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Faber & Faber Peace Talks
Book SynopsisThe second half of Andrew Motion''s new collection returns to the sequence begun in Laurels and Donkeys, completing a body of work recognised by the Wilfred Owen Poetry Award in 2014. These meditations on combat and the people caught up in it look back to conflicts of the past: to the ''war to end all wars''; to Rupert Brooke on his final journey; to Wilfred Owen at Craiglockhart War Hospital; to Archduke Franz Ferdinand on the day of his fatal shooting. But Motion also depicts the ravages of modern warfare through reported speech, redacted documents, and vivid evocations of place, his plain understatement bringing the magnitude of war home to our own shores. These poems are moving and measured, delicate and clear-eyed, and bear witness to the futility of war and the suffering of those left behind. Elsewhere we find biographies in miniature, dreams and visions, family histories, which in their range of forms and voices consider questions of identity, and chara
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Faber & Faber Selected Poems
Book SynopsisDrawn from thirty years of work, this selection, made by the poet himself, gathers from the best of Jamie McKendrick''s six acclaimed collections, including some translations, from 1991''s debut The Sirocco Room to Out There (2012, and winner of the Hawthornden Prize) by way of The Marble Fly (1997), winner of the Forward Prize for Best Collection, and Ink Stone, shortlisted for both the T. S. Eliot Prize and the Whitbread Poetry Award in 2003. Sky Nails, his selected poems, was published by Faber in 2000, and selections of his poems have been translated and published in Holland and in Italy.Throughout, McKendrick has been concerned with the charting of space, of the distances between homeland and edgeland, the far-flung and the near-at-hand, the past and present, the familiar and the strange in poems which cast a sharp eye over their subject matter and return with wry, unsettling observations. There is remembrance, here, and salv
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Faber & Faber Evening at The Talk House
Book SynopsisAt Ted''s instigation, the old gang gather once more at the almost legendary club The Talk House. Ten years on and presided over still by the kindly Nellie, there''s the same genteel atmosphere, familiar drinks, unchanging special snacks. But the era of Walter Barclay is long gone.A playwright, a composer, an actress.The possibility of a pleasant night.Evening at The Talk House by Wallace Shawn premiered at the National Theatre, London, in November 2015.
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Faber & Faber Jane Wenham The Witch of Walkern
Book SynopsisWalkern, 1712. England has been free from witch-hunts for decades until Jane Wenham is blamed for a tragic death and charged with witchcraft. A terrifying ordeal begins, as the village is torn between those who want to save Jane''s life and those who claim they want to save her soul.Inspired by events in a Hertfordshire village, the play explores sex and society''s hunger to find and create witches.Rebecca Lenkiewicz''s Jane Wenham: The Witch of Walkern premiered at Watford Palace Theatre before going on UK tour in September 2015, in an Out of Joint, Watford Palace Theatre and Arcola Theatre co-production, in association with Eastern Angles.
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Faber & Faber A Birds Idea of Flight
Book SynopsisA Bird''s Idea of Flight describes a circular journey in a sequence of 25 poems. Twelve poems chart the outward journey, the thirteenth is pivotal, and twelve poems bring the traveler back. The subject of his quest is thanatology; in particular, he is deeply curious about the business of his own death. It is an adventure of discovery and disillusionment, during which the figure of death, as companion, mentor and guide, appears along the way, and in various guises.
