17 must-read plays books like Closer: A Play by Patrick Marber

Cover of Closer: A Play by Patrick Marber

Closer: A Play

By: Patrick Marber

3.97

Format: 123 pages, Paperback

In Closer, Patrick Marber has created a brilliant exploration into the brutal anatomy of modern rom…

"I know who you are. I love you. I love everything about you that hurts."

-Patrick Marber, Closer: A Play

"I know who you are. I love you. I love everything about you that hurts."

-Patrick Marber, Closer: A Play

"DAN What do you want? ALICE To be loved. DAN That simple? ALICE It's a big want."

-Patrick Marber, Closer: A Play

"DAN What do you want? ALICE To be loved. DAN That simple? ALICE It's a big want."

-Patrick Marber, Closer: A Play

If you liked the plays plot in Closer: A Play by Patrick Marber , here is a list of 17 books like this:

Cover of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by Edward Albee

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

Similar categories in Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? book and Patrick Marber's Closer: A Play

  • classics
  • theatre
  • fiction
  • 20th century
  • plays
  • drama
"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?

Cover of Constellations by Nick Payne

2. Constellations

By: Nick Payne

4.07

Format: 84 pages, Paperback

One relationship. Infinite possibilities. 'Let's go for a drink. I don't know what I'm doing here a… read more

Similar categories in Nick Payne's Constellations book and Patrick Marber's Closer: A Play

  • romance
  • theatre
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • plays
  • drama
Cover of Top Girls by Caryl Churchill

3. 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 Patrick Marber's Closer: A Play

  • classics
  • theatre
  • college
  • 20th century
  • fiction
  • plays
  • drama
Cover of The Cocktail Party by T.S. Eliot

4. The Cocktail Party

By: T.S. Eliot

3.74

Format: 167 pages, Paperback

'Eliot has attempted here something very daring and well worth doing. He has taken the ordinary Wes… read more

Similar categories in T.S. Eliot's The Cocktail Party book and Patrick Marber's Closer: A Play

  • classics
  • theatre
  • fiction
  • 20th century
  • plays
  • drama
"Disillusion can become itself an illusion If we rest in it."

-T.S. Eliot, The Cocktail Party

"There's no memory you can wrap in camphor But the moths will get in."

-T.S. Eliot, The Cocktail Party

"Half the harm that is done in this world Is due to people who want to feel important."

-T.S. Eliot, The Cocktail Party

"What you've been living on is an image of Celia Which you made for yourself, to meet your own needs."

-T.S. Eliot, The Cocktail Party

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5. The Rose Tattoo

By: Tennessee Williams

3.67

Format: 72 pages, Paperback

A tender idyll about a Sicilian woman who must get over the death of her husband. "Forget the uneve… read more

Similar categories in Tennessee Williams's The Rose Tattoo book and Patrick Marber's Closer: A Play

  • classics
  • theatre
  • fiction
  • 20th century
  • plays
  • drama
Cover of The Skin of Our Teeth by Thornton Wilder, Paula Vogel

6. The Skin of Our Teeth

By: Thornton Wilder , Paula Vogel

3.90

Format: 309 pages, Paperback

A timeless statement about human foibles . . . and human endurance, this beautiful new edition feat… read more

Similar categories in Thornton Wilder's The Skin of Our Teeth book and Patrick Marber's Closer: A Play

  • classics
  • theatre
  • fiction
  • plays
  • drama
Cover of 'Tis Pity She's a Whore by John  Ford, Martin Wiggins

7. 'Tis Pity She's a Whore

By: John Ford , Martin Wiggins

4.17

Format: None pages, Paperback

One of the most controversal plays in drama literature, this play's treatment of the subject of inc… read more

Similar categories in John Ford's 'Tis Pity She's a Whore book and Patrick Marber's Closer: A Play

  • romance
  • classics
  • fiction
  • plays
  • drama
Cover of I Am My Own Wife by Doug Wright

8. I Am My Own Wife

By: Doug Wright

3.88

Format: None pages, Paperback

I Am My Own Wife is the winner of the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. From the Obie Award-winning au… read more

Similar categories in Doug Wright's I Am My Own Wife book and Patrick Marber's Closer: A Play

  • theatre
  • plays
  • drama
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9. 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 Patrick Marber's Closer: A Play

  • theatre
  • plays
  • fiction
  • drama
Cover of The Three Sisters by Anton Chekhov

10. The Three Sisters

By: Anton Chekhov

3.06

Format: 220 pages, Paperback

First performed at the Moscow Art Theatre in 1901, The Three Sistersprobes the lives and dreams of … read more

Similar categories in Anton Chekhov's The Three Sisters book and Patrick Marber's Closer: A Play

  • classics
  • theatre
  • fiction
  • plays
  • drama
Cover of The Goat, or Who is Sylvia? by Edward Albee

11. 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

Similar categories in Edward Albee's The Goat, or Who is Sylvia? book and Patrick Marber's Closer: A Play

  • classics
  • theatre
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • 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?

