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By: Friedrich Durrenmatt

ISBN: 9780224009140
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 1973
UK Publication Date: 23rd August 1973
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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In The Visit (original title Der Besuch der alten Dame), Claire Zachanassian, now a multimillion heiress and an older woman, returns to the impoverished town of her youth with a dreadful bargain: in exchange for returning the town to prosperity through her vast wealth, she wants the townspeople to kill the man who jilted her.


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By: Frank McGuinness

ISBN: 9780571371402
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2021
Publisher: Faber & Faber
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They sing and argue, they broach dangerous ground, their profound love apparent despite themselves, until the visiting hour is up. Written during the Covid-19 lockdown of 2020, Frank McGuinness's The Visiting Hour premiered in April 2021 at the Gate Theatre, Dublin, in the first online Gate At Home production.


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By: Barney Norris

ISBN: 9780571377183
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2022
Publisher: Faber & Faber
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Home is a moment that's quickly lost. Afterwards you can only sail throughthe ghost of it.


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By: Zinnie Harris

ISBN: 9780571282159
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2011
Publisher: Faber & Faber
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An award-winning play:'a complex and epic story of how children can be corrupted by the ravages of war'.


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By: Andrew Upton

ISBN: 9780571268597
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2010
Publisher: Faber & Faber
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Readers with an interest in Russian literature, culture, or history will welcome this superb translation of Bulgakov's important early work.


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By: Anna Furse

ISBN: 9781408139967
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Oct 2011
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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The notion of writing for interdisciplinary collaboration is at the core of the plays featured in Theatre in Pieces: politics, poetics and interdisciplinary collaboration making this a very unique collection. The extensive Introduction and practitioner notes make this an invaluable resource for any student of theatre and performance.


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By: Frank McGuinness

ISBN: 9780571233038
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2006
UK Publication Date: 18th January 2007
Publisher: Faber & Faber
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There Came a Gypsy Riding is written by Frank McGuinness, best known for Someone Who'll Watch Over Me


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By: Adam Brace

ISBN: 9780571334940
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2016
Publisher: Faber & Faber
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Home to the deadliest conflict since World War II. Home to a festival to raise awareness of Congo. That is if Stef can get it off the ground.Adam Brace's anarchic and provocative play unpacks the problems of doing something good about something bad.


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By: Naomi Wallace

ISBN: 9780571237678
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2008
Publisher: Faber & Faber
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Will this lead to Tice's version of heaven or Cali's dream of hell Things of Dry Hours premiered at the Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester, in February 2007 and transferred to The Gate Theatre, London.


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By: Michael John O'Neill

ISBN: 9780571376049
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2022
UK Publication Date: 4th August 2022
Publisher: Faber & Faber
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I feel so fucking sillybut I thought they meant real peace
fucking hell Katey
I thought they meant that even my body
it might stop
breaking


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By: Ben Brown

ISBN: 9780571282999
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2011
Publisher: Faber & Faber
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Having urgently assembled the British war cabinet, the new Prime Minister is confronted with an intense game of political chess as he tries to persuade peace treaty supporters, including Neville Chamberlain, that Britain must not concede. One man has to make a monumental decision, that will shape the future of the free world.


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By: Ivan Turgenev

ISBN: 9780571327706
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2015
Publisher: Faber & Faber
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Russia. A beautiful country estate. The mid-nineteenth century. Patrick Marber reinterprets Turgenev's A Month in the Country.


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By: Simon Stephens

ISBN: 9781408172957
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2012
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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A dark new play by bestselling playwright Simon Stephens which is pan-Euopean, a detective story, crime thriller and a moral parable.


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By: Alan Ayckbourn

ISBN: 9780099541639
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2010
UK Publication Date: 5th August 2010
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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'What is remarkable about Alan Ayckbourn's comedy is that it contrives to be simultaneously hilarious and harrowing. The settings are simple - a kitchen, a bedroom, a party - but the relationships between the husbands and wives are more complicated.


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By: Ayn Rand

ISBN: 9780451214669
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2005
Publisher: Penguin Putnam Inc
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Published for the first time together are three of Ayn Rand's most compellingstage plays, gathered for the 100th anniversary of Rand's birth. Includes twonever-before-produced plays--"Ideal" and "Think Twice." Original.


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By: Thornton Wilder

ISBN: 9780062971920
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2020
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Inc
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Originally published: New York: Harper & Row, 1957.


(Paperback)

By: George Etherege

ISBN: 9780140430271
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2005
UK Publication Date: 24th November 2005
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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The three plays collected here mirror the era after King Charles II. In Etherege's "The Man of Mode", Dorimant meets his match. In Wycherley's "The Country Wife", Horner fakes impotence to fool husbands into giving him access to their wives. In Congreve's "Love for Love", the Valentine can win his beloved only if he loses his inheritance.


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By: Lucy Caldwell

ISBN: 9780571334919
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2017
Publisher: Faber & Faber
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I don't know what it is I'm going to do but I'm going to do something. I'm going to be someone. I am! I'm sick of just being me. I'm going to be someone else. Someone better. I'm going to make a difference.


(Paperback, Main - Re-issue)

By: Beth Steel

ISBN: 9780571388936
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2024
UK Publication Date: 3rd July 2025
Publisher: Faber & Faber
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A raucously funny and romantic family drama by Beth Steel (The House of Shades, Wonderland).


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By: Tim Price

ISBN: 9781350547537
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2025
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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The second collection of plays from one of Wales' most important playwrights, featuring plays on the theme of politics, family, loneliness, and activism.


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By: William Shakespeare

ISBN: 9780141396491
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2015
UK Publication Date: 27th August 2015
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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After squandering his wealth with prodigal generosity, a rich Athenian gentleman finds himself deep in debt. Unshaken by the prospect of bankruptcy, he is certain that the friends he has helped so often will come to his aid. But when they learn his wealth is gone, he quickly finds that their promises fall away to nothing...


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By: Owen McCafferty

ISBN: 9780571295081
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2012
Publisher: Faber & Faber
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At 11.40pm on 14 April 1912, the RMS Titanic, on its maiden voyage from Southampton to New York, struck an iceberg. It took testimony from 97 witnesses. Full of intrigue, bravery and human frailty, Owen McCafferty's Titanic retells the survivors' stories, using dialogue taken word-for-word from the hundred-year-old accounts.


(Hardback, 2nd edition)

By: Professor

ISBN: 9781350030909
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Jan 2018
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Bloomsbury Arden Shakespeare is an imprint of Bloomsbury.


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By: Lizzie Nunnery

ISBN: 9780571352289
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2018
Publisher: Faber & Faber
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Inspired by true events, this absorbing play weaves movement and folk song into a stirring tale of militarism, corruption and the power of rebellion.

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