Faber Drama books in order

The Faber Drama collection brings together dozens of plays published by Faber and Faber, spanning classic and contemporary British and Irish theater from the mid-twentieth century onward.

Reading order

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

The Faber Drama list represents one of the most significant theater publishing programs in the English-speaking world. It includes new plays, revivals of classics, and collections by individual playwrights, covering everything from postwar British drama to contemporary international work.

The range is broad: Harold Pinter sits alongside Bryony Lavery, David Hare alongside Zinnie Harris. For readers and theater practitioners, the series offers a comprehensive library of modern playwriting in affordable, well-produced editions.

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.

What is the Faber Drama series?

Faber Drama is a publishing imprint of Faber and Faber that has released plays by many of the leading playwrights of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, including Harold Pinter, Tom Stoppard, Alan Ayckbourn, and Sebastian Barry, among many others.

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