The Ferryman (NHB Modern Plays)
By: Jez Butterworth
4.36
Format: 161 pages, Kindle Edition
Armagh, 1981. The Carney farmhouse is a hive of activity with preparations for the annual harvest. …
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1. Star of the Sea
By: Joseph O'Connor
4.50
Format: 24 pages, Paperback
In the bitter winter of 1847, from an Ireland torn by famine and injustice, the Star of the Sea set… read more
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"Boredom is a bit of a bore, to say the least."-Joseph O'Connor, Star of the Sea
"Everything is in the way the material is composed."-Joseph O'Connor, Star of the Sea
"Love and freedom are such hideous words. So many cruelties have been done in their name."-Joseph O'Connor, Star of the Sea
"It is not a matter of ends justifying means: but of the creation of new means and new ends."-Joseph O'Connor, Star of the Sea
2. alterNatives
By: Drew Hayden Taylor
3.87
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
A very liberal contemporary couple—Angel, an urban Native science fiction writer, and Colleen, a “n… read more
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3. Dancing at Lughnasa
By: Brian Friel
3.71
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
It is 1936 and harvest time in County Donegal. In a house just outside the village of Ballybeg live… read more
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"Dancing as if language had surrendered to movement - as if this ritual, this wordless ceremony, was now the way to speak, to whisper private and sacred things, to be in touch with some otherness. Dan…"-Brian Friel, Dancing at Lughnasa
4. The Humans
By: Stephen Karam
3.91
Format: 164 pages, Paperback
Breaking with tradition, Erik Blake has brought his Pennsylvania family to celebrate Thanksgiving a… read more
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5. 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
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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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"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. 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
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8. 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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9. Cyprus Avenue
By: David Ireland
4.06
Format: None pages, Paperback
Gerry Adams has disguised himself as a newborn baby and successfully infiltrated my family home. Er… read more
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10. 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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11. The Seafarer
By: Conor McPherson
3.92
Format: 314 pages, Paperback
"Conor McPherson, who [turned] 35 in August, is one of the genuine treasures of the English-languag… read more
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12. 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
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"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
13. 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
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14. The Ferryman (NHB Modern Plays)
By: Jez Butterworth
4.36
Format: 161 pages, Kindle Edition
Armagh, 1981. The Carney farmhouse is a hive of activity with preparations for the annual harvest. … read more
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15. After the Funeral and Other Stories
By: Tessa Hadley
3.81
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A masterful collection of stories that plumb the depths of everyday life to reveal the shifting tid… read more
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16. Mary Jane (TCG Edition)
By: Amy Herzog
4.05
Format: 84 pages, Paperback
“The most profound and harrowing of Ms. Herzog’s many fine plays.” —Jesse Green, New York Times Arm… read more
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17. 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
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18. Leopoldstadt
By: Tom Stoppard
4.36
Format: None pages, Hardcover
At the beginning of the 20th Century, Leopoldstadt was the old, crowded Jewish quarter of Vienna. B… read more
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19. Being Various: New Irish Short Stories
By: Lucy Caldwell
3.69
Format: 354 pages, Paperback
Featuring brand new short stories from Kevin Barry, Eimear McBride, Belinda McKeon, Lisa McInerney,… read more
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20. Taking Up Space: The Black Girl’s Manifesto for Change
By: Chelsea Kwakye
4.30
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Understand that your journey is unique. Use this book as a guide. Our wish for you is that you read… read more
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21. Black '47: A Story of Ireland's Great Famine - A Graphic Novel
By: Damien Goodfellow
3.53
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
A gritty graphic novel about Ireland's Great Hunger. Jack and his family have been evicted by their… read more
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