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Faber & Faber In Parenthesis
Book SynopsisIn Parenthesis was first published in London in 1937. I am proud to share the responsibility for that first publication. On reading the book in typescript I was deeply moved. I then regarded it, and still regard it, as a work of genius... Here is a book about the experience of one soldier in the war of 1914-18. It is also a book about War, and about many other things also, such as Roman Britain, the Arthurian Legend, and divers matters which are given association by the mind of the writer.'' T.S. Eliot''This writing has to do with some things I saw, felt, and was part of '': with quiet modesty, David Jones begins a work that is among the most powerful imaginative efforts to grapple with the carnage of the First World War. Fusing poetry and prose, gutter talk and high music, wartime terror and ancient myth, Jones, who served as an infantryman on the Western Front, presents a picture at once panoramic and intimate of a world of interminable waiting and unforeseen death.
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Faber & Faber The Aliens
Book SynopsisProfessional slackers and best friends KJ and Jasper spend their days talking music and Bukowski outside the back of a small coffee shop in Vermont. Seventeen-year-old Evan is eking out his summer working at the café. When he meets the two young men he is irresistibly drawn to their world of magic mushrooms, philosophical musings and great-bands-that never-were.One of the freshest voices to come out of America in recent years, Annie Baker''s gentle, engaging and deeply funny play introduces two cult heroes in the shape of KJ and Jasper, and puts modern day America under the microscope. What happened to the generation who never grew up?The Aliens opened at the Bush Theatre, London in September 2010. The play''s world premiere was held at the Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, New York, in April of the same year.
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Faber & Faber South Downs and Mere Fact Mere Fiction
Book Synopsis1962: A public school on the South Downs.John Blakemore is a solitary boy who finds it impossible either to understand or adapt to the ways of the school. His adolescent earnestness put off teacher and pupil alike. And now suddenly he seems to be in danger of losing his only friend.David Hare''s emotional new play, written at the invitation of the Rattigan estate as a response to The Browning Version, is a meditation on faith, learning and teenage friendship, played against the backdrop of a Britain still fighting to maintain an established rule.Collected with South Downs is the text of Hare''s lecture Mere Fact, Mere Fiction, delivered to the Royal Society of Literature in 2010. In a famous defence of documentary theatre, the author celebrates the power of metaphor to transform factual quite as much as fictional material.
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Faber & Faber Reasons to Be Pretty
Book SynopsisGreg is overheard admitting that his girlfriend Steph is no beauty, but that he wouldn''t change her for the world. She is devastated; he can''t see what he''s done wrong. Meanwhile, Greg''s friend Kent alternates between boasting about how gorgeous his wife Carlyis and chasing after a hot new colleague.The final part of Neil LaBute''s ''beauty trilogy'' (following The Shape of Things and Fat Pig) about society''s obsession with looks, Reasons to Be Pretty premiered in the UK at the Almeida Theatre, London, in November 2011.''[The Shape of Things] is LaBute''s thesis on extreme feminine wiles, as well as a disquisition on how far an artist can go in the name of art . . . Like a chiropractor for the soul, LaBute is looking for realignment, listening for the crack.'' Elle''A heart-warming tale from America''s master misanthrope.'' Independent on Fat Pig
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Faber & Faber Poems 1930
Book SynopsisAuden''s electrifying, enigmatic and extraordinarily influential debut collection was published by Faber in 1930, and simply entitled Poems. For the second edition (1933) he omitted seven items and added new poems in their place. Available again for the first time since 1950, this reissue follows the text of the second edition.
