8 Best plays books like Speaking in Tongues (Acting Edition for Theater Productions) by Andrew Bovell

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Speaking in Tongues (Acting Edition for Theater Productions)

By: Andrew Bovell

3.86

Format: 72 pages, Paperback

Paperback acting edition.

If you liked the plays plot in Speaking in Tongues (Acting Edition for Theater Productions) by Andrew Bovell , here is a list of 8 books like this:

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1. Nine Days

By: Toni Jordan

3.73

Format: 245 pages, Paperback

One family. Nine momentous days. An unforgettable novel of love and folly and heartbreak. It is … read more

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"People who work out are so gullible. They think they'll live longer. Well, good luck to them. It's a shame most of them aren't bright enough to realise that the extra time added to their life when th…"

-Toni Jordan, Nine Days

"And here is the most wonderful thing of all. I have had one night with the man of my heart and, just this once, I have had something that I wanted. Whatever happens, I will keep this night stored awa…"

-Toni Jordan, Nine Days

"You must know this. People disappear. They just go puff. Thin air. Every time you see someone, you never know if you're seeing them for the last time. Drink them in, Alec. Kiss them. It's very import…"

-Toni Jordan, Nine Days

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2. Alias Grace

By: Margaret Atwood

4.04

Format: 468 pages, Hardcover

It's 1843, and Grace Marks has been convicted for her involvement in the vicious murders of her emp… read more

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"The small details of life often hide a great significance."

-Margaret Atwood, Alias Grace

"If they want a monster so badly they ought to be provided by one."

-Margaret Atwood, Alias Grace

"[...] he often talked to himself and he was the best conversationalist he knew; [...]"

-Margaret Atwood, Alias Grace

"I don’t know why it is, a girl of fifteen or sixteen is accounted a woman, but a boy of fifteen or sixteen is still a boy."

-Margaret Atwood, Alias Grace

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3. 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

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  • theatre
  • plays
  • drama
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4. A Streetcar Named Desire

By: Tennessee Williams

3.98

Format: 107 pages, Paperback

The Pulitzer Prize and Drama Critics Circle Award winning play—reissued with an introduction by Art… read more

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  • theatre
  • plays
  • drama
"Never inside, I didn't lie in my heart..."

-Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire

"And funerals are pretty compared to deaths."

-Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire

"I think you have a great capacity for devotion,"

-Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire

"I want to rest. I want to breathe quietly again."

-Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire

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5. Picnic at Hanging Rock

By: Joan Lindsay

3.67

Format: 189 pages, Paperback

It was a cloudless summer day in the year nineteen hundred. Everyone at Appleyard College for Yo… read more

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"Thinking's all right if you have the time for it."

-Joan Lindsay, Picnic at Hanging Rock

"At every step the prospect ahead grew more enchanting with added detail of crenellated crags and lichen-patterned stone. Now a mountain laurel glossy above the dogwood's dusty silver leaves, now a da…"

-Joan Lindsay, Picnic at Hanging Rock

"Although we are necessarily concerned, in a chronicle of events, with physical action by the light of day, history suggests that the human spirit wanders farthest in the silent hours between midnight…"

-Joan Lindsay, Picnic at Hanging Rock

"And now, at last, after a lifetime of linoleum and asphalt and Axminster carpets, the heavy flat-footed woman trod the springing earth. Born fifty-seven years ago in a suburban wilderness of smoke-gr…"

-Joan Lindsay, Picnic at Hanging Rock

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6. A Spy in the House of Love (Cities of the Interior, #4)

By: Anaïs Nin

3.71

Format: 166 pages, Paperback

Although Anais Nin found in her diaries a profound mode of self-creation and confession, she could … read more

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"Innocence was gone from all our acts. Our habitual state of rebellion became a serious political crime."

-Anaïs Nin, A Spy in the House of Love (Cities of the Interior, #4)

"We are more severe judges of our own acts... We judge our thoughts, our intents, our secret curses, our secret hates, not only our acts."

-Anaïs Nin, A Spy in the House of Love (Cities of the Interior, #4)

"At first she beckoned and lured one into her world; then, she blurred the passageways, confused all the images, as if to elude detection."

-Anaïs Nin, A Spy in the House of Love (Cities of the Interior, #4)

"Later he´ll be drunk in extremis and will only be able to speak the esperanto of alcoholics, which is a language full of stutterings from the geological layers of our animal ancestors"

-Anaïs Nin, A Spy in the House of Love (Cities of the Interior, #4)

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7. Dance of the Happy Shades

By: Alice Munro

4.08

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Alice Munro's territory is the farms and semi-rural towns of south-western Ontario. In these dazzli… read more

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  • literature
"I went around the house to the back door thinking, I have been to a dance and a boy has walked me home and kissed me. It was all true. My life was possible."

-Alice Munro, Dance of the Happy Shades

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8. Ariel

By: Sylvia Plath

4.19

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

Sylvia Plath's celebrated collection. When Sylvia Plath died, she not only left behind a prolifi… read more

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"I do not fear it: I have been there."

-Sylvia Plath, Ariel

"For the eyeing of my scars, there is a charge"

-Sylvia Plath, Ariel

"I could not run without having to run forever"

-Sylvia Plath, Ariel

"Love is a shadow. How you lie and cry after it."

