8 Best plays books like Vera Vera Vera by Hayley Squires

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Vera Vera Vera

By: Hayley Squires

3.59

Format: 72 pages, Kindle Edition

This brave and uncompromising play questions the validity of the myth of the martyred soldier and t…

If you liked the plays plot in Vera Vera Vera by Hayley Squires , here is a list of 8 books like this:

Cover of This is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor by Adam Kay

1. This is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor

By: Adam Kay

4.40

Format: 285 pages, Kindle Edition

Welcome to the life of a junior doctor: 97-hour weeks, life and death decisions, a constant tsunami… read more

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"From the most insignificant of actions can come the most serious of consequences."

-Adam Kay, This is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor

"Even if I wanted to have an affair, I honestly think I'd be too tired to unzip my trousers"

-Adam Kay, This is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor

"I’m all for explaining terminology as we go along, but if you don’t know what a stethoscope is, this is probably a book to regift. "

-Adam Kay, This is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor

"You work yourself to exhaustion, pushing yourself beyond what could be reasonably expected of you, and end up constantly feeling like you don’t know"

-Adam Kay, This is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor

Cover of A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams

2. 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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"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

Cover of The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides

3. The Virgin Suicides

By: Jeffrey Eugenides

3.79

Format: 250 pages, Paperback

The shocking thing about the girls was how nearly normal they seemed when their mother let them out… read more

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"She was the still point in the turning world."

-Jeffrey Eugenides, The Virgin Suicides

"During a warm winter rain ... the basins of her collarbones collected water."

-Jeffrey Eugenides, The Virgin Suicides

"In the end, it wasn't death that surprised her but the stubbornness of life."

-Jeffrey Eugenides, The Virgin Suicides

"Aloft, he looked frail, diseased, and temperamental, as we expected a European to look."

-Jeffrey Eugenides, The Virgin Suicides

Cover of Our Country's Good by Timberlake Wertenbaker

4. Our Country's Good

By: Timberlake Wertenbaker

3.00

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

An Australian penal colony in 1789. A young lieutenant directs rehearsals of the Restoration comedy… read more

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5. Love and Money

By: Dennis Kelly

3.10

Format: 271 pages,

A series of scenes that gradually tell the story of how the financial collapse affects a British co… read more

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Cover of Fleabag: The Original Play by Phoebe Waller-Bridge

6. 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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7. Blood Brothers

By: Willy Russell

3.70

Format: 640 pages, Paperback

A Liverpudlian West Side Story: twin brothers are separated at birth because their mother cannot af… read more

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Cover of Eigengrau by Penelope Skinner

8. Eigengrau

By: Penelope Skinner

3.63

Format: 143 pages, Hardcover

British contemporary playwright. 2m/2w 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. The Handmaid's Tale

By: Margaret Atwood

4.32

Format: 318 pages, Paperback

Offred is a Handmaid in the Republic of Gilead. She may leave the home of the Commander and his wif… read more

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11. A Raisin in the Sun

By: Lorraine Hansberry

4.20

Format: 24 pages, Hardcover

"Never before, in the entire history of the American theater, has so much of the truth of black peo… read more

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12. Hamnet

By: Maggie O'Farrell

4.20

Format: 372 pages, Hardcover

Drawing on Maggie O'Farrell's long-term fascination with the little-known story behind Shakespeare'… read more

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"He has, Anges sees, done what any father would wish to do, to exchange his child’s suffering for his own, to take his place, to offer himself up in his child’s stead so that the boy might live."

-Maggie O'Farrell, Hamnet

"And there, by the fire, held in the arms of his mother, in the room in which he learnt to crawl, to eat, to walk, to speak, Hamnet takes his last breath. He draws it in, he lets it out. Then there is…"

-Maggie O'Farrell, Hamnet

"Ahora esa persona se ha perdido para siempre. Va a la deriva, no reconoce su propia vida. Está desamarrada, extraviada. Es una persona que llora si no encuentra un zapato, si cuece la sopa más de lo …"

-Maggie O'Farrell, Hamnet

"The sound that comes out of him is choked and smothered, like that of an animal forced to bears great weight. It is a noise of disbelief, of anguish. Anges will never forget it. At the end of her lif…"

-Maggie O'Farrell, Hamnet

Cover of Vera Vera Vera by Hayley Squires

13. Vera Vera Vera

By: Hayley Squires

3.59

Format: 72 pages, Kindle Edition

This brave and uncompromising play questions the validity of the myth of the martyred soldier and t… read more

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14. Freak

By: Anna Jordan

3.72

Format: 56 pages, Paperback

A punchy and provocative new play by the Bruntwood Prize-winning author of Yen . Georgie is thirty… read more

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