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By: Torben Betts

ISBN: 9781840028249
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2008
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Includes: "The Optimist", "The Swing of Things", and "The Company Man".


(Paperback)

By: Torben Betts

ISBN: 9781840022001
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Jul 2001
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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The second collection of plays from Torben Betts, published by Oberon Books. Includes the plays Incarcerator, Five Visions of the Faithful, Silence and Violence, The Last Days of Desire, The Biggleswades. With an Introduction by David Pownall, and an essay by Peter Craze


(Paperback)

By: Torben Betts

ISBN: 9781786824110
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2018
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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A new comedy by Torben Betts, starring Olivier & Evening Standard award winner Janie Dee. A searing, sharp, state of the nation comedy from one of the UKs most exciting playwrights.


(Paperback)

By: Torben Betts

ISBN: 9781783191109
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2014
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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A play from the brilliant playwright Torben Betts, centered around the recession in Britain. Looking at the political and class consequences for the 'real people' in this comedy play.


(Paperback)

By: Torben Betts

ISBN: 9781786827777
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2019
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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It Never Happened (or State Terror in Eight Easy Stages) eavesdrops on eight different periods from the past: two soldiers reflect on the prospect of imminent death caused by their government's greed; a political fixer makes an awkward sex scandal go away; a young journalist discovers that integrity doesn't pay the mortgage; and a domestic assault turns into a witchcraft trial.


(Paperback)

By: Torben Betts

ISBN: 9781840028775
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2008
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Set in the future, this savagely funny poetic drama deals with a city couple who relocate to a remote rural wilderness to escape the rat race and the rising anarchy of city life. But will a desolate house by the sea provide them with The Answer


(Paperback)

By: Torben Betts

ISBN: 9781849431378
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2012
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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A darkly funny satire on modern-day life, by an award-winning playwright.


(Paperback)

By: Torben Betts

ISBN: 9781840025309
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2005
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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"One of the best new plays in townwaspishly funny' - Daily Express


(Paperback)

By: Torben Betts

ISBN: 9781840027235
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2007
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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A play about an intelligent young girl and her relentless refusal of the establishment. When suddenly a people's revolution breaks out and a mercenary soldier intrudes the family home, the conflict between the regime and the unconquered girl is revealed.


(Paperback)

By: Torben Betts

ISBN: 9781840021769
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2009
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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A powerful selection of plays from Torben Betts, each exploring the fragility of life and human suffering and loss.


(Paperback)

By: Torben Betts

ISBN: 9781783194971
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2015
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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A new play about the 2015 General Election, by one of British Theatre's leading social commentators, Torben Betts.


(Paperback)

By: Torben Betts

ISBN: 9781840028010
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2007
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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A re-imagining of life as we live it, set in the context of a bloody revolution. Witness to a brutal political assassination, this work introduces us to a society fractured by a lack of belief in anything meaningful, in which everyone has something to protest against.


(Paperback)

By: Torben Betts

ISBN: 9781783198269
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2016
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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A searingly funny contemporary look at one family and at Britain today from one of the country's most in-demand playwrights.