Equus (Penguin Plays)
By: Peter Shaffer
3.91
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
In "Equus," which took critics and public alike by storm and has gone on to become a modern classic…
Want to Read $ 12.99"There is now, in my mouth, this sharp chain. And it never comes out."-Peter Shaffer, Equus (Penguin Plays)
"There is now, in my mouth, this sharp chain. And it never comes out."-Peter Shaffer, Equus (Penguin Plays)
"A child is born into a world of phenomena all equal in their power to enslave."-Peter Shaffer, Equus (Penguin Plays)
"A child is born into a world of phenomena all equal in their power to enslave."-Peter Shaffer, Equus (Penguin Plays)
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1. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
By: Edward Albee
4.06
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
"Twelve times a week," answered Uta Hagen when asked how often she'd like to play Martha in Who's A… read more
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"Honey: I know these people ..."-Edward Albee, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
"You want to dance with me, angel tits?"-Edward Albee, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
"Musical beds is the faculty sport around here."-Edward Albee, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
"George: Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf? Martha: I am, George. I am."-Edward Albee, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
2. Equus (Penguin Plays)
By: Peter Shaffer
3.91
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
In "Equus," which took critics and public alike by storm and has gone on to become a modern classic… read more
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- 20th century
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"There is now, in my mouth, this sharp chain. And it never comes out."-Peter Shaffer, Equus (Penguin Plays)
"A child is born into a world of phenomena all equal in their power to enslave."-Peter Shaffer, Equus (Penguin Plays)
"That's what his stare has been saying to me all this time: 'At least I galloped - when did you?"-Peter Shaffer, Equus (Penguin Plays)
"To go through life and call it yours - your life - you first have to get your own pain. Pain that's unique to you. You can't just dip into the common bin and say 'That's enough!"-Peter Shaffer, Equus (Penguin Plays)
3. 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
4. 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
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5. 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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"CLOV: Do you believe in the life to come? HAMM: Mine was always that."-Samuel Beckett, Endgame & Act Without Words
6. 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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- literature
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"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
7. 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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8. Red
By: John Logan
3.66
Format: 146 pages, Paperback
WINNER OF SIX TONY AWARDS A moving and compelling account of one of the greatest artists of the twe… read more
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9. Four Major Plays: A Doll's House / Ghosts / Hedda Gabler / The Master Builder
By: Henrik Ibsen , James McFarlane , Jens Arup
4.51
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
Taken from the highly acclaimed Oxford Ibsen, this collection of Ibsen's plays includes A Doll's Ho… read more
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10. Arcadia
By: Tom Stoppard
3.80
Format: None pages, Paperback
Arcadiatakes us back and forth between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, ranging over the nat… read more
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11. The Homecoming
By: Harold Pinter
3.70
Format: 82 pages, Paperback
When Teddy, a professor in an American university, brings his wife Ruth to visit his old home in Lo… read more
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"RUTH: If you take the glass…I’ll take you."-Harold Pinter, The Homecoming
"Look what I'm lumbered with. One load of cast-iron crap after another." --Harold Pinter: The Homecoming."-Harold Pinter, The Homecoming
12. 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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13. Wit
By: None
4.48
Format: None pages,
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the New York Drama Critics Circle Award, the Drama Desk Award, the Ou… read more
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14. 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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15. The War Prayer
By: Mark Twain
4.00
Format: None pages,
Written by Mark Twain during the Philippine-American War in the 1st decade of the 20th century, The… read more
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16. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
By: Tom Stoppard , None
3.48
Format: None pages,
Hamlettold from the worm's-eye view of two minor characters, bewildered Rosencrantz and Guildenster… read more
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17. 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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18. Master Harold...and the boys
By: Athol Fugard
3.91
Format: 631 pages, Paperback
The role that won Zakes Mokae a Tony Award brought Danny Glover back to the New York stage for the … read more
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19. 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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"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
20. The Birthday Party
By: Harold Pinter
3.23
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
Stanley Webber is visited in his boarding house by strangers, Goldberg and McCann. An innocent-seem… read more
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21. The Dumb Waiter
By: Harold Pinter
3.72
Format: 64 pages, Paperback
One of his most recognized and acclaimed plays, Harold Pinter’s “The Dumb Waiter” is a humorous and… read more
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22. Cloud 9
By: Caryl Churchill
3.58
Format: 376 pages, Paperback
In colonial Africa, a Victorian English patrician represses the natives, his wife, his children, ho… read more
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23. King Henry VI, Part 2
By: William Shakespeare , Christopher Marlowe , None
3.57
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
This edition celebrates King Henry VI Part 2as one of the most exciting and dynamic plays of the En… read more
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24. Doubt
By: John Patrick Shanley
4.50
Format: None pages, Paperback
"A superb new drama written by John Patrick Shanley. It is an inspired study in moral uncertainty w… read more
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25. 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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26. The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
By: T.S. Eliot
4.50
Format: None pages,
Dive deep into The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock by T.S. Eliot anywhere you go: on a plane, on a … read more
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27. A Man for All Seasons
By: Robert Bolt
4.34
Format: 592 pages, Paperback
The classic play about Sir Thomas More, the Lord chancellor who refused to compromise and was execu… read more
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28. Glengarry Glen Ross
By: David Mamet
4.49
Format: 563 pages,
Winner of the 1984 Pulitzer Prize, David Mamet's scalding comedy is about small-time, cutthroat rea… read more
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29. The Weir
By: Conor McPherson
3.85
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
Set in a bar in a remote part of Ireland, The Weir tells of a young woman who has a story to fright… read more
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30. Wife For Sale
By: Tabita Gutu
4.41
Format: 232 pages, Hardcover
Take an unhappy married couple with a small baby, a man whose wife died in a tragic accident and ca… read more
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31. Puck's Legacy
By: Katie Hall-May
4.37
Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition
In the dusty lights of a deserted theatre a bored young woman makes a desperate decision, and the l… read more
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"Secrets breed other secrets. That’s how they work."-Katie Hall-May, Puck's Legacy
"Extremism, by its very nature, must always go to its extreme."-Katie Hall-May, Puck's Legacy
"I would give anything to hear him say my name one more time. And anything not to."-Katie Hall-May, Puck's Legacy
"It’s all just coloured water. Of course it is. Don’t you want to taste something real?"-Katie Hall-May, Puck's Legacy
