7 Top plays books like Poof! by Lynn Nottage

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Poof!

By: Lynn Nottage

3.53

Format: None pages, None

One act play with two woman. Takes a humorous view of family abuse.

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1. A Rose for Emily

By: William Faulkner

3.83

Format: 36 pages, Paperback

Emily is a member of a family in the antebellum Southern aristocracy; after the Civil War, the fami… read more

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  • school
"So the next day we all said, “She will kill herself"

-William Faulkner, A Rose for Emily

"She died in one of the downstairs rooms, in a heavy walnut bed with a curtain, her gray head propped on a pillow yellow and moldy with age and lack of sunlight."

-William Faulkner, A Rose for Emily

"When the Negro opened the blinds of one window, they could see that the leather was cracked; and when they sat down, a faint dust rose sluggishly about their thighs, spinning with slow motes in the s…"

-William Faulkner, A Rose for Emily

"We did not say she was crazy then. We believed she had to do that. We remembered all the young men her father had driven away, and we knew that with nothing left, she would have to cling to that whic…"

-William Faulkner, A Rose for Emily

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2. The Comedy of Errors

By: William Shakespeare

3.72

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

Excerpt from Die Kom�die der Irrungen Geste Grayorum or the History of the High and mighty Princ… read more

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  • plays
  • school
  • drama
"Why should their liberty than ours be more?"

-William Shakespeare, The Comedy of Errors

"El tiempo es insolvente y debe más de lo que tiene."

-William Shakespeare, The Comedy of Errors

"Mi corazón ora por él, aunque mi lengua lo maldiga."

-William Shakespeare, The Comedy of Errors

"¡A cuántos tontos enamorados esclaviza la locura de los celos!"

-William Shakespeare, The Comedy of Errors

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3. داش‌ آکل

By: Sadegh Hedayat

3.77

Format: 33 pages, Paperback

در داش آکل خواننده نه تنها با فضای سال‌ های ابتدایی پیدایش مدرنیسم در زمان حکومت رضا شاه آشنا می‌شو… read more

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  • drama
"دلم دیوانه شد ای عاقلان آرید زنجیری که نبود چاره ی دیوانه جز زنجیر تدبیری"

-Sadegh Hedayat, داش‌ آکل

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4. The Story of an Hour

By: Kate Chopin

4.07

Format: 32 pages, Paperback

In these four stories, Kate Chopin subtly captures the intricate interior lives of a generation of … read more

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  • feminism
  • school
"Spring days, and summer days, and all sorts of days that would be her own. She breathed a quick prayer that life might be long. It was only yesterday she had thought with a shudder that life might be…"

-Kate Chopin, The Story of an Hour

"there would be no powerful will binding hers in that blind persistence with which men and women believe they have a right to impose a private will upon a fellow creature…And yet she had loved him- so…"

-Kate Chopin, The Story of an Hour

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5. The Three Sisters

By: Anton Chekhov

3.06

Format: 220 pages, Paperback

First performed at the Moscow Art Theatre in 1901, The Three Sistersprobes the lives and dreams of … read more

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  • plays
  • drama
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6. I and You

By: Lauren Gunderson

4.12

Format: 204 pages,

Only in high school would two completely unconnected people - cranky, chronically ill Caroline and … read more

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  • plays
  • drama
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7. Stupid Fucking Bird

By: Aaron Posner

4.01

Format: 560 pages, Paperback

An aspiring young director rampages against the art created by his mother's generation. A nubile yo… read more

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  • plays
  • drama

8. 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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9. Stop Kiss

By: None

3.14

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

Ben Brantley of the New York Times summed up the critical reaction to Diana Son's play Stop Kiss wh… read more

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10. Riders to the Sea

By: J.M. Synge

3.56

Format: 48 pages, Paperback

Large Format for easy reading. Although from a middle-class Protestant background, Synge's writings… read more

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  • plays
  • school
  • drama

11. Long Day's Journey Into Night

By: Eugene O'Neill

3.89

Format: 32 pages, Paperback

Eugene O'Neill's autobiographical play Long Day's Journey into Night is regarded as his finest work… read more

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12. Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

By: Tennessee Williams

4.06

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof first heated up Broadway in 1955 with its gothic American story of brothers v… read more

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  • school
  • drama
"BRICK [to the moon]: I envy you--you cool son of a bitch."

-Tennessee Williams, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

"We mustn't scream at each other, the walls in this house have ears..."

-Tennessee Williams, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

"Maggie, we're through with lies and liars in this house. Lock the door."

-Tennessee Williams, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

"A drinking man's someone who wants to forget he isn't still young and believing"

-Tennessee Williams, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

13. روی ماه خداوند را ببوس

By: None

3.57

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

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14. The Iceman Cometh

By: Harold Bloom , Eugene O'Neill

4.08

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Eugene O'Neill was the first American playwright to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. He completed… read more

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15. American Buffalo

By: David Mamet

4.15

Format: None pages, Paperback

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16. Trifles

By: Susan Glaspell

4.60

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Trifles is a one-act play by Susan Glaspell. Her short story, "A Jury of Her Peers", was adapted fr… read more

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17. 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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18. The Cherry Orchard

By: Anton Chekhov , Tom Murphy

4.29

Format: 156 pages, Paperback

Published to tie in with the world premiere at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin In Chekhov's tragi-comedy … read more

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19. Fires in the Mirror

By: Anna Deavere Smith

4.08

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Derived from interviews with a wide range of people who experienced or observed New York's 1991 Cro… read more

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20. Letter to a Child Never Born

By: Oriana Fallaci

3.73

Format: 112 pages, Hardcover

Published by Rizzoli in 1975, Letter to a Child Never Born was quickly translated and sold in twent… read more

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21. Poof!

By: Lynn Nottage

3.53

Format: None pages, None

One act play with two woman. Takes a humorous view of family abuse. read more

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  • feminism
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  • drama

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