£11.69
Faber & Faber Dear Boy
Book SynopsisDear Boy is the dramatic and inventive debut by Emily Berry. These characterful, intelligent and darkly witty poems explore lives lived strangely in unusual worlds, through a series of deft and seductive soliloquies. In a collection with a taste for ventriloquy and wickedness, and a flair for vocal cross-dressing, the balance of power is always shifting in an unexpected direction - an ingénue masquerades as a femme fatale, a doctor appears more disturbed than his patient, and parents seem more unruly than their children. Eccentric, intimate, arch, anxious, decadent and sometimes mournful, the book''s confiding, conversational voices tell stories recognisable and refracted, carried along by the undercurrent on which the collection ebbs and rides: the anguish and energy brought about by a long-distance love affair, which propels and terrorises and ultimately unites the work. Dear Boy is an irresistible and enlivening collection by a new poet of startling and various giTrade ReviewThis noteworthy debut sees Emily Berry making bravura turns again and again, in poems of polished phrase, seductive technique, and, in spite of the smoke and mirrors, genuine feeling. -- Ben Wilkinson Guardian Emily Berry's debut is a treat. She is a new yet anything but hesitant voice. What is stimulating is that she approaches poetry as a flexible, permissive, dynamic ally ... Berry is seriously playful and, in her best poems, gives fantasy free rein ... [her] range is amazing. -- Kate Kellaway Observer Emily Berry's blazing debut, Dear Boy, is this month's happy reminder that poetry is where most of the most interesting writing in young Britain is happening now ... The collection is a perfectly charming, heartstring-tugging, dead smart and LOL-playful text about living and loving and writing and being young in our time. Dazed & Confused
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Faber & Faber The Worlds Two Smallest Humans
Book SynopsisJulia Copus''s poems bring humanity and light to some of our most intimate and solitary moments, repeatedly breathing life into loss. In two previous collections, she has been feted as among the most compelling poets to have emerged in recent years; now, in The World''s Two Smallest Humans, she is writing at her most captivating yet. These finely tuned poems are the fruit of her upbringing in a musical family, an affinity with the Classics, a fascination with the arc of time, and an unflinching scrutiny of love and personal relationships. Born out of a powerful sense of place, the poems navigate through a beguiling sequence of interior and exterior landscapes, whether revisiting Ovid, negotiating the perils of one composer''s attempt to step into the shoes of another or describing, from shifting perspectives, a young girl''s escape from suburban ennui. The book concludes with a moving arrangement of pieces that explore the author''s experience of IVF: poems written with w
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Faber & Faber Loss
Book SynopsisThe city never sleeps silence would weaken itwhen all else fails it talks to itself seamless thrum ofmachinery dark undertone.It is 00:00 and the full of the night yet to come.A man sits at a window through the dead hours of night, his sleep broken by troubling dreams of a figure in a white landscape. This fragmentary vigil anchors a series of narrative sections in which a dramatic voice gives, first, an account of the man, then addresses him directly. We learn of a conflicted childhood, of love lost to circumstance, of the press of death on the protagonist's waking thoughts. He is a man afflicted by personal loss, but also a man of his time, all too aware of the troubled world in which he lives. In this powerful sequence, Harsent's breathtaking formal skills are always in evidence. Intense, lyrical and passionate, Loss makes for enthralling reading.
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Faber & Faber The Seagull
Book Synopsis- Idea for a story. A beautiful young girl lives by a lake all her life. She loves this lake. She''s happy and free, like that bird was once. Then a man comes along and for no reason at all... what do you think he does?- He destroys her.A story about how we make stories, a story about unrequited love, The Seagull is one of the great plays of the modern era. Chekhov explores emotion and creativity with the clarity of a doctor and the heart of a poet. John Donnelly''s version of Anton Chekhov''s The Seagull premiered in a Headlong and The Nuffield, Southampton co-production, in association with Derby Playhouse. The play opened in April 2013, followed by a UK tour.
