Faber Drama books in order

The Faber Drama series collects 61 plays and theater books published by Faber & Faber between 1961 and 2020, spanning classic and contemporary drama.

Reading order

# Title Published Author Buy on Amazon
1 The Suppliant Women 2017 Matthew Lopez Buy
2 The Complete Dramatic Works 1961 Matthew Lopez Buy
3 Faith Healer 1980 Matthew Lopez Buy
4 Translations 1981 Matthew Lopez Buy
5 The Cure at Troy 1991 Matthew Lopez Buy
6 Skylight 1995 Matthew Lopez Buy
7 Theatre for Children 1999 Matthew Lopez Buy
8 The Shape of Things 2001 Matthew Lopez Buy
9 The Pillowman 2003 Matthew Lopez Buy
10 The History Boys 2004 Matthew Lopez Buy
11 Attempts on Her Life 2007 Matthew Lopez Buy
12 Midsummer 2009 Matthew Lopez Buy
13 Dunsinane 2010 Matthew Lopez Buy
14 Black Watch 2010 Matthew Lopez Buy
15 The Strange Undoing of Prudencia Hart 2011 Matthew Lopez Buy
16 Krapp’s Last Tape and Other Shorter Plays 2012 Matthew Lopez Buy
17 Theatre Craft 2013 Matthew Lopez Buy
18 Look Back in Anger 2013 Matthew Lopez Buy
19 Betrayal 2013 Matthew Lopez Buy
20 Impro for Storytellers 2014 Matthew Lopez Buy
21 Shakespeare in Love 2014 Matthew Lopez Buy
22 Marina Carr Plays 1 2014 Matthew Lopez Buy
23 Everyman 2015 Matthew Lopez Buy
24 The Hard Problem 2015 Matthew Lopez Buy
25 Our Ladies of Perpetual Succour 2015 Matthew Lopez Buy
26 The Moderate Soprano 2015 Matthew Lopez Buy
27 This Restless House 2016 Matthew Lopez Buy
28 Labyrinth 2016 Matthew Lopez Buy
29 Dedication 2016 Matthew Lopez Buy
30 Donegal 2016 Matthew Lopez Buy
31 The Red Barn 2016 Matthew Lopez Buy
32 The Sewing Group 2016 Matthew Lopez Buy
33 Mametz: with a Welsh-language translation 2017 Matthew Lopez Buy
34 My Country; A Work In Progress 2017 Matthew Lopez Buy
35 The Mentor 2017 Matthew Lopez Buy
36 Winter Hill 2017 Matthew Lopez Buy
37 The Sum 2017 Matthew Lopez Buy
38 Arcadia 2017 Matthew Lopez Buy
39 Meet Me at Dawn 2017 Matthew Lopez Buy
40 The Lie 2017 Matthew Lopez Buy
41 On Blueberry Hill 2017 Matthew Lopez Buy
42 Christmas Eve 2017 Matthew Lopez Buy
43 Wind Resistance 2017 Matthew Lopez Buy
44 Box of Delights 2017 Matthew Lopez Buy
45 The Jungle 2017 Matthew Lopez Buy
46 Julie 2018 Matthew Lopez Buy
47 The Rockingham Shoot And Other Dramatic Writings 2018 Matthew Lopez Buy
48 Unicorns, Almost 2018 Matthew Lopez Buy
49 Greek and Decadence 2018 Matthew Lopez Buy
50 The Meeting 2018 Matthew Lopez Buy
51 Alan Ayckbourn 2018 Matthew Lopez Buy
52 The Short Plays of Harold Pinter 2018 Matthew Lopez Buy
53 Touching the Void 2018 Matthew Lopez Buy
54 The Height of the Storm 2018 Matthew Lopez Buy
55 The Village 2018 Matthew Lopez Buy
56 I’m Not Running 2018 Matthew Lopez Buy
57 A Very Very Very Dark Matter 2018 Matthew Lopez Buy
58 When We Have Sufficiently Tortured Each Other 2019 Matthew Lopez Buy
59 The Hamburg Plays 2019 Matthew Lopez Buy
60 Writing for Nothing 2019 Matthew Lopez Buy
61 The Inheritance 2020 Matthew Lopez Buy

Faber Drama is a long-running publishing series from Faber & Faber that collects plays, dramatic works, and theater criticism. The catalog ranges from Samuel Beckett’s Krapp’s Last Tape to more recent works like The Inheritance (2020) by Matthew Lopez, with titles by Brian Friel, Tom Stoppard, David Hare, Alan Bennett, Martin McDonagh, and many others.

The series also includes books about stagecraft and theater history, such as Theatre Craft (2013) and Impro for Storytellers (2014). These are standalone titles grouped under the Faber Drama imprint rather than a sequential series.

Frequently Asked Questions

How many books are in the Faber Drama series?

There are 61 books in the Faber Drama series, published between 1961 and 2020.

What is the first book in the Faber Drama series?

The first book in the Faber Drama series is The Suppliant Women, published in 2017.

Is this a series that needs to be read in order?

No. The Faber Drama series is a publisher’s imprint collecting individual plays and theater books by many different authors. Each title is independent.

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