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Moira Buffini: Plays 2

Dinner; Dying for It; A Vampire Story; Welcome to Thebes; Handbagged

By: Moira Buffini

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Dinner; Dying for It; A Vampire Story; Welcome to Thebes; Handbagged

By: Moira Buffini

Dinner 'A cracking black comedy that has you laughing uproariously one moment and jumping with shock the next . . . For those with strong stomachs, Dinner offers a delicious feast of comedy and the macabre.' Daily Telegraph Dying for It 'A subversive Russian classic: one that addresses the ultimate question of "why live?"' Guardian 'The play, freely adapted by Moira Buffini, presents a glorious gallery of comic types.' Independent Welcome to Thebes 'It's thrilling. Moira Buffini's strange and daring play is moving, wise, funny, horrifying . . . Full of resonances you weren't expecting, jokes you didn't see coming . . . It raises huge questions with wit.' The Times Handbagged Winner of the 2014 Olivier Award for Outstanding Achievement in an Affiliate Theatre 'A phenomenon.' Sunday Telegraph 'Perfectly pitched between the comic and the serious.' Guardian

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0571324916

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Moira Buffini: Plays 2

Dinner; Dying for It; A Vampire Story; Welcome to Thebes; Handbagged

By: Moira Buffini

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Dinner; Dying for It; A Vampire Story; Welcome to Thebes; Handbagged

By: Moira Buffini

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0571324916

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Handbagged

By: Moira Buffini

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Handbagged

By: Moira Buffini

HANDBAGGED imagines what really happened in the private meetings between two of the world’s most powerful women: the Iron Lady, Margaret Thatcher, and Queen Elizabeth II. Born just six months apart, each leader has the capacity to change the world, but how the world should be changed is another story altogether. Will Mags and Liz find common ground in tumultuous times, or will the gloves come off at Buckingham Palace?

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Dramatists Play Service, Inc.

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0822240939

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9780822240938

Manor

By: Moira Buffini

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Manor

By: Moira Buffini

This 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 April 2020.

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0571363326

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9780571363322

Gabriel

By: Moira Buffini

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Gabriel

By: Moira Buffini

In Nazi-occupied Guernsey, an island in the English Channel off the coast of Normandy, the Becquet family’s home is requisitioned by SS officers. As widowed matriarch Jeanne navigates the dangerous game of Major Von Pfunz’s attraction to her, her Jewish daughter-in-law discovers a strange and beautiful man washed up on the shore. Wracked by fever, the man can remember nothing, including his own name; with equal probability he’s a downed Royal Air Force pilot or an overboarded SS officer, Jeanne’s daughters convince her to shelter him until his memory returns. But harboring this fallen Gabriel threatens the modicum of safety and stability Jeanne’s wrung from her family’s dispossession.

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0822240947

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Manor

By: Moira Buffini

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NW Trilogy

Dance Floor; Life of Riley; Waking/Walking

By: Roy Williams,Suhayla El-Bushra,Moira Buffini

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NW Trilogy

Dance Floor; Life of Riley; Waking/Walking

By: Roy Williams,Suhayla El-Bushra,Moira Buffini

Set amongst the vibrant, intense cacophony of North West London, NW Trilogy is a collection of three vivid stories, told over one performance, that remember and celebrate people who changed the course of history. The personal is political in these soulful explorations of what it means to be part of one of the most dynamic communities in the world. First, we reel to a dance hall in 'County Kilburn' in Moira Buffini's Dance Floor where the Guinness flows, the music never stops and for homesick Aoife, there's far more at stake than a dance. In Roy Williams' bittersweet Life of Riley, Paulette is on a journey to connect with her estranged father Riley, a reggae musician once part of the influential Trojan Records scene, who can't seem to let go of the past. And, Suhayla El-Bushra's Waking/Walking introduces us to Anjali, a wife, mother and newly arrived migrant following Idi Amin's expulsion of the Asian minority from Uganda, who is torn between not making a fuss and seizing her moment to take a stand as the Grunwick dispute unfolds. NW Trilogy is powerful, funny and epic and shows us how we can change the world from our doorstep. This edition was published to coincide with the world premiere as NW Trilogy at Kiln Theatre, London, in August 2021.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1350288926

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9781350288928

Welcome to Thebes

By: Moira Buffini

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Welcome to Thebes

By: Moira Buffini

Set in a city named Thebes, somewhere in the 20th century, the play is introduced by a militia sergeant named Miletus and two child soldiers under his command, Scud and Megeara. They discover the body of Polynices, a warlord in the recently-ended civil war and brother of Antigone and Ismene. Meanwhile, Ismene and the new female president of Thebes, Eurydice, widow of Creon get ready for the arrival of Theseus, fi rst citizen of the powerful democratic state of Athens, to discuss rebuilding Thebes after the civil war.10 women, 10 men

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0573111383

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9780573111389

Greenland

By: Jack Thorne,Matt Charman,Moira Buffini,Penelope Skinner

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Greenland

By: Jack Thorne,Matt Charman,Moira Buffini,Penelope Skinner

What on earth is happening to our planet? And who knows what to do? Certainties are few: every living thing is related to every other living thing; our actions have consequences; change is continual and inevitable. The National Theatre asked four of the country's most exciting writers to investigate. The team spent six months interviewing key individuals from the worlds of science, politics, business and philosophy to create a fast-paced and provocative new play. Greenland premiered at the National Theatre, London, in February 2011.

