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Faber & Faber Patriots
Book SynopsisIf the politicians cannot save Russia, then we businessmen must. We have not just the responsibility but the duty to become Russian heroes.1991. The Fall of the Soviet Union.With the dawning of a new Russia, there are winners and losers, and today's patriot can fast become tomorrow's traitor.As a new generation of oligarchs fights to seize control, we follow billionaire businessman Boris Berezovsky the kingmaker' behind Vladimir Putin from the president''s inner circle to public enemy number one, in this unflinching story of ambition and the dangers of loyalty and love.Peter Morgan's Patriots opened at the Almeida Theatre, London, in July 2022.
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Faber & Faber The Clinic
Book SynopsisI've given up on fighting for change.That's a strange, imperfect illusion that allowed confusion to reign in my life.I took a knife to its neck and sliced it open.When a passionate activist, Wunmi, is invited into a middle-class Black family's home, a fire is lit. The family members have always seen themselves as pillars of society: they are charity workers, therapists and politicians. But as they begin to realise what Wunmi really represents, their certainty begins to crumble, the tension rises and a suffocating ash starts to fill the air. Full of forensic fury and incandescent poetry, Dipo Baruwa-Etti's fiercely political new play opened at the Almeida Theatre, London, in September 2022.
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Faber & Faber The Sex Party
Book SynopsisWell yes and no. It''s sexy, but pedestrian. Hieronymus Bosch in Smethwick. Hetty and I found a little alcove with our Sauvignon.Four couples gather in a suburban London home for a night of wine, cheese, and more intimate pleasures. Some are curious newcomers, some are old hands, but one guest takes them all by surprise. Thus an evening full of promise is poised to go beyond anyone''s expectations. Terry Johnson''s The Sex Party premiered at the Menier Chocolate Factory, London, in November 2022.
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Faber & Faber Akedah
Book SynopsisWe heal people. That's what we do here. We are a kinship.Gill has returned home to the north coast of Northern Ireland determined to speak to her younger sister Kelly for the first time in three years. There she is shocked to discover that Kelly has become a devout member of a rapidly expanding Christian community called Harvest. As Gill struggles to reconcile this Kelly with the Kelly she has been keeping safe in her mind, a noise is gathering at their periphery that refuses to go unheard any longer.Akedah won the Bruntwood Prize Original New Voice Award in 2019. It premiered at Hampstead Theatre, London, in February 2023.
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Faber & Faber Tartuffe
Book SynopsisLet's see how crafty a picture you paint. You're making a demon out of a saint.In this spectacular dramatic comedy, the villainous Tartuffe shocks and enthrals with his deceptive powers. Charming to some, a danger to others, one family risks losing everything if he gets his way. Molière''s exuberant seventeenth-century classic is brought back to life in an audacious contemporary Irish version by Frank McGuinness. Tartuffe premiered at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin, in March 2023.
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Faber & Faber Cuckoo
Book SynopsisWe've got our little routines. She'll text me if she's hungry or wants anything. Or I'll say, Fancy an orange squash?' And she'll send me a thumbs up. Doreen and her two grown up daughters sit at the table eating fish and chips, distracted by their phones. Upstairs, seventeenyear-old Megyn has locked herself in her grandmother's bedroom and is refusing to come out. And no one is entirely sure why. Michael Wynne's dark comedy questions the safety of home and the different ways we cope in an increasingly uncertain world. Cuckoo opened at the Royal Court Theatre, London, in July 2023.
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Faber & Faber Infamous
Book SynopsisFamous and respectable? Can a woman be both?Emma Hamilton is the name on everyone''s lips. Her attitudes are the latest dance craze sweeping Europe, inspiring a generation of artists from Romney to Goethe. But Emma doesn''t want to be somebody''s muse, she wants to be the somebody.With rumours of Nelson''s imminent arrival swirling around Naples, Emma knows exactly which pose to strike to catch his attention and leave her mark on history. Or so she thinks.The extraordinarily vivid life of one of the most remarkable figures in Georgian society bursts out of the history books in April De Angelis''s play.Infamous opened at Jermyn Street Theatre, London, in September 2023.