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Faber & Faber Brother
Book SynopsisA dual-authored volume of poems from the multi-award winning Dickman twins - leading voices in America''s outstanding generation of younger poets.Although the brothers extol differing inspirations (Matthew writes with the ebullience of Frank O''Hara, Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac, Michael with the control of William Carlos Williams and Emily Dickinson), they are unified by the unflinching, remarkable verse they wrote when their older sibling tragically took his own life. It is these moving, grieving but life-affirming poems that solely comprise this dual-authored volume. Published in an inventive tête-bêche edition, the poems appear head-to-toe, communing in the middle, making Brother a searing but ultimately up-lifting journey of grief, love and family.''Michael''s poems are interior, fragmentary, and austere, often stripped down to single-word lines; they seethe with incipient violence. Matthew''s are effusive, ecstatic, and all-embracing, sp
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Faber & Faber Widening Income Inequality
Book SynopsisSeidel is the great controversialist of American poetry. Dubbed a ''transgressive adventurer,'' a ''demonic gentleman,'' a ''triumphant outsider,'' a ''great poet of innocence,'' and ''an example of the dangerous Male of the Species'', his sly, witty and wide-eyed poems seem earnest one moment and flippant the next, and will see him rotating his caustic fire from high-society cocktail parties to street-level poverty, genocide to Obamacare, New York to Syria. He''s never more than a turn-line from humour, and it is often when he is at his funniest that he is also at his most shocking.The Independent said of his last collection: ''There is no contemporary poet writing in English as witty, as shrewd, as touching and as debonair as Frederick Seidel. That''s a lot of praise, but he surely merits it.''Widening Income Inequality, Seidel''s new collection, is a rhymed magnificence of sexual, historical, and cultural exuberance. Rarely has poetry been this dappe
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Faber & Faber The Master Builder Faber Drama
Book SynopsisThe change will come. And it''s not far away, I promise you that. Some figure will emerge from the dark screaming ''Get out of the way''. And not far behind others will follow... The young are waiting. In all their power. Knocking on the door.The master builder Halvard Solness has a fear of falling. A self-made man, without professional qualifications, he has achieved domination in the town but he''s increasingly frightened of being displaced by the young. A woman, Hilde Wangel, appears from the mountains, claiming to have known Solness ten years previously, and telling him of a promise he made to her when she thirteen.David Hare has written a new adaptation of one of Henrik Ibsen''s most complex autobiographical masterpieces - a mesmeric exploration of control, power, lust and death, which builds to a vertiginous climax.The Master Builder premiered in this English version at The Old Vic, London, in January 2016.
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Faber & Faber Blizzard
Book SynopsisWinner of the Southern Arts Prize and shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection.The poems in Matthew Francis''s first collection range from the light-hearted to the unsettling, from lyrical and witty evocations of landscape and domestic life to narratives of apocalypse and surreal fantasy. Night and winter provide the dominant metaphors, but, from this material, Francis, whose technical adroitness and flair for storytelling are equally remarkable, conjures up a substantial imaginative world in which it is possible to live with a renewed sense of freedom.Dark, dangerous and exhilarating, Blizzard reveals a fully mature and compelling talent.
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Faber & Faber Deathwatch
Book SynopsisThree young convicts share a cell. Locked into a world of dangerous rivalries, criminals Lefranc and Maurice compete for the attention of the charismatic condemned man, Green-Eyes. Informed by his own experience in French prisons, this play is an explosive exploration of the inversion of moral order.
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Faber & Faber Doves
Book SynopsisDoves is Lachlan Mackinnon's most candid and affecting volume of poems to date, and follows on from Small Hours, shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Poetry in 2010. Formally dexterous and inventive, these inclusive, approachable poems welcome all-comers in their broad-minded address: refugees, reality television, detective shows, number-theory, Shakespeare's brothers, ecology, a marriage. Wherever it turns, the poetry remains courageously sociable and moral, ever concerned with honouring lives and good deeds, and asking what can be saved from the ruins of what is lost by individuals, cultures and civilisations. But for all its outward gaze, its cares speak privately too of crises in personal action and belief, of friends and intimacies disturbed and renewed and, underpinning it all, an urging to account for our behaviour and to start to answer / to ourselves for what we have made of life.'Doves is an uplifting account of recovery that makes n
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Faber & Faber Enter Fleeing
Book SynopsisExhilarating fourth collection of poems from the ''intriguing, funny, prophetic'' man of letters Mark Ford.
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Faber & Faber Before Dawn on Bluff Road Hollyhocks in the Fog
Book SynopsisA collection of August Kleinzahler's best poems, divided - like his life - between New Jersey and San Francisco.
