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The Cure at Troy by Heaney, Seamus
Category: Poetry | Series: Faber Drama Ser.
Seamus Heaney's version of Sophocles's Philoctetes tells of the wounded hero marooned upon an island by the Greeks during the Siege of Troy. As the conflict comes to a climax, the Greeks begin to realise they cannot win the Trojan war without Philoctetes's invincible bow, and turn back to seek his help. ...Show more
The God of Carnage - Translated by Christopher Hampton - United by Yasmina Reza
Category: General Design | Series: Faber Drama Ser.
What happens when two sets of parents meet up to deal with the unruly behavior of their children? A calm and rational debate between grown-ups about the need to teach kids how to behave properly? Or a hysterical night of name-calling, tantrums, and tears before bedtime?Christopher Hampton's translation ...Show more
The Hard Problem by Tom Stoppard
Category: Film & Tv | 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 Homecoming by Harold Pinter
Category: Literature | Series: Faber Drama Ser.
When Teddy, a professor in an American university, brings his wife Ruth to visit London and his family, he finds himself prey to old conflicts. But now it is Ruth who becomes the focus of the family's struggle for supremacy. The playwright's other works include "The Birthday Party" and "Old Times".
The Mother and The Father by Florian Zeller
Category: Fiction | Series: Faber Drama Ser.
The Mother Anne loved the time in her life when she prepared breakfast each morning for her two young children. Years later, spending hours alone, Anne convinces herself that her husband is having an affair. If only her son were to break-up with his girlfriend. He would return home and come down for bre ...Show more
The Penelopiad - play script by Margaret Atwood
Category: Literature | 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
The Pillowman by Martin McDonagh
Category: Plays & Scripts | Series: Faber Drama Ser.
A writer of short stories is in police custody. He doesn't know why he is being held but assumes it must be something to do with the fact that many of his stories involve children being killed and tortured. As the play unfolds, the police tell him that someone is enacting his stories.
The Shape of Things by Neil LaBute
Category: Plays & Scripts | Series: Faber Drama Ser.
How far would you go for love? For art? What would you be willing to change? Which price might you pay? Such are the painful questions explored by Neil Labute in "The Shape of Things". A young student drifts into an ever-changing relationship with an art major while his best friends' engagement crumbles ...Show more
Translations by Brian Friel
Category: Fiction | Series: Faber Drama Ser.
The action takes place in late August 1833 at a hedge-school in the townland of Baile Beag, an Irish-speaking community in County Donegal. In a nearby field camps a recently arrived detachment of the Royal Engineers, making the first Ordnance Survey. For the purposes of cartography, the local Gaelic pla ...Show more
Waiting for Godot: A Tragicomedy in Two Acts by Samuel Beckett
Category: Film & Tv | 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