11 Best school books like Fefu and Her Friends by María Irene Fornés

Cover of Fefu and Her Friends by María Irene Fornés

Fefu and Her Friends

By: María Irene Fornés

4.00

Format: 412 pages, Paperback

This is one of the best-loved Off-Off-Broadway plays of recent decades. In the innovative original …

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Cover of The Good Woman of Setzuan by Bertolt Brecht, Eric Bentley

1. The Good Woman of Setzuan

By: Bertolt Brecht , Eric Bentley

3.67

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

In 1952, Hannah Arendt hailed Bertolt Brecht as "beyond a doubt the greatest living German poet and… read more

Similar categories in Bertolt Brecht's The Good Woman of Setzuan book and María Irene Fornés's Fefu and Her Friends

  • school
  • theatre
  • fiction
  • plays
  • drama
"Carpenter: "Call Shen Te, someone! She's good!" Shui Ta: "Certainly. She's ruined."

-Bertolt Brecht, The Good Woman of Setzuan

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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 María Irene Fornés's Fefu and Her Friends

  • school
  • feminism
  • theatre
  • fiction
  • plays
  • drama
Cover of The Rover by Aphra Behn, Simon Trussler

3. The Rover

By: Aphra Behn , Simon Trussler

3.18

Format: 183 pages, Paperback

Aphra Behn was the first female professional writer in England and the most prolific playwright of … read more

Similar categories in Aphra Behn's The Rover book and María Irene Fornés's Fefu and Her Friends

  • school
  • theatre
  • fiction
  • plays
  • drama
Cover of Sultana's Dream by Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain, Durga Bai

4. Sultana's Dream

By: Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain , Durga Bai

3.72

Format: 78 pages, Hardcover

The female narrator of Sultana's Dreamwanders into a dream city that shuns war and violence. In thi… read more

Similar categories in Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain's Sultana's Dream book and María Irene Fornés's Fefu and Her Friends

  • feminism
  • fiction
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5. 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

Similar categories in Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot book and María Irene Fornés's Fefu and Her Friends

  • theatre
  • plays
  • fiction
  • school
Cover of Topdog/Underdog by Suzan-Lori Parks

6. 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

Similar categories in Suzan-Lori Parks's Topdog/Underdog book and María Irene Fornés's Fefu and Her Friends

  • school
  • theatre
  • fiction
  • plays
  • drama
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7. How I Learned to Drive

By: Paula Vogel

3.85

Format: None pages, Paperback

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Similar categories in Paula Vogel's How I Learned to Drive book and María Irene Fornés's Fefu and Her Friends

  • school
  • theatre
  • fiction
  • plays
  • drama
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8. 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

Similar categories in Sarah Ruhl's Eurydice book and María Irene Fornés's Fefu and Her Friends

  • theatre
  • plays
  • fiction
  • drama

9. Appropriate

By: Branden Jacobs-Jenkins

3.47

Format: 156 pages, Paperback

Every estranged member of the Lafayette clan has descended upon the crumbling Arkansas homestead to… read more

Similar categories in Branden Jacobs-Jenkins's Appropriate book and María Irene Fornés's Fefu and Her Friends

  • school
  • theatre
  • fiction
  • plays
  • drama
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10. We Can't Pay? We Won't Pay!

By: Dario Fo , Robert W. Walker , Lino Pertile

3.60

Format: 232 pages, Paperback

nwy khtYb : y'Ymae prae ndaeyn nwwsaer : drYoe foe waeRgYR : dlwaer qaeraedGy bbaet : shnoenmae jmr… read more

Similar categories in Dario Fo's We Can't Pay? We Won't Pay! book and María Irene Fornés's Fefu and Her Friends

  • theatre
  • plays
  • fiction
  • drama
Cover of Fefu and Her Friends by María Irene Fornés

11. Fefu and Her Friends

By: María Irene Fornés

4.00

Format: 412 pages, Paperback

This is one of the best-loved Off-Off-Broadway plays of recent decades. In the innovative original … read more

Similar categories in María Irene Fornés's Fefu and Her Friends book and María Irene Fornés's Fefu and Her Friends

  • queer
  • school
  • feminism
  • theatre
  • fiction
  • plays
  • drama
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12. 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

Similar categories in Samuel Beckett's Endgame book and María Irene Fornés's Fefu and Her Friends

  • theatre
  • plays
  • fiction
  • drama
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13. Water by the Spoonful

By: Quiara Alegría Hudes

3.67

Format: 364 pages, Paperback

The 2012 recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Somewhere in Philadelphia, Elliot has returned … read more

Similar categories in Quiara Alegría Hudes's Water by the Spoonful book and María Irene Fornés's Fefu and Her Friends

  • school
  • theatre
  • fiction
  • plays
  • drama

14. 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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15. Khaufnaak Imarat/ خوفناک عمارت (Imran Series, #1)

By: Ibn-e-Safi

3.44

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

KHAUFNAK IMARAT (The Terrifying Building), by Ibn-e-Safi, is very thriller Urdu novel. It is the fi… read more

Similar categories in Ibn-e-Safi's Khaufnaak Imarat/ خوفناک عمارت (Imran Series, #1) book and María Irene Fornés's Fefu and Her Friends

16. The Children's Hour

By: Lillian Hellman

3.67

Format: 499 pages, Paperback

This is a serious and adult play about two women who run a school for girls. After a malicious youn… read more

Similar categories in Lillian Hellman's The Children's Hour book and María Irene Fornés's Fefu and Her Friends

17. Joothan: An Untouchable's Life

By: Omprakash Valmiki , Arun Prabha Mukherjee

3.60

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Omprakash Valmiki describes his life as an untouchable, or Dalit, in the newly independent India of… read more

