If We Were Birds
By: Erin Shields
4.26
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
Erin Shields' award-winning play is a shocking, uncompromising examination of the horrors of war, g…
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1. The Good Woman of Setzuan
By: Bertolt Brecht , Eric Bentley
3.67
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
In 1952, Hannah Arendt hailed Bertolt Brecht as "beyond a doubt the greatest living German poet and… read more
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"Carpenter: "Call Shen Te, someone! She's good!" Shui Ta: "Certainly. She's ruined."-Bertolt Brecht, The Good Woman of Setzuan
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
3. Harlem Duet
By: Djanet Sears
4.23
Format: 510 pages, Paperback
Winner of the Governor General's Award for Drama. Winner of the Chalmers Play Award. A rhapsodic bl… read more
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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
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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
5. Oedipus Rex (The Theban Plays, #1)
By: Sophocles , J.E. Thomas , Elizabeth Osborne
4.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
"...what man wins more happiness than just its shape and the ruin when that shape collapses?" Sopho… read more
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6. The Importance of Being Earnest
By: Oscar Wilde
2.50
Format: None pages,
Oscar Wilde's madcap farce about mistaken identities, secret engagements, and lovers entanglements … read more
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7. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
By: Muriel Spark
3.70
Format: 150 pages, Paperback
A teacher at a girl's school in Edinburgh during the 1930s comes into conflict with school authorit… read more
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"It's only possible to betray where loyalty is due"-Muriel Spark, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
"[...] there were other people's Edinburghs quite different from hers [...]"-Muriel Spark, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
"... flattening their scorn underneath the chariot wheels of her superiority."-Muriel Spark, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
"To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul."-Muriel Spark, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
8. Blood Relations and Other Plays
By: Sharon Pollock , Diane Bessai , Anne Nothof
3.30
Format: 107 pages, Paperback
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9. Every Brilliant Thing
By: Duncan Macmillan
3.82
Format: None pages, Paperback
You're six years old. Mum's in hospital. Dad says she's 'done something stupid'. She finds it hard … read more
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11. The Rez Sisters: A Play in Two Acts
By: Tomson Highway
4.00
Format: 371 pages, Paperback
Winner of the Dora Mavor Moore Award for Best New Play Nominated for the Governor General's Award T… read more
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12. Dry Lips Oughta Move To Kapuskasing
By: Tomson Highway
4.12
Format: 543 pages, Paperback
Nominee, Governor General's Literary Award for Drama Dry Lips Oughta Move to Kapuskasing tells anot… read more
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13. The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds
By: Paul Zindel
4.38
Format: None pages, Paperback
The Pulitzer Prize-winning play by Paul Zindel, author of the beloved bestselling novel The Pigman,… read more
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14. 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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15. Dear Ijeawele, or a Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions
By: None
4.24
Format: 212 pages, Hardcover
From the best-selling author of Americanah and We Should All Be Feministscomes a powerful new state… read more
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16. Diving Into the Wreck
By: Adrienne Rich
3.76
Format: 180 pages, Paperback
"I came to explore the wreck. / The words are purposes. / The words are maps. / I came to see the d… read more
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17. Goodnight Desdemona
By: Ann-Marie MacDonald
3.76
Format: 234 pages, Paperback
In this exuberant comedy, MacDonald asks, What if Desdemona and Juliet were allowed to live? Consta… read more
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18. A Doll's House
By: Henrik Ibsen , Michael Meyer
3.76
Format: 122 pages, Paperback
A Doll's House (1879), is a masterpiece of theatrical craft which, for the first time portrayed the… read more
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"Laughter's all the damned thing's fit for."-Henrik Ibsen, A Doll's House
"I must make up my mind which is right – society or I."-Henrik Ibsen, A Doll's House
"لن تفقدوني طويلاً، فالراحلون سرعان ما ينطوون في زوايا النسيان."-Henrik Ibsen, A Doll's House
"أنا ارى الناس صنفين .. صنف تعشقه المرأة، وصنف تحب أن تتجاذب معه أطراف الحديث."-Henrik Ibsen, A Doll's House
