6 Top theatre books like After Ashley by Gina Gionfriddo

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After Ashley

By: Gina Gionfriddo

3.59

Format: 76 pages, Paperback

AFTER ASHLEY is a blisteringly funny and deeply affecting story about a teenage boy navigating the …

If you liked the theatre plot in After Ashley by Gina Gionfriddo , here is a list of 6 books like this:

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1. Assistance

By: Leslye Headland

3.57

Format: 61 pages, Paperback

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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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"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. A Midsummer Night’s Dream

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

3.95

Format: 298 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Shakespeare's intertwined love polygons begin to get complicated from the start--Demetrius and Lysa… read more

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  • plays
"My soul is in the sky."

-William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream

"Farewell, sweet playfellow."

-William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream

"Lord, what fools these mortals be!"

-William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream

"Methought I was enamour'd of an ass."

-William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream

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4. John

By: Annie Baker

4.20

Format: None pages,

"Annie Baker's Johnis so good on so many levels that it casts a unique and brilliant light... By no… read more

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  • theatre
  • plays
  • drama
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5. 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
"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

6. 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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7. Proof

By: David Auburn

3.63

Format: 256 pages,

"One of the most acclaimed plays of recent seasons, Proof explores the unknowability of love as muc… read more

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8. Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear

By: Elizabeth Gilbert

3.79

Format: 477 pages, Hardcover

Readers of all ages and walks of life have drawn inspiration and empowerment from Elizabeth Gilbert… read more

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9. 'night, Mother

By: Marsha Norman

4.15

Format: None pages,

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10. A Feminine Ending

By: Sarah Treem

3.82

Format: 4 pages, Paperback

Full Length, Dark Comedy 3m., 2f. Various, Unit set Amanda, twenty-five, wants to be a great compos… read more

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11. Brighton Beach Memoirs

By: Neil Simon

3.25

Format: 198 pages, Paperback

The first in Neil Simon's "Eugene Trilogy," followed by Biloxi Bluesand Broadway Bound Winner of a… read more

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12. 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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13. Anatomy of a Suicide

By: Alice Birch

3.86

Format: None pages, Paperback

Three generations of women. For each, the chaos of what has come before brings with it a painful le… read more

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14. Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)

By: Chinua Achebe

3.73

Format: 215 pages, Paperback

A simple story of a "strong man" whose life is dominated by fear and anger, Things Fall Apart is wr… read more

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"Let us not reason like cowards,"

-Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)

"There is no story that is not true."

-Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)

"عندما يضئ القمر يشعر الكسيح برغبة قوية إلى المشي"

-Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)

"إذا نظر امرؤ إلى فم ملك, ظن أنه لم يرضع قط من ثدي أمه"

-Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)

15. August: Osage County

By: Tracy Letts

4.29

Format: 120 pages, Paperback

One of the most bracing and critically acclaimed plays in recent history, August: Osage Countyis a … read more

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16. Martyr!

By: Kaveh Akbar

4.24

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Kaveh Akbar’s Martyr! is a paean to how we spend our lives seeking meaning—in faith, art, ourselves… read more

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17. The Antipodes

By: Annie Baker

4.13

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

“Endlessly fascinating … The Antipodes leaves you glowing with a wondering satisfaction. I mean the… read more

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  • plays
  • drama
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18. Blood at the Root

By: Dominique Morisseau

4.32

Format: 78 pages, Paperback

A striking new ensemble drama based on the Jena Six; six Black students who were initially charged … read more

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  • plays
  • drama
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19. Howl

By: Kat Patrick

3.85

Format: 32 pages, Hardcover

When big feelings come, do you ever feel like howling at the moon? Maggie does. Howl is an empoweri… read more

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20. After Ashley

By: Gina Gionfriddo

3.59

Format: 76 pages, Paperback

AFTER ASHLEY is a blisteringly funny and deeply affecting story about a teenage boy navigating the … read more

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  • plays
  • drama
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21. Athena

By: Gracie Gardner

4.22

Format: 56 pages, Paperback

Mary Wallace and Athena are brave, and seventeen, and fencers, and training for the Junior Olympics… read more

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9 Top plays books like After Ashley by Gina Gionfriddo

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Assistance

Leslye Headland

3.57

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A Streetcar Named Desire

Tennessee Williams

3.98

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A Midsummer Night’s Dream

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

3.95

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John

Annie Baker

4.20

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Song of Solomon

Toni Morrison

4.14

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The Bluest Eye

Toni Morrison

4.12

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The Stranger

Albert Camus , Matthew Ward , Stuart Gilbert , None

4.02

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Wide Sargasso Sea

Jean Rhys

3.59

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