Faber and Faber, 2015

Faber Drama

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Scenes: 13, Roles: Total (17), Female (10), Male (7), Unassigned (0)

...Two young women try to settle in a small British town. As the younger of the two begins to tell her story in class, a strange and ambiguous past is revealed. A Vampire Story was written...">

...Two young women try to settle in a small British town. As the younger of the two begins to tell her story in class, a strange and ambiguous past is revealed. A Vampire Story was written...

Faber and Faber, 2006

Faber Drama

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Scenes: 4, Roles: Total (5), Female (2), Male (3), Unassigned (0)

...On the twenty-fifth floor of a monstrous tower block Hector Blavatsky – visionary, architect and patriarch – dominates his family with godlike authority. Fearful of being tainted by the rest of humanity below, the Blavatsky's are in full...">

...On the twenty-fifth floor of a monstrous tower block Hector Blavatsky – visionary, architect and patriarch – dominates his family with godlike authority. Fearful of being tainted by the rest of humanity below, the Blavatsky's are in full...

Methuen Drama, 2021

Modern Plays

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Scenes: 2, Roles: Total (4), Female (3), Male (1), Unassigned (0)

...In Moira Buffini's Dance Floor, we reel to a dance hall in 'County Kilburn' where the Guinness flows, the music never stops and for homesick Aoife, there's far more at stake than a dance. Dance Floor is included...">

...In Moira Buffini's Dance Floor, we reel to a dance hall in 'County Kilburn' where the Guinness flows, the music never stops and for homesick Aoife, there's far more at stake than a dance. Dance Floor is included...

Faber and Faber, 2002

Faber Drama

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

...It's my creation – like Frankenstein's monster. An artist, a scientist and a sexpot are coming to dinner. Paige, hostess extraordinaire, is celebrating the publication of her husband's bestseller...">

...It's my creation – like Frankenstein's monster. An artist, a scientist and a sexpot are coming to dinner. Paige, hostess extraordinaire, is celebrating the publication of her husband's bestseller...

Faber and Faber, 2007

Faber Drama

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

...Hallway-dwelling Semyon is unemployed and disheartened with life. When his last hope at turning his life around disappears he decides to commit suicide, only to find that a number of people would like him to die on their behalf...">

...Hallway-dwelling Semyon is unemployed and disheartened with life. When his last hope at turning his life around disappears he decides to commit suicide, only to find that a number of people would like him to die on their behalf...

Faber and Faber, 2006

Faber Drama

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

...The drama is set around a largely forgotten moment in British history – the German occupation of the Channel Islands during World War II. A naked young man washes up on a Guernsey beach. Unnervingly handsome, he's fluent in both German...">

...The drama is set around a largely forgotten moment in British history – the German occupation of the Channel Islands during World War II. A naked young man washes up on a Guernsey beach. Unnervingly handsome, he's fluent in both German...

Faber and Faber, 2011

Faber Drama

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Scenes: 22, Roles: Total (33), Female (13), Male (19), Unassigned (1)

...What on earth is happening to our planet? And who knows what to do? Certainties are few: every living thing is related to every other living thing; our actions have consequences; change is continual and inevitable...">

...What on earth is happening to our planet? And who knows what to do? Certainties are few: every living thing is related to every other living thing; our actions have consequences; change is continual and inevitable...

Faber and Faber, 2006

Faber Drama

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Scenes: 10, Roles: Total (31), Female (16), Male (15), Unassigned (0)

...Moira Buffini romps through the centuries from the Romans to the present day, charting the changing fortunes of place, time and people at 29 Trick Street. Buffini brings her usual lightness of touch to this incisive, funny and sharply...">

...Moira Buffini romps through the centuries from the Romans to the present day, charting the changing fortunes of place, time and people at 29 Trick Street. Buffini brings her usual lightness of touch to this incisive, funny and sharply...

Faber & Faber, 2021

Faber Drama

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Acts: 3, Scenes: 5, Roles: Total (10), Female (5), Male (5), Unassigned (0)

...A violent storm sweeps the coast. Diana Stuckley and her daughter are struggling to keep the roof on their run-down manor house, when neighbours and strangers begin to appear on their doorstep, seeking shelter from the floods...">

...A violent storm sweeps the coast. Diana Stuckley and her daughter are struggling to keep the roof on their run-down manor house, when neighbours and strangers begin to appear on their doorstep, seeking shelter from the floods...

Faber and Faber, 2007

Faber Drama

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Scenes: 28, Roles: Total (5), Female (3), Male (2), Unassigned (0)

...On her tenth birthday, Marianne is forced to bed with a fever. Picking up a pencil she starts to draw a house. That night she dreams. As Marianne sleeps, she finds herself transported to the house she has drawn...">

...On her tenth birthday, Marianne is forced to bed with a fever. Picking up a pencil she starts to draw a house. That night she dreams. As Marianne sleeps, she finds herself transported to the house she has drawn...

Faber and Faber, 2006

Faber Drama

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Acts: 3, Scenes: 27, Roles: Total (6), Female (3), Male (3), Unassigned (0)

...A typical end of the millennium story involving cross dressing, hallucinogenic drugs, confused sexuality, alternative religions and apocalyptic dreams… end of the first millennium, that is. A not-so-pure Maiden is sent...">

...A typical end of the millennium story involving cross dressing, hallucinogenic drugs, confused sexuality, alternative religions and apocalyptic dreams… end of the first millennium, that is. A not-so-pure Maiden is sent...

Faber and Faber, 2010

Faber Drama

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Acts: 5, Scenes: 8, Roles: Total (26), Female (15), Male (11), Unassigned (0)

...He put this gun into my hand and made me human once again. Faced with an impoverished population, a shattered infrastructure and a volatile army, the first democratic president of Thebes, Eurydice...">

...He put this gun into my hand and made me human once again. Faced with an impoverished population, a shattered infrastructure and a volatile army, the first democratic president of Thebes, Eurydice...

Faber and Faber, 2015

Faber Drama

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Acts: 2, Scenes: 11, Roles: Total (20), Female (9), Male (11), Unassigned (0)

...Aly is struggling with all the pressures of being a teenager: family, school, friends and her own insecurities. Then she discovers wonder.land – a mysterious online world where, perhaps, she can create a whole new life. The web becomes her...">

...Aly is struggling with all the pressures of being a teenager: family, school, friends and her own insecurities. Then she discovers wonder.land – a mysterious online world where, perhaps, she can create a whole new life. The web becomes her...