Similar categories in Omprakash Valmiki's Joothan: An Untouchable's Life book and María Irene Fornés's Fefu and Her Friends

18. Ruined

By: Lynn Nottage

3.76

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

Winner of the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for Drama "A powerhouse drama. . . . Lynn Nottage's beautiful, hi… read more

Similar categories in Lynn Nottage's Ruined book and María Irene Fornés's Fefu and Her Friends

19. Rhinocéros

By: Eugène Ionesco , None

3.91

Format: None pages, Paperback

"Tous les chats sont mortels. Socrate est mortel. Donc Socrate est un chat." Tout langage stereotyp… read more

Similar categories in Eugène Ionesco's Rhinocéros book and María Irene Fornés's Fefu and Her Friends

20. 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

Similar categories in Susan Glaspell's Trifles book and María Irene Fornés's Fefu and Her Friends

21. Intimate Apparel - Acting Edition

By: Lynn Nottage

3.65

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

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22. Ghosts

By: Henrik Ibsen

3.88

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

"Ghosts" is the story of Helen Alving, a widow who is haunted by the many mistresses of her decease… read more

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23. Machinal

By: Sophie Treadwell

4.65

Format: None pages, Paperback

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24. Mr. Burns, a post-electric play

By: Anne Washburn

3.43

Format: 98 pages, Paperback

"What will endure when the cataclysm arrives--when the grid fails, society crumbles, and we're face… read more

Similar categories in Anne Washburn's Mr. Burns, a post-electric play book and María Irene Fornés's Fefu and Her Friends

25. The Trial of Dedan Kimathi

By: Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o , Micere Githae Mugo

4.50

Format: None pages, Paperback

This play depicts the circumstances surrounding the trial of one of the leaders of the Mau Mau revo… read more

Similar categories in Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o's The Trial of Dedan Kimathi book and María Irene Fornés's Fefu and Her Friends

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26. Indecent

By: Paula Vogel

4.46

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

“Revelatory…As intimate and immediate as a whispered secret. Vogel’s play thrums with music, desire… read more

Similar categories in Paula Vogel's Indecent book and María Irene Fornés's Fefu and Her Friends

  • queer
  • feminism
  • theatre
  • fiction
  • plays
  • drama
"I too have lost audience members. Six million have left the theater."

-Paula Vogel, Indecent

"How do we as artists question our sins in front of a greater audience? How do we as Jews show ourselves as flawed and complex human beings?"

-Paula Vogel, Indecent

"God forbid the goyim think ladies who work the street are human beings! God forbid the goyim think that Jewish ladies love each other as human beings!"

-Paula Vogel, Indecent

"As you know, six nights a week we gather together to sing songs we know and love, to dance, to escape our daily lives. But on the seventh night … God created Yiddish theater."

-Paula Vogel, Indecent

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27. Fairview

By: Jackie Sibblies Drury

4.27

Format: 120 pages, Paperback

Grandma's birthday approaches. Beverly is organizing the perfect dinner, but everything seems doome… read more

Similar categories in Jackie Sibblies Drury's Fairview book and María Irene Fornés's Fefu and Her Friends

  • school
  • theatre
  • fiction
  • plays
  • drama
"Once... Well, not once, not at all once. Many many many many times, there was a person who worked hard, a person who tried to work hard, and tried to do their best, and tried to do well by their fami…"

-Jackie Sibblies Drury, Fairview

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28. 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

Similar categories in Sarah DeLappe's The Wolves book and María Irene Fornés's Fefu and Her Friends

  • school
  • theatre
  • fiction
  • plays
  • drama

29. Witch

By: Jen Silverman

4.32

Format: 94 pages, None

Mischief is afoot in the sleepy village of Edmonton and the fate of the world is at stake in this s… read more

Similar categories in Jen Silverman's Witch book and María Irene Fornés's Fefu and Her Friends

  • theatre
  • plays
  • fiction
  • drama
Cover of For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf by Ntozake Shange

30. For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf

By: Ntozake Shange

4.28

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

In celebration of its highly anticipated Broadway revival, Ntozake Shange’s classic, award-winning … read more

Similar categories in Ntozake Shange's For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf book and María Irene Fornés's Fefu and Her Friends

  • feminism
  • theatre
  • fiction
  • plays
  • drama
"What I want and I wanted to be unforgettable."

-Ntozake Shange, For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf

"i done forgot all abt words aint got no definitions"

-Ntozake Shange, For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf

"Through my tears 1 found god in myself and I loved her fiercely"."

-Ntozake Shange, For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf

"And this is for Colored girls who have considered suicide, but are moving to the ends of their own rainbows."

-Ntozake Shange, For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf

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31. The Grip of Change

By: P. Sivakami

3.91

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

The Grip of Change is the English translation of Pazhaiyana Kazhithalum, the first full-length nove… read more

Similar categories in P. Sivakami's The Grip of Change book and María Irene Fornés's Fefu and Her Friends

  • fiction

19 Best fiction books like Fefu and Her Friends by María Irene Fornés

Transform Your Habits

The Good Woman of Setzuan

Bertolt Brecht , Eric Bentley

3.67

Transform Your Habits

Top Girls

Caryl Churchill

3.58

Transform Your Habits

The Rover

Aphra Behn , Simon Trussler

3.18

Transform Your Habits

Sultana's Dream

Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain , Durga Bai

3.72

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Transform Your Habits

Constellations

Nick Payne

4.07

Transform Your Habits

Sweat

Lynn Nottage

4.06

Transform Your Habits

How I Learned to Drive

Paula Vogel

3.85

Transform Your Habits

Eurydice

Sarah Ruhl

4.10

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