16 Best drama books like The Writer by Ella Hickson

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The Writer

By: Ella Hickson

4.08

Format: 88 pages, Paperback

‘I want the world to change shape.’ ‘I'm not sure theatre can do that.’ ‘Well then where am I me…

If you liked the drama plot in The Writer by Ella Hickson , here is a list of 16 books like this:

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1. Constellations

By: Nick Payne

4.07

Format: 84 pages, Paperback

One relationship. Infinite possibilities. 'Let's go for a drink. I don't know what I'm doing here a… read more

Similar categories in Nick Payne's Constellations book and Ella Hickson's The Writer

  • theatre
  • plays
  • drama
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2. Top Girls

By: Caryl Churchill

3.58

Format: 87 pages, Paperback

Set in the early Thatcher years, Top Girls is a seminal play of the modern theatre, revealing a wor… read more

Similar categories in Caryl Churchill's Top Girls book and Ella Hickson's The Writer

  • theatre
  • plays
  • drama
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3. Sweat

By: Lynn Nottage

4.06

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

In one of the poorest cities in America, Reading, Pennsylvania, a group of down-and-out factory wor… read more

Similar categories in Lynn Nottage's Sweat book and Ella Hickson's The Writer

  • theatre
  • plays
  • drama
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4. John

By: Annie Baker

4.20

Format: None pages,

"Annie Baker's Johnis so good on so many levels that it casts a unique and brilliant light... By no… read more

Similar categories in Annie Baker's John book and Ella Hickson's The Writer

  • theatre
  • plays
  • drama
Cover of Fleabag: The Original Play by Phoebe Waller-Bridge

5. Fleabag: The Original Play

By: Phoebe Waller-Bridge

3.95

Format: 768 pages,

'I sit on the loo and think about all the people I can have sex with now. I'm not obsessed with sex… read more

Similar categories in Phoebe Waller-Bridge's Fleabag: The Original Play book and Ella Hickson's The Writer

  • theatre
  • plays
  • drama
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6. The Mountaintop

By: Michael Eric Dyson , Katori Hall , None

3.18

Format: 183 pages,

Winner of the Olivier Award and set to open on Broadway in September 2011, The Mountaintop is set a… read more

Similar categories in Michael Eric Dyson's The Mountaintop book and Ella Hickson's The Writer

  • theatre
  • plays
  • drama
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7. The Inspector General

By: Nikolai Gogol , None , None

2.70

Format: None pages, Paperback

Considered the high point of Gogol's writing for the stage and a masterpiece of dramatic satire, Th… read more

Similar categories in Nikolai Gogol's The Inspector General book and Ella Hickson's The Writer

  • theatre
  • plays
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8. Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons

By: Sam Steiner

3.96

Format: None pages,

The average person will speak 123,205,750 words in a lifetime. But what if there were a limit? Oliv… read more

Similar categories in Sam Steiner's Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons book and Ella Hickson's The Writer

  • theatre
  • plays
  • drama
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9. Every Brilliant Thing

By: Duncan Macmillan

3.82

Format: None pages, Paperback

You're six years old. Mum's in hospital. Dad says she's 'done something stupid'. She finds it hard … read more

Similar categories in Duncan Macmillan's Every Brilliant Thing book and Ella Hickson's The Writer

  • theatre
  • plays
  • drama

10. Appropriate

By: Branden Jacobs-Jenkins

3.47

Format: 156 pages, Paperback

Every estranged member of the Lafayette clan has descended upon the crumbling Arkansas homestead to… read more

Similar categories in Branden Jacobs-Jenkins's Appropriate book and Ella Hickson's The Writer

  • theatre
  • plays
  • drama
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11. The Caretaker

By: Harold Pinter

3.51

Format: None pages, Paperback

This play was first performed in 1960. Harold Pinter specializes in the tragicomedy of the breakdow… read more

Similar categories in Harold Pinter's The Caretaker book and Ella Hickson's The Writer

  • theatre
  • plays
  • drama

12. Death and the King's Horseman: A Play

By: Wole Soyinka

3.14

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

Based on events that took place in Oyo, an ancient Yoruba city of Nigeria, in 1946, Wole Soyinka's … read more

Similar categories in Wole Soyinka's Death and the King's Horseman: A Play book and Ella Hickson's The Writer

13. The Effect

By: Lucy Prebble

4.57

Format: 270 pages, Paperback

You're on a placebo, Tristan. Least I've got an excuse. She told me: you're nothing, you're a contr… read more

Similar categories in Lucy Prebble's The Effect book and Ella Hickson's The Writer

14. The Seagull

By: Anton Chekhov , Michael Frayn

4.62

Format: None pages, Paperback

A Methuen Student Edition of Chekhov's classic play in Michael Frayn's acclaimed translation. When … read more

Similar categories in Anton Chekhov's The Seagull book and Ella Hickson's The Writer

15. People, Places and Things

By: Duncan Macmillan

3.36

Format: None pages, Paperback

Emma is in rehab. Her first step is to admit that she has a problem. But the problem isn't with Emm… read more

Similar categories in Duncan Macmillan's People, Places and Things book and Ella Hickson's The Writer

16. Frozen

By: Bryony Lavery

4.30

Format: 256 pages,

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17. The Flick

By: Annie Baker

3.98

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

In a rundown movie theater in central Massachusetts, three underpaid employees sweep up popcorn in … read more

Similar categories in Annie Baker's The Flick book and Ella Hickson's The Writer

18. Blue/Orange

By: Joe Penhall

4.04

Format: None pages, Paperback

In a London psychiatric hospital, an enigmatic patient claims to be the son of an African dictator … read more

Similar categories in Joe Penhall's Blue/Orange book and Ella Hickson's The Writer