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Faber & Faber Neil LaBute Plays 1 Filthy Talk for Troubled
Book SynopsisFilthy Talk for Troubled Time is one of his earliest plays. A downbeat night at a topless bar exposes the gulf between the twitchy clientele and the waitresses who serve but despise them. The Mercy Seat examines a couple who, on the day after a world-changing atrocity, toy with exploiting it to start a new life. Some Girl(s) follows a young writer''s panicked retreat from his imminent wedding as he seeks out old girlfriends and opens new wounds, while in This Is How It Goes the breakdown of a seemingly successful marriage is complicated by submerged bigotry and hatred. The collection also includes two short plays about relationships in crisis - A Second of Pleasure and Helter Skelter - which are in equal part tender and chilling.Together these plays form a complex and compelling portrait of the sexes - sometimes warring, sometimes loving, but never fully at peace.
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Faber & Faber The Lady in the Van
Book Synopsis''We have, in the nick of time, a Play of the Year: Alan Bennett''s The Lady in the Van is a wonderfully bittersweet comic diary of the years in which a lethally dotty and very smelly old bat parked her unroadworthy vehicle in Bennett''s Camden garden, thereby providing him with a roughly equal amount of journalistic copy and guilty landlordly irritation.Sheridan Morley, Spectator
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Faber & Faber Uncle Vanya
Book SynopsisTea''s cold, lunch is late and the great Professor has turned out to be a fraud - for Uncle Vanya, life has gone wonky, it''s gone to hell.Only one thing can save him - a glamorous woman''s love. But she''s not interested either. And what''s worse, she''s married to the Professor.Samuel Adamson''s new version of Anton Chekhov''s Uncle Vanya - a dark and funny exploration of cross-purposed love, bitter jealousy and a dysfunctional family - opened at West Yorkshire Playhouse, Leeds, in February 2015.
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Faber & Faber Brian Friel Collected Plays Volume 1
Book SynopsisThis marks the first of five volumes collecting together the complete work of Brian Friel. The Enemy Within (1962) Philadelphia, Here I Come! (1964)The Loves of Cass McGuire (1966) Lovers (Winners and Losers) (1967) Crystal and Fox (1968) The Gentle Island (1971)
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Faber & Faber Essex Clay
Book SynopsisAndrew Motion's prose memoir In the Blood (2006) was widely acclaimed, praised as an act of magical retrieval and a hymn to familial love. Now, over a decade later and after moving to live and work in the United States, Motion looks back once more to recreate a stunning biographical sequel but this time in verse. Essex Clay rekindles, expands and gives a tragic resonance to subjects that have haunted the poet throughout his writing life. In the first part, he tells the story of his mother's riding accident, long unconsciousness and slow death; in the second, he remembers the end of his father's life; and in the third, he describes an encounter that deepens the poem's tangled themes of loss and memory and retrieval. Although the prevailing mood of the poem has a sweeping Tennysonian melancholy, its wealth of physical details and its narrative momentum make it as compelling as a fast-paced novel: a settling of accounts which admits that final resolutions are imp
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Faber & Faber Meet Me at Dawn Faber Drama
Book SynopsisTwo women wash up on a distant shore following a violent boating accident. Dazed by their experience, they look for a path home. But they discover that this unfamiliar land is not what it seems and that, though they may be together, they have never been further apart.Unflinchingly honest and tenderly lyrical, Meet Me at Dawn is a modern fable exploring the triumph of everyday love, the mystery of grief, and the temptation to become lost in a fantasy future that will never be.Meet Me at Dawn by Zinnie Harris premiered at the Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh, in August 2017.
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Faber & Faber On Blueberry Hill Faber Drama
Book SynopsisNow we've lived together in contentment, more or less, for nigh on twenty year. Like turtle doves. In prison, I mean, for fuck's sake, the chances of that.PJ and Christy: sworn enemies destined to share one small room for twenty years. As the two men recall the joys and torments of life outside the childhood excursions, a deadly brawl, past loves and summer dresses slowly they uncover the tragic events that have lead them to their cell in Montjoy. A play that explores our capacity to commit the deadliest of crimes but also our capacity for survival, reconciliation and love, On Blueberry Hill by Sebastian Barry (twice winner of the Costa Book of the Year) premiered in a Fishamble production at the Pavilion Theatre as part of the Dublin Theatre Festival and at the Centre Culturel Irlandais in Paris in October 2017.
