20 Top theatre books like Slave Play by Jeremy O. Harris

Cover of Slave Play by Jeremy O. Harris

Slave Play

By: Jeremy O. Harris

4.18

Format: 162 pages, Paperback

The old South lives on at the MacGregor Plantation--in the breeze, in the cotton fields...and in th…

If you liked the theatre plot in Slave Play by Jeremy O. Harris , here is a list of 20 books like this:

Cover of Sweat by Lynn Nottage

1. Sweat

By: Lynn Nottage

4.06

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

In one of the poorest cities in America, Reading, Pennsylvania, a group of down-and-out factory wor… read more

Similar categories in Lynn Nottage's Sweat book and Jeremy O. Harris's Slave Play

  • race
  • school
  • theatre
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • african american
  • plays
  • drama
Cover of John by Annie Baker

2. 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

Similar categories in Annie Baker's John book and Jeremy O. Harris's Slave Play

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

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

Similar categories in Suzan-Lori Parks's Topdog/Underdog book and Jeremy O. Harris's Slave Play

  • school
  • theatre
  • fiction
  • african american
  • plays
  • drama
Cover of How I Learned to Drive by Paula Vogel

4. 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 Jeremy O. Harris's Slave Play

  • school
  • theatre
  • fiction
  • plays
  • drama

5. 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 Jeremy O. Harris's Slave Play

  • school
  • theatre
  • fiction
  • plays
  • drama
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6. 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

Similar categories in John Logan's Red book and Jeremy O. Harris's Slave Play

  • theatre
  • plays
  • fiction
  • drama
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7. Enron

By: Lucy Prebble

3.80

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

One of the most infamous scandals in financial history becomes a theatrical epic. At once a case st… read more

Similar categories in Lucy Prebble's Enron book and Jeremy O. Harris's Slave Play

  • school
  • theatre
  • fiction
  • plays
  • drama
Cover of An Octoroon by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins

8. An Octoroon

By: Branden Jacobs-Jenkins

4.00

Format: 117 pages,

Winner of the 2014 OBIE Award for Best New American Play. Judge Peyton is dead and his plantation T… read more

Similar categories in Branden Jacobs-Jenkins's An Octoroon book and Jeremy O. Harris's Slave Play

  • theatre
  • plays
  • school
  • drama

9. The Effect

By: Lucy Prebble

4.57

Format: 270 pages, Paperback

You're on a placebo, Tristan. Least I've got an excuse. She told me: you're nothing, you're a contr… read more

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10. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

By: Mark Haddon , Simon Stephens

5.00

Format: 229 pages, Paperback

My name is Christopher John Francis Boone. I know all the countries of the world and the capital ci… read more

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11. Angels in America, Part One: Millennium Approaches

By: Tony Kushner

4.11

Format: None pages, Paperback

Pulitzer Prize-winner for Drama, 1993. The first part of Tony Kushner's epic drama of America in th… read more

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12. 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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13. 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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14. Machinal

By: Sophie Treadwell

4.65

Format: None pages, Paperback

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15. 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

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16. The Normal Heart

By: Andrew Holleran , Larry Kramer , Joseph Papp

4.24

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

THE NORMAL HEARTis the explosive drama about our most terrifying and troubling medical crisis today… read more

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17. In the Next Room, or the vibrator play

By: Sarah Ruhl

4.41

Format: 333 pages, Paperback

In the Next Room or the vibrator playis a comedy about marriage, intimacy, and electricity. Set in … read more

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18. 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 Jeremy O. Harris's Slave Play

  • lgbt
  • 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

Cover of Fairview by Jackie Sibblies Drury

19. 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 Jeremy O. Harris's Slave Play

  • race
  • school
  • theatre
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • 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

Cover of Cost of Living by Martyna Majok

20. Cost of Living

By: Martyna Majok

4.14

Format: 91 pages, Paperback

Eddie, an unemployed truck driver, reunites with his ex-wife Ani after she suffers a devastating ac… read more

Similar categories in Martyna Majok's Cost of Living book and Jeremy O. Harris's Slave Play

  • school
  • theatre
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • plays
  • drama
"That's not a thing I'll ever know. Everything's started over for me—"

-Martyna Majok, Cost of Living

"Self-pity has little currency in these characters' worlds. Humor, however, has much."

-Martyna Majok, Cost of Living

"It matters who you are. Family. Connections. If there's gonna be a net when you fall. Cuz everybody falls."

