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Arcadia by Tom Stoppard
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Category: Performing Arts Drama Plays | Series: Faber Drama Ser. | Reading Level: very good
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)
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Category: Performing Arts Drama Plays | 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
History Boys by Alan Bennett
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Category: Performing Arts Drama Plays | 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
Julie by P. STENHAM; August Strindberg (Original Author)
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Category: Performing Arts Drama Plays | Series: Faber Drama Ser.
Wild and newly single, Julie throws a late night party. In the kitchen, Jean and Kristina clean up as the celebration heaves above them. Crossing the threshold, Julie initiates a power game with Jean. It descends into a savage fight for survival. Polly Stenham reimagines August Strindberg's Miss Julie i ...Show more
Look Back in Anger: Faber Modern Classics by John Osborne
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Category: Fiction | 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
Skylight by David Hare
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Category: Performing Arts Drama Plays | Series: Faber Drama Ser.
"There are times in the theatre when you suddenly find yourself in the grip of silence. There is no fidgeting or coughing, no shifting about in seats: the audience's attention is so tense it is almost palpable. This is because it is both thrilling and dangerous: a fight to the death, or the dawning of s ...Show more
The Complete Dramatic Works of Samuel Beckett by Samuel Beckett
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Category: Performing Arts Drama Plays | 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
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Category: 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 Penelopiad - play script by Margaret Atwood
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Category: Performing Arts Drama Plays | Series: Faber Drama Ser.
As portrayed in Homer's Odyssey, Penelope - wife of Odysseus and cousin of the beautiful Helen of Troy - has become a symbol of wifely duty and devotion, enduring twenty years of waiting when her husband goes to fight in the Trojan War. As she fends off the attentions of a hundred greedy suitors, travel ...Show more
Waiting for Godot: A Tragicomedy in Two Acts by Samuel Beckett
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Category: Performing Arts Drama Plays | Series: Faber Drama Ser.
Subtitled "A tragicomedy in two Acts", and famously described by the Irish critic Vivien Mercier as a play in which 'nothing happens, twice', "En attendant Godot" was first performed at the Theatre de Babylone in Paris in 1953. It was translated into English by Samuel Beckett, and "Waiting for Godot" op ...Show more
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