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Arcadia by Tom Stoppard
Category: Classics | Series: Faber Drama Ser.
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 landscape is about to give way to the 'picturesque' Gothic style: 'e ...Show more
Frankenstein: Based on the Novel by Mary Shelley by Nick Dear (adapted from Mary Shalley)
Category: Classics | Series: Faber Drama Ser.
Slowly I learnt the ways of humans: how to ruin, how to hate, how to debase, how to humiliate. And at the feet of my master I learnt the highest of human skills, the skill no other creature owns: I finally learnt how to lie. Childlike in his innocence but grotesque in form, Frankenstein's bewildered cre ...Show more
Hangmen by McDonagh, Martin
Category: No Category | Series: Faber Drama Ser.
I'm just as good as bloody Pierrepoint. In his small pub in Oldham, Harry is something of a local celebrity. But what's the second-best hangman in England to do on the day they've abolished hanging? Amongst the cub reporters and sycophantic pub regulars, dying to hear Harry's reaction to the news, a pe ...Show more
History Boys by Alan Bennett
Category: Gift | Series: Faber Drama Ser.
An unruly bunch of bright, funny sixth-form boys in pursuit of sex, sport and a place at university. A maverick English teacher at odds with the young and shrewd supply teacher. A headmaster obsessed with results; a history teacher who thinks he's a fool. In Alan Bennett's new play, staff room rivalry a ...Show more
Les Liaisons Dangereuses: Play by Christopher Hampton
Category: Young Adult | Series: Faber Drama Ser.
Introduction by Peter Washington; Translation by Richard Aldington
Look Back in Anger: Faber Modern Classics by John Osborne
Category: Classics | Series: Faber Drama Ser.
Look Back in Anger transformed the face of British theatre; legend has it that audiences gasped at the sight of an ironing board on a London stage. John Osborne's play launched the 'angry young men' movement, writers from working or middle class background who had become disillusioned with British socie ...Show more
Red Barn by David Hare; Georges Simenon (Original Author)
Category: Classics | Series: Faber Drama Ser.
"Hitchcock would approve." - The Times (UK) "A dark story of dissolving identity... Mesmeric." - Observer Connecticut, 1969. On their way back from a party, two couples struggle home through the snow. Not everyone arrives safely. The great detective writer Georges Simenon escaped France at the end of Wo ...Show more
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead by Tom Stoppard
Category: Non-Fiction | Series: Faber Drama
"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 Tom Stoppard's reputation virtually overnight. Its wit, stage ...Show more
Stuff Happens by David Hare
Category: Non-Fiction | Series: Faber Drama Ser.
Stuff happens... And it's untidy, and freedom's untidy, and free people are free to make mistakes and commit crimes and do bad things.' The famous response of American Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld to the looting of Baghdad at a press conference in 2003 provides the title for David Hare's play a ...Show more
The Complete Dramatic Works of Samuel Beckett by Samuel Beckett
Category: Classics | Series: Faber Drama Ser.
The present volume gathers all of Beckett's texts for theatre, from 1955 to 1984. It includes both the major dramatic works and the short and more compressed texts for the stage and for radio. 'He believes in the cadence, the comma, the bite of word on reality, whatever else he believes; and his devotio ...Show more
The Hard Problem by Tom Stoppard
Category: Non-Fiction | Series: Faber Drama Ser.
Above all don't use the word good as though it meant something in evolutionary science. Hilary, a young psychology researcher at a brain-science institute, is nursing a private sorrow and a troubling question at work, where psychology and biology meet. If there is nothing but matter, what is consciousne ...Show more
The Homecoming by Harold Pinter
Category: Reference | Series: Faber Drama Ser.
When Teddy, a professor in an American university, brings his wife Ruth to visit London and his family, he finds himself prey to old conflicts. But now it is Ruth who becomes the focus of the family's struggle for supremacy. The playwright's other works include "The Birthday Party" and "Old Times".