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Faber & Faber Selected Poems of Christopher Logue
Book SynopsisHe published his poems in many forms, including - again his own invention - New Numbers, a constantly changing collage, which appears here in its final form. since Pope's' (New York Review of Books) - and it illustrates Logue's belief in the power of poetry as a social force - dissident, sensual and humorous.
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Faber & Faber To Provide All People A Poem in the Voice of the
Book SynopsisShould be made compulsory reading . . . If it were up to me this clear-sighted yet emotionally charged hymn to the NHS would be added to the curriculum in every high school from Land's End to John O'Groats with immediate effect.' i newspaper July 2018 marked the 70th anniversary of the National Health Service Act. To Provide All People is the intimate story of the NHS in British society today, written by novelist, poet and dramatist Owen Sheers. Depicting 24 hours, with a regional hospital at the centre of the action, the poem charts an emotional and philosophical map of the NHS against the personal experiences that lie at its heart; from patients to surgeons, porters to midwives. This is a world of transformative pains, triumphs, losses and celebrations and joins us all in our universal experiences of health and sickness, birth and death, regardless of race, gender or wealth.Informed by over seventy hours of interviews, the work is punctuated
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Faber & Faber Julie After Strindberg Faber Drama
Book SynopsisWild 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 in contemporary London.Julie premiered at the National Theatre, London, in May 2018.
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Faber & Faber Frolic and Detour
Book SynopsisAlthough Frolic and Detour is Paul Muldoon's thirteenth book, it has all the passion and provocation we more often associate with a first collection. Ranging as it does from poems that take as their subject matter the Native American leaders Joseph Brant and Mangas Coloradas, through the Great War, the Irish Rising, hunting with eagles, the house wren, all the way to the day-to-day assault of twenty-first-century America, Frolic and Detour reminds us that the sidelong glance is the sweetest, the tangential approach the most telling. It also confirms Dwight Garner's assessment of Selected Poems 1968-2014 in the New York Times: 'a compact, powerful book, filled with catharses you didn't know you needed'.
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Faber & Faber The Dolphin Letters 19701979
Book SynopsisThe illuminating letters of Elizabeth Hardwick and Robert Lowell, including the dramatic breakup of their 21-year marriage and their extraordinary reconciliation.
£28.00
Faber & Faber Wing
Book SynopsisMatthew Francis's latest collection celebrates the richness of nature and of our responses to it. The pleasures of summer are emblazoned in the colourful wings and evocative names of butterflies, while a nocturnal encounter with an earwig becomes a joyous incantation to the witchy-beetle, forkin-robin' of dialect. Francis''s love of history, embodied in his acclaimed Mandeville and The Mabinogi, gives rise to a sequence based on Robert Hooke's microscopic observations. There are tributes to the poets Basho, Dafydd ap Gwilym and W. S. Graham, to fireworks, apple varieties and hot toddies. And, in a moving elegy for a friend killed in a parachute accident, Francis shows us a vertiginous vision of a world where even the dead sleep on the wing'.
