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Arcadia by Tom Stoppard
Category: Film & Tv | 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
Box of Delights by Piers Torday; John Masefield (Original Author)
Category: Children's Classic Fiction | Series: Faber Drama Ser.
Kay Harker is heading home for the school holidays. Recently orphaned, he knows this Christmas will be different but nothing could prepare him for the journey that lies ahead. On the train he meets an old magician, Cole Hawlings, who charges Kay with safeguarding a wondrous device that has time-travell ...Show more
Frankenstein: Based on the Novel by Mary Shelley by Nick Dear (adapted from Mary Shalley)
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
Category: Film & Tv | 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
Inheritance by Matthew Lopez
Category: Film & Tv | Series: Faber Drama Ser.
You have to wonder why there isn't a word in the English language for the fireworks that go off in your brain when you finally kiss someone you've wanted for years. Or for the intimacy and tenderness you feel as you hold the hand of a suffering friend. A generation after the height of the AIDS crisis, w ...Show more
Julie by P. STENHAM; August Strindberg (Original Author)
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
Les Liaisons Dangereuses: Play by Christopher Hampton
Category: Performing Arts Drama Plays | Series: Faber Drama Ser.
Introduction by Peter Washington; Translation by Richard Aldington
Look Back in Anger: Faber Modern Classics by John Osborne
Category: Classic | 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: Film & Tv | 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
Skylight by David Hare
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
Stuff Happens by David Hare
Category: Poetry & Plays | 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