18 Top plays books like The Doctor by Robert Icke

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The Doctor

By: Robert Icke

4.35

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

Very freely adapting Professor Bernhardi by Arthur Schnitzler, Robert Icke has written a gripping m…

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1. 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

Cover of The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides by Robert Fagles, Aeschylus, William Bedell Stanford

2. The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides

By: Robert Fagles , Aeschylus , William Bedell Stanford

4.01

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

Alternate covers of this ISBN here, here, here, here. Most recent cover is here. In the Oresteia… read more

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"I cannot not grieve."

-Robert Fagles, The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides

"Learning comes through pain."

-Robert Fagles, The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides

"Do I not live? Badly, I know, but I live."

-Robert Fagles, The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides

"Nothing forces us to know What we do not want to know Except pain"

-Robert Fagles, The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides

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3. The New York Trilogy

By: Paul Auster , Art Spiegelman

4.36

Format: 184 pages, Paperback

Paul Auster's signature work, The New York Trilogy, consists of three interlocking novels: City of … read more

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4. Topdog/Underdog

By: Suzan-Lori Parks

4.11

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

A darkly comic fable of brotherly love and family identity is Suzan-Lori Parks latest riff on the w… read more

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5. 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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6. 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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7. Pomona

By: Alistair McDowall

4.29

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

I think I'd sleep a lot easier if I knew none of us would wake up tomorrow. Ollie's sister is missi… read more

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8. The Seagull

By: Anton Chekhov , Anya Reiss

4.22

Format: 432 pages, Paperback

A successful actress visits her brother's isolated estate far from the city, throwing the frustrate… read more

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9. 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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10. 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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11. An Enemy of the People

By: Henrik Ibsen

3.84

Format: 464 pages, Paperback

An Enemy of the people (original Norwegian title: En folkefiende) is an 1882 play by Norwegian play… read more

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12. 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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13. The Flick

By: Annie Baker

3.98

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

In a rundown movie theater in central Massachusetts, three underpaid employees sweep up popcorn in … read more

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14. 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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15. In Basildon

By: David Eldridge

3.33

Format: 194 pages, Paperback

'People always get the wrong idea about Essex don't they?' Len's on his death bed and the family ga… read more

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16. Chewing Gum Dreams

By: Michaela Coel

3.74

Format: 646 pages, Paperback

Tracey Gordon, the 67 bus, friendship, sex, UK garage, school, music, teachers, friendship, periods… read more

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17. 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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18. Lectura fácil

By: Cristina Morales

4.06

Format: 424 pages, Paperback

Son cuatro: Nati, Patri, Marga y Àngels. Son parientas, tienen diversos grados de lo que la Adminis… read more

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"Igual que hemos subvertido el hecho de que siempre limpiaran o cocinaran las tías, debemos subvertir el hecho de que siempre escriba el escritor."

-Cristina Morales, Lectura fácil

"al estirarle un brazo, hice crujir yo las costuras de la camisa de Ibrahim, y va el tío y me dice que perdón. ¿Perdón por qué? ¿Por ir vestido? Será que se están pidiendo perdón a ellos mismos por at…"

-Cristina Morales, Lectura fácil

"Rather than yielding to power in despondence and defeat, we can radicalise against it. We can become so thoroughly repellent that they wouldn’t dare tell us to overcome our adversity, so repellent th…"

-Cristina Morales, Lectura fácil

"La profesora repitió la disimulada orden. Era disimulada por dos motivos: primero, porque no dijo "Quitaos los calcetines" sino "Nos quitamos los calcetines", es decir, que no dio la orden sino que e…"

-Cristina Morales, Lectura fácil

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19. hang (NHB Modern Plays)

By: debbie tucker green

3.74

Format: 75 pages, Kindle Edition

His life. In her hands. A shattering play about one woman's unspeakable decision. hang premiered at… read more

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Cover of Mary Jane (TCG Edition) by Amy Herzog

20. Mary Jane (TCG Edition)

By: Amy Herzog

4.05

Format: 84 pages, Paperback

“The most profound and harrowing of Ms. Herzog’s many fine plays.” —Jesse Green, New York Times Arm… read more

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21. 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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22. The Welkin

By: Lucy Kirkwood

4.36

Format: 124 pages, Paperback

Rural Suffolk, 1759. As the country waits for Halley's Comet, Sally Poppy is sentenced to hang for … read more

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Cover of Death at the Sign of the Rook (Jackson Brodie, #6) by Kate Atkinson

23. Death at the Sign of the Rook (Jackson Brodie, #6)

By: Kate Atkinson

4.09

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The stage is set. Marooned overnight by a snowstorm in a grand country house are a cast of characte… read more

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24. Vanya

By: Simon Stephens

4.60

Format: 42 pages, Paperback

Chekhov's classic tale of love, art, sex, and attempted murder in a fresh adaptation by Simon Steph… read more

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25. 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

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Cover of Professor Bernhardi by Arthur Schnitzler

26. Professor Bernhardi

By: Arthur Schnitzler

3.88

Format: 234 pages, Perfect Paperback

Rare Book read more

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27. Infinite Life

By: Annie Baker

4.20

Format: 64 pages, Paperback

'I said no one should ever try to recreate this. This is agony in its purest form.' Five women i… read more

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28. 2:22: A Ghost Story (NHB Modern Plays)

By: Danny Robins

4.47

Format: 119 pages, Kindle Edition

'I'd get freaked out here, alone in the dark. Wondering what's lurking at the bottom of the bed, re… read more

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Cover of The Doctor by Robert Icke

29. The Doctor

By: Robert Icke

4.35

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

Very freely adapting Professor Bernhardi by Arthur Schnitzler, Robert Icke has written a gripping m… read more

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30. 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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31. Cyrano de Bergerac: in a free adaptation

By: Martin Crimp

4.64

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

A genius with language, but convinced of his own ugliness, Cyrano secretly loves the radiant Roxane… read more

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"I love words, that's all. And without this - (Holds up pen.) human history would fall into a black pit and there'd be almost no trace of it."

-Martin Crimp, Cyrano de Bergerac: in a free adaptation

"I love words, that's all. And without this - (Holds up pen.) human history would fall into a black pit and there'd be almost no trace of it. "

-Martin Crimp, Cyrano de Bergerac: in a free adaptation

"Cyrano: I'm sorry - Christian: No you're not. You love her - you want her - now that's what you've got. Shit-looking. Cyrano: Christian. Christian: Shit-looking. All this reading she's done - this 'b…"

-Martin Crimp, Cyrano de Bergerac: in a free adaptation

" De Guiche: Alright - yes - I'm meeting a woman here for sex. Satisfied? Cyrano: Yes, yes - very understandable: you look like a man, but in fact you are an animal. De Guiche: Do I know you? Cyrano: …"

-Martin Crimp, Cyrano de Bergerac: in a free adaptation

23 best-selling plays books like PATRIOTS by Peter Morgan

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Everyman

Anonymous , Unknown

3.27

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The Pillowman

Martin McDonagh

4.30

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Howard Ashman

3.75

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Danai Gurira

3.50

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