Cover of Pygmalion and Three Other Plays by George Bernard Shaw, John A. Bertolini

12. Pygmalion and Three Other Plays

By: George Bernard Shaw , John A. Bertolini

4.23

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

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Similar categories in George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion and Three Other Plays book and Patrick Marber's Closer: A Play

  • classics
  • theatre
  • fiction
  • plays
  • drama
Cover of Jerusalem by Jez Butterworth

13. Jerusalem

By: Jez Butterworth

3.81

Format: 225 pages, Paperback

"[A] startlingly brilliant new play. . . . A tragic and hilarious vision of life in an English coun… read more

Similar categories in Jez Butterworth's Jerusalem book and Patrick Marber's Closer: A Play

  • theatre
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • plays
  • drama
Cover of Betrayal by Harold Pinter

14. Betrayal

By: Harold Pinter

3.91

Format: None pages, Paperback

Betrayalis Pinter's latest full-length play since the enormous success of No Man's Land. The play b… read more

Similar categories in Harold Pinter's Betrayal book and Patrick Marber's Closer: A Play

  • classics
  • british literature
  • theatre
  • fiction
  • plays
  • drama

15. Noises Off

By: Michael Frayn

3.72

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

Noises Off, the classic farce by the Tony Award--winning author of Copenhagen, is not one play but … read more

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16. 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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17. 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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18. 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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19. The Seagull

By: Anton Chekhov , Michael Frayn

4.62

Format: None pages, Paperback

A Methuen Student Edition of Chekhov's classic play in Michael Frayn's acclaimed translation. When … read more

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20. Steel Magnolias

By: None

3.62

Format: 280 pages, Paperback

Presents the script of a 1988 play about a group of women in Chinquapin, Louisiana, who learn to dr… read more

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Cover of Closer: A Play by Patrick Marber

21. Closer: A Play

By: Patrick Marber

3.97

Format: 123 pages, Paperback

In Closer, Patrick Marber has created a brilliant exploration into the brutal anatomy of modern rom… read more

Similar categories in Patrick Marber's Closer: A Play book and Patrick Marber's Closer: A Play

  • romance
  • classics
  • british literature
  • theatre
  • college
  • 20th century
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • plays
  • drama
"I know who you are. I love you. I love everything about you that hurts."

-Patrick Marber, Closer: A Play

"DAN What do you want? ALICE To be loved. DAN That simple? ALICE It's a big want."

-Patrick Marber, Closer: A Play

"Men want a girl who looks like a boy. They want to protect her but she must be a survivor. And she must come...like a train...but with...elegance."

-Patrick Marber, Closer: A Play

22. A Taste of Honey: A Play

By: Shelagh Delaney

3.82

Format: 4 pages, Paperback

read more

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23. 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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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 Real Inspector Hound

By: Tom Stoppard

3.90

Format: 44 pages, Paperback

Title: The Real Inspector Hound Binding: Paperback Author: TomStoppard Publisher: SamuelFrench read more

Similar categories in Tom Stoppard's The Real Inspector Hound book and Patrick Marber's Closer: A Play

  • classics
  • british literature
  • theatre
  • fiction
  • plays
  • drama

26. Rhinoceros and Other Plays

By: Eugène Ionesco , Derek Prouse

3.75

Format: 263 pages,

In Rhinoceros,as in his early plays, Ionesco startles audiences with a world that invariably erupts… read more

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27. 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

Similar categories in Dean Mafako's Burned Out book and Patrick Marber's Closer: A Play

  • 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

Cover of Wife For Sale by Tabita Gutu

28. 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

Similar categories in Tabita Gutu's Wife For Sale book and Patrick Marber's Closer: A Play

  • contemporary
  • drama
Cover of Puck's Legacy by Katie Hall-May

29. 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

Similar categories in Katie Hall-May's Puck's Legacy book and Patrick Marber's Closer: A Play

"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

Cover of Growing Up American: A Novel by Rafael Polo

30. Growing Up American: A Novel

By: Rafael Polo

4.29

Format: 92 pages, Kindle Edition

In 1959, the Cold War was getting warmer. Cuba was the revolutionary fuel that made it hot. When Fi… read more

Similar categories in Rafael Polo's Growing Up American: A Novel book and Patrick Marber's Closer: A Play

"When power becomes the ultimate goal, freedom must be shackled."

-Rafael Polo, Growing Up American: A Novel

"At last, he fully understood that change comes from within. It was up to him to get up and fight for a better life."

-Rafael Polo, Growing Up American: A Novel

"It became visible as a firefly in the dark that the political climate was swiftly getting more and more oppressive."

-Rafael Polo, Growing Up American: A Novel

"His family could not understand the attraction to Marxism. It offered nothing and demanded everything, including your soul."

-Rafael Polo, Growing Up American: A Novel

Cover of The Empress (Oberon Modern Plays) by Tanika Gupta

31. The Empress (Oberon Modern Plays)

By: Tanika Gupta

3.76

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

It is the Jubilee! Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee, 1887. At Tilbury Docks, Rani and Abdul step ash… read more

Similar categories in Tanika Gupta's The Empress (Oberon Modern Plays) book and Patrick Marber's Closer: A Play

  • plays

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