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Faber & Faber Pass Over
Book Synopsislead deez boys right off deez streetsuh violencestreets uh angerlead deez boys on to dat promised landInspired by Waiting for Godot and the Book of Exodus, Antoinette Nwandu fuses poetry, humour and humanity in a rare and politically charged play that exposes the experiences of young Black men in a world that refuses to see them.Pass Over by Antoinette Nwandu received its UK premiere at Kiln Theatre, London, 2020.A searing fusion of politics and poetry: playful, unsettling, blazingly angry and desperately sad.' FINANCIAL TIMES''Theatre for the heart and head, reinventing and complicating old stories to make them newly and fiercely relevant.'' GUARDIAN''Powerful scarcely begins to describe the impact of this play. It has a devastating force and a poeticism that dazzles.'' THE TIMES
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Faber & Faber Was It for This
Book SynopsisHannah Sullivan's first collection, Three Poems, won the T. S. Eliot Prize and the inaugural John Pollard International Poetry Prize. Was It for This continues that book's project, offering a trenchant exploration of the ways in which we attempt to map our lives in space and time.But there is also the wider, collective experience to contend with, the upheaval of historic event and present disaster. Tenants', the first poem, is an elegy for Grenfell, written from the uneasy perspective of a new mother living a few streets away. Elsewhere, from the terraces and precincts of seventies and eighties London to the late-at-night decks of American suburbs, intimately inhabited geographies provide reference points and sites for revisiting.Nothing is too small or unlovely to be transfixed by the poet's attention, from the thin concrete pillars of a flyover to an elderly peacock's broken train. There is a memorialising strain in the forensic accumulation of detail, but t
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Faber & Faber Poems of the Decade 20112020
Book SynopsisPoems of the Decade 2011-2020 celebrates the thirtieth anniversary of the Forward Prizes for Poetry. Gathering one hundred poems by writers and performers who have drawn new audiences to the artform, it highlights poetry as a space for fresh powerful language, feeling and thought. It includes poems by Raymond Antrobus, Simon Armitage, Fiona Benson, Liz Berry, Caroline Bird, Vahni Capildeo, Alice Oswald and Claudia Rankine.
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Faber & Faber The Forest
Book SynopsisHe can't help himself and he plunges into the forest until the moment it dawns on him: night has fallen and he is completely lost.Pierre finds himself at a turning point, tormented by the conflicting demands of family, career and sexual desire. His struggle to resolve this crisis, without fracturing his marriage or compromising his comfortable way of life, is explored in original and unsettling ways.Florian Zeller's raw and mysterious play, translated by Christopher Hampton, premieres at Hampstead Theatre, London, in February 2022. I'm telling you a story, if that's all right by you. Apparently you've no objection to telling stories yourself. Am I right?
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Faber & Faber April De Angelis Plays 2
Book SynopsisApril de Angelis's second collection covers six plays written between 2011 and 2021, including the previously unpublished short play Rune and her first musical, Gin Craze!
£17.00
Faber & Faber Skin
Book SynopsisSkin is David Harsent's visionary new collection, consisting of ten dramatic sequences of poems, which, like a planetary system, operate on one another in a dynamic assemblage of propulsion and pull.
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Faber & Faber Patriots
Book SynopsisAn unflinching story of ambition and the dangers of loyalty and love in the Soviet Union, by the creator of The Crown, updated and revised for the 2024 Broadway production.If 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 patronage, ambition and the dangers of loyalty and love.Winner of the Critics' Circle Best New Play Award, Peter Morgan's Patriots opened at the Almeida Theatre, London, in 2022, and transferred to the Noël Coward Theatre. It opened on Broadway at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre in 2024. ''Morgan describes his plays as an odd collection of pas de deux - dances between very different kinds of people. This chemistry of opposition is the seam out of which he has mined some terrific tales . . . His newest eloquent exercise in warring dualities is Patriots . . . Morgan''s unusually absorbing saga of Berezovsky''s complex personality and tragic predicament - alienated both from his country andfrom himself - is definitely worth it. In the deadening heat of this confounding summer, it brings the refreshing novelty of intelligence and stimulation.'' John Lahr
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Faber & Faber Audrey or Sorrow
Book SynopsisIt was a terrible crossing. The worst yet. There weren''t enough boats. I had to stab my way up the gangplank. It was pitch black and the ferryman hadn''t an eye in his head.In a house, a young mother watches over her sleeping baby. But in this dark and dangerously funny play, nothing is as it seems.Audrey or Sorrow is a shape-shifting, time-bending deep dive into a world of unimaginable loss. It exemplifies Marina Carr''s work: storytelling that pushes the boundaries of love, power and desire.Draw coal. Coal is a beautiful thing. Someday we''ll all be coal. A Landmark Productions and Abbey Theatre co-production, it opened at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin, in February 2024.
