18 best-selling plays books like Blackout Songs (NHB Modern Plays) by Joe White

Cover of Blackout Songs (NHB Modern Plays) by Joe White

Blackout Songs (NHB Modern Plays)

By: Joe White

4.03

Format: 94 pages, Kindle Edition

A chance encounter at an AA meeting and they're drawn to one another. Then later, once they're drin…

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1. 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

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2. 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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3. 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

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4. The One

By: Vicky Jones

3.91

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

A viciously funny play about a couple trapped in a destructive cycle of love and lust. Winner of th… read more

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5. Endgame

By: Samuel Beckett

4.67

Format: 88 pages, Paperback

Samuel Beckett was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1969; his literary output of plays, no… read more

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6. After the End

By: Dennis Kelly

5.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

They were all in the pub when the explosion happened. Louise wakes up to find herself trapped with … read more

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7. 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

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8. Betrayal

By: Harold Pinter

3.91

Format: None pages, Paperback

Betrayalis Pinter's latest full-length play since the enormous success of No Man's Land. The play b… read more

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9. Wasted

By: Kae Tempest

3.33

Format: 161 pages, ebook

I'm making a decision. I'm changing things. This is it. Three old friends in their mid-twenties. On… read more

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10. 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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11. Cock

By: Mike Bartlett

3.16

Format: 91 pages, Paperback

When John takes a break from his boyfriend, he accidentally meets the girl of his dreams. Filled wi… read more

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12. Much Ado About Nothing

By: William Shakespeare , Barbara A. Mowat , Paul Werstine , Gail Kern Paster , None

3.92

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

The action is set in Sicily, where Don Pedro, Prince of Aragon, has recently defeated his half-brot… read more

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13. King Henry IV, Part 1 (Wars of the Roses, #2)

By: William Shakespeare , David Scott Kastan

3.87

Format: None pages, Paperback

David Scott Kastan lucidly explores the remarkable richness and the ambitious design of King Henry … read more

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14. Machinal

By: Sophie Treadwell

4.65

Format: None pages, Paperback

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15. Medea

By: Euripides , Rex Warner

3.42

Format: 32 pages, Paperback

One of the most powerful and enduring of Greek tragedies, Medeacenters on the myth of Jason, leader… read more

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16. Notes on ‘Camp’

By: Susan Sontag

3.97

Format: 57 pages, Paperback

'The ultimate Camp statement: it's good because it's awful.' These two classic essays were the f… read more

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"Camp which knows itself to be Camp ('camping') is usually less satisfying."

-Susan Sontag, Notes on ‘Camp’

"Camp sees everything in quotation marks. It's not a lamp, but a 'lamp'; not a woman, but a 'woman'."

-Susan Sontag, Notes on ‘Camp’

"To name a sensibility, to draw its contours and to recount its history, requires a deep sympathy modified by revulsion."

-Susan Sontag, Notes on ‘Camp’

"What is most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine…"

-Susan Sontag, Notes on ‘Camp’

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17. Close to Home

By: Michael Magee

4.06

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

While growing up in West Belfast, Sean does every­thing he's supposed to do. He works hard, he stud… read more

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18. 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

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

-Suzie Miller, Prima Facie

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19. Boy Parts

By: Eliza Clark

3.77

Format: 304 pages, ebook

Irina obsessively takes explicit photographs of the average-looking men she persuades to model for … read more

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"Was it my idea to have him hurt me, or did he just let me think it was?"

-Eliza Clark, Boy Parts

"My mam always used to tell me that you catch more flies with honey than with vinegar. And Eddie from Tesco is a fly, but he's got a taste for vinegar. It's like vinegar is all he's ever had from peop…"

-Eliza Clark, Boy Parts

"You want to think you're not like other women, but you are, you know. You're still... that's still how the rest of the world, how men are going to see you. Like, I know you hate labels, but you like.…"

-Eliza Clark, Boy Parts

"Do you like it rough? I think so. I think I must. Men are rough, aren't they? Have I always had a taste for rough stuff, or did I acquire that? In the back of Lesley's car, on the floor of a friend's…"

-Eliza Clark, Boy Parts

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20. Notes on Heartbreak

By: Annie Lord

4.16

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Fierce, funny and raw, this unflinchingly honest exploration of heartbreak is so much more than a b… read more

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"Why suffer for something ordinary?"

-Annie Lord, Notes on Heartbreak

"That's the thing about pain: we forget it."

-Annie Lord, Notes on Heartbreak

"I'll try my best to forget, but I think I'll love you for all my life."

-Annie Lord, Notes on Heartbreak

"Knowing Mary has gone through the same thing makes me feel less alone with my pain."

-Annie Lord, Notes on Heartbreak

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21. 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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22. truth and reconciliation (Nick Hern Books)

By: debbie tucker green

3.67

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

Excellent Book read more

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Cover of Blackout Songs (NHB Modern Plays) by Joe White

23. Blackout Songs (NHB Modern Plays)

By: Joe White

4.03

Format: 94 pages, Kindle Edition

A chance encounter at an AA meeting and they're drawn to one another. Then later, once they're drin… read more

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Cover of Ulster American (Modern Plays) by David Ireland

24. Ulster American (Modern Plays)

By: David Ireland

4.11

Format: 72 pages, Paperback

Would you mind if I asked you a troubling question? Jay is the Oscar-winning actor taking the le… read more

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25. Infinite Life

By: Annie Baker

4.20

Format: 64 pages, Paperback

'I said no one should ever try to recreate this. This is agony in its purest form.' Five women i… read more

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Cover of 2:22: A Ghost Story (NHB Modern Plays) by Danny Robins

26. 2:22: A Ghost Story (NHB Modern Plays)

By: Danny Robins

4.47

Format: 119 pages, Kindle Edition

'I'd get freaked out here, alone in the dark. Wondering what's lurking at the bottom of the bed, re… read more

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

27. 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

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28. "Daddy": A Melodrama (NHB Modern Plays)

By: Jeremy O. Harris

3.98

Format: None pages, Paperback

Franklin, a young black artist on the eve of his first show, meets Andre, an older white art collec… read more

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29. The Human Body

By: Lucy Kirkwood

4.00

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

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Cover of Biscuits for Breakfast (Nick Hern Books) by Gareth Farr

30. Biscuits for Breakfast (Nick Hern Books)

By: Gareth Farr

3.00

Format: 104 pages, Paperback

They don't seem an obvious match. Joanne is spiky, defensive, a survivor; Paul is quiet, considered… read more

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31. anthropology (Modern Plays)

By: Lauren Gunderson

4.09

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

I have no answers. I have nothing but rage and sorrow. And so yes I built you because this is what … read more

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4.22

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Megan Nolan

3.74

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