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Faber & Faber One Lark One Horse
Book SynopsisMichael Hofmann is renowned as one of our most brilliant critics and translators; that he is also regarded as among our most respected poets one of the definitive bodies of work of the last half-century', TLS is all the more impressive for his relatively concentrated output. One Lark, One Horse will be his fifth collection of poems since his debut in 1983, and his first since Approximately Nowhere in 1999. But it is also one of the most anticipated gatherings of new work in years. In style, it is as unmistakable as ever: sometimes funny, sometimes caustic; world-facing and yet intimate; and shows a bright mind burning fiercely over the European imagination. Approaching his sixtieth birthday, the poet explores where he finds himself, geographically and in life, treating with wit and compassion such universal themes as ageing and memory, place, and the difficulty for the individual to exist at all in an ever bigger and more bestial world. One Lark, On
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Faber & Faber The Hogarth Plays
Book SynopsisThe Hogarth Plays catch one of England's most celebrated artists at two crucial points in his career: once at the beginning, and once at the end.
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Faber & Faber Salt
Book SynopsisWhere our real home might be is tricky to say. In a way that is the point. Some people say that it is the body, but I think the body is more of a channel that leads us home. Ultimate reality is our home. It is here and now.In 2016, two artists embarked a cargo ship and retraced a route of the Transatlantic Slave Triangle Europe, Africa, the Caribbean all the while contemplating the notion of home. Both real and imagined, it was a journey to the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean, propelled by questions and grief; a journey backwards in order to go forwards, a diaspora. This show is what they brought back. Selina Thompson''s Salt premiered at Southbank Centre in July 2017, and went on to tour in the UK, Australia, Canada and Brazil.Winner of The Stage Edinburgh Award, The Total Theatre Award for Experimentation, Innovation and Playing with Form, and The Filipa Bragança Award. Shortlisted for the Amnesty International Freedom of Expression Awa
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Faber & Faber To Have to Shoot Irishmen Faber Drama
Book SynopsisCould peace come after? After what? Who will we be?Easter morning, 1916. Gunshots ring out in the Dublin streets. In her suburban sitting-room Hanna prepares for revolution. Frank walks through the crowds calling for peace, while John recalls the trenches and sees a city soaked in blood. Eighteen-year-old William fearfully reports to the barracks for duty, determined to serve the British army with honour. Inspired by true events, this absorbing play weaves movement and folk song into a stirring tale of militarism, corruption and the power of rebellion.''Vibrant and shocking. A fine new play [with] countless stirring scenes that boils over with the chaos of war. Nunnery wears her research lightly and expresses her ideas in tumbling poetry, lively dialogue and haunting song. Not a syllable or beat is wasted.'' Guardian
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Faber & Faber Uncle Vanya Faber Drama
Book SynopsisDon''t be miserable, you wonderful woman; be a mermaid. There''s the ocean; throw yourself in. Fall in love with some poor mortal and drag him down with you. Astonish us! On an isolated country estate, Sonia and her Uncle Vanya are committed to a life of ceaseless toil. But when the ageing invalid Serebriakov and his bewilderingly beautiful young wife take up residence, a yearning envelops the household and disturbs the accustomed tedium. Friend and confidant Astrov grows lovelorn, Sonia''s heart breaks and even Vanya falls under the spell. And so they fight, bond, belittle, lament, make peace and contemplate the odd murder.Featuring sex, comedy and unbearable sadness in nineteenth-century Russia, this version of Anton Chekhov''s Uncle Vanya was written and directed by Terry Johnson and opened at Hampstead Theatre, London, in November 2018. And having weathered the storm, what''s left? My feelings for you; a few droplets on a window pane, cat
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Faber & Faber When We Have Sufficiently Tortured Each Other
Book SynopsisGo on then: lock the doors and see what happens. Show me how much power you really have.When We Have Sufficiently Tortured Each Other breaks through the surface of contemporary debate to explore the messy, often violent nature of desire and the fluid, complicated roles that men and women play.Using Samuel Richardson's novel Pamela as a provocation, six characters act out a dangerous game of sexual domination and resistance.When We Have Sufficiently Tortured Each Other premiered at the National Theatre, London, in January 2019.
