10 Best theatre books like In a Forest, Dark and Deep by Neil LaBute

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In a Forest, Dark and Deep

By: Neil LaBute

3.33

Format: 82 pages, Paperback

It was so simple, just a few little bits in his diary, files that he kept in longhand with all his …

If you liked the theatre plot in In a Forest, Dark and Deep by Neil LaBute , here is a list of 10 books like this:

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1. 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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2. Cannery Row (Cannery Row, #1)

By: John Steinbeck

4.06

Format: 181 pages, Paperback

Cannery Row is a book without much of a plot. Rather, it is an attempt to capture the feeling and p… read more

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"He's got a can up there,' Richard said."

-John Steinbeck, Cannery Row (Cannery Row, #1)

"Men all do about the same thing when they wake up."

-John Steinbeck, Cannery Row (Cannery Row, #1)

"If a man ordered a beer milkshake he'd better do it in a town where he wasn't known."

-John Steinbeck, Cannery Row (Cannery Row, #1)

"Then the sun came up and shook the night chill out of the air the way you'd shake a rug."

-John Steinbeck, Cannery Row (Cannery Row, #1)

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3. The Days of Abandonment

By: Elena Ferrante , Ann Goldstein

3.87

Format: 188 pages, Paperback

A national bestseller for almost an entire year, The Days of Abandonment shocked and captivated its… read more

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"I'm dead, but I'm fine."

-Elena Ferrante, The Days of Abandonment

"The hardest things to talk about are the ones we ourselves can't understand."

-Elena Ferrante, The Days of Abandonment

"We don't know anything about people, even those with whom we share everything."

-Elena Ferrante, The Days of Abandonment

"Success depends on the capacity to manipulate the obvious with calculated precision."

-Elena Ferrante, The Days of Abandonment

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4. 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

Similar categories in Martin McDonagh's The Pillowman book and Neil LaBute's In a Forest, Dark and Deep

  • mystery
  • theatre
  • 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

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5. Waiting for Godot

By: Samuel Beckett

3.63

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

Cuando en 1953 se estreno en Paris Esperando a Godot, casi nadie sabia quien era Samuel Beckett, sa… read more

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  • theatre
  • plays

6. Tuck Everlasting

By: Natalie Babbitt

4.02

Format: 424 pages,

Doomed to - or blessed with - eternal life after drinking from a magic spring, the Tuck family wand… read more

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7. Psycho

By: Robert Bloch

4.00

Format: 158 pages, Paperback

It was a dark and stormy night when Mary Crane glimpsed the unlit neon sign announcing the vacancy … read more

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  • mystery

8. Buried Child

By: Sam Shepard

4.03

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

A newly revised edition of an American classic, Sam Shepard's Pulitzer Prize winning Buried Childis… read more

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  • theatre
  • plays
  • drama
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9. Disgraced

By: Ayad Akhtar

4.83

Format: 28 pages, Paperback

The story of Amir Kapoor (Aasif Mandvi), a successful Pakistani-American lawyer who is rapidly movi… read more

Similar categories in Ayad Akhtar's Disgraced book and Neil LaBute's In a Forest, Dark and Deep

  • theatre
  • plays
  • drama
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10. The Cripple of Inishmaan

By: Martin McDonagh

4.00

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

In 1934, the people of Inishmaan learn that the Hollywood director Robert Flaherty is coming to the… read more

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  • theatre
  • plays
  • drama
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11. 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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  • theatre
  • plays
  • drama

12. True West

By: Sam Shepard

3.79

Format: 368 pages,

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13. Death of a Salesman

By: Arthur Miller

3.57

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

'For a salesman, there is no rock bottom to life. He don't put a bolt to a nut, he don't tell you t… read more

Similar categories in Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman book and Neil LaBute's In a Forest, Dark and Deep

  • theatre
  • plays
  • drama
"I’m tired to the death."

-Arthur Miller, Death of a Salesman

"LINDA [with infinite patience]"

-Arthur Miller, Death of a Salesman

"Be liked and you will never want."

-Arthur Miller, Death of a Salesman

"I'm losing weight, you notice, Pop?"

