a Whitehall farce to Parliament Square. Dirty Linen is published in Tom Stoppard: Plays 1, a collection of plays that reveal in combination the 'frivolous' and 'serious' aspects of Tom Stoppard's...

Faber & Faber, 1996

Faber Drama

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Roles: Total (22), Female (4), Male (18), Unassigned (0)

...Written to be performed with Cahoot's Macbeth, Dogg's Hamlet subverts Shakespeare. Dogg's Hamlet is published in Tom Stoppard: Plays 1, a collection of plays that reveal in combination the 'frivolous...

Faber and Faber, 1978

Faber Drama

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Scenes: 15, Roles: Total (6), Female (1), Male (5), Unassigned (0)

...A dissident is locked up in an asylum. If he accepts that he was ill and has been cured, he will be released. He refuses. Sharing his cell is a real lunatic who believes himself to be surrounded by an orchestra. As the dissident's son begs...

Faber and Faber, 1999

Faber Drama

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Acts: 2, Scenes: 13, Roles: Total (9), Female (1), Male (8), Unassigned (0)

...Does light come in waves or particles? Experiment will show either: the experimenter can choose. 'A double agent is like a trick of the light,' Kerner the physicist tells Blair the spycatcher. 'You get what you interrogate...

Faber and Faber, 2012

Faber Drama

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Scenes: 14, Roles: Total (12), Female (3), Male (9), Unassigned (0)

...Convinced that the speaking clock is Gladys, his lost wife, Frank sets out to get her back. If You're Glad I'll Be Frank is a 1966 radio play by Tom Stoppard...

Faber and Faber, 2012

Faber Drama

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Scenes: 19, Roles: Total (15), Female (4), Male (11), Unassigned (0)

...Set in 1930, In the Native State tells of a young English poet on an extended visit to India as the drive for independence begins to emerge. A 1991 radio play by Tom Stoppard, In the Native State later became the stage...

Faber and Faber, 1995

Faber Drama

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Acts: 2, Roles: Total (17), Female (4), Male (13), Unassigned (0)

...Flora Crewe, a young poet travelling India in 1930, has her portrait painted by a local artist. More than fifty years later, the artist's son visits Flora's sister in London while her would-be biographer is following a cold trail in India...

Faber and Faber, 1986

Faber Drama

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Acts: 2, Scenes: 1, Roles: Total (5), Female (1), Male (3), Unassigned (1)

...The Incredible Radical Liberal Jumpers are a team of acrobatic professors of philosophy, whose absurd gymnastic displays reflect a bewildering world where logic has confounded belief in moral absolutes. In this dark, exuberant comedy...

Faber and Faber, 2020

Faber Drama

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Scenes: 9, Roles: Total (29), Female (14), Male (15), Unassigned (0)

...At the beginning of the 20th Century, Leopoldstadt was the old, crowded Jewish quarter of Vienna. But Hermann Merz, a manufacturer and baptised Jew married to Catholic Gretl, has moved up in the world. Gathered in the Merz apartment...

Faber and Faber, 1999

Faber Drama

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Acts: 2, Roles: Total (8), Female (1), Male (7), Unassigned (0)

...Night and Day is set in Kambawe, a fictitious African country where a rebellion against a dictatorial President forms the background to the action; but the subject of the play is British journalism. Among the reporters who have arrived...

Faber and Faber, 1999

Faber Drama

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Acts: 2, Roles: Total (23), Female (9), Male (14), Unassigned (0)

Faber and Faber, 2012

Faber Drama

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

...Matthew Arnold engages in animated debate with himself about his poem ‘On Dover Beach’ and its place in history. On ‘Dover Beach’ was written for the actor Alan Howard, one of a series of short plays...

Faber & Faber, 2022

Faber Drama

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...Let others sing of war and a hero buffeted by fate. I sing of marriage and a marriage bed, and the endurance of love. With an introduction by the author, this is Tom Stoppard in the voice of Odysseus’s wife...