-Martyna Majok, Cost of Living

"The shit that happens is not to be understood. That's from the Bible. The shit that happens to you is Not To Be Understood."

-Martyna Majok, Cost of Living

Cover of Fat Ham by James Ijames

21. Fat Ham

By: James Ijames

4.06

Format: None pages, None

No publication details yet read more

Similar categories in James Ijames's Fat Ham book and Jeremy O. Harris's Slave Play

  • lgbt
  • theatre
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • plays
  • drama
Cover of The Thanksgiving Play by Larissa FastHorse

22. The Thanksgiving Play

By: Larissa FastHorse

3.87

Format: 72 pages, Paperback

A mismatched but well-meaning foursome sets out to devise a politically correct school play that ca… read more

Similar categories in Larissa FastHorse's The Thanksgiving Play book and Jeremy O. Harris's Slave Play

  • theatre
  • plays
  • fiction
  • drama
Cover of The Wolves by Sarah DeLappe

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

Similar categories in Sarah DeLappe's The Wolves book and Jeremy O. Harris's Slave Play

  • school
  • theatre
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • plays
  • drama
Cover of Heroes of the Fourth Turning by Will Arbery

24. Heroes of the Fourth Turning

By: Will Arbery

4.03

Format: 146 pages, Paperback

It's nearing midnight in Wyoming, where four young conservatives have gathered at a backyard after-… read more

Similar categories in Will Arbery's Heroes of the Fourth Turning book and Jeremy O. Harris's Slave Play

  • theatre
  • plays
  • fiction
  • drama
Cover of Slave Play by Jeremy O. Harris

25. Slave Play

By: Jeremy O. Harris

4.18

Format: 162 pages, Paperback

The old South lives on at the MacGregor Plantation--in the breeze, in the cotton fields...and in th… read more

Similar categories in Jeremy O. Harris's Slave Play book and Jeremy O. Harris's Slave Play

  • race
  • school
  • lgbt
  • theatre
  • social justice
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • african american
  • plays
  • drama
Cover of Dance Nation (Oberon Modern Plays) by Clare Barron

26. Dance Nation (Oberon Modern Plays)

By: Clare Barron

4.22

Format: 173 pages, Kindle Edition

'Maybe this is the year, this is the moment, this is the dance where your lives will start!'Somewhe… read more

Similar categories in Clare Barron's Dance Nation (Oberon Modern Plays) book and Jeremy O. Harris's Slave Play

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

27. 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 Jeremy O. Harris's Slave Play

  • race
  • theatre
  • fiction
  • african american
  • 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

Cover of A Doll's House, Part 2 by Lucas Hnath

28. A Doll's House, Part 2

By: Lucas Hnath

3.82

Format: 107 pages, Paperback

In the final scene of Ibsen’s 1879 groundbreaking masterwork, Nora Helmer makes the shocking decisi… read more

Similar categories in Lucas Hnath's A Doll's House, Part 2 book and Jeremy O. Harris's Slave Play

  • school
  • theatre
  • fiction
  • plays
  • drama
Cover of A Strange Loop by Michael R. Jackson

29. A Strange Loop

By: Michael R. Jackson

4.22

Format: 111 pages, Paperback

Winner of the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Drama Usher is a black, queer writer, working a day job he… read more

Similar categories in Michael R. Jackson's A Strange Loop book and Jeremy O. Harris's Slave Play

  • school
  • lgbt
  • theatre
  • fiction
  • plays
  • drama
Cover of The Hills of California by Jez Butterworth

30. The Hills of California

By: Jez Butterworth

3.83

Format: 122 pages, Paperback

Blackpool, 1976. The driest summer in two hundred years. The beaches are packed. The hotels are hea… read more

Similar categories in Jez Butterworth's The Hills of California book and Jeremy O. Harris's Slave Play

  • plays
Cover of The Hot Wing King by Katori Hall

31. The Hot Wing King

By: Katori Hall

3.88

Format: None pages, Paperback

Ready, set, fry! It’s time for the annual "Hot Wang Festival" in Memphis, Tennessee, and Cordell Cr… read more

Similar categories in Katori Hall's The Hot Wing King book and Jeremy O. Harris's Slave Play

  • plays

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Lynn Nottage

4.06

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John

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4.20

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4.11

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The Pillowman

Martin McDonagh

4.30

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Federico García Lorca , Gwynne Edwards , Chris Megson

3.55

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0.00

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3.70

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