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…
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1. The Chairs
By: Eugène Ionesco , Martin Crimp
3.85
Format: 60 pages, Paperback
In a house on an island a very old couple pass their time with private games and half-remembered st… read more
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- classics
- school
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- drama
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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- classics
- school
- british literature
- theatre
- 20th century
- fiction
- plays
- drama
"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. The Prophet's Hair
By: Salman Rushdie
3.60
Format: None pages, Unknown Binding
A Vintage Shorts “Short Story Month” Selection • Secular moneylender and manic collector of treasur… read more
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- fiction
- classics
- school
- british literature
4. Araby
By: James Joyce
3.65
Format: 25 pages, Kindle Edition
A short story from James Joyce's Dubliners. The unnamed protagonist in "Araby" is a boy who is just… read more
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- fiction
- classics
- 20th century
- school
"My body was like a harp and her words and gestures were like fingers running upon the wires."-James Joyce, Araby
"What innumerable follies laid waste my waking and sleeping thoughts after that evening! I wished to annihilate the tedious intervening days. I chafed against the work of school. At night in my bedroo…"-James Joyce, Araby
5. 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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- school
- theatre
- fiction
- plays
- drama
6. 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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- classics
- school
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- fiction
- plays
7. Blasted
By: Sarah Kane
3.81
Format: 215 pages, Paperback
Blastedis Sarah Kane's first full-length play which opened in 1995 and was the sensation of that ye… read more
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- classics
- theatre
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- 20th century
- plays
- drama
8. The Zoo Story
By: Edward Albee
3.90
Format: 42 pages, Paperback
The Zoo Story is a one-act play by American playwright Edward Albee. His first play, it was written… read more
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- school
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- fiction
- 20th century
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"Sometimes it’s necessary to go a long distance out of the way in order to come back a short distance correctly."-Edward Albee, The Zoo Story
"Now, here is what I had wanted to happen: I had tried to love, and I had tried to kill, and both had been unsuccessful by themselves."-Edward Albee, The Zoo Story
9. The Goat, or Who is Sylvia?
By: Edward Albee
3.92
Format: 110 pages, Paperback
Three-time Pulitzer Prize-winner Edward Albee’s most provocative, daring, and controversial play si… read more
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- classics
- school
- theatre
- fiction
- plays
- drama
"Knowing it--knowing it's true is one thing, but believing what you know... well, there's the tough part."-Edward Albee, The Goat, or Who is Sylvia?
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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- classics
- theatre
- fiction
- plays
- drama
11. Happy Days
By: Samuel Beckett
5.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
In 'Happy Days, ' Beckett pursues his relentless search for the meaning of existence, probing the t… read more
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12. Four Great Tragedies: Hamlet / Othello / King Lear / Macbeth
By: William Shakespeare , Sylvan Barnet , Alvin Kernan , Russell Fraser
3.65
Format: 448 pages,
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13. 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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14. The Empty Space: A Book About the Theatre: Deadly, Holy, Rough, Immediate
By: Peter Brook
3.87
Format: 309 pages,
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15. The Lieutenant of Inishmore
By: Martin McDonagh
4.15
Format: 130 pages, Paperback
A farcical look at political violence as it's played out during The Troublesin Northern Ireland aga… read more
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16. 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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- nobel prize
- classics
- school
- british literature
- theatre
- 20th century
- english literature
- fiction
- plays
- drama
17. 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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18. The Beauty Queen of Leenane
By: Martin McDonagh
4.08
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
Set in the mountains of Connemara, County Galway, The Beauty Queen of Leenane tells the darkly comi… read more
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- school
- theatre
- fiction
- 20th century
- plays
- drama
19. My Son the Fanatic
By: Hanif Kureishi
4.30
Format: 189 pages, Paperback
Set in a northern industrial town, this screenplay presents the dismay experienced by a Pakistani f… read more
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20. Burned Out
By: Dean Mafako
4.30
Format: 526 pages, Paperback
Eric Philson came to the Children's Hospital of Biloxi with a goal ― to build the cardiac intensive… read more
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- fiction
"The entire belief was insulting to many of us, but nonetheless, the term “top trained,"-Dean Mafako, Burned Out
"The hypocrisy was too much to bear, the institution was paying over a million dollars for Mr. Hyde to perform “values training"-Dean Mafako, Burned Out
"When I arrived, I did the job of six people and worked over one hundred hours per week for more than a year until I collapsed in my yard and nearly died!"-Dean Mafako, Burned Out
"One of the greatest realizations that I clumsily stumbled upon during this process, was that these people didn’t need someone like me to tell them what to do; they needed someone like me to show them…"-Dean Mafako, Burned Out
21. 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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- drama