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Faber & Faber Writing for Nothing Fiction Short Plays Texts for
Book SynopsisMartin Crimp's Writing for Nothing collects texts written over the last thirty years. Included here are short plays, unmistakably the work of the internationally acclaimed author of Attempts on Her Life; texts for opera, beginning with the modern masterpiece Written on Skin, created with composer George Benjamin; and two stories that provide a new perspective on Crimp, revealing a writer capable of bringing all of his brilliance to prose. Unsettling, elegant and incisive, Writing for Nothing is a vibrant and varied anthology, celebrating a writer with a rare talent for illuminating the power structures behind our everyday world.
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Faber & Faber In Lipstick
Book SynopsisThings don''t change no matter how much you want them to. You try, you run away, you make things new but they''re not. It''s just the same old shit covered in lipstick.Maud, a woman on the run from her damaged past, has sheltered Cynthia from the outside world for the last few years. But while Cynthia is a recluse, living for their dressing-up box, their fairy tales and Shirley Bassey on YouTube, Maud meets Dennis, a security guard at her office. As Cynthia clings, Maud begins to dream of escaping their isolated and claustrophobic world. Annie Jenkins'' debut play In Lipstick gives savage, funny and heartfelt voice to two women trapped in a fractured city, not quite knowing how to love each other.
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Faber & Faber Public Property
Book SynopsisPublic Property was Andrew Motion's first collection of poetry after being appointed Poet Laureate. In it, he negotiates the very space of poetry, moving between private and public realms, pondering each from the other's borders. In the opening series of idylls he conjures the expeditionary narratives of a rural childhood, in scenes as precisely remembered as they are irretrievable. Elsewhere he reconsiders moments from the Victorian past from reticent and surprising angles, and elsewhere again he tackles distinctly contemporary themes and situations. The final section of the book contains a number of elegies and love poems, written in a variety of lyric forms, which provoke concerns that are among the most critical in poetry: What is public art? To whom do our most private sentiments belong?
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Faber & Faber Love in a Life
Book SynopsisLove in a Life, Andrew Motion's sixth volume of poetry, marks a conspicuous development in the work of the founder of the modern Narrative School. Directness and a new colloquialism are wedded to Motion's distinctive obliquities in a volume where the idea of marriage governs the architecture of each poem and the book as a whole.
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Faber & Faber Eleutheria
Book SynopsisWritten in French in the late forties before Waiting for Godot, Eleutheria is about a young man at odds with his middle-class family, living alone in a bedsit and refusing to take part in ''normal'' life while accepting handouts from his mother. Often richly comic, it contains elements of high farce and draws on the traditions of French boulevard comedy and melodrama.This new edition includes the notice by Jérôme Lindon, in its original French, which accompanied the first edition in 1995, explaining the circumstances under which the play was first published.
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Faber & Faber Botticelli in the Fire
Book SynopsisThey're going to kill you. They're going to worship you, don't get me wrong. But they are going to kill you.Playboy Sandro Botticelli has it all: talent, fame, good looks. He also has the ear and the wife of Lorenzo de Medici, as well as the Florence''s hottest young apprentice, Leonardo.But whilst he is at work on his breakthrough commission, The Birth of Venus, Botticelli's devotion to pleasure and beauty is put to the ultimate test. As plague sweeps through the city, the charismatic friar Girolamo Savonarola starts to stoke the fires of dissent against the liberal elite. Botticelli finds the life he knows breaking apart, forcing him to choose between love and survival.Jordan Tannahill's hot-blooded queering of Renaissance Italy questions how much of ourselves we are willing to sacrifice when society comes off the rails.WINNER: Best New Play, Toronto Theatre Critics Award WINNER: Governor General''s Literary Award <
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Faber & Faber The Late Sun
Book SynopsisThe Late Sun asserts a balance between memorialisation of the recently dead and celebration of the vitality of the living. Early in the collection is a set of poems about the poet's mother, who died in great age after a life of exotic travel, and the poet's own travels, his sense of both place and displacement, are vibrantly explored in other pieces. The city where he lives - particularly, and somewhat unusually, in a sequence titled 'Smells of London' - provides many of the themes, but the civic glades and sparkling vistas of the Mediterranean are just as important, and the book adds up to an affirmation of international perspectives at a time when civilised values are increasingly threatened.
