Birdy (Faber Plays)

Literature & Fiction

Naomi Wallace

Dramas & Plays

Faber Faber Plays

It's 1956, and Philip Larkin, one of England's most famous post-war writers, has just arrived in Hull as the University Librarian. Over the next thirty years, his life there will be dominated by three women. In this funny and touching new play, we see behind the facade of 'the Bard of Humberside' and into his complex private life. Larkin With Women premiered at the Stephen Joseph Theatre, Scarborough, in November 1999.

Larkin with Women (StageScript)

Brown, Ben

A young man flees to a distant land and vanishes. His mother follows, certain she will find him, but in this unfamiliar place all certainties seem to crumble. In this story of love and loss, Wertenbaker explores passions simmering in contemporary Britain: the longing for identity, the despair of fragmentation and the fragile hopes of lives redefined. Credible Witness premiered at the Jerwood Theatre Upstairs of the Royal Court, London, 2001

Credible Witness (Faber Plays)

Timberlake Wertenbaker

Three people. Stephen wants his ex to realise he's got what it takes. Helen wants her dead husband back. Jamie wants a girl to see him off to war. Three lives stripped bare in a modern world.Bone premired at the Royal Court Theatre, London, in September 2004.

Play Bone

When the sea gets rough, don't look at the water churning around you - no, it'll make you feel worse. Look at the horizon far away. It's the only stable thing.Henry takes a slow breath and closes his eyes as a deep voice guides him into the dark waters of his subconscious. We follow him into a surreal world where a series of strange events bring hidden feelings about himself and those closest to him bubbling to the surface.Shrieks of Laughter premiered at the Soho Theatre, London, in May 2006.

Shrieks of Laughter

Moses Raine

<p>In 1971, Michael Blakemore joined the National Theatre as Associate Director under Laurence Olivier. The National, still based at the Old Vic, was at a moment of transition awaiting the move to its vast new home on the South Bank. Relying on generous subsidy, it would need an extensive network of supporters in high places. Olivier, a scrupulous and brilliant autocrat from a previous generation, was not the man to deal with these political ramifications. His tenure began to unravel and, behind his back, Peter Hall was appointed to replace him in 1973. As in other aspects of British life, the ethos of public service, which Olivier espoused, was in retreat. Having staged eight productions for the National, Blakemore found himself increasingly uncomfortable under Hall's regime. Stage Blood is the candid and at times painfully funny story of the events that led to his dramatic exit in 1976. He recalls the theatrical triumphs and flops, his volatile relationship with Olivier including directing him in Long Day's Journey into Night, the extravagant dinners in Hall's Barbican flat with Harold Pinter, Jonathan Miller and the other associates, the opening of the new building, and Blakemore's brave and misrepresented decision to speak out. He would not return to the National for fifteen years.</p>

Stage Blood: Five tempestuous years in the early life of the National Theatre

Biographies & Memoirs

Blakemore, Michael

Arts & Literature

<p>'A superbly written play, a funny play, an agonising play. It is, moreover, a play of truth and insight. A play to savour.' Punch on Otherwise Engaged 'Life in the theatre hasn't brought me anything more rewarding than directing Simon Gray's plays.' Harold Pinter Plaintiffs and Defendants Exceptionally good... the play gave such a rending picture of married mess that it was hard to know where to look.' Clive James, Observer 'Simon Gray is the one [TV playwright] whose work I most relish seeing for his acerbic wit, wonderful ironies and above all for his care with our mother tongue.' Dennis Potter</p>

Simon Gray: Plays 2

Simon Gray

Poetry

Ghosts

Arts & Photography

IBSEN, HENRIK

History & Criticism

REAL THING

tom-stoppard

Being a teacher means weekends. It means thirteen weeks holiday. It means a secure job in uncertain times. But Zoe doesn't want to have to rescue her students. She doesn't want to be called a slag. She doesn't want to sleep with the Head of Science. And she doesn't want to teach a group of kids how to do life. Because that's something Zoe's not sure she knows how to do herself. Examining what happens when a young teacher goes off the rails in a failing school, "The Knowledge" by John Donnelly premiered at the Bush Theatre, London, in January 2011.

Knowledge

Donnelly, John

Leaders & Notable People

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