Beginning
By: David Eldridge
3.53
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
You didn't fancy it then? Fancy what? Getting in the taxi. No. Every story starts somewhere. …
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1. Equus (Penguin Plays)
By: Peter Shaffer
3.91
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
In "Equus," which took critics and public alike by storm and has gone on to become a modern classic… read more
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"There is now, in my mouth, this sharp chain. And it never comes out."-Peter Shaffer, Equus (Penguin Plays)
"A child is born into a world of phenomena all equal in their power to enslave."-Peter Shaffer, Equus (Penguin Plays)
"That's what his stare has been saying to me all this time: 'At least I galloped - when did you?"-Peter Shaffer, Equus (Penguin Plays)
"To go through life and call it yours - your life - you first have to get your own pain. Pain that's unique to you. You can't just dip into the common bin and say 'That's enough!"-Peter Shaffer, Equus (Penguin Plays)
2. Bull
By: Mike Bartlett
3.70
Format: 64 pages, Paperback
Two jobs. Three candidates. This would be a really bad time to have a stain on your shirt... A sav… read more
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3. John
By: Annie Baker
4.20
Format: None pages,
"Annie Baker's Johnis so good on so many levels that it casts a unique and brilliant light... By no… read more
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4. Marking Time (Cazalet Chronicles, #2)
By: Elizabeth Jane Howard
3.44
Format: 213 pages, Paperback
The wonderful sequel to The Light Years returns readers to Britain in September, 1939, as war break… read more
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5. All My Sons
By: Arthur Miller , Christopher Bigsby
4.50
Format: 231 pages, Paperback
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6. The Light Years (Cazalet Chronicles, #1)
By: Elizabeth Jane Howard
3.83
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
In 1937, the coming war is only a distant cloud on Britain's horizon. As the Cazalet households pre… read more
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7. Boys
By: Ella Hickson
4.82
Format: 174 pages, Paperback
A thrilling exploration of the gray area between childhood and adulthood, from one of playwriting's… read more
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8. Confusion (Cazalet Chronicles #3)
By: Elizabeth Jane Howard
3.66
Format: 162 pages, Paperback
In the third novel of England's Cazalet family, Elizabeth Howard moves through the dark, middle day… read more
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9. The Child in Time
By: Ian McEwan
4.06
Format: 663 pages, Paperback
Stephen Lewis, a successful writer of children's books, is confronted with the unthinkable: his onl… read more
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10. Agamemnon (Oresteia, #1)
By: Aeschylus , Patricia E. Easterling , John Harrison , Judith Affleck , None
3.83
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
Treating ancient plays as living drama. Classical Greek drama is brought vividly to life in this se… read more
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"Every medicine is vain."-Aeschylus, Agamemnon (Oresteia, #1)
"A curse burns bright on crime."-Aeschylus, Agamemnon (Oresteia, #1)
"There is no avoidance in delay."-Aeschylus, Agamemnon (Oresteia, #1)
"In war, the first casualty is truth."-Aeschylus, Agamemnon (Oresteia, #1)
11. Uncle Vanya
By: Anton Chekhov
3.78
Format: None pages, Paperback
Famous play by the Russian short story writer and playwright. His major plays are frequently revive… read more
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12. NW
By: Zadie Smith
3.67
Format: 348 pages, Hardcover
Set in northwest London, Zadie Smith's brilliant tragicomic novel follows four locals--Leah, Natali… read more
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14. Spring's Awakening
By: Eric Bentley , Frank Wedekind
4.03
Format: 512 pages, Paperback
Spring's Awakening is a tragi-comedy of teenage sex. Its fourteen-year-old heroine, Wendla, is kill… read more
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15. Far Away
By: Caryl Churchill
3.69
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
"Chilling... Churchill's play seems to reinvent drama with every other line." - Village Voice "A ma… read more
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16. Doubt
By: John Patrick Shanley
4.50
Format: None pages, Paperback
"A superb new drama written by John Patrick Shanley. It is an inspired study in moral uncertainty w… read more
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17. Blackbird
By: David Harrower
4.29
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
Fifteen years ago Una and Ray had a relationship. They haven't set eyes on each other since. Now, y… read more
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18. Glengarry Glen Ross
By: David Mamet
4.49
Format: 563 pages,
Winner of the 1984 Pulitzer Prize, David Mamet's scalding comedy is about small-time, cutthroat rea… read more
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19. The Weir
By: Conor McPherson
3.85
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
Set in a bar in a remote part of Ireland, The Weir tells of a young woman who has a story to fright… read more
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20. The Oedipus Cycle: Oedipus Rex/Oedipus at Colonus/Antigone (The Theban Plays, #1–3)
By: Sophocles , Robert Fitzgerald , Dudley Fitts , None
5.00
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
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21. Prophet Song
By: Paul Lynch
4.10
Format: 259 pages, Kindle Edition
A fearless portrait of a society on the brink as a mother faces a terrible choice, from an internat… read more
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"people are entitled to some small moment of peace."-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song
"the child absorbing the mother’s trauma and storing it in his body for later use,"-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song
"... time is at once addition and subtraction, time adds one day to the next and always takes away from what's left..."-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song
"...knowing how it is so that all boys grow up and pull away from home to unmake the world in the guise of making it, nature decrees it so."-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song
22. 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
23. After Sappho
By: Selby Wynn Schwartz
3.51
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
What did we want? To begin with, we wanted what half the population had got by just being born. … read more
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"The death of a child makes a barbaric sound, even in print."-Selby Wynn Schwartz, After Sappho
"We were going to be sappho, but how did Sappho begin to become herself? P.40"-Selby Wynn Schwartz, After Sappho
"But some of us have always seen the modern world as a sea meant to drown us."-Selby Wynn Schwartz, After Sappho
"There is always this risk, in life, that we have our parts in a tragedy and we do not know it."-Selby Wynn Schwartz, After Sappho
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. Enter Ghost
By: Isabella Hammad
4.09
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A bold, evocative new novel from the Sue Kaufman, Betty Trask and Plimpton Prize Award winner Isabe… read more
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26. Milk Teeth
By: Jessica Andrews
3.68
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
From the author of the award-winning Saltwater comes a beautifully told love story set across Engla… read more
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27. Dance Nation (Oberon Modern Plays)
By: Clare Barron
4.22
Format: 173 pages, Kindle Edition
'Maybe this is the year, this is the moment, this is the dance where your lives will start!'Somewhe… read more
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28. Everyman (Faber Drama)
By: Carol Ann Duffy
3.96
Format: 94 pages, Kindle Edition
Everyman is successful, popular and riding high when Death comes calling. Forced to abandon the lif… read more
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29. Beginning
By: David Eldridge
3.53
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
You didn't fancy it then? Fancy what? Getting in the taxi. No. Every story starts somewhere. … read more
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30. Meat (NHB Modern Plays)
By: Gillian Greer
3.57
Format: 132 pages, Kindle Edition
When Ronan's former girlfriend Max turns up at his fashionable Dublin restaurant, he's determined t… read more
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31. Precious Little Talent (NHB Modern Plays)
By: Ella Hickson
3.66
Format: 87 pages, Kindle Edition
A touching and funny play about 20-somethings graduating into a world that's sold them down the riv… read more
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