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Faber & Faber Macbeth an undoing
Book SynopsisThe revised and updated edition of Zinnie Harris''s powerful reimagining of Shakespeare's brutal tragedy, telling Lady Macbeth's story as it has never been heard before. ''A clever, heartfelt and, in the broadest and most persuasive sense, feminist revisiting of Shakespeare's great tragedy. Bold, innovative and bleakly comic, it justifies itself gloriously.'' Daily TelegraphThis story will be told, the way it has always been told. What else use is it otherwise? The hags on the heath. The woman who went mad. The man who became a tyrant. When her husband returns victorious from the battlefield with a prophecy that he will become king of Scotland, Lady Macbeth vows to make their darkest ambitions a reality. So far, so familiar. But then the story fragments. Shakespeare''s Lady Macbeth is ruthless and driven, unstoppable in her pursuit of power, yet she quickly descends into madness and despair. Zinnie Harris''s thrilling new version
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Faber & Faber The Boy
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Samuel French Ltd Wait Until Dark
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Samuel French Ltd The Constant Wife
Book SynopsisMaugham''s popular comedy of modern manners espouses that so long as a wife is supported by her husband she must remain faithful, but when the tables are turned freedom becomes the currency with which both must pay. Revived by New York''s Roundabout Theatre Company...-5 women, 4 men
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Samuel French Ltd The Unexpected Guest
Book SynopsisIn the tradition of the bestselling Black Coffee, author Charles Osborne adapts this Christie play into an intriguing novel set in South Wales. A stranded motorist stumbles upon a man slumped over dead in a wheelchair. His wife stands nearby with a smoking gun in her hand. Family secrets and chilling motives lie beneath the surface. Martin''s Press.
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Samuel French Ltd Play Acting Edition
Book SynopsisMrs Harrington learns that her daughter who was in Italy had given birth to a son before she died. She sends her other daughter and son to Italy to collect the baby. 6 women, 3 men
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Samuel French Ltd Play
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Samuel French Ltd Gut Girls
Book SynopsisPremiéred at London''s Albany Empire in 1988 and set in Deptford at the turn of the century this play traces the lives of the girls who work in the gutting sheds of the Cattle Market and how their lives are changed when the sheds are closed down. Although the girls are unwilling participants in a club founded by Lady Helena to find alternative employment the results are not without tragic consequences.11 women, 6 men
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Samuel French Ltd Blackout
Book SynopsisA short play about 'getting bullied, fighting back, trying to make a name for yourself, turning vicious, doing something stupid, losing everything, then finding your way again'.
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Samuel French Ltd Appointment with Death
Book SynopsisAn assorted group of travelers are staying at a Jerusalem hotel: Lady Westholme and her companion, a young English doctor and her French colleague, a debonair American and a pugnacious Lancashire man. Another guest, Mrs. Boynton, is a domineering American invalid with four stepchildren whose facade of devotion masks enough hatred to murder her as could the doctor whose affection for Raymond Boynton is being obstructed by the old lady. When Mrs. Boynton is found dead, all are suspects even though she was ill enough to die a natural death. Just when the tension becomes unbearable, the doctor discovers essential evidence about Mrs. Boynton''s devilish plan to possess and torment the children in death as in life.
