19 Top plays books like The Hills of California by Jez Butterworth

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The Hills of California

By: Jez Butterworth

3.83

Format: 122 pages, Paperback

Blackpool, 1976. The driest summer in two hundred years. The beaches are packed. The hotels are hea…

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1. The Pillowman

By: Martin McDonagh

4.30

Format: 104 pages, Paperback

A writer in a totalitarian state is interrogated about the gruesome content of his short stories an… read more

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"It isn't about being or not being dead, it's about what you leave behind"

-Martin McDonagh, The Pillowman

"Oh, I almost forgot to mention... I'm the good cop, he's the bad cop! - Tupolski"

-Martin McDonagh, The Pillowman

"Oh, I almost forgot to mention...I'm the good cop, he's the bad cop." - Tupolski"

-Martin McDonagh, The Pillowman

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2. Yerma

By: Federico García Lorca , Gwynne Edwards , Chris Megson

3.55

Format: 199 pages, Paperback

Yerma (meaning 'Barren') is one of three tragic plays about peasants and rural life that make up Lo… read more

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3. The History Boys

By: Alan Bennett

0.00

Format: 287 pages, Paperback

An unruly bunch of bright, funny sixth-form boys in pursuit of sex, sport and a place at university… read more

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4. The Homecoming

By: Harold Pinter

3.70

Format: 82 pages, Paperback

When Teddy, a professor in an American university, brings his wife Ruth to visit his old home in Lo… read more

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"RUTH: If you take the glass…I’ll take you."

-Harold Pinter, The Homecoming

"Look what I'm lumbered with. One load of cast-iron crap after another." --Harold Pinter: The Homecoming."

-Harold Pinter, The Homecoming

5. Long Day's Journey Into Night

By: Eugene O'Neill

3.89

Format: 32 pages, Paperback

Eugene O'Neill's autobiographical play Long Day's Journey into Night is regarded as his finest work… read more

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6. An Enemy of the People

By: Henrik Ibsen

3.84

Format: 464 pages, Paperback

An Enemy of the people (original Norwegian title: En folkefiende) is an 1882 play by Norwegian play… read more

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7. A View from the Bridge: A Play in Two Acts

By: Arthur Miller

4.36

Format: 232 pages, Paperback

America's greatest playwright weaves "a vivid, crackling, idiomatic psychosexual horror tale." --Fr… read more

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8. 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

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9. Travels With My Aunt

By: Graham Greene

4.07

Format: 189 pages, Paperback

"I met Aunt Augusta for the first time at my mother's funeral..." Described by Graham Greene as "th… read more

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10. The Mousetrap: A Play

By: Agatha Christie

4.44

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

A group of strangers is stranded in a boarding house during a snow storm, one of whom is a murderer… read more

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11. Machinal

By: Sophie Treadwell

4.65

Format: None pages, Paperback

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12. 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

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13. Slave Play

By: Jeremy O. Harris

4.18

Format: 162 pages, Paperback

The old South lives on at the MacGregor Plantation--in the breeze, in the cotton fields...and in th… read more

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14. Send Nudes

By: Saba Sams

3.53

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

In ten dazzling stories, Saba Sams dives into the world of girlhood and immerses us in its contradi… read more

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"The sky was black, sprinkled with crystals of salt. The moon made polite conversation. The trees stood up and waved."

-Saba Sams, Send Nudes

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15. PATRIOTS

By: Peter Morgan

4.05

Format: 90 pages, Paperback

If the politicians cannot save Russia, then we businessmen must. We have not just the responsibilit… read more

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16. Nye

By: Tim Price

4.33

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

One man's dream of the NHS. From campaigning at the coalfield to leading the battle to create th… read more

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17. The Roommate

By: Jen Silverman

4.10

Format: 98 pages, Paperback

Sharon, in her mid-fifties, is recently divorced and needs a roommate to share her Iowa home. Robyn… read more

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18. Clyde's

By: Lynn Nottage

4.04

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

A funny, moving, and urgent new play from two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Lynn Nottage. In this r… read more

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19. English

By: Sanaz Toossi

4.53

Format: 84 pages, Paperback

Winner! 2023 Pulitzer Prize in Drama Winner! 2023 Obie Award for Best New American Play It's 2008,… read more

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20. The Hills of California

By: Jez Butterworth

3.83

Format: 122 pages, Paperback

Blackpool, 1976. The driest summer in two hundred years. The beaches are packed. The hotels are hea… read more

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21. Underdog: The Other Other Brontë

By: Sarah Gordon

4.14

Format: None pages, Paperback

Charlotte Brontë has a confession about how one sister became an idol, and the other became known a… read more

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22. The Motive and the Cue

By: Jack Thorne

4.27

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

Richard Burton, the firebrand Welsh actor, newly married to movie star Elizabeth Taylor, is to play… read more

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23. Cowbois

By: Charlie Josephine

4.38

Format: 151 pages, Paperback

In a sleepy town in the Wild West, the women drift through their days like tumbleweed. Their husban… read more

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Cover of Camp Siegfried by Bess Wohl

24. Camp Siegfried

By: Bess Wohl

4.00

Format: 118 pages, Kindle Edition

I'm a killer I told youI told you that all alongYou were the dummy to believeI could ever be anythi… read more

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25. The Examiner

By: Janice Hallett

4.06

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

Told in emails, text messages, and essays, this innovative pause-resister follows a group of studen… read more

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26. London Tide: based on Charles Dickens' Our Mutual Friend

By: Ben Power

3.33

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

The genius of Dickens meets PJ Harvey's fierce, lyrical songs in this romantic and propulsive thril… read more

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27. Boys from the Blackstuff (Modern Plays)

By: James Graham

4.20

Format: 104 pages, Paperback

Gizza job. Go on, gizzit, go 'head, giz it if you've got it, giz it, I can do it. Giz it then. Go '… read more

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Cover of When Winston Went To War With The Wireless by Jack Thorne

28. When Winston Went To War With The Wireless

By: Jack Thorne

3.78

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

In May 1926, Britain grinds to a halt, as workers down tools for the General Strike. With the print… read more

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"I serve my castle, Mr Bevin, you serve yours. You think I am dangerous for your castle, and I think you are dangerous to mine."

-Jack Thorne, When Winston Went To War With The Wireless

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29. The Human Body

By: Lucy Kirkwood

4.00

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

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Cover of A Mirror (NHB Modern Plays) by Sam Holcroft

30. A Mirror (NHB Modern Plays)

By: Sam Holcroft

4.48

Format: 126 pages, Kindle Edition

…With great pleasure Layla & Joel Invite you to celebrate their marriage. Dress code is smart casua… read more

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Cover of Running the Room: Conversations with Women Theatre Directors by Rosemary Waugh

31. Running the Room: Conversations with Women Theatre Directors

By: Rosemary Waugh

4.53

Format: 309 pages, Kindle Edition

Our most brilliant, fearless and creative women directors open the door on their craft, discussing … read more

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3.58

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3.95

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