10 Best drama books like Tusk Tusk by Polly Stenham

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Tusk Tusk

By: Polly Stenham

3.85

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

Come on troops. Let's take Finn Bar, slightly ruffled but still in fighting form. Maggie, could do…

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1. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

By: Edward Albee

4.06

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

"Twelve times a week," answered Uta Hagen when asked how often she'd like to play Martha in Who's A… read more

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  • theatre
  • plays
  • drama
"Honey: I know these people ..."

-Edward Albee, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

"You want to dance with me, angel tits?"

-Edward Albee, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

"Musical beds is the faculty sport around here."

-Edward Albee, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

"George: Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf? Martha: I am, George. I am."

-Edward Albee, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

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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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  • 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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3. Yerma

By: Federico García Lorca , Gwynne Edwards , Chris Megson

3.55

Format: 199 pages, Paperback

Yerma (meaning 'Barren') is one of three tragic plays about peasants and rural life that make up Lo… read more

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  • theatre
  • plays
  • drama
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4. 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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  • theatre
  • plays
  • drama
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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
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6. 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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  • theatre
  • plays
  • drama
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7. Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons

By: Sam Steiner

3.96

Format: None pages,

The average person will speak 123,205,750 words in a lifetime. But what if there were a limit? Oliv… read more

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  • theatre
  • plays
  • drama
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8. King Lear

By: William Shakespeare , William James Rolfe

3.91

Format: 338 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Shakespeare’s King Lear challenges us with the magnitude, intensity, and sheer duration of the pain… read more

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  • theatre
  • plays
"Fortune love you."

-William Shakespeare, King Lear

"She is herself a dowry."

-William Shakespeare, King Lear

"All dark and comfortless."

-William Shakespeare, King Lear

"Nothing can come of nothing."

-William Shakespeare, King Lear

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9. If Beale Street Could Talk

By: James Baldwin

3.38

Format: None pages, Paperback

In this honest and stunning novel, James Baldwin has given America a moving story of love in the fa… read more

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10. On Chesil Beach

By: Ian McEwan

3.21

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

A novel of remarkable depth and poignancy from one of the most acclaimed writers of our time. It is… read more

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11. Breathing Corpses (Oberon Modern Plays)

By: Laura Wade

4.33

Format: 268 pages, Paperback

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  • theatre
  • plays
  • drama
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12. Wishful Drinking

By: Carrie Fisher

3.82

Format: 163 pages, Hardcover

In Wishful Drinking, Carrie Fisher tells the true and intoxicating story of her life with inimitabl… read more

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"I just have basically too much personality for one person, and not quite enough for two"

-Carrie Fisher, Wishful Drinking

"And not that it matters, but my mother is not a lesbian! She's just a really, really bad heterosexual."

-Carrie Fisher, Wishful Drinking

"You know how they say that religion is the opiate of the masses? Well, I took masses of opiates religiously."

-Carrie Fisher, Wishful Drinking

"No motive is pure. No one is good or bad-but a hearty mix of both. And sometimes life actually gives to you by taking away."

-Carrie Fisher, Wishful Drinking

13. Amsterdam

By: Ian McEwan

4.06

Format: 663 pages, Paperback

On a chilly February day, two old friends meet in the throng outside a London crematorium to pay th… read more

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14. 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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  • plays
"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)

15. 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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16. 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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  • theatre
  • plays
  • drama
"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

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17. The Bell Jar

By: Sylvia Plath

4.06

Format: 294 pages, Paperback

The Bell Jar chronicles the crack-up of Esther Greenwood: brilliant, beautiful, enormously talented… read more

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"I woke to the sound of rain."

-Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

"I wanted to be where nobody I knew could ever come."

-Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

"When they asked me what I wanted to be I said I didn't know."

-Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

"If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed."

-Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

18. 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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19. Dancer from the Dance

By: Andrew Holleran

3.84

Format: 464 pages, Paperback

One of the most important works of gay literature, this haunting, brilliant novel is a seriocomic r… read more

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20. 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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21. The Tempest

By: William Shakespeare

4.27

Format: 127 pages,

In The Tempest, long considered one of Shakespeare's most lyrical plays, Prospero--a magician on an… read more

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22. Starter for Ten

By: David Nicholls

3.81

Format: None pages, Paperback

The year is 1985. Brian Jackson, a working-class kid on full scholarship, has started his first ter… read more

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23. A Room with a View

By: E.M. Forster

5.00

Format: 32 pages, Paperback

'"But you do," he went on, not waiting for contradiction. "You love the boy body and soul, plainly,… read more

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24. Life After Life

By: Kate Atkinson

3.27

Format: 64 pages, Hardcover

What if you could live again and again, until you got it right? On a cold and snowy night in 1910, … read more

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25. 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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26. How to Be Both

By: Ali Smith

4.10

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

Passionate, compassionate, vitally inventive and scrupulously playful, Ali Smith's novels are like … read more

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27. Gun Island

By: Amitav Ghosh

3.63

Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition

Alternate cover edition of ASIN B07DNDDFLD Bundook. Gun. A common word, but one which turns De… read more

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"That the world of today presents all the symptoms of demonic possession."

-Amitav Ghosh, Gun Island

"... there was a land of sugar, where everything was sweet; and also a country made of cloth, and an island of chains."

-Amitav Ghosh, Gun Island

"Sometimes, said Moyna, it seemed as though both land and water were turning against those who lived in the Sunderbans."

-Amitav Ghosh, Gun Island

"People think that knowing the future can help you prepare for what is to come - but often it only makes you powerless."

-Amitav Ghosh, Gun Island

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28. Talking at Night

By: Claire Daverley

3.96

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Will and Rosie meet as teenagers. They’re opposites in every way. She overthinks everything; he … read more

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29. 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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  • plays
  • drama
Cover of Morning (Modern Plays) by Simon Stephens

30. Morning (Modern Plays)

By: Simon Stephens

3.31

Format: 64 pages, Paperback

' I missed first time. I could feel his skull caving in. It was like a shell. ' Morning - a play f… read more

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  • plays
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31. Tusk Tusk

By: Polly Stenham

3.85

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

Come on troops. Let's take Finn Bar, slightly ruffled but still in fighting form. Maggie, could do… read more

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  • theatre
  • adolescence
  • plays
  • drama

14 must-read plays books like Tusk Tusk by Polly Stenham

Transform Your Habits

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

Edward Albee

4.06

Transform Your Habits

A Streetcar Named Desire

Tennessee Williams

3.98

Transform Your Habits

Yerma

Federico García Lorca , Gwynne Edwards , Chris Megson

3.55

Transform Your Habits

The Importance of Being Earnest

Oscar Wilde

2.50

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Transform Your Habits

Pygmalion

George Bernard Shaw

3.89

Transform Your Habits

A Streetcar Named Desire

Tennessee Williams

3.98

Transform Your Habits

The Yellow Wall-Paper

Charlotte Perkins Gilman , Elaine R. Hedges , Elaine Hedges

4.08

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A Midsummer Night’s Dream

William Shakespeare , Barbara A. Mowat , Paul Werstine , Catherine Belsey

3.95

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