19. 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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20. Cloud 9
By: Caryl Churchill
3.58
Format: 376 pages, Paperback
In colonial Africa, a Victorian English patrician represses the natives, his wife, his children, ho… read more
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21. No One Belongs Here More Than You
By: Miranda July
5.00
Format: 32 pages, Hardcover
Screenwriter, director, and star of the acclaimed film Me and You and Everyone We Know, Miranda Jul… read more
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22. Other Desert Cities
By: Honor Moore , Jon Robin Baitz
4.33
Format: None pages, Paperback
In OTHER DESERT CITIES, Brooke Wyeth returns home to Palm Springs to visit her parents after a six-… read more
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23. 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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24. Fairview
By: Jackie Sibblies Drury
4.27
Format: 120 pages, Paperback
Grandma's birthday approaches. Beverly is organizing the perfect dinner, but everything seems doome… read more
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"Once... Well, not once, not at all once. Many many many many times, there was a person who worked hard, a person who tried to work hard, and tried to do their best, and tried to do well by their fami…"-Jackie Sibblies Drury, Fairview
25. Even Though I Knew the End
By: C.L. Polk
3.85
Format: 136 pages, Hardcover
A magical detective dives into the affairs of Chicago's divine monsters to secure a future with the… read more
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"A warm firework blossomed in my chest, the brilliant sparks flying along my nerves. I barely stopped myself from reaching across the table for her hand."-C.L. Polk, Even Though I Knew the End
"I never told her how she had saved me. I never told her how she became the dearest friend I’d ever had. I told her I loved her, but never enough. My Edith of the sparrows. My heart. My world."-C.L. Polk, Even Though I Knew the End
"Ten years. It wasn't enough time, but I would live every blessed second of it. "We're going to San Fransisco." She smiled up at me. "We'll get a house in North Beach." "Right away," I said. "I've got…"-C.L. Polk, Even Though I Knew the End
26. I'm Afraid of Men
By: Vivek Shraya
4.23
Format: 96 pages, Hardcover
A trans artist explores how masculinity was imposed on her as a boy and continues to haunt her as a… read more
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"Queerness is associated with freedom from boundaries."-Vivek Shraya, I'm Afraid of Men
"Do these parts still exist somewhere inside of me with the capacity to be reactivated?"-Vivek Shraya, I'm Afraid of Men
"Why is being touch by strangers — strangers who refuse to identify themselves — a form of flattery?"-Vivek Shraya, I'm Afraid of Men
"My brownness turns out to be a form of queerness in and of itself and makes me too queer for gay men."-Vivek Shraya, I'm Afraid of Men
27. All's Well
By: Mona Awad
3.74
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
Miranda Fitch’s life is a waking nightmare. The accident that ended her burgeoning acting career le… read more
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"I'm supposed to feel bad that I'm better now? I'm supposed to cry over a little cut. To what? To make you feel like I'm not a monster. I need to perform my little bit of pain for you so you'll know I…"-Mona Awad, All's Well
"I gesture to the window and smile. Budding branches. Pale green leaves. Spring. Spring, does she see that? A time when everything is in bloom. Everything is having sex. Everything is so damp and frag…"-Mona Awad, All's Well
"But not too much pain, am I right? Not too much, never too much. If it was too much, you wouldn't know what to do with me, would you? Too much would make you uncomfortable. Bored. My crying would lea…"-Mona Awad, All's Well
"What, am I supposed to feel guilty?" I say. He looks confused. "Guilty?" "That I feel fine for once? That I'm not limping and moaning around? Dragging my leg like Briana? Lying on the floor, crying i…"-Mona Awad, All's Well
28. Women of the Fur Trade
By: Frances Koncan
4.19
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
In eighteen hundred and something something, somewhere upon the banks of a Reddish River in Treaty … read more
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29. The Anger in Ernest and Ernestine
By: Robert Morgan
3.86
Format: 72 pages, Paperback
Ernest and Ernestine live in a perfectly ordered world until cracks appear in the veneer. Repressed… read more
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30. If We Were Birds
By: Erin Shields
4.26
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
Erin Shields' award-winning play is a shocking, uncompromising examination of the horrors of war, g… read more
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31. Age of Arousal
By: Linda Griffiths
3.81
Format: 200 pages, Paperback
It’s a time of passion and confusion. Virtue is barely holding down its petticoats. People are burs… read more
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