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By: Emily White

ISBN: 9780571359349
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2019
Publisher: Faber & Faber
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They all convene at this place, the local Friday night disco, the Pavilion or 'Pivvy': once a grand old theatre for the upper echelons, now a drafty old cavernous wasteland for the hoi polloi. A small town in a forgotten corner of Wales, full of big personalities and every one of them out for the final Friday night disco at the Pavilion.


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By: Henrik Ibsen

ISBN: 9780141197586
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2016
UK Publication Date: 30th June 2016
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Brand is in a version for the stage by Geoffrey Hill based on a literal translation by Inga-Stina Ewbank. Peer Gynt is in a version by Geoffrey Hill based on a literal translation by Janet Garton and edited by Kenneth Haynes.


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By: Tom Stoppard

ISBN: 9780571378739
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2022
UK Publication Date: 6th October 2022
Publisher: Faber & Faber
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Let others sing of war and a hero buffeted by fate. I sing of marriage and amarriage bed, and the endurance of love.


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By: Alan Bennett

ISBN: 9780571309801
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2014
UK Publication Date: 3rd July 2014
Publisher: Faber & Faber
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A richly enjoyable play by one of the nation's finest writers.


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By: Brian Friel

ISBN: 9780571227938
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2005
Publisher: Faber & Faber
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This enthralling play considers the relationship between the private life and public work of the composer Leos Jancek, the passion he felt for a married woman nearly forty years his junior, and his final surge of creative energy. Performances premiered at the Gate Theatre, Dublin, in 2003.


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By: Peter Gill

ISBN: 9780571212385
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2005
Publisher: Faber & Faber
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This first collection of Peter Gill's plays spans his work from 1965 to 1987. The collection includes the plays The Sleepers Den, Over Gardens Out, Small Change, Kick for Touch, In The Blue and Mean Tears, and is introduced by John Burgess.


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By: Henrik Ibsen

ISBN: 9780571354771
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2019
UK Publication Date: 20th June 2019
Publisher: Faber & Faber
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In this radical new version, David Hare kidnaps Ibsen's most famous hero and runs away with him into the 21st century.


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By: Brian Friel

ISBN: 9780571085866
Readership/Audience: Primary and Secondary Educational
Publication Date: Jul 2005
UK Publication Date: 29th May 1975
Publisher: Faber & Faber
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By: Sophocles

ISBN: 9780062132161
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2012
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Inc
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The soldier Philoktetes - with a festering, god-given wound in his foot - has been abandoned on the desolate island of Lemnos by the Greeks under Odysseus. They couldn't stand the stench, nor his screams of pain. That was ten years ago. Since then, they've learned they can't take Troy without Philoktetes and the bow given to him by Herakles.


(Paperback, Illustrated edition)

By: Ontroerend Goed

ISBN: 9781786828033
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2019
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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By: Henrik Ibsen

ISBN: 9780571231553
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2005
Publisher: Faber & Faber
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The centenary of Ibsen's death is marked with a vital new version of this rarely performed thriller, set amid a society struggling against the rush of capitalism, the lure of America and the passionate beginnings of the fight for female emancipation.


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By: Nicola Wilson

ISBN: 9780571328963
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2015
Publisher: Faber & Faber
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I do not accept there is anything wrong with me. Days before her wedding Megan discovers she has a 50-50 chance of developing early onset Alzheimer's. Megan, 47. Megan, 32. Megan, 27. One woman lurches through time while her young family deal with the consequences. I can't think. And most of the time I feel scared.


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By: Anton Chekhov

ISBN: 9780571210510
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2005
Publisher: Faber & Faber
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David Hare turns his attention to a key work of Chekov's youth - an abandoned seven-hour teenage manuscript in which a Russian schoolmaster faces up to the implications of being irresistably attractive to four different women.


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By: John Osborne

ISBN: 9781840020373
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 1999
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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New editions of major plays by one of the twentieth century's most influential playwrights.


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By: George Bernard Shaw

ISBN: 9780140437935
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2005
UK Publication Date: 7th September 2000
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Includes the plays "Widowers' Houses", "The Philanderer", and "Mrs Warren's Profession".


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By: W. Somerset Maugham

ISBN: 9781784872120
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2017
UK Publication Date: 23rd February 2017
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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Included here are the noirish mystery The Sacred Flame, the hilarious satires The Circle, The Constant Wife, and Our Betters, and the sharp-witted drama Sheppey. Whether suspenseful or acerbically witty, these plays take a sly look at the idiosyncrasies and hypocrisies of their time.


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By: W. Somerset Maugham

ISBN: 9781784872137
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2017
UK Publication Date: 23rd February 2017
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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Witty, comedic and engrossing, this second collection showcases the range of W. The delightful satires of marriage Lady Frederick and Home and Beauty are included here alongside the insightful war drama For Services Rendered, and Maugham's tense colonial drama The Letter.


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By: William Shakespeare

ISBN: 9781857157079
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 1994
UK Publication Date: 7th April 1994
Publisher: Everyman
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Together, these verses give a comprehensive view of shakespeare the poet by assembling all the well-known passages together with less familiar but equally powerful extracts.


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By: Polly Stenham

ISBN: 9780571357222
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2019
UK Publication Date: 3rd October 2019
Publisher: Faber & Faber
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sharp and fizzy.' Guardian Hotel 'That unusual theatrical thing, a thriller - and a thriller that really scares.' Observer 'Stenham achieves the dramatic gearshift between nervous laughter to jolting horror with great panache, and her play keeps springing surprises to the bitter end .


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By: Marina Carr

ISBN: 9780571389179
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2024
Publisher: Faber & Faber
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By: Zoltan Egressy

ISBN: 9781840024661
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2004
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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A poignant play from one of Hungary's leading playwrights.


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By: Laura Wade

ISBN: 9781350275485
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2021
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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By: Laura Wade

ISBN: 9781350235762
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2024
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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By: Nick Dear

ISBN: 9780571220076
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2005
Publisher: Faber & Faber
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Some say power's an illusion. But Louis is the master of illusion. He has turned government into a spectacle, politics into a circus. Nick Dear's new play on the origins of the Sun King is a dark and dazzling tale of ambition, corruption and illusion. The play premiered at the Royal National Theatre in London, in June 2003.

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