Oberon Books, 2005

Oberon Modern Playwrights

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

...Fraser Grace's Butterfly Fingers was first produced by Soho Theatre as part of a play-in-a-day event, Write Now, in November 2003. The commission was to write, rehearse and produce a short play in 24 hours, based on the day's news...

Oberon Books, 2005

Oberon Modern Playwrights

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

...'We're closer to the gods, we have finer feeling, that's why they give us victory…' Ancient tales and modern dilemmas, in this beguiling account of the aftermath of the Battle of Troy, first produced at The Latchmere...

Theatre Communications Group, 2001

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Acts: 2, Scenes: 22, Roles: Total (5), Female (2), Male (3), Unassigned (0)

...Naomi Wallace's plays speak the underside of life. Her characters suffer and survive against the enormous weight of the times with a dignity that inspires. Her work challenges the audience and reader to reexamine the conflicts and meaning...

Theatre Communications Group, 2016

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

...Liana and Marcus seem to be the ideal married couple. But when Marcus's previously unknown birth mother makes a surprise visit for his fortieth birthday, they find themselves torn apart. Naomi Wallace's Night is a Room...

Theatre Communications Group, 2001

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Acts: 2, Scenes: 20, Roles: Total (5), Female (2), Male (3), Unassigned (0)

...Naomi Wallace's plays speak the underside of life. Her characters suffer and survive against the enormous weight of the times with a dignity that inspires. Her work challenges the audience and reader to reexamine the conflicts and meaning...

Theatre Communications Group, 2009

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...A young Lebanese man digs a hole in the ground with a shovel, and confronts painful memories of a raid on his village. One Short Sleepe was written for The Global Play Project at The University Of Iowa...

Faber and Faber, 2018

Faber Drama

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

...A compelling story of two families - one Palestinian, one Israeli - forced by history into an intimacy they didn't choose. In 1948, Palestinian couple Said and Safiyya fled their home during the Nakba. Now...

Theatre Communications Group, 2001

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Acts: 2, Scenes: 30, Roles: Total (8), Female (3), Male (5), Unassigned (0)

...Naomi Wallace's plays speak the underside of life. Her characters suffer and survive against the enormous weight of the times with a dignity that inspires. Her work challenges the audience and reader to reexamine the conflicts and meaning...

Faber & Faber, 2022

Faber Drama

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Acts: 2, Scenes: 14, Roles: Total (7), Female (2), Male (5), Unassigned (0)

...They won’t even know we won this game. Only you and I will know that we Topped Their Love. Love has no limits for the Diggs siblings: there’s nothing that seventeen-year-old Jude won’t do to keep her younger brother...

Theatre Communications Group, 2009

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

...Naomi Wallace, the rare writer who combines lyrical theatricality with political ferocity, turns her sight to the Middle East, with a new triptych for the stage. Vision One, A State of Innocence, is set...

Aurora Metro Books, 1998

Aurora Metro Books

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Roles: Total (10), Female (1), Male (5), Unassigned (4)

...A young girl falls through a hole in her jumper into a fantastical world where nothing is quite what it seems. By confronting tyrants, solving riddles and befriending the downtrodden, she finally gets back home...

Theatre Communications Group, 2016

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Acts: 3, Scenes: 17, Roles: Total (12), Female (3), Male (7), Unassigned (2)

...On the docks of late eighteenth-century Rhode Island, two runaway slaves find love and a near-drowned man. With a motley band of sailors, they plan a desperate and daring run to freedom. As the mysteries of their identities come to light...

Faber & Faber, 2023

Faber Drama

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

...In your hearts you know the truth: I was here among you three hundred years ago . . . Had you chosen differently then – before slavery and greed breathed their venom so deeply into our souls – we would be living in another world now...

Theatre Communications Group, 2001

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Acts: 2, Scenes: 21, Roles: Total (5), Female (2), Male (3), Unassigned (0)

...Naomi Wallace's plays speak the underside of life. Her characters suffer and survive against the enormous weight of the times with a dignity that inspires. Her work challenges the audience and reader to reexamine the conflicts and meaning...

Theatre Communications Group, 2001

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

...In Wallace's first play, three young Texans spend their nights patrolling the Mexican border to earn a $10 bounty for every Mexican they catch crossing it. Every night they swap boasts and banter. But on this evening, they each enter...