20 must-read plays books like Rapture by Lucy Kirkwood

Cover of Rapture by Lucy Kirkwood

Rapture

By: Lucy Kirkwood

4.31

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

Noah and Celeste Quilter met on a blind date organised by a newspaper, fell in love, got married an…

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1. Blue Heart

By: Caryl Churchill

3.62

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

“These are substantial, provocative, immensely stylish works which create an unsettling mixture of … read more

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2. Song of Spider-Man: The Inside Story of the Most Controversial Musical in Broadway History

By: Glen Berger

3.93

Format: 370 pages, Hardcover

As one can imagine, writing a Broadway musical has its challenges. But it turns out there are chall… read more

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3. 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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4. 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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5. How I Learned to Drive

By: Paula Vogel

3.85

Format: None pages, Paperback

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6. The Waste Land

By: T.S. Eliot , Michael North

3.80

Format: 245 pages, Paperback

The text of Eliot's 1922 masterpiece is accompanied by thorough explanatory annotations as well as … read more

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7. Eurydice

By: Sarah Ruhl

4.10

Format: 136 pages, Paperback

Sarah Ruhl re-imagines the classic myth of Orpheus through the eyes of its heroine. Dying too young… read more

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8. Shopping and Fucking

By: Mark Ravenhill

4.17

Format: None pages, Paperback

This ground-breaking drama was Mark Ravenhill's first full-length play and part of a movement in th… read more

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9. Blankets

By: Craig Thompson

None

Format: 582 pages, Paperback

Blankets is the story of a young man coming of age and finding the confidence to express his creati… read more

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10. Endgame

By: Samuel Beckett

4.67

Format: 88 pages, Paperback

Samuel Beckett was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1969; his literary output of plays, no… read more

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11. After the End

By: Dennis Kelly

5.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

They were all in the pub when the explosion happened. Louise wakes up to find herself trapped with … read more

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12. Yellow Face

By: Frank Rich , David Henry Hwang

4.48

Format: None pages, Paperback

"A thesis of a play, unafraid of complexities and contradictions, pepped up with a light dramatic f… read more

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13. 4000 Miles

By: Amy Herzog

2.33

Format: None pages,

After suffering a major loss while he was on a cross-country bike trip, 21 year-old Leo seeks solac… read more

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14. Cleansed

By: Sarah Kane

3.89

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

This stunning play from the controversial author of Blastedpremiered at the Royal Court Theatre, Lo… read more

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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. 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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17. Untitled (Untitled Trilogy, #1)

By: Maggie Stiefvater

3.36

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Maggie Stiefvater just outlined three books "for a Ronan-centered trilogy".  read more

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18. The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories

By: Angela Carter

3.92

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

From familiar fairy tales and legends - Red Riding Hood, Bluebeard, Puss in Boots, Beauty and the B… read more

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"Her hair falls down like tears"

-Angela Carter, The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories

"ordered me a sky from a florist"

-Angela Carter, The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories

"My spite was sharp as broken glass"

-Angela Carter, The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories

"My father lost me to the Beast at cards"

-Angela Carter, The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories

19. A Taste of Honey: A Play

By: Shelagh Delaney

3.82

Format: 4 pages, Paperback

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20. Olivia

By: Dorothy Bussy , Regina Marler , Olivia , Dorothy Strachey

4.00

Format: 231 pages, Paperback

"Considered one of the most subtle and beautifully written lesbian novels of the century, this 1949… read more

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21. The Actor's Life: A Survival Guide

By: Jenna Fischer

3.21

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Jenna Fischer's Hollywood journey began at the age of 22 when she moved to Los Angeles from her hom… read more

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22. Prima Facie

By: Suzie Miller

4.37

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

This is not life, this is law… Tessa Ensler loves her job. She’s worked her up to being a top cr… read more

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"All I know is that somewhere. Some time. Somehow. Something has to change."

-Suzie Miller, Prima Facie

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23. The Wolves

By: Sarah DeLappe

4.27

Format: 175 pages, None

Left quad. Right quad. Lunge. A girls indoor soccer team warms up. From the safety of their suburba… read more

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Cover of Putting It Together: How Stephen Sondheim and I Created "Sunday in the Park with George" by James Lapine

24. Putting It Together: How Stephen Sondheim and I Created "Sunday in the Park with George"

By: James Lapine

4.50

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A behind-the-scenes look at the making of the iconic musical Sunday in… read more

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25. Mrs. S

By: K. Patrick

3.63

Format: 240 pages, Kindle Edition

A sublime and sensual debut novel exploring the nature of queer love and attraction, the transforma… read more

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"I live in hope it is her, I live in fear it is her, it is never her."

-K. Patrick, Mrs. S

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26. 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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27. Death of England

By: Roy Williams

4.07

Format: 48 pages, Paperback

He wanted you to be a better man. He wanted to be a better man himself. He was lied to. Just like y… read more

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28. Downstate

By: Bruce Norris

4.36

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

In downstate Illinois, four men convicted of sex crimes against minors share a group home where the… read more

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29. 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

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30. Our Dear Dead Drug Lord

By: Alexis Scheer

4.10

Format: None pages, None

A gang of teenage girls gathers in an abandoned treehouse to summon the ghost of Pablo Escobar. Are… read more

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Cover of Rapture by Lucy Kirkwood

31. Rapture

By: Lucy Kirkwood

4.31

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

Noah and Celeste Quilter met on a blind date organised by a newspaper, fell in love, got married an… read more

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Nick Payne

4.07

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Lynn Nottage

4.06

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3.85

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