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Samuel French Ltd Calendar Girls
Book SynopsisWhen Annie''s husband John dies of leukaemia, she and best friend Chris resolve to raise money for a new settee in the local hospital waiting room. They manage to persuade four fellow WI members to pose nude with them for an alternative calendar, with a little help from hospital porter and amateur photographer Lawrence. The news of the women''s charitable venture spreads like wildfire, and hordes of press soon descend on the small village of Knapeley in the Yorkshire Dales. The calendar is a success, but Chris and Annie''s friendship is put to the test under the strain of their new-found fame. Based on the true story of eleven WI members who posed nude for a calendar to raise money for the Leukaemia Research Fund, Calendar Girls opened at the Chichester Festival Theatre and has since become the fastest selling play in British theatre history.It''s marvellous theatre, guaranteed to make you laugh, cry and come out singing Jerusalem. - Mail on SundayDazzlingly funny, shameleTrade Review"It's marvellous theatre, guaranteed to make you laugh, cry and come out singing Jerusalem." Mail on Sunday"
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Samuel French Ltd One Man Two Guvnors
Book SynopsisRichard Bean''s English version of The Servant of Two Masters is set in Brighton in the 1960s. Centred on the bumbling Francis Henshall, a minder to both Roscoe Crabbe - a local gangster - and Stanley Stubbers - an upper-class criminal. But Roscoe is dead, killed by Stanley Stubbers and being impersonated by his sister Rachel, who is also Stanley''s girlfriend, and in Brighton to collect 6,000 from Roscoe''s fiancée''s dad.Chaos unfolds as Francis tries to stop the two ''guvnors'' from meeting and everyone else tries to hide their real identities. Richard Bean''s award-winning play is a glorious celebrationof British comedy: laugh-out-loud satire, songs, slapstick and glittering one-liners.One Man, Two Guvnors opened at the National Theatre in May 2011, before transferring to the West End and embarking on a successful UK tour. It won Best Play in the Evening StandardTheatre Awards 2011.
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Samuel French Ltd Little Women
Book SynopsisComedy / adapted from the novel by Louisa M. Alcott / Casting: 5m, 7f / InteriorThe story of LITTLE WOMEN, Louisa M. Alcott''s famous novel, is so well known and so well loved that it is hardly surprising that many attempts have been made to portray its characters upon the stage. None has yet been so successful, however, as this brilliant dramatization by Peter Clapham. The structure of the play faithfully covers that of the novel, interweaving the lives of the March girls, Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy, and Laurie, the boy next door, as they grow up happily together, yet the action is contained neatly in one set. All the overtones of gaiety and the undertones of sadness are here, bringing the story completely to life in a way which is both accurate and dramatically satisfying.
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Samuel French Ltd Noises Off
Book SynopsisCalled the funniest farce ever written, Noises Off presents a manic menagerie as a cast of itinerant actors rehearsing a flop called Nothing''s On. Doors slamming, on and offstage intrigue, and an errant herring all figure in the plot of this hilarious and classically comic play. The play opens with a touring company dress-rehearsing Nothing On, a conventional farce. Mixing mockery and homage, Frayn heaps into this play-within-a-play a hilarious melée of stock characters and situations.
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Samuel French Ltd The Servant of Two Masters
Book SynopsisThis new adaptation by Dorothy Louise captures the remarkable pace of the story in fresh dialogue that is attuned to contemporary American audiences.
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Samuel French Ltd Proof
Book SynopsisCatherine has spent years caring for her brilliant but unstable father, Robert. When he dies she has more than grief to deal with: there''s her estranged sister, Claire, and Hal, a former student of her father''s who hopes to find valuable work in the 103 notebooks that Robert left behind. And a further problem: how much of her father''s madness - or genius - will Catherine inherit?Gwyneth Paltrow starred in this Pultizer Prize-winning play which opened at the Donmar Warehouse in 2001.
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Samuel French Ltd The Snow Queen Abridged
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Samuel French Ltd The Donahue Sisters
Book SynopsisThe attic of the family home in Ireland, once a playroom, is the setting for this sinister play from the author of Bar and Ger. Awaiting the death of their father, sisters talk about their unhappy lives long into the night. The time comes for a ritual re enactment of a violent incident from their childhood. Departing from the hitherto naturalistic style, Aron imaginatively has the sisters speak and act in unison to create the persona of a young boy. When the ritual is complete, things return to normal and the women seem to have found answers to their problems. Remaining is the uneasy prospect of the past repeating itself. Inventive and mysterious, this play is a challenge to both actors and directors.3 women
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