10 Top drama books like Problem Child by George F. Walker

Problem Child

By: George F. Walker

3.40

Format: None pages, None

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1. Imagine: A Vision for Christians in the Arts

By: Steve Turner

4.13

Format: 131 pages, Paperback

Imagine art that is risky, complex and subtle! Imagine music, movies, books and paintings of the hi… read more

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"A moral standard does exist in the universe, and any sin not already punished on the cross will be dealt with on Judgment Day."

-Steve Turner, Imagine: A Vision for Christians in the Arts

"There is a need for wisdom in art. Shock, surprise, novelty, and innovation helped to grab attention but are not substantial in themselves."

-Steve Turner, Imagine: A Vision for Christians in the Arts

"The secular mind frequently doesn’t face up to the full implications of its beliefs; art can provide a timely shock that results in a reassessment."

-Steve Turner, Imagine: A Vision for Christians in the Arts

"The arts can sharpen the vision, quicken the intellect, preserve the memory, activate the conscience, enhance the understanding and refresh the language."

-Steve Turner, Imagine: A Vision for Christians in the Arts

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2. 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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  • plays
  • drama
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3. The Clean House

By: Sarah Ruhl

3.74

Format: 410 pages, Paperback

The play takes place in what the author describes as "metaphysical Connecticut," mostly in the home… read more

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  • 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. Les Belles-Soeurs

By: Michel Tremblay

3.00

Format: 76 pages,

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  • theatre
  • plays
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7. 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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  • theatre
  • plays
  • drama

8. Never Swim Alone and This is a Play

By: Daniel MacIvor

3.66

Format: None pages, Paperback

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9. The Last Days of Judas Iscariot

By: Stephen Adly Guirgis

4.18

Format: None pages, Paperback

From one of our most admired playwrights, "an ambitious, complicated and often laugh-out-loud relig… read more

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10. Ma Rainey's Black Bottom

By: August Wilson

3.00

Format: 282 pages,

The time is 1927. The place is a rundown recording studio in Chicago. Ma Rainey, the legendary blue… read more

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11. Antigone (The Theban Plays, #3)

By: Sophocles , J.E. Thomas

4.06

Format: None pages, Paperback

The curse placed on Oedipus lingers and haunts a younger generation in this new and brilliant trans… read more

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12. Rabbit Hole

By: David Lindsay-Abaire

4.15

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

"David Lindsay-Abaire has crafted a drama that's not just a departure but a revelation--an intensel… read more

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13. 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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14. The Ecstasy of Rita Joe

By: George Ryga

4.04

Format: 156 pages, Paperback

George Ryga's The Ecstasy of Rita Joe is perhaps the best known contemporary Canadian play - a lyri… read more

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15. Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic

By: Alison Bechdel

4.08

Format: 232 pages, Paperback

In this graphic memoir, Alison Bechdel charts her fraught relationship with her late father.Distant… read more

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"Who embalms the Undertaker when he dies?"

-Alison Bechdel, Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic

"Feminism is the theory. Lesbianism is the practice."

-Alison Bechdel, Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic

"Mom, how come you never go outside?" "I told you, I'm a vampire."

-Alison Bechdel, Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic

"It was not a triumphal return. Home, as I had known it, was gone."

-Alison Bechdel, Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic

16. 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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17. The Motherfucker With the Hat

By: Stephen Adly Guirgis , Bobby Cannavale , Chris Rock , Annabella Sciorra , None , None

4.10

Format: None pages, Audiobook

Addiction, pain, and explosive tempers are not exactly what you'd call the ingredients for a side-s… 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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  • 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

19. Danny and the Deep Blue Sea: An Apache Dance

By: John Patrick Shanley

3.98

Format: 240 pages,

The setting is a rundown bar in the Bronx, where two of society's rejects, Danny and Roberta, strik… read more

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20. 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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21. Lion in the Streets

By: Judith Thompson

3.62

Format: 280 pages, Paperback

The ghost of a young murdered girl flits through every scene linking the pain and anguish of all th… read more

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22. Closer: A Play

By: Patrick Marber

3.97

Format: 123 pages, Paperback

In Closer, Patrick Marber has created a brilliant exploration into the brutal anatomy of modern rom… read more

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  • theatre
  • plays
  • drama
"I know who you are. I love you. I love everything about you that hurts."

-Patrick Marber, Closer: A Play

"DAN What do you want? ALICE To be loved. DAN That simple? ALICE It's a big want."

-Patrick Marber, Closer: A Play

"Men want a girl who looks like a boy. They want to protect her but she must be a survivor. And she must come...like a train...but with...elegance."

-Patrick Marber, Closer: A Play

23. 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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24. Kim's Convenience

By: None , None

4.00

Format: 592 pages, Paperback

Winner of Best New Play and the Patron's Pick Award at Toronto's Fringe Festival, Kim's Convenience… read more

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25. Leaving Home

By: David French

5.00

Format: 228 pages, Paperback

David French's first play is a classic in Canadian drama. The first part of what has come to be kno… read more

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26. If This Gets Out

By: Sophie Gonzales

3.92

Format: 404 pages, Hardcover

Eighteen-year-olds Ruben Montez and Zach Knight are two members of the boy-band Saturday, one of th… read more

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"Yeah but he's my- Ruben"

-Sophie Gonzales, If This Gets Out

"I slow my step as a spark of realization pricks in the back of my mind. Shut it down. Crush the thought. Is the truth that I don't get strong crushes on guys the way I get on girls? Or is the truth t…"

-Sophie Gonzales, If This Gets Out

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27. My Name Is Asher Lev (the play)

By: Aaron Posner

3.98

Format: 50 pages, Paperback

Book annotation not available for this My Name Is Asher Posner, Dramatist's Play ServicePublicat… read more

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  • theatre
  • plays
  • drama
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28. 7 Stories

By: Morris Panych

3.92

Format: 104 pages, Paperback

In this fast-paced, sophisticated and hilarious play, a man contemplating suicide on a seventh-stor… read more

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  • plays
  • drama
"Acting is such a desperately futile profession anyway. Playing out the lives of other men. Knowing of their failures and successes long before they ever do. Living, suffering, murdering, dying … all …"

-Morris Panych, 7 Stories

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29. Drag Queens On Trial: A Courtroom Melodrama: They Lived By The Skin Of Their Spike Heels

By: Sky Gilbert

4.14

Format: 56 pages, Paperback

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  • drama

30. Problem Child

By: George F. Walker

3.40

Format: None pages, None

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31. The Theatre of Neptune in New France: Presented Upon the Waves of Port Royal the Fourteenth Day of November, Sixteen Hundred and Six, on the Return of ... the Armouchiquois Country (Classic Reprint)

By: Marc Lescarbot

1.54

Format: 78 pages, Paperback

Excerpt from The Theatre of Neptune in New France Seated in the shallop was Charles de Biencourt, … read more

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13 Best plays books like Problem Child by George F. Walker

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Harlem Duet

Djanet Sears

4.23

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The Clean House

Sarah Ruhl

3.74

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The Importance of Being Earnest

Oscar Wilde

2.50

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Waiting for Godot

Samuel Beckett

3.63

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Transform Your Habits

Pygmalion

George Bernard Shaw

3.89

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A Streetcar Named Desire

Tennessee Williams

3.98

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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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