8 Best drama books like The Walworth Farce by Enda Walsh

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The Walworth Farce

By: Enda Walsh

3.97

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

“If there is a bleaker, funnier or more desperate play in Edinburgh this year, I’ll eat my hat.”— G…

If you liked the drama plot in The Walworth Farce by Enda Walsh , here is a list of 8 books like this:

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1. Fox 8

By: George Saunders

4.12

Format: 21 pages, ebook

A darkly comic short story, a fable about the all too real impact that we humans have on the enviro… read more

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  • fiction
"Now all these happy sites and sounds seem like triks. Now it seems like the gud times are mere lee smoke that, upon blowing away, here is the reel life, which is: rok hats, kikking, stomping."

-George Saunders, Fox 8

"You may have herd the Yuman frase, What are frends for? Well, I will tell you. Frends are for, when your hole Groop terns its baks on you, here comes your frend, Fox 7, of who I spoke of erlyer, as b…"

-George Saunders, Fox 8

"One day, walking neer one of your Yuman houses, smelling all the interest with snout, I herd, from inside, the most amazing sound. Turns out, what that sound is, was: the Yuman voice, making werds. T…"

-George Saunders, Fox 8

"Every minit with no kikking and stomping now seems like not a real minit. Do you get what I mean? It is like some frend who preveusly was nise suden lee says some crool thing and does this nip on you…"

-George Saunders, Fox 8

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2. Top Girls

By: Caryl Churchill

3.58

Format: 87 pages, Paperback

Set in the early Thatcher years, Top Girls is a seminal play of the modern theatre, revealing a wor… read more

Similar categories in Caryl Churchill's Top Girls book and Enda Walsh's The Walworth Farce

  • plays
  • fiction
  • school
  • drama
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3. Endgame & Act Without Words

By: Samuel Beckett

3.92

Format: 91 pages, Paperback

Samuel Beckett was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature n 1969; his literary output of plays, nov… read more

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  • plays
  • irish literature
  • fiction
  • drama
"CLOV: Do you believe in the life to come? HAMM: Mine was always that."

-Samuel Beckett, Endgame & Act Without Words

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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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  • plays
  • irish literature
  • fiction
"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

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5. The Spinning Heart

By: Donal Ryan

4.27

Format: 637 pages, Hardcover

In the aftermath of Ireland's financial collapse, dangerous tensions surface in an Irish town. As v… read more

Similar categories in Donal Ryan's The Spinning Heart book and Enda Walsh's The Walworth Farce

  • irish literature
  • fiction
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6. 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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  • plays
  • fiction
  • school
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7. Under the Jaguar Sun

By: Italo Calvino , William Weaver , None

3.92

Format: 290 pages, Paperback

"The thought . . . called up the flavors of an elaborate and bold cuisine, bent on making the flavo… read more

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  • fiction
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8. The Storm

By: Aleksandr Ostrovsky

3.50

Format: 218 pages, Paperback

read more

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  • plays
  • fiction
  • drama
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9. 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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  • plays
  • fiction
  • school
  • drama
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10. The Orchard Keeper

By: Cormac McCarthy

3.53

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Set in a small, remote community in rural Tennessee in the years between the two world wars, "The O… read more

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  • fiction
"See the hand that nursed the serpent."

-Cormac McCarthy, The Orchard Keeper

"They passed, leaving a trail of foxfire shuffled up out of the wet leaves like stars plowed in a ship's wake."

-Cormac McCarthy, The Orchard Keeper

"The old man remembered it now with dim regret, and remembered such nights when the air was warm as a breath and the moon no dead thing."

-Cormac McCarthy, The Orchard Keeper

"A man gets older, he said, he finds they's lots of things he can do jest as well without and so he don't have to worry about this and that the way a young feller will. I worked near all my life and n…"

-Cormac McCarthy, The Orchard Keeper

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11. Invisible Cities

By: Italo Calvino , William Weaver

4.11

Format: 15 pages, Paperback

"Kublai Khan does not necessarily believe everything Marco Polo says when he describes the cities v… read more

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  • fiction

12. 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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13. Circle Mirror Transformation

By: Annie Baker

4.11

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Thanks, you guys. I think this was a really, really great start. Five lost people come together at … read more

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14. 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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15. In the Blood

By: Suzan-Lori Parks

4.00

Format: 100 pages, Paperback

In this modern day riff on The Scarlet Letter, Hester La Negrita, a homeless mother of five, lives … read more

