Faber and Faber, 2018

Faber Drama

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Scenes: 4, Roles: Total (24), Female (11), Male (13), Unassigned (0)

...A Brief History of Women charts the life of Anthony Spates: from his first job as an adolescent footman at a country manor house through to his retirement as manager of the hotel the manor house became. Over the course of six decades...">

...A Brief History of Women charts the life of Anthony Spates: from his first job as an adolescent footman at a country manor house through to his retirement as manager of the hotel the manor house became. Over the course of six decades...

Faber and Faber, 1995

Faber Drama

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Acts: 2, Roles: Total (15), Female (6), Male (9), Unassigned (0)

...‘Plunges us into an amateur operatic society production of The Beggar’s Opera. The result is magnificent comedy – symmetrically shaped, psychologically acute and painfully, heartbreakingly funny.’ Guardian...">

...‘Plunges us into an amateur operatic society production of The Beggar’s Opera. The result is magnificent comedy – symmetrically shaped, psychologically acute and painfully, heartbreakingly funny.’ Guardian...

Faber and Faber, 2014

Faber Drama

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

...Jack McCracken: a man of principle in a corrupt world. But not for long. Moments after taking over his father-in-law's business he's approached by a private detective armed with some compromising information. Jack...">

...Jack McCracken: a man of principle in a corrupt world. But not for long. Moments after taking over his father-in-law's business he's approached by a private detective armed with some compromising information. Jack...

Faber and Faber, 2018

Faber Drama

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Acts: 2, Roles: Total (29), Female (13), Male (16), Unassigned (0)

...Two strangers – a taxi driver and a soldier – brought together during a covert security mission, relive memories of their lives. Arrivals and Departures premiered at the Stephen Joseph Theatre...">

...Two strangers – a taxi driver and a soldier – brought together during a covert security mission, relive memories of their lives. Arrivals and Departures premiered at the Stephen Joseph Theatre...

Faber and Faber, 1999

Faber Drama

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Acts: 2, Scenes: 13, Roles: Total (20), Female (8), Male (12), Unassigned (0)

...Comic Potential is a comedy set in the foreseeable future when everything has changed except human nature… Alan Ayckbourn’s fifty-third full-length play was first presented at the Stephen Joseph Theatre, Scarborough...">

...Comic Potential is a comedy set in the foreseeable future when everything has changed except human nature… Alan Ayckbourn’s fifty-third full-length play was first presented at the Stephen Joseph Theatre, Scarborough...

Faber and Faber, 1995

Faber Drama

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Acts: 2, Roles: Total (6), Female (3), Male (3), Unassigned (0)

...How Ms Poopay Dayseer, a twenty-first century Specialist Sexual Consultant, whilst peddling her ‘services’ to an elderly hotel room client unexpectedly finds herself running for her life. How her flight through a communicating door brings...">

...How Ms Poopay Dayseer, a twenty-first century Specialist Sexual Consultant, whilst peddling her ‘services’ to an elderly hotel room client unexpectedly finds herself running for her life. How her flight through a communicating door brings...

Methuen Drama, 2007

Student Editions

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Acts: 5, Roles: Total (20), Female (9), Male (11), Unassigned (0)

...This series of Alan Ayckbourn's plays, for four-to-five actors, typifies his particular brand of black comedy on human behaviour. The plays are alternately naturalistic, stylised and farcical, but underlying each is the echoing problem...">

...This series of Alan Ayckbourn's plays, for four-to-five actors, typifies his particular brand of black comedy on human behaviour. The plays are alternately naturalistic, stylised and farcical, but underlying each is the echoing problem...

Faber and Faber, 2005

Faber Drama

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Acts: 2, Scenes: 2, Roles: Total (9), Female (5), Male (4), Unassigned (0)

...Charlie is a celebrity who believes his success stems from being useless at everything. An ill-advised clinch with the clown at his son’s birthday party is about to reveal how fleeting such fame can be....">

...Charlie is a celebrity who believes his success stems from being useless at everything. An ill-advised clinch with the clown at his son’s birthday party is about to reveal how fleeting such fame can be....

Faber and Faber, 1998

Faber Drama

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Roles: Total (22), Female (7), Male (15), Unassigned (0)

...Ernie’s incredible imagination is alarming his parents. They go to the doctor in search of a cure. Once they’re there, they discover Ernie’s ‘illucinations’ are more powerful than they realised. Everything Ernie imagines – from secret...">

...Ernie’s incredible imagination is alarming his parents. They go to the doctor in search of a cure. Once they’re there, they discover Ernie’s ‘illucinations’ are more powerful than they realised. Everything Ernie imagines – from secret...

Faber and Faber, 2002

Faber Drama

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Acts: 2, Scenes: 4, Roles: Total (7), Female (4), Male (3), Unassigned (0)

...An out of work actress pretends to be the owner of the flat she cleans in order to meet the attractive neighbour. Her performance, however, leads her into the middle of a police sting. FlatSpin...">

...An out of work actress pretends to be the owner of the flat she cleans in order to meet the attractive neighbour. Her performance, however, leads her into the middle of a police sting. FlatSpin...

