Faber & Faber, 2019

Faber Drama

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...Martin Crimp's Writing for Nothing collects texts written over the last thirty years. Included here are short plays, unmistakably the work of the internationally acclaimed author of Attempts on Her Life, and texts for opera, beginning...

Faber & Faber, 1997

Faber Drama

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Scenes: 17

...Attempts to describe her? Attempts to destroy her? Or attempts to destroy herself? Is Anne the object of violence? Or its terrifying practitioner? Martin Crimp's 17 scenarios...

Faber & Faber, 2015

Faber Drama

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Scenes: 6, Roles: Total (11), Female (4), Male (7), Unassigned (0)

...Far away a battle rages and an entire city is turned to dust. Amelia can't sleep. She waits for news of her husband. He's a great general and this seems to be a decisive victory. But when the motives for the war start to look disturbingly...

Faber and Faber, 2019

Faber Drama

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Acts: 5, Roles: Total (20), Female (6), Male (11), Unassigned (3)

...A genius with language, but convinced of his own ugliness, Cyrano secretly loves the radiant Roxane. While Roxane is in love with the beautiful but inarticulate Christian. Cyrano's generous offer to act as go-between sets...

Nick Hern Books, 2018

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Acts: 4, Scenes: 14, Roles: Total (8), Female (3), Male (5), Unassigned (0)

...Martin Crimp's play Dealing with Clair is a darkly comic drama about greed and social conformism. It was first performed at the Orange Tree Theatre, Richmond, on 13 October 1988. The play is set in London. Mike and Liz...

Faber & Faber, 2015

Faber Drama

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

...In Definitely the Bahamas, Frank and Milly relish the visits of Michael, their charming and successful only child. But what exactly is his relationship to the young student living in their house? Definitely...

Faber & Faber, 2015

Faber Drama

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...Face to the Wall was first performed as a single play at the Royal Court Theatre, London, on 12 March 2002. It was later performed in September 2005 at the Royal Court Theatre as part of the Fewer Emergencies trilogy along with Whole Blue...

Faber & Faber, 2015

Faber Drama

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...Fewer Emergencies was performed in September 2005 at the Royal Court Theatre, London, as part of the Fewer Emergencies trilogy along with Whole Blue Sky and Face to the Wall...

Faber & Faber, 2015

Faber Drama

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...Whole Blue Sky was first performed in September 2005 at the Royal Court Theatre, London, as part of the Fewer Emergencies trilogy along with Face to the Wall and Fewer Emergencies...

Faber & Faber, 2012

Faber Drama

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Acts: 5, Scenes: 3, Roles: Total (18), Female (11), Male (7), Unassigned (0)

...– What’re you doing here Robert? – Well to be frank with you, I’ve really no idea. I thought I would just suddenly appear, so I did. I suddenly appeared. A family Christmas...

Faber & Faber, 2019

Faber Drama

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...Martin Crimp's Writing for Nothing collects texts written over the last thirty years. Included here are short plays, unmistakably the work of the internationally acclaimed author of Attempts on Her Life, and texts for opera, beginning...

Faber & Faber, 2019

Faber Drama

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

...Martin Crimp's Writing for Nothing collects texts written over the last thirty years. Included here are short plays, unmistakably the work of the internationally acclaimed author of Attempts on Her Life, and texts for opera, beginning...

Faber & Faber, 2019

Faber Drama

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Scenes: 7, Roles: Total (9), Female (3), Male (6), Unassigned (0)

...Martin Crimp's Writing for Nothing collects texts written over the last thirty years. Included here are short plays, unmistakably the work of the internationally acclaimed author of Attempts on Her Life, and texts for opera, beginning...

Faber & Faber, 2019

Faber Drama

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

...The Hamburg Plays presents two works written for Deutsches Schauspielhaus Hamburg and, as of publication, not yet staged in English. In Men Asleep, the late-night arrival of a younger couple at Julia and Paul's tasteful...

Faber & Faber, 2019

Faber Drama

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

...Martin Crimp's Writing for Nothing collects texts written over the last thirty years. Included here are short plays, unmistakably the work of the internationally acclaimed author of Attempts on Her Life, and texts for opera, beginning...

Faber & Faber, 2005

Faber Drama

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Acts: 3, Scenes: 11, Roles: Total (9), Female (4), Male (5), Unassigned (0)

...Martin Crimp's No One Sees the Video premiered at the Royal Court Theatre, London, in 1990...

Faber & Faber, 2022

Faber Drama

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...If you think you know what it’s like to be me you are seriously deluded. Is it appropriation to invent a voice – or is it an act of empathy?   If a playwright’s job is to make dialogue, is there a limit...

Faber and Faber, 2009

Faber Drama

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Acts: 3, Scenes: 26, Roles: Total (7), Female (4), Male (3), Unassigned (0)

...Promiscuous, pitiless and bored, six sexually entangled medical students restlessly wander in and out of a boarding house, cramming, drinking, taunting, spying. Freder sets about savagely experimenting with the young, pretty maid, with half...

Faber & Faber, 2019

Faber Drama

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...Martin Crimp's Writing for Nothing collects texts written over the last thirty years. Included here are short plays, unmistakably the work of the internationally acclaimed author of Attempts on Her Life, and texts for opera, beginning...

Faber & Faber, 2015

Faber Drama

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Scenes: 13, Roles: Total (2), Female (1), Male (1), Unassigned (0)

...Sex, work, pregnancy, parents, weird neighbours, cleaning the fridge and dancing: Play House tells - in thirteen fleeting scenes - the story of a young couple's attempts to set up home. Play House was first staged...