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0571277926

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9780571277926

Dinner

By: Moira Buffini

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Dinner

By: Moira Buffini

An artist, a scientist and a sexpot are coming to dinner. The arrival of Mike provides an unexpected addition to the evening's entertainment.

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0571218512

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NW Trilogy

Dance Floor; Life of Riley; Waking/Walking

By: Roy Williams,Suhayla El-Bushra,Moira Buffini

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Dance Floor; Life of Riley; Waking/Walking

By: Roy Williams,Suhayla El-Bushra,Moira Buffini

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Plays 1

By: Moira Buffini

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Plays 1

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Gabriel:'A richly themed, enthralling new play.' The TimesSilence (winner of the Susan Smith Blackburn award):'Silence is a beaut. Buffini is deliciously skilled at crafting lines.' Financial TimesLoveplay:'Delightfully quirky, funny and touching. A hit if ever I saw one. Buffini has an appetite for history, and the most beguiling of dramatic voices.' Daily TelegraphDinner:'A cracking black comedy that has you laughing uproariously one moment and jumping with shock the next . . . Dinner offers a delicious feast of comedy at its most heartless and macabre.' Daily TelegraphBlavatsky's Tower:'A refreshingly dizzying perspective on that cornerstone of dysfunction - the family.' Time Out 'A truly remarkable play. Buffini is a startingly original voice and an outstanding talent.' What's On

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0571230326

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9780571230327

Songlight

By: Moira Buffini

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Songlight

By: Moira Buffini

Star-crossed lovers, against-all-odds friendship, and a brutally unforgiving world make this first in a trilogy utterly unforgettable. We’re two songs joined. And there’s a word for that. A harmony. Elsa is used to hiding the most important parts of herself—her feelings for Rye, her distaste for a world ruled by men, and, most crucially, her gift of songlight. She buries that secret deep inside. In Brightland, those with songlight are called Unhumans and are abhorred. Rye is the only other person Elsa has known with songlight, and their shared bond has brought them together. Elsa’s world begins to fall apart one desperate, heart-wrenching day and she doesn’t know where to turn until a girl appears before her. But the girl isn’t really there—her songlight has been drawn to Elsa’s frantic grief. Elsa lives in a remote seaside village; Nightingale, her new friend, lives in a city hundreds of miles away with her father, a government official responsible for rooting out Unhumans. The two never expected to connect via songlight. But when they do, and when they realize the extent of their power, they’ll be thrust in the middle of a war that threatens their very existence. From an award-winning screenwriter making her novel debut comes this powerful, page-turning trilogy perfect for fans of Sabaa Tahir and Adrienne Young.

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HarperCollins

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0063358239

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9780063358232

A Vampire Story

By: Moira Buffini

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A Vampire Story

By: Moira Buffini

Two young women arrive in a nameless British small-town. Their names are not their own. They don't declare their ages. Their relationship with each other is not clear. Are they sisters, as their assumed identities declare? Or are they mother and daughter?

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0573111235

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Gabriel

By: Moira Buffini

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Gabriel

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Silence

By: Moira Buffini

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Silence

By: Moira Buffini

A typical end of the millennium story involving cross dressing, hallucinogenic drugs, confused sexuality, alternative religions, and apocalyptic dreams ... end of the first millennium, that is." "A not-so-pure Maiden is sent to marry a not-so-manly Lord, who is advised by a not-so-celibate Priest, and protected by a not-so-insensitive Thug in an England ruled by a King who won't get out of bed." "Silence premiered at The Door, Birmingham Repertory Theatre, in October 1999."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

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0571204457

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9780571204458

Greenland

By: Jack Thorne,Matt Charman,Moira Buffini,Penelope Skinner

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Greenland

By: Jack Thorne,Matt Charman,Moira Buffini,Penelope Skinner

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0571277926

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Marianne Dreams

Adapted for the Stage

By: Moira Buffini

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Marianne Dreams

Adapted for the Stage

By: Moira Buffini

On her tenth birthday, Marianne is forced to bed with a fever. Picking up a pencil she starts to draw a house. That night she dreams. As Marianne s sleeps, she finds herself transported to the house she has drawn, and the mysterious world that lies beyond. Together with a strange but familiar boy, she embarks on an adventure that runs between reality and dream. Catherine Storr s classic children s novel is adapted for the stage by Moira Buffini. Marianne Dreams premiered at the Almeida Theatre, London, in December 2007.

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0571241336

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