Faber and Faber, 2002

Faber Drama

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Acts: 2, Scenes: 6, Roles: Total (7), Female (4), Male (3), Unassigned (0)

...Desperate to keep her mother solvent, teenage Sorrel sets herself up as an online call girl, with her best friend disguised as her maid. Her scheme is ruined by the sudden death of her first client, which raises the question of what to do...">

...Desperate to keep her mother solvent, teenage Sorrel sets herself up as an online call girl, with her best friend disguised as her maid. Her scheme is ruined by the sudden death of her first client, which raises the question of what to do...

Faber and Faber, 2011

Faber Drama

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Acts: 2, Scenes: 4, Roles: Total (14), Female (7), Male (7), Unassigned (0)

...House & Garden The triumph of his ingenuity lies in the fact that you have to see both plays . A second time round, in whichever order you take them, characters will deepen, while those you know become...">

...House & Garden The triumph of his ingenuity lies in the fact that you have to see both plays . A second time round, in whichever order you take them, characters will deepen, while those you know become...

Faber and Faber, 2005

Faber Drama

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Roles: Total (4), Female (1), Male (3), Unassigned (0)

...Twelve years after her suicide, a prodigal musician returns to haunt the three most significant men in her short life: her father, an old boyfriend and a psychic. When the men gather they discover that none of them knew Julia quite as well...">

...Twelve years after her suicide, a prodigal musician returns to haunt the three most significant men in her short life: her father, an old boyfriend and a psychic. When the men gather they discover that none of them knew Julia quite as well...

Faber and Faber, 1995

Faber Drama

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

...In a near dysfunctional future, an isolated composer – whose works are created through samples of his constant recordings – attempts to compose a definitive work on love. When his estranged wife returns, he uses a malfunctioning android...">

...In a near dysfunctional future, an isolated composer – whose works are created through samples of his constant recordings – attempts to compose a definitive work on love. When his estranged wife returns, he uses a malfunctioning android...

Audio

...Starring Anne Heche and Jared Harris, the hilarious Henceforward... is one of Alan Ayckbourn’s most unusual works. In the near-future, a composer with creative block tries to re-unite with his estranged wife and daughter, hoping...">

...Starring Anne Heche and Jared Harris, the hilarious Henceforward... is one of Alan Ayckbourn’s most unusual works. In the near-future, a composer with creative block tries to re-unite with his estranged wife and daughter, hoping...

Faber and Faber, 2018

Faber Drama

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Acts: 2, Scenes: 4, Roles: Total (8), Female (4), Male (4), Unassigned (0)

...A war hero returns to the town he fled 17 years ago which threatens to stir up old rivalries and resentments. Hero's Welcome premiered at the Stephen Joseph Theatre, Scarborough, in September 2015...">

...A war hero returns to the town he fled 17 years ago which threatens to stir up old rivalries and resentments. Hero's Welcome premiered at the Stephen Joseph Theatre, Scarborough, in September 2015...

Faber and Faber, 2011

Faber Drama

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Acts: 2, Scenes: 4, Roles: Total (14), Female (7), Male (7), Unassigned (0)

...House & Garden The triumph of his ingenuity lies in the fact that you have to see both plays . A second time round, in whichever order you take them, characters will deepen, while those you know become...">

...House & Garden The triumph of his ingenuity lies in the fact that you have to see both plays . A second time round, in whichever order you take them, characters will deepen, while those you know become...

Faber and Faber, 2011

Faber Drama

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

...‘A blissfully funny comedy that’s also filled with sadness, a devilishly simple theatrical idea that spins out all kinds of complex truths about human nature.’ Daily Telegraph If I...">

...‘A blissfully funny comedy that’s also filled with sadness, a devilishly simple theatrical idea that spins out all kinds of complex truths about human nature.’ Daily Telegraph If I...

Faber and Faber, 1998

Faber Drama

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Acts: 2, Roles: Total (7), Female (3), Male (4), Unassigned (0)

...Teenage Lucy’s family is too busy to pay her attention, so she decides to revive Zara, her imaginary childhood friend. This time, however, Zara really comes to life materialises, bringing with her a replacement father and brother. Lucy...">

...Teenage Lucy’s family is too busy to pay her attention, so she decides to revive Zara, her imaginary childhood friend. This time, however, Zara really comes to life materialises, bringing with her a replacement father and brother. Lucy...

Audio

...The first of Ayckbourn’s darkly comic masterpieces involves a relentlessly cheerful handyman in a disastrously fractured marriage. Two couples develop an unlikely friendship in this painfully funny portrait of British suburban life. An L.A....">

...The first of Ayckbourn’s darkly comic masterpieces involves a relentlessly cheerful handyman in a disastrously fractured marriage. Two couples develop an unlikely friendship in this painfully funny portrait of British suburban life. An L.A....