Faber and Faber, 2011

Faber Drama

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

...Morna works as a cleaner in Edinburgh. She spends her time drinking, attempting affairs and trying to work out the mind of the twenty-year-old son with whom she shares her flat. Her elder brother, Athol, lives near Glasgow airport with his...

Faber and Faber, 2006

Faber Drama

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

...Fifteen years ago Una and Ray had a relationship. They haven't set eyes on each other since. Now, years later, she's found him again. Blackbird premiered at King...

Faber and Faber, 2013

Faber Drama

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

...Ciara's father Mick kept her as his hidden treasure, making sure his only daughter was shielded from what he did and the men and women with whom he associated. Now Mick is dead and his legacy, so bound up in the landscape...

Faber and Faber, 2003

Faber Drama

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

...When Valerie and Euan's car breaks down in remote countryside near the Antonine Wall they have a problem. With their mobiles left at home and an evening out arranged in Glasgow, they must find help fast. This comes...

Methuen Drama, 1998

Modern Plays

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Scenes: 17, Roles: Total (9), Female (3), Male (6), Unassigned (0)

...Kill the Old Torture their Young is an urban tragicomedy of alienation, as what could have been a hymn to a beautiful Scottish city becomes a muffled cry of rage against alienation and disconnection. A documentary maker...

Methuen Drama, 1997

Modern Plays

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Scenes: 24, Roles: Total (3), Female (1), Male (2), Unassigned (0)

...Knives in Hens is a brutal fable of awakening consciousness, a study of sex and knowledge that is stark and fierce. The play is set in a timeless and spartan rural community, where conversation is blunt and functional...

Faber and Faber, 2001

Faber Drama

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Scenes: 17, Roles: Total (5), Female (2), Male (3), Unassigned (0)

...'We've got nothing to learn from anyone. We are who we are. We do what we do. No-one else can touch us' – except, that is, the horrific past of a city where human fat once ran in the gutters, the city ablaze. Homesick...

Faber and Faber, 2010

Faber Drama

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

...A young man has an affair with a married woman. He is terrified her husband will challenge him to a duel and kill him. Meanwhile he toys with the affections of another and, for a moment, life seems full of joy...

Faber and Faber, 2001

Faber Drama

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Scenes: 24, Roles: Total (25), Female (9), Male (13), Unassigned (3)

...In a post-nuclear holocaust society dedicated to absolute conformity, a group of young people discover they have an unusual gift of communication. Betrayed from within, they escape into the forbidden Fringes. David...