-Arthur Miller, Death of a Salesman

14. Look Back in Anger

By: John Osborne

3.80

Format: 25 pages, Paperback

The text of the play, first performed in London in 1956, depicts the despair of post-war youth. read more

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15. 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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16. Angels in America, Part One: Millennium Approaches

By: Tony Kushner

4.11

Format: None pages, Paperback

Pulitzer Prize-winner for Drama, 1993. The first part of Tony Kushner's epic drama of America in th… read more

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17. Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body

By: Roxane Gay

5.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling author of Bad Feminist: a searingly honest memoir of food, weight, self-image,… read more

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18. The Lieutenant of Inishmore

By: Martin McDonagh

4.15

Format: 130 pages, Paperback

A farcical look at political violence as it's played out during The Troublesin Northern Ireland aga… read more

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19. Less Than Zero

By: Bret Easton Ellis

3.27

Format: None pages, Paperback

Set in Los Angeles in the early 1980's, this coolly mesmerizing novel is a raw, powerful portrait o… read more

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20. The Spy Who Came In from the Cold

By: John Le Carré

3.94

Format: 322 pages, Paperback

In this classic, John le Carre's third novel and the first to earn him international acclaim, he cr… read more

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21. 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

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22. Taxi Driver

By: Paul Schrader

3.03

Format: 234 pages, Paperback

1970s New York, and young Vietnam veteran Travis Bickle takes to driving a taxi in search of an esc… read more

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23. Clybourne Park

By: Bruce Norris

3.78

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

Clybourne park had its UK premiere at the Royal Court Theatre, London. Set in Chicago, the play "ap… read more

Similar categories in Bruce Norris's Clybourne Park book and Neil LaBute's In a Forest, Dark and Deep

  • theatre
  • plays
  • drama

24. The Doors of Perception & Heaven and Hell

By: Aldous Huxley

2.83

Format: None pages, Paperback

As only he can, Aldous Huxley explores the mind's remote frontiers and the unmapped areas of human … read more

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25. Detroit

By: None

4.95

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

In a "first ring" suburb outside a midsize American city, Ben and Mary fire up the grill to welcome… read more

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26. The Glass Menagerie

By: Tennessee Williams

4.90

Format: None pages, Paperback

The story of a mother, her son and daughter, and her daughter's suitor that brings to life human be… read more

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27. The Lonesome West

By: Martin McDonagh

3.81

Format: 329 pages, Unknown Binding

Valene and Coleman, two brothers living alone in their father's house after his recent death, find … read more

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28. A Skull in Connemara - Acting Edition

By: Martin McDonagh

3.81

Format: 329 pages,

For one week each autumn, Mick Dowd is hired to disinter the bones in certain sections of his local… read more

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29. Cinema Speculation

By: Quentin Tarantino

4.06

Format: 391 pages, Hardcover

The long-awaited first work of nonfiction from the author of the #1 New York Times bestselling Once… read more

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"Elvis movies weren't real movies, they were "Elvis Presley movies"

-Quentin Tarantino, Cinema Speculation

"Who wants to spend three months making a fucked-up version of their movie?"

-Quentin Tarantino, Cinema Speculation

"I don't know how he died, where he died, or where he's buried. But I do know I should've thanked him."

-Quentin Tarantino, Cinema Speculation

"Then the movie started playing like a real movie. But frankly, a more real movie than we were used to."

-Quentin Tarantino, Cinema Speculation

30. Do You Feel Anger?

By: Mara Nelson-Greenberg

3.88

Format: None pages, None

Sofia was recently hired as an empathy coach at a debt collection agency—and clearly, she has her w… read more

Similar categories in Mara Nelson-Greenberg's Do You Feel Anger? book and Neil LaBute's In a Forest, Dark and Deep

  • plays
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31. In a Forest, Dark and Deep

By: Neil LaBute

3.33

Format: 82 pages, Paperback

It was so simple, just a few little bits in his diary, files that he kept in longhand with all his … read more

Similar categories in Neil LaBute's In a Forest, Dark and Deep book and Neil LaBute's In a Forest, Dark and Deep

  • mystery
  • theatre
  • plays
  • drama

11 Top plays books like In a Forest, Dark and Deep by Neil LaBute

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A Streetcar Named Desire

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3.98

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The Pillowman

Martin McDonagh

4.30

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Waiting for Godot

Samuel Beckett

3.63

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Sam Shepard

4.03

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Edward Albee

4.06

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Nick Payne

4.07

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Caryl Churchill

3.58

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Annie Baker

4.20

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