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Faber & Faber Manor
Book SynopsisThis place is about to blow.A violent storm sweeps the coast. Diana Stuckley and her daughter are struggling to keep the roof on their run-down manor house, when neighbours and strangers begin to appear on their doorstep, seeking shelter from the floods.One of these unexpected arrivals is Ted Farrier, the charismatic leader of a right-wing organisation: he could be Diana's saviour or could pull the fragile household to pieces.Stranded together, this explosive mix of people must survive the weather, and each other.Manor by Moira Buffini premiered at the National Theatre, London, in November 2021.
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Faber & Faber An unfinished man
Book SynopsisThis hex has festered,iss roots have been stuckfor almost three decades.I've been obliviousbut now I know.Thuh Lord has made it known.I can't ignore it now iss known.Gotta battle.Gotta fight.Kayode has been unemployed for seven years.
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Faber & Faber The False Servant
Book SynopsisAre you really surprised to discover that a woman might have a mind of her own?When Lélio thinks he can ditch and cash in on the rich woman he has promised to marry, in order to become the husband of an even wealthier girl from Paris', he enlists the help of his attractive new friend, the Chevalier.What he doesn't know is that the Chevalier is none other than this same girl from Paris' disguised as a man, and that her project is to publicly expose the depths of his sexual cynicism.A self-declared modern', Marivaux is a pioneer in the exploration of human feeling, asking in this play not only what do we hide from others? - but what are we hiding from ourselves?Martin Crimp's version of Pierre Marivaux's The False Servant received its premiere at the National Theatre, London, in 2004 and was revived at the Orange Tree Theatre, London, in June 2022. Marivaux's scepticism, irony and fascination with money and sex make him seem peculi
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Faber & Faber The Sun the Moon and the Stars
Book SynopsisThis is bout those menwho stripped him of his crown,treated that charcoal skin like concrete.Peace will only comewhen I make em come undone.
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Faber & Faber The Apple Family A Pandemic Trilogy
Book Synopsisthey reveal their depression and fears, they mourn lost friends and even watch a dance performance, as the world outside sputters out of control, amidst anger, illness, and a coming election.With an introduction and afterword by the author.
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Faber & Faber A Splinter of Ice
Book SynopsisMoscow, 1987. As the cold war begins to thaw, an extraordinary reunion takes place between one of the great novelists of the twentieth century, Graham Greene, and his old MI6 boss, the notorious Soviet spy, Kim Philby. It's taken thirty years and the beginnings of a new world order.As the two men raise their vodka glasses under the watchful eye of Philby's last wife, Rufa, Ben Brown's compelling political drama asks whether Philby betrayed his friend as well as his country, and how much the writer of The Third Man knew about Philby's secret life.A Splinter of Ice was filmed on stage at the Everyman Theatre, Cheltenham, for release online in April 2021, before a UK tour.
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Faber & Faber Shedding a Skin
Book SynopsisSometimes you crack.Sometimes you didn't mean to yell that.Sometimes you have to lay low until you've figured it outAnd sometimes, sometimes you have to hibernate until you've healed.This is a new day.Shedding a Skin is a story for our times. It's a play about finding kindness in unexpected places; about understanding what our elders can teach us; it's new skin honouring old. It's a play about joy, healing and protest.Amanda Wilkin's Shedding a Skin is the 2020 winner of Soho Theatre's acclaimed Verity Bargate Award. The play premiered at Soho Theatre, London, in June 2021.
