 | 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 Utterly revolting and disgusting. Berkoff's East is childish, yet blue, and will make you cackle at things you had never previously thought amusing.
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 | The Reduced Shakespeare Company : Radio Show(Vol 1)
Buy new: £8.99 / Used from: £0.79 A wonderful introduction to Shakespeare, performed by geniuses who convince you that they are complete idiots.
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 | Twelfth Night (Cambridge School Shakespeare) by William Shakespeare
Buy new: £2.75 / Used from: £0.01 Somehow, it just never stops being funny, despite how poorly its age compares to the rest of the items on this list. This is not a pretentious addition to my list - the play really is brilliant.
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 | Under Milk Wood: A Play for Voices (Penguin Modern Classics) by Dylan Thomas
Buy new: £5.98 / Used from: £2.79 It's one of the most beautiful things ever written in English, and also one of the most amusing. No matter what generation you are, Thomas always seems to be writing about people you know.
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 | Loot (Methuen Modern Plays) by Joe Orton
Buy new: £8.28 / Used from: £0.84 What can you not find funny about two people trying to stuff a dead body in a cupboard?
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 | "Sexual Perversity in Chicago" and "the Duck Variations": Two Plays by David Mamet
Buy new: £8.99 / Used from: £1.54 David Mamet is possibly the nastiest, funniest writer in contemporary American theatre. Offers some real 'insight' into how to chat up women in bars.
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 | 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: £6.44 / Used from: £2.66 The play that has everything! Maybe a strange choice when looking for laughs, but it's got some cracking comedy amidst the captivating drama.
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 | The Importance of Being Earnest (Penguin Popular Classics) by Oscar Wilde
Buy new: £2.16 / Used from: £0.01 One of those supposedly trivial plays that simply keeps people laughing, and why not?
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 | Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett
Buy used from: £4.93 Impressive because the first act makes you laugh and the second makes your blood run cold. Why? Because they're both almost exactly the same.
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 | Ubu Roi by Alfred Jarry
Buy new: £3.99 / Used from: £19.28 Read Macbeth, then come back and read this. That's all I have to say.
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