19. Machinal

By: Sophie Treadwell

4.65

Format: None pages, Paperback

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Similar categories in Sophie Treadwell's Machinal book and Ella Hickson's The Writer

20. The Weir

By: Conor McPherson

3.85

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

Set in a bar in a remote part of Ireland, The Weir tells of a young woman who has a story to fright… read more

Similar categories in Conor McPherson's The Weir book and Ella Hickson's The Writer

21. August: Osage County

By: Tracy Letts

4.29

Format: 120 pages, Paperback

One of the most bracing and critically acclaimed plays in recent history, August: Osage Countyis a … read more

Similar categories in Tracy Letts's August: Osage County book and Ella Hickson's The Writer

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22. Prima Facie

By: Suzie Miller

4.37

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

This is not life, this is law… Tessa Ensler loves her job. She’s worked her up to being a top cr… read more

Similar categories in Suzie Miller's Prima Facie book and Ella Hickson's The Writer

  • adult
  • plays
"All I know is that somewhere. Some time. Somehow. Something has to change."

-Suzie Miller, Prima Facie

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23. Indecent

By: Paula Vogel

4.46

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

“Revelatory…As intimate and immediate as a whispered secret. Vogel’s play thrums with music, desire… read more

Similar categories in Paula Vogel's Indecent book and Ella Hickson's The Writer

  • theatre
  • queer
  • plays
  • drama
"I too have lost audience members. Six million have left the theater."

-Paula Vogel, Indecent

"How do we as artists question our sins in front of a greater audience? How do we as Jews show ourselves as flawed and complex human beings?"

-Paula Vogel, Indecent

"God forbid the goyim think ladies who work the street are human beings! God forbid the goyim think that Jewish ladies love each other as human beings!"

-Paula Vogel, Indecent

"As you know, six nights a week we gather together to sing songs we know and love, to dance, to escape our daily lives. But on the seventh night … God created Yiddish theater."

-Paula Vogel, Indecent

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24. Fairview

By: Jackie Sibblies Drury

4.27

Format: 120 pages, Paperback

Grandma's birthday approaches. Beverly is organizing the perfect dinner, but everything seems doome… read more

Similar categories in Jackie Sibblies Drury's Fairview book and Ella Hickson's The Writer

  • theatre
  • plays
  • drama
"Once... Well, not once, not at all once. Many many many many times, there was a person who worked hard, a person who tried to work hard, and tried to do their best, and tried to do well by their fami…"

-Jackie Sibblies Drury, Fairview

Cover of The Writer by Ella Hickson

25. The Writer

By: Ella Hickson

4.08

Format: 88 pages, Paperback

‘I want the world to change shape.’ ‘I'm not sure theatre can do that.’ ‘Well then where am I me… read more

Similar categories in Ella Hickson's The Writer book and Ella Hickson's The Writer

  • drama
  • theatre
  • adult
  • plays
  • queer
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26. Seven Methods of Killing Kylie Jenner

By: Jasmine Lee-Jones

3.01

Format: 89 pages, Paperback

In this innovative play blending real life and online culture, a young Black woman takes to Twitter… read more

Similar categories in Jasmine Lee-Jones's Seven Methods of Killing Kylie Jenner book and Ella Hickson's The Writer

  • theatre
  • plays
  • drama
Cover of For Black Boys Who Have Considered Suicide When the Hue Gets Too Heavy (Modern Plays) by Ryan Calais Cameron

27. For Black Boys Who Have Considered Suicide When the Hue Gets Too Heavy (Modern Plays)

By: Ryan Calais Cameron

4.65

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

I found a king in me and now I love you I found a king in you and now I love me Father figures and… read more

Similar categories in Ryan Calais Cameron's For Black Boys Who Have Considered Suicide When the Hue Gets Too Heavy (Modern Plays) book and Ella Hickson's The Writer

  • plays
Cover of Revolt. She Said. Revolt Again. by Alice Birch

28. Revolt. She Said. Revolt Again.

By: Alice Birch

3.96

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

Alice Birch examines the language, behavior and forces that shape women in the 21st century and ask… read more

Similar categories in Alice Birch's Revolt. She Said. Revolt Again. book and Ella Hickson's The Writer

  • theatre
  • plays
  • drama
Cover of truth and reconciliation (Nick Hern Books) by debbie tucker green

29. truth and reconciliation (Nick Hern Books)

By: debbie tucker green

3.67

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

Excellent Book read more

Similar categories in debbie tucker green's truth and reconciliation (Nick Hern Books) book and Ella Hickson's The Writer

  • theatre
  • plays
Cover of Iphigenia in Splott (Oberon Modern Plays) by Gary Owen

30. Iphigenia in Splott (Oberon Modern Plays)

By: Gary Owen

4.26

Format: 65 pages, Paperback

Stumbling down Clifton Street at 11:30 a.m. drunk, Effie is the kind of girl you'd avoid eye contac… read more

Similar categories in Gary Owen's Iphigenia in Splott (Oberon Modern Plays) book and Ella Hickson's The Writer

  • plays
  • drama
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31. Three Sisters

By: Inua Ellams

4.15

Format: 112 pages, Kindle Edition

Chekhov's iconic characters are relocated to Nigeria in this bold new adaptation.Owerri, 1967, on t… read more

Similar categories in Inua Ellams's Three Sisters book and Ella Hickson's The Writer

  • plays

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Nick Payne

4.07

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Top Girls

Caryl Churchill

3.58

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Sweat

Lynn Nottage

4.06

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John

Annie Baker

4.20

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The List of Suspicious Things

Jennie Godfrey

4.29

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Trent Dalton

4.41

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David Nicholls

4.08

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John Boyne

4.33

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