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Faber & Faber Underwood Lane
Book SynopsisUnderwood Lane the winter sun hangs like a suppurating boil glued to a giant sheet of dirty asbestos above the blackened tenements that rear up from the cobbled street like a row of broken teeth...Brilliantly funny and packed with iconic songs from the early Sixties, this is a new musical play from the writer of the classic Scottish masterpiece, The Slab Boys Trilogy. Telling the tale of a young skiffle band trying to make it, Underwood Lane has it all: style, fierce love rivalry, broken hearts, dodgy dealers, religion, sex and death. It is written in memory of the author's Paisley buddy, Gerry Rafferty, who was born and brought up on the titular street.John Byrne''s Underwood Lane premiered in a co-production between Tron Theatre Company and OneRen with support from Renfrewshire Council''s Future Paisley Programme. The play opened at Johnstone Town Hall, Johnstone, and transferred to the Tron Theatre, Glasgow, in July 2022.
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Faber & Faber The End of the Night
Book SynopsisI board a plane marked with the swastika and take the noon postal service flight from Stockholm to Berlin. In the final days of World War II, a secret meeting takes place between a member of the World Jewish Congress and one of the most powerful Nazis in Germany - without the knowledge of the FÃhrer. Dr Felix Kersten, Himmler's trusted personal physiotherapist, uses his unique position of influence to facilitate a meeting between the architect of the Holocaust and Swedish Jew Norbert Masur. A meeting which could turn Himmler's thoughts away from the fading FÃhrer and towards a course of action that could save thousands of lives.With battle lines crumbling and lives in the balance, the two men must try to find a way to persuade Himmler to release the last surviving concentration camp prisoners contrary to Hitler's orders that no Jew should outlast the regime.Based on a remarkable true story, Ben Brown's The End of the Night opened at The Park, London, in
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Faber & Faber We Started to Sing
Book SynopsisI wish there could be a day where families came together and just said it all to each other. Because then everyone would know it all, and there'd be nothing left to hurt anyone.Sussex. London. Wiltshire. Northamptonshire. Wales. Over three decades, a family spreads across the country, and the chord they made together starts to fray, the distance between them changing the music of their lives.Barney Norris's We Started to Sing is a love song to the people who raised him, and a hymn to the bravery of our brief lives. The play premiered at the Arcola Theatre, London, in May 2022.
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Faber & Faber The Dance of Death
Book SynopsisPlay something kitty-cat-ish . . . sweet. Imagine I've died and you're galloping through fields.As their thirtieth wedding anniversary approaches, Alice and Edgar are locked in a bitter struggle. They've driven away their children and their friends. Their relationship is sustained by taunts and recriminations. When a newcomer breaks into the midst of the fray, their insular lives threaten to spin out of control.We''re all just bodies and when we''re dead we''re worm food, but as long as your body keep going, flailing or thrashing about, we are duty bound to fight, to scratch and kick, until you''re fucked. That''s my philosophy. Laced with biting humour, The Dance of Death is August Strindberg's landmark drama about a marriage pushed to its limits, adapted in a thrilling new version by Rebecca Lenkiewicz. The Dance of Death opened at the Bath Theatre Royal's Ustinov Theatre in May 2022 before going on UK tour in an Arcola T
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Faber & Faber A Dead Body in Taos
Book SynopsisWhen they called saying your body had been found, I had one immediate thought. I remember thinking that maybe now I'd be free.Sam hasn't spoken to her mother Kath for three years when she learns that she's been found dead in the New Mexico desert.Travelling to the small town of Taos to identify the body, she discovers Kath had become embroiled in a shadowy enterprise, offering Sam an unimaginable chance to rebuild their broken relationship. But to do so, she must decide whether she can finish what her mother started.David Farr's compelling new play is both an unsettling science fiction and an intimate study of loss and bereavement, examining how artificial intelligence could alter our understanding of death, consciousness and the soul.A Dead Body in Taos opened at the Bristol Old Vic in September 2022.
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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 Joy in Service on Rue Tagore
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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 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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