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By: Zinnie Harris

ISBN: 9780571384259
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2023
Publisher: Faber & Faber
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A powerful reimagining of Shakespeare's brutal tragedy, telling Lady Macbeth's story as it has never been heard before


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By: Mr Ronald Harwood

ISBN: 9780571212316
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2001
Publisher: Faber & Faber
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'I belong nowhere.'

Obsessed with power and fame, Gustav Mahler rejects his Jewish background and his friends with devastating consequences.

Gustav Mahler (1860-1911), a composer and conductor of passion and genius, was born in Bohemia and faced a lifetime of prejudice - 'I'm homeless.


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By: Brian Friel

ISBN: 9780571154777
Readership/Audience: Primary and Secondary Educational
Publication Date: Jan 1989
UK Publication Date: 9th January 1989
Publisher: Faber & Faber
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Friel has written an historical play about Hugh O'Neill, Earl of Tyrone, who led an alliance of Irish and Spanish soldiers against the armies of Elizabeth I in an attempt to drive the English out of Ireland. The action takes place before and after the Battle of Kinsdale, at which the alliance was defeated.


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By: Michael Frayn

ISBN: 9780571326068
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2015
Publisher: Faber & Faber
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Matchbox Theatre is the perfect gift for fans of Michael Frayn or the theatre - thirty comic masterpieces from the author of Noises Off and Skios.


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By: Adam Rapp

ISBN: 9780865479241
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2010
Publisher: North Point Press
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In small-town America, a young adult novel about teen pregnancy is banned by the local school board, igniting a fierce and violent debate over abortion, religious beliefs, and modern feminism. Its directionless New York City author arrives in town to defend the book and finds that it has inspired a group of local teens to rebel in strange ways.


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By: Frank McGuinness

ISBN: 9780571193424
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 1997
Publisher: Faber & Faber
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Set in Ireland in the sixteenth century, Mutabilitie explores the area where myth meets and transforms reality and where the harshness of life is transmuted into hope by the chance meeting of a poet and a playwright.


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By: Sophocles

ISBN: 9780571242238
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2008
Publisher: Faber & Faber
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The great masterpiece on which Aristotle based his aesthetic theory of drama in the Poetics and from which Freud derived the Oedipus complex.


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By: Harold Pinter

ISBN: 9780571225637
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2004
UK Publication Date: 1st July 2004
Publisher: Faber & Faber
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Old Times was first presented by the Royal Shakespeare Company at the Aldwych Theatre, London, on 1 June 1971. It was revived at the Donmar Warehouse, London, in July 2004.

'Old Times is a joyous, wonderful play that people will talk about as long as we have a theatre.' New York Times

'What am I writing about


(Hardback)

By: William Shakespeare

ISBN: 9781909621916
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2016
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
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William Shakespeare's dramatic and tragic play about love and jealousy.


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By: David Greig

ISBN: 9780571217601
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2002
Publisher: Faber & Faber
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I have noticed that something draws us towards outlying islands. Left alone on a scrap of land surrounded by the vast Atlantic, they find themselves overtaken by hidden desires.

Outlying Islands premiered at the Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh in July 2002 and transferred to the Royal Court, London in Autumn 2002.


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By: Jean Racine

ISBN: 9780571233021
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2006
Publisher: Faber & Faber
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When you know what I've done, What I've brought on myself, The guilt of it will kill me, I will die


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By: Andrew Upton

ISBN: 9780571238675
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2007
Publisher: Faber & Faber
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An exuberant new version of Maxim Gorky's play Philistines.


By: Steve Martin

ISBN: 9780575401051
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 1999
Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
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"Picasso at the Lapin Agile" centres around an imagined meeting of Pablo Picasso and Albert Einstein in 1904. As the two engage in a battle of ideas, their dialogue becomes an examination of science and art. Other plays include "WASP", "The Zig-Zag Woman" and "Patter for the Floating Lady".


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By: David Harrower

ISBN: 9780571210596
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2001
Publisher: Faber & Faber
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No-one else can touch us' - except, that is, the horrific past of a city where human fat once ran in the gutters, the city ablaze.

Homesick, but fame-crazed, a group of Liverpudlian lads are about to become part of Hamburg's history forever.

Presence premiered at the Royal Court Theatre, London, in April 2001.


(Paperback)

By: David Lindsay-Abaire

ISBN: 9781559363969
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2011
Publisher: Theatre Communications Group Inc.,U.S.
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This Pulitzer Prize-winning play is now a major motion picture.


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By: Neil LaBute

ISBN: 9780571280698
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2011
UK Publication Date: 17th November 2011
Publisher: Faber & Faber
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An award-winning play from Neil LaBute that first staged on Broadway in 2009


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By: Adam Rapp

ISBN: 9780865479548
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2005
Publisher: North Point Press
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By: Monsieur Marcel Proust

ISBN: 9780571207602
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2000
Publisher: Faber & Faber
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Harold Pinter's adaptation of Proust's famous novel and based on "The Proust Screenplay" by the same author.


(Paperback, Main - Faber Modern Classics)

By: Tom Stoppard

ISBN: 9780571333721
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2017
UK Publication Date: 2nd February 2017
Publisher: Faber & Faber
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Celebrating its 50th anniversary in 2017, the seminal Tom Stoppard play is repackaged as a stylish Faber Modern Classic.


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By: Tom Stoppard

ISBN: 9780571216659
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2005
Publisher: Faber & Faber
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Alexander Herzen, who left Russia five years earlier, has arrived in London in retreat from a series of public and private calamities. With the accession of Alexander II, 'the Reforming Tsar', Herzen's revived spirits are boosted by the arrival of his childhood friend Nicholas Ogarev with his wife Natalie.


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By: Sean O'Casey

ISBN: 9780571191819
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 1998
Publisher: Faber & Faber
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The first volume of Sean O'Casey's plays includes Juno and the Paycock, Within the Gates, Red Roses for Me and Cock-a-Doodle Dandy, and is introduced by Seamus Heaney.

'From the perspective of the 1990s O'Casey stands out as Ireland's greatest playwright of the century.


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By: Tom Stoppard

ISBN: 9780571216635
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2002
Publisher: Faber & Faber
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and it was here, in the intoxicating anticipation and the dashed hopes of the 1848 revolution - when the loss of his political illusions were overshadowed by a series of personal calamities - that Herzen found his greatness, seeking the way forward for Russia, the just society and the good life.


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By: Rebecca Lenkiewicz

ISBN: 9780571230075
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2005
Publisher: Faber & Faber
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'Don't cry now. You'll wash away the pictures. Shh. I see the ocean. Night-time. There's things in the sea, underwater like pearls. They're way below. And in the black sky there's a line of red like a scar.'


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By: Simon Gray

ISBN: 9780571219889
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2004
Publisher: Faber & Faber
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In 'The Pig Trade', under the shadow of Mussolini, a famous art historian and a notorious art dealer have an explosive final encounter. 'Japes Too' and 'Michael' recount the love of two brothers for one woman, and 'The Holy Terror' continues the story of a publisher's nervous breakdown.

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