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Faber & Faber Polko
Book SynopsisI like this car.It's sort of horrible but I like it.It's a good place for something bad like abreakdown or As teenagers, Emma, Joe and Polko thought they'd never grow apart. When Emma returns to the suburb of their childhood ten years later, she discovers that nothing, and everything, has changed. Joe is stuck, living with his mum while working part-time in a hotel; Polko has vanished, leaving a cloud of stories and misremembered nights in his wake. Set in the front seats of a parked car, Polko is a modern memory play about the places we call home, and the people we leave behind.Angus Harrison's play opened at the Paines Plough Roundabout at Summerhall, Edinburgh, in August 2023.
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Faber & Faber Woodhill
Book SynopsisI dance in the horror of grief.Three men at Woodhill prison are dead. Their families demand answers. This is a call to arms about the crisis facing prisons.In their own words, lyrically told, three families investigate what happened to their boys and shine a light on the hidden story of HMP Woodhill. What they discover is so haunting, it turns their world upside down.An explosive true story by multi-award-winning LUNG, Woodhill opened at The North Wall, Oxford, in July 2023.Winner: Sit-Up Award for outstanding social impactWinner: Lustrum Award
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Faber & Faber Lyonesse
Book SynopsisWhat I'm asking is, is she a sympathetic heroine? Are we going to be on her side?Elaine, a once-famous actress who disappeared thirty years ago in mysterious circumstances, is ready to tell her story. She summons Kate, a young film executive, to her remote Cornish home to assist with her glorious comeback. But to keep control of the story, and how they tell it, the women must fight against a rising tide.Penelope Skinner's passionate, searingly funny play opened at the Harold Pinter Theatre, London, in October 2023.''Fascinating . . . Skinner's writing is incisive and startlingly funny.'' Independent
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Faber & Faber Portia Coughlan
Book SynopsisWinner of the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, 1997. Carr's harrowing play has the scale and anguish of myth, and the immediacy of a contemporary anecdote.' Independent on SundayThere's a wolf tooth growin in me heart and it's turnin me from everywan and everthin I am.Portia Coughlan lives life in monstrous limbo, haunted by a yearning for her spectral twin brother lying at the bottom of the Belmont river, unable to find any love for her wealthy husband and children, seeking solace in soulless affairs, deeply afraid of what she might do.Portia Coughlan premiered on the Abbey Theatre's Peacock Stage, Dublin, in April 1996 and transferred to the Royal Court Theatre, London, in May that year. It was revived at the Almeida Theatre, London, in October 2023.Taut and haunting, funny and sad . . . Carr plays with time and place to resonant, ultimately devastating effect.' The StageOne of the
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Faber & Faber An Actor Convalescing in Devon
Book SynopsisHe told me about some bloke who was sick and then got well by placing a poem by William Blake in his shirt pocket . . . Heading for the West Country by train, an actor takes the scenic route from Waterloo to spend a weekend with an old friend. He recalls staying there one summer with his late partner Michael, another actor. Glad to be alive but uncertain of his future, he shares stories and his thoughts about Shakespeare, friends, his career and the trials of his own health. Richard Nelson''s funny and compelling monologue opened at Hampstead Theatre, London, in March 2024.
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Faber & Faber The Band Back Together
Book Synopsis I think the local community's supportive. Yeah, of like, good stuff. Bric-a-brac sales and choral singing and local elections and swingers' parties, not you and me messing about with a drum kit.Joe, Ross and Ellie used to be in a band. They were pretty good too, making waves across a rugged patchwork of pubs and clubs. They even had a song on Radio 2. But that was all a long time ago and the songs, the stories, the secrets are long since buried. Time has thrown the three friends far from their younger selves.Back together for one night only to play a benefit gig in their home town, they find a community reeling from a poisoning and a pandemic. And as they rehearse the old songs, the stories and secrets must also be excavated.The Band Back Together premiered in a touring production by Farnham Maltings in March 2024.
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