Faber and Faber, 2012

Faber Drama

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Roles: Total (12), Female (2), Male (10), Unassigned (0)

...A philosophy graduate takes on the job of painting the Forth Bridge solo, from which lofty perspective he finds a new view on life. Albert's Bridge is a 1967 radio play by Tom Stoppard...

Faber and Faber, 1993

Faber Drama

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Acts: 2, Scenes: 7, Roles: Total (13), Female (4), Male (9), Unassigned (0)

...In a large country house in Derbyshire in April 1809 sits Lady Thomasina Coverly, aged thirteen, and her tutor, Septimus Hodge. Through the window may be seen some of the '500 acres inclusive of lake' where Capability Brown's idealized...

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...Tom Stoppard’s “Arcadia” merges science with human concerns and ideals, examining the universe’s influence in our everyday lives and ultimate fates through relationship between past and present, order and disorder and the certainty...

Faber and Faber, 2012

Faber Drama

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Roles: Total (7), Female (1), Male (6), Unassigned (0)

...The discovery of the body of an aged avant garde, leads to an investigation not only of murder but also life and art. Artist Descending a Staircase is a 1972 radio play by Tom Stoppard...

Faber and Faber, 1999

Faber Drama

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Acts: 3, Roles: Total (14), Female (5), Male (9), Unassigned (0)

...Tom Stoppard's two adaptations from plays by Arthur Schnitzler, Dalliance and Undiscovered Country, explore in contrasting ways the workings of Viennese society in the 1890s, setting the upper-class stylized codes of behaviour against...

Faber and Faber, 1978

Faber Drama

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Scenes: 15, Roles: Total (6), Female (1), Male (5), Unassigned (0)

...A dissident is locked up in an asylum. If he accepts that he was ill and has been cured, he will be released. He refuses. Sharing his cell is a real lunatic who believes himself to be surrounded by an orchestra. As the dissident's son begs...

Faber and Faber, 1999

Faber Drama

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Acts: 2, Scenes: 13, Roles: Total (9), Female (1), Male (8), Unassigned (0)

...Does light come in waves or particles? Experiment will show either: the experimenter can choose. 'A double agent is like a trick of the light,' Kerner the physicist tells Blair the spycatcher. 'You get what you interrogate...

Faber and Faber, 2012

Faber Drama

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Scenes: 14, Roles: Total (12), Female (3), Male (9), Unassigned (0)

...Convinced that the speaking clock is Gladys, his lost wife, Frank sets out to get her back. If You're Glad I'll Be Frank is a 1966 radio play by Tom Stoppard...

Faber and Faber, 2012

Faber Drama

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Scenes: 19, Roles: Total (15), Female (4), Male (11), Unassigned (0)

...Set in 1930, In the Native State tells of a young English poet on an extended visit to India as the drive for independence begins to emerge. A 1991 radio play by Tom Stoppard, In the Native State later became the stage...

Faber and Faber, 1995

Faber Drama

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Acts: 2, Roles: Total (17), Female (4), Male (13), Unassigned (0)

...Flora Crewe, a young poet travelling India in 1930, has her portrait painted by a local artist. More than fifty years later, the artist's son visits Flora's sister in London while her would-be biographer is following a cold trail in India...

Faber and Faber, 1986

Faber Drama

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Acts: 2, Scenes: 1, Roles: Total (5), Female (1), Male (3), Unassigned (1)

...The Incredible Radical Liberal Jumpers are a team of acrobatic professors of philosophy, whose absurd gymnastic displays reflect a bewildering world where logic has confounded belief in moral absolutes. In this dark, exuberant comedy...

Faber and Faber, 1999

Faber Drama

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Acts: 2, Roles: Total (8), Female (1), Male (7), Unassigned (0)

...Night and Day is set in Kambawe, a fictitious African country where a rebellion against a dictatorial President forms the background to the action; but the subject of the play is British journalism. Among the reporters who have arrived...

Faber and Faber, 1999

Faber Drama

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Acts: 2, Roles: Total (23), Female (9), Male (14), Unassigned (0)

Faber and Faber, 2012

Faber Drama

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

...Matthew Arnold engages in animated debate with himself about his poem ‘On Dover Beach’ and its place in history. On ‘Dover Beach’ was written for the actor Alan Howard, one of a series of short plays...

Faber and Faber, 2008

Faber Drama

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

...Tom Stoppard's provocative new play spans the recent history of Czechoslovakia between the Prague Spring and the Velvet Revolution – but from the double perspective of Prague, where a rock 'n' roll band came to symbolise resistance...

Faber and Faber, 1973

Faber Drama

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Acts: 3, Roles: Total (15), Female (2), Male (10), Unassigned (3)

...Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead is a play which, as it were, takes place in the wings of Hamlet, and finds both humour and poignancy in the situation of the ill-fated attendant lords. The National Theatre production in April 1967 made...

Faber and Faber, 1999

Faber Drama

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Acts: 2, Roles: Total (6), Female (1), Male (5), Unassigned (0)

...The two co-authors, the composer and most of the cast of a musical comedy destined for Broadway are simultaneously trying to finish and rehearse the play while crossing the Atlantic on an ocean liner...

Faber and Faber, 2008

Faber Drama

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Acts: 2, Scenes: 25, Roles: Total (40), Female (12), Male (28), Unassigned (0)

...Salvage is the final part of Tom Stoppard's trilogy The Coast of Utopia, an epic but also intimate drama of romantics and revolutionaries in an age of emperors. It is 1852. Alexander Herzen, who left Russia five years...

Faber and Faber, 2008

Faber Drama

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Acts: 2, Scenes: 20, Roles: Total (27), Female (7), Male (20), Unassigned (0)

...Shipwreck is the second part of Tom Stoppard's trilogy The Coast of Utopia, an epic but also intimate drama of romantics and revolutionaries in an age of emperors. It continues the story of the anarchist Michael Bakunin...

Faber and Faber, 2012

Faber Drama

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Roles: Total (10), Female (4), Male (6), Unassigned (0)

...The Dissolution of Dominic Boot was written for Just About Midnight, a series of fifteen-minute radio plays and was broadcast in 1964. ‘The peg for ‘Boot’ – a man riding around in a taxi trying to raise the money to pay...