 | Our Country's Good: Based on the Novel the "Playmaker" by Thomas Kenneally (Student Editions): Based on the Novel the "Playmaker" by Thomas Kenneally by Timberlake Wertenbaker
Buy new: £6.67 / Used from: £2.75 My favourite play of all time. Poignant, funny, entertaining and simply brilliant.
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 | Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes: Millennium Approaches Pt.1 by Tony Kushner
Buy new: £8.09 / Used from: £1.50 This is possibly the most incredible product of American theatre. An amazing response to the AIDS crisis of the 1980s.
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 | Glengarry Glen Ross (Modern Plays) (Modern Classics) by David Mamet
Buy new: £6.84 / Used from: £1.19 Watch the 1992 film of this, starring Spacey, Lemmon, Harris, Pacino, Baldwin, Pryce et al. It's some of the best drama of the 1990s, and much better than Death of a Salesman.
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 | The Weir by Conor McPherson
Buy new: £5.49 / Used from: £1.81 Five people tell remarkable stories in a rural Irish pub. You simply don't dare make a sound when reading or watching it, in case you miss a single word.
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 | Twelfth Night (Cambridge School Shakespeare) by William Shakespeare
Buy new: £5.25 / Used from: £0.01 400 years old, but finding something bawdier, rowdier, wittier and more entertaining is a challenge. A fabulous play to watch if you don't know Shakespeare well.
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 | Under Milk Wood: A Play for Voices (Penguin Modern Classics) by Dylan Thomas
Buy new: £5.98 / Used from: £2.10 It's just such a poignant, amusing, delightful radio play that you can't fail to be engaged by it.
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 | The Methuen Book of Modern Drama: Plays of the '80s and '90s: "Top Girls", "Hysteria", "Blasted", "Shopping and F***ing", "The Beauty Queen of Leenane" (Methuen Book Of...) (Play Anthologies) by Caryl Churchill
Buy new: £10.51 / Used from: £8.85 Terry Johnson's Hysteria is a great send-up of Freud, which informs you of his theories in a downright hilarious way, whilst disputing them intelligently. Oh, and Salvador Dali is amazing.
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 | Collected Plays: "East","West","Greek","Sink the Belgrano!","Massage", "Lunch","The Bow of Ulysses","Sturm Und Drang" v.1: "East","West","Greek","Sink ... Bow of Ulysses","Sturm Und Drang" Vol 1 by Steven Berkoff
Buy new: £7.49 / Used from: £5.40 Once you get past Berkoff's pretentiousness, you realise that East is actually nothing more than a really hilarious and revolting play that makes you laugh until your sides hurt and your eyes water.
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 | The Township Plays: No-Good Friday; Nongogo; The Coat; Sizwe Bansi is Dead; The Island by Athol Fugard
Buy new: £7.16 / Used from: £4.43 Sizwe Bansi is Dead is a brilliant South African play by Fugard, Kani and others that manages to be both personal and general, and therefore always captivating.
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 | King Richard III (Cambridge School Shakespeare) by William Shakespeare
Buy used from: £1.32 As long as the actor playing Richard is good enough, it can be one of the most enjoyable plays to watch.
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