-Sylvia Plath, Ariel

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9. 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

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  • theatre
  • plays
  • drama
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10. Only the Animals

By: Ceridwen Dovey

4.14

Format: None pages, Paperback

From award-winning novelist Ceridwen Dovey, a collection of linked short stories as innovative and … read more

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  • australia
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11. The Boy Behind the Curtain

By: Tim Winton

3.66

Format: 176 pages, Audio CD

The remarkable true stories in The Boy Behind the Curtainreveal an intimate and rare view of Tim Wi… read more

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  • australia
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12. Attempts on Her Life

By: Martin Crimp

3.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

Attempts on her Life 17 scenarios for the theatre by Martin Crimp Attempts to describe her? Attemp… read more

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  • theatre
  • plays
  • drama
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13. Things We Didn't See Coming

By: Steven Amsterdam

0.00

Format: 287 pages, Paperback

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14. The Fire Next Time

By: James Baldwin

3.54

Format: None pages, Paperback

A national bestseller when it first appeared in 1963, The Fire Next Timegalvanized the nation and g… read more

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15. The World's Wife

By: Carol Ann Duffy

4.42

Format: 216 pages, Paperback

Be terrified. It's you I love, perfect man, Greek God, my own; but I know you'll go, betray me,… read more

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16. Northanger Abbey

By: Jane Austen , Alfred J. MacAdam

3.85

Format: 260 pages, Paperback

A wonderfully entertaining coming-of-age story, Northanger Abbey is often referred to as Jane Auste… read more

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"I have no talent for certainty."

-Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

"Every moment has its pleasures and its hope."

-Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

"But indeed I would rather have nothing but tea."

-Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

"I cannot speak well enough to be unintelligible."

-Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

17. Looking for Alibrandi

By: Melina Marchetta

3.49

Format: 465 pages, Paperback

For as long as Josephine Alibrandi can remember, it's just been her, her mom, and her grandmother. … read more

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18. The Motherfucker With the Hat

By: Stephen Adly Guirgis , Bobby Cannavale , Chris Rock , Annabella Sciorra , None , None

4.10

Format: None pages, Audiobook

Addiction, pain, and explosive tempers are not exactly what you'd call the ingredients for a side-s… read more

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19. The Anchoress

By: Robyn Cadwallader

3.72

Format: 640 pages, Hardcover

England, 1255. What could drive a girl on the cusp of womanhood to lock herself away from the world… read more

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20. Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

By: Tennessee Williams

4.06

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof first heated up Broadway in 1955 with its gothic American story of brothers v… read more

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  • theatre
  • plays
  • drama
"BRICK [to the moon]: I envy you--you cool son of a bitch."

-Tennessee Williams, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

"We mustn't scream at each other, the walls in this house have ears..."

-Tennessee Williams, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

"Maggie, we're through with lies and liars in this house. Lock the door."

-Tennessee Williams, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

"A drinking man's someone who wants to forget he isn't still young and believing"

-Tennessee Williams, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

21. The Birthday Party

By: Harold Pinter

3.23

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

Stanley Webber is visited in his boarding house by strangers, Goldberg and McCann. An innocent-seem… read more

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22. The Ladies' Paradise (Les Rougon-Macquart, #11)

By: Émile Zola , Brian Nelson

3.03

Format: 234 pages, Paperback

The Ladies Paradise (Au Bonheur des Dames) recounts the rise of the modern department store in late… read more

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23. A Taste of Honey: A Play

By: Shelagh Delaney

3.82

Format: 4 pages, Paperback

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24. The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson

By: Emily Dickinson , Thomas H. Johnson

3.85

Format: None pages, Paperback

THE ONLY ONE-VOLUME EDITION CONTAINING ALL 1,775 OF EMILY DICKINSON'S POEMS Only eleven of Emily Di… read more

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25. Reasons to Be Pretty

By: Neil LaBute

4.07

Format: 154 pages, Paperback

In Reasons to Be Pretty, Greg's tight-knit social circle is thrown into turmoil when his offhand re… read more

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26. Glengarry Glen Ross

By: David Mamet

4.49

Format: 563 pages,

Winner of the 1984 Pulitzer Prize, David Mamet's scalding comedy is about small-time, cutthroat rea… read more

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27. Smart Ovens for Lonely People

By: Elizabeth Tan

3.88

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Conspiracies, memes, and therapies of various efficacy underpin this beguiling short-story collecti… read more

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  • literature
  • australia
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28. Speaking in Tongues (Acting Edition for Theater Productions)

By: Andrew Bovell

3.86

Format: 72 pages, Paperback

Paperback acting edition. read more

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  • theatre
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  • drama

29. Gary's house (Current theatre series)

By: Debra Oswald

3.44

Format: 83 pages, Paperback

[ GARY'S HOUSE BY OSWALD, DEBRA](AUTHOR)PAPERBACK read more

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30. Dublin Carol

By: Conor McPherson

3.45

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

The newest play from the remarkable young Irish playwright. read more

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  • drama
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31. Kenneth Slessor Selected Poems (A&R Classics)

By: Kenneth Slessor

3.56

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

The definitive collection of work from one of Australia's preeminent twentieth century poets, Kenne… read more

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Margaret Atwood

4.04

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Tennessee Williams

3.98

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Anaïs Nin

3.71

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Alice Munro

4.08

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Ta-Nehisi Coates

4.40

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Alex Haley , Malcolm X

4.36

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Angela Y. Davis , Assata Shakur , Lennox S. Hinds

4.80

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