Faber and Faber, 2017

Faber Drama

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

...Halvard Solness has arrived at the pinnacle of his career. He has just been awarded the prestigious Master Builder award, his beautiful wife still loves him, his beautiful secretary still flirts with him and Prince Charles is coming to open...

Faber and Faber, 2016

Faber Drama

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Acts: 3, Scenes: 5, Roles: Total (10), Female (5), Male (4), Unassigned (1)

...Aeschylus' Oresteia opens with Agamemnon sacrificing his daughter to the gods; an act which sets in motion a bloody cycle of revenge and counter-revenge. When he in turn is killed at the hands of his wife Clytemnestra, their son Orestes...

Faber and Faber, 1998

Faber Drama

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Acts: 2, Scenes: 14, Roles: Total (3), Female (2), Male (1), Unassigned (0)

...And it’s you, you’re standing on a step, looking like I remember you but a little older, and not nervous but like you belong. And wearing a stripy T-shirt and the yellow beret that you wore the summer before you left … and you don’t say...

Faber and Faber, 2016

Faber Drama

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Scenes: 13, Roles: Total (12), Female (5), Male (6), Unassigned (1)

...Aeschylus' Oresteia opens with Agamemnon sacrificing his daughter to the gods; an act which sets in motion a bloody cycle of revenge and counter-revenge. When he in turn is killed at the hands of his wife Clytemnestra, their son Orestes...

Faber and Faber, 2008

Faber Drama

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Acts: 2, Scenes: 15, Roles: Total (8), Female (3), Male (5), Unassigned (0)

...Is the settling of scores a necessary step towards restoring peace after a bloody conflict? Set against a war-crimes trial at the end of a civil war, Fall explores the thin line between justice and revenge...

Faber and Faber, 2000

Faber Drama

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Acts: 2, Scenes: 25, Roles: Total (5), Female (2), Male (3), Unassigned (0)

...On a remote island in the middle of the Atlantic secrets are buried. When the outside world comes calling, intent on manipulation for political and economic reasons, the islanders find their own world blown apart from the inside as well...

Faber and Faber, 2015

Faber Drama

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Acts: 20, Roles: Total (11), Female (6), Male (4), Unassigned (1)

...Starting with a seemingly innocent one night stand, this dark, witty and magical play by Zinnie Harris dives into our recent European history. An epic look at the true cost of principles and how we live now, How to Hold...

Faber & Faber, 2023

Faber Drama

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Acts: 2, Scenes: 26, Roles: Total (14), Female (7), Male (7), Unassigned (0)

...This story will be told, the way it has always been told. What else use is it otherwise? The hags on the heath. The woman who went mad. The man who became a tyrant. When her husband returns victorious from the battlefield...

Faber and Faber, 2017

Faber Drama

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

...Two women wash up on a distant shore following a violent boating accident. Dazed by their experience, they look for a path home. But they discover that this unfamiliar land is not what it seems – and that, though they may be together...

Faber and Faber, 2004

Faber Drama

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Scenes: 13, Roles: Total (5), Female (1), Male (4), Unassigned (0)

...A pedlar announces that the war is over and as the soldiers return in the fragile peace that follows, the starving people are left to build new lives, to forge new identities. Written in a spare and lyrical language, Midwinter is a play...

Faber and Faber, 2001

Faber Drama

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

...Played this game. Inside, with the other girls. The 'he is going to meet you' game. The 'he is going to meet you with flowers' game. The 'he is going to turn up in a limo' game. The 'he is going to bring champagne' game. The 'he is going...

Faber and Faber, 2005

Faber Drama

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Acts: 2, Scenes: 22, Roles: Total (8), Female (3), Male (5), Unassigned (0)

...A family is riven by intergenerational conflict when forced to resettle in an oppressive state. Solstice explores themes of faith and terror in a world slipping out of control. Solstice marks...

Faber and Faber, 2016

Faber Drama

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Scenes: 14, Roles: Total (7), Female (3), Male (4), Unassigned (0)

...Aeschylus' Oresteia opens with Agamemnon sacrificing his daughter to the gods; an act which sets in motion a bloody cycle of revenge and counter-revenge. When he in turn is killed at the hands of his wife Clytemnestra, their son Orestes...

Faber and Faber, 2019

Faber Drama

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Acts: 3, Scenes: 8, Roles: Total (11), Female (4), Male (6), Unassigned (1)

...You should know: I sing at parties, I wear colourful dresses, I am headstrong, I won't wear my hair up because you say I should, or do this because you prefer it, in fact I might do the other just to be contrary, but I am utterly and always...

Faber & Faber, 2022

Faber Drama

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Scenes: 12, Roles: Total (5), Female (4), Male (1), Unassigned (0)

...The Scent of Roses begins with a wife who takes her husband hostage in order to have an honest conversation. This simple, transgressive act, and her demand for a straight answer, sparks a chain of conversations, interrogations, obfuscations...

Faber and Faber, 2011

Faber Drama

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Scenes: 9, Roles: Total (26), Female (9), Male (16), Unassigned (1)

...A man is banished in a soldier's hearing. His daughter is left to wander. In a rash moment, Beatriz offers to take the child back to her father, and so starts an unimaginable journey across continents and in and out of war zones...