23 Top plays books like The Motive and the Cue by Jack Thorne

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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…

If you liked the plays plot in The Motive and the Cue by Jack Thorne , here is a list of 23 books like this:

Cover of Journey's End by R.C. Sherriff

1. Journey's End

By: R.C. Sherriff

3.86

Format: 114 pages, Hardcover

The "Heinemann Plays" series offers contemporary drama and classic plays in durable classroom editi… read more

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  • plays
"You must always think of it like that if you can. Think of it all as - as romantic. It helps."

-R.C. Sherriff, Journey's End

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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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  • plays
"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

3. 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

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  • theatre
  • plays

4. The Vortex

By: Noël Coward

5.00

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

A single-volume edition of Noel Coward's famous play, published to tie in with major Donmar Warehou… read more

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  • theatre
  • plays
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5. Red

By: John Logan

3.66

Format: 146 pages, Paperback

WINNER OF SIX TONY AWARDS A moving and compelling account of one of the greatest artists of the twe… read more

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  • plays
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6. 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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  • plays
"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

7. 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

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8. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

By: Tom Stoppard , None

3.48

Format: None pages,

Hamlettold from the worm's-eye view of two minor characters, bewildered Rosencrantz and Guildenster… read more

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9. 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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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. The God of Carnage

By: Yasmina Reza , Christopher Hampton

3.75

Format: 289 pages, Paperback

What happens when two sets of parents meet up to deal with the unruly behavior of their children? A… read more

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12. Machinal

By: Sophie Treadwell

4.65

Format: None pages, Paperback

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

-Suzie Miller, Prima Facie

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14. Good

By: C.P. Taylor

3.98

Format: 70 pages, Paperback

A story about a liberal-minded university professor who drifts well-meaningly into a position in th… read more

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15. Baby Reindeer

By: Richard Gadd

4.35

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

I looked at her, wanting her to laugh. Wanting her to share in the joke. But she didn't. She just s… read more

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  • plays
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16. 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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  • plays
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17. 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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  • plays
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18. A Strange Loop

By: Michael R. Jackson

4.22

Format: 111 pages, Paperback

Winner of the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Drama Usher is a black, queer writer, working a day job he… read more

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  • theatre
  • plays
Cover of The Hills of California by Jez Butterworth

19. 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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  • plays
Cover of The Motive and the Cue by Jack Thorne

20. 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

Similar categories in Jack Thorne's The Motive and the Cue book and Jack Thorne's The Motive and the Cue

  • theatre
  • plays
Cover of Trouble in Mind (Illuminations) by Alice Childress

21. Trouble in Mind (Illuminations)

By: Alice Childress

4.06

Format: 104 pages, Paperback

“A masterpiece . . . Trouble in Mind still contains astonishing power; it could have been written y… read more

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  • plays
Cover of Dear England (Modern Plays) by James Graham

22. Dear England (Modern Plays)

By: James Graham

3.89

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

It's time to change the game. The country that gave the world football has since delivered a painf… read more

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  • plays
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23. Death of England

By: Roy Williams

4.07

Format: 48 pages, Paperback

He wanted you to be a better man. He wanted to be a better man himself. He was lied to. Just like y… read more

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24. The Unfriend

By: Steven Moffat

3.89

Format: 106 pages, Kindle Edition

Peter and Debbie are enjoying a cruise – a celebration of twenty years of marriage, and a break fro… read more

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  • plays
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25. Lyonesse

By: Penelope Skinner

3.53

Format: 146 pages, Kindle Edition

What I'm asking is, is she a sympathetic heroine? Are we going to be on her side?Elaine, a once-fam… read more

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26. Best of Enemies (Modern Plays)

By: James Graham

4.10

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

“A man should never turn down two things. Sex, and appearing on television." 1968 – a year of prote… read more

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  • plays
Cover of Nye (Modern Plays) by Tim Price

27. Nye (Modern Plays)

By: Tim Price

4.71

Format: 129 pages, Kindle Edition

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

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Cover of Prima Facie: The Play by Suzie Miller

28. Prima Facie: The Play

By: Suzie Miller

4.69

Format: 98 pages, Paperback

Tessa is a young, brilliant barrister. She has worked her way up from working-class origins to the … read more

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  • plays
Cover of Boys from the Blackstuff (Modern Plays) by James Graham

29. 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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30. The Human Body

By: Lucy Kirkwood

4.00

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

None read more

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

31. 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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12 Top theatre books like The Motive and the Cue by Jack Thorne

Transform Your Habits

Journey's End

R.C. Sherriff

3.86

Transform Your Habits

The Pillowman

Martin McDonagh

4.30

Appropriate

Branden Jacobs-Jenkins

3.47

The Vortex

Noël Coward

5.00

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

Transform Your Habits

The Pillowman

Martin McDonagh

4.30

Transform Your Habits

Yerma

Federico García Lorca , Gwynne Edwards , Chris Megson

3.55

Transform Your Habits

The History Boys

Alan Bennett

0.00

Transform Your Habits

The Homecoming

Harold Pinter

3.70

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