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  • It Never Happened
    Torben Betts
    It Never Happened (or State Terror in Eight Easy Stages) eavesdrops on eight different periods from the past: two soldiers reflect on the prospect of imminent death caused by their government’s greed; a political fixer makes an awkward sex scandal go away; a young journalist discovers that integrity doesn’t pay the mortgage; and a domestic assault turns into a witchcraft trial....
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    18,94 €

  • Caroline’s Kitchen
    Torben Betts
    Monogamy means sharing your life with one person, but what if you shared your kitchen with 5.6 million?Caroline Mortimer, the nation’s favourite TV cook, has it all – a sparkling career, a big house in Highgate, a (golf) loving husband, smart kids and the best kitchen money can buy.But beneath the immaculate furnishings, studio lighting and away from the glare of the ever-prese...
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  • The National Joke
    Torben Betts
    Will the Prime Minister give Rupert the political prize he’s been hoping for? How much more can Olivia take of her mother Mary and her withering put-downs? Will Charlie get off her phone for long enough to listen to anyone, let alone her boyfriend?Home truths emerge and a reputation could tumble as Rupert St John-Green MP and three generations of women gather in the family gard...
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    19,05 €

  • What Falls Apart
    Torben Betts
    May 2015: The most important General Election for a generation. All is not well for Tom Savage, an ex-Labour minister parachuted into a safe North East constituency, trying to win hearts and minds as well as an Election. Wrestling with a heady cocktail of mid-life crisis, growing dependency on alcohol and the consequences of his Government’s policies in Iraq, Tom finds himself ...
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  • Invincible
    Torben Betts
    The recession is biting hard and so Emily and Oliver have decided to downsize and shift their middle-class London lifestyle to a small town in the north of England. They want to live and to work and to raise their two young children in a friendly community, among what Emily terms ’real people’, away from the cold anonymity of the city. So these left-leaning, well-educated peopl...
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  • Muswell Hill
    Torben Betts
    In 2010, an earthquake in Haiti leaves a hundred thousand people dead and two million homeless. Meanwhile, somewhere in a leafy North London suburb, six people struggle with worries over their mortgages, mobile phone tariffs, Facebook friends, careers, love lives, diets, alcohol intake, holiday plans and whether any of them will be able to make any lasting impression on history...
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    18,94 €

  • Torben Betts
    Torben Betts
    Three pitch-black comedies from an exciting new writer: A Listening Heaven, Mummies and Daddies and ClockwatchingA Listening Heaven, which focuses on one family’s painful inability to grieve for a dead son, was first produced in 1999 to critical acclaim at the Stephen Joseph Theatre in Scarborough, where Betts was the resident dramatist.Mummies and Daddies, developed at the RNT...
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    26,82 €

  • Lie of the Land
    Torben Betts
    Set in the future, this savagely funny poetic drama deals with a city couple who relocate to a remote rural wilderness to escape the rat race and the rising anarchy of city life. But will a desolate house by the sea provide them with The Answer?Lie of the Land premiered at the Pleasance at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in August 2008. ...
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    18,39 €

  • Betts
    Torben Betts
    Includes the plays The Optimist, The Swing of Things and The Company ManIn this third volume of his collected plays Torben Betts portrays a world of floundering, sub-alpha males and suicidally miserable women, of bullying parents, torturous childhoods and failing relationships, characters all baffled by the most basic question: how do we live good lives and be happy in the mode...
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    27,71 €

  • The Error of Their Ways
    Torben Betts
    From a playwright rated by Alan Ayckbourn and Howard Barker to be the most exciting new voice in British theatre comes a shattering re-imagining of life as we live it now, set in the context of a bloody revolution.Witness to a brutal political assassination, we are introduced to a society fractured by a lack of belief in anything meaningful, in which everyone has something to p...
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    18,66 €

  • The Unconquered
    Torben Betts
    'One day you will say something from the heart, a truth forced raw and screeching from the howling depths of your soul.'Powerful poetic language, dark humour and provocative ideas build a fast moving story around a fiercely intelligent young girl and her relentless refusal of the establishment. When suddenly a people’s revolution breaks out and a mercenary soldier intrudes the ...
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    18,78 €

  • The Lunatic Queen
    Torben Betts
    At the turn of the sixteenth century the two most powerful people on the planet, Queen Isabella of Castile and King Ferdinand of Aragon are making plans to expand their empire. They are plundering the riches of the New World, removing all Jews and Moors from their territories and waging war on the infidels in the East. At home they seek to assert the dominance of Spain by marry...
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    18,90 €

  • Betts
    Torben Betts
    Includes the plays Incarcerator, Five Visions of the Faithful, Silence and Violence, The Last Days of Desire, The Biggleswades.With an Introduction by David Pownall, and an essay by Peter CrazeA volume of language-rich, theatrically-ambitious tragedies. Betts’ hugely popular verse drama Incarcerator (White Bear and BAC) was a Time Out Critics’ Choice, while his Five Visions of ...
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    27,10 €