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16. Ivanov

By: Anton Chekhov , None , None

4.15

Format: None pages, Paperback

The first of Chekhov's full-length dramas, Ivanov treads a fine line between broad comedy and tragi… read more

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17. The God of Carnage

By: Yasmina Reza , Christopher Hampton

3.75

Format: 289 pages, Paperback

What happens when two sets of parents meet up to deal with the unruly behavior of their children? A… read more

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18. The Owl Service

By: Alan Garner

3.84

Format: 255 pages, Paperback

Something is scratching around in the attic above Alison's room. Yet the only thing up there is a s… read more

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19. Much Ado About Nothing

By: William Shakespeare , Barbara A. Mowat , Paul Werstine , Gail Kern Paster , None

3.92

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

The action is set in Sicily, where Don Pedro, Prince of Aragon, has recently defeated his half-brot… read more

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20. Away

By: Michael Gow

3.25

Format: 40 pages, Paperback

Three Australian families set out separately but are driven together by a storm (5 acts, 6 men, 4 w… read more

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21. 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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22. A Bright Room Called Day

By: Tony Kushner

3.50

Format: 134 pages, Paperback

"One of the things that makes Kushner such a vibrant writer is the way he luxuriates in exuberance … read more

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23. The Seafarer

By: Conor McPherson

3.92

Format: 314 pages, Paperback

"Conor McPherson, who [turned] 35 in August, is one of the genuine treasures of the English-languag… read more

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24. Trespasses

By: Louise Kennedy

4.00

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Set in Northern Ireland during the Troubles, a shattering novel about a young woman caught between … read more

Similar categories in Louise Kennedy's Trespasses book and Enda Walsh's The Walworth Farce

  • irish literature
  • fiction
Cover of So Late in the Day: Stories of Women and Men by Claire Keegan

25. So Late in the Day: Stories of Women and Men

By: Claire Keegan

3.99

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

Librarian's Note: This is the entry for the short story collection. Please don't combine it with th… read more

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  • irish literature
  • fiction
"You know what is at the heart of misogyny? When it comes down to it?’ ‘So I’m a misogynist now?’ ‘It’s simply about not giving,’ she said."

-Claire Keegan, So Late in the Day: Stories of Women and Men

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26. Free Food for Millionaires

By: Min Jin Lee

3.85

Format: 577 pages, Kindle Edition

Casey Han's four years at Princeton gave her many things, "But no job and a number of bad habits." … read more

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  • fiction
"This was her first time in such a place, and she decided she never wanted to stay anywhere else. Yet in her head, Casey envisioned a meter, like a taxi meter—clicking, clicking, clicking speedily ahe…"

-Min Jin Lee, Free Food for Millionaires

"Casey glanced at her plate again, recalling the posters of her elementary school lunchroom: YOU ARE WHAT YOU EAT. So, how much you ate indicated the quantity of your desire. Walter was also implying …"

-Min Jin Lee, Free Food for Millionaires

"Clothing was magic. Casey believed this. She would never admit this to her classmates in any of her women's studies courses, but she felt that an article of clothing could change a person... Each ski…"

-Min Jin Lee, Free Food for Millionaires

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27. The Brothers Size

By: Tarell Alvin McCraney

4.12

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

Tarell Alvin McCraneyThe Brothers SizeThere are two brothers Size.There is Ogun who owns an auto-re… read more

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  • plays
  • fiction
  • drama
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28. Silent Sky

By: Lauren Gunderson

4.28

Format: 63 pages, Paperback

When Henrietta Leavitt begins work at the Harvard Observatory in the early 1900s, she isn’t allowed… read more

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  • plays
  • school
  • drama
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29. Fucking A

By: Suzan-Lori Parks

3.82

Format: 114 pages, Paperback

Fucking A is an otherworldly tale involving a noble mother, her wayward son and others. Hester Smit… read more

Similar categories in Suzan-Lori Parks's Fucking A book and Enda Walsh's The Walworth Farce

  • plays
  • drama
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30. 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

Similar categories in Annie Baker's Infinite Life book and Enda Walsh's The Walworth Farce

  • plays
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31. The Walworth Farce

By: Enda Walsh

3.97

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

“If there is a bleaker, funnier or more desperate play in Edinburgh this year, I’ll eat my hat.”— G… read more

Similar categories in Enda Walsh's The Walworth Farce book and Enda Walsh's The Walworth Farce

  • school
  • fiction
  • irish literature
  • plays
  • drama

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