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SUGGESTED PLAYS
This section contains plays that I think are worthwhile reads.
The plays with a * next to them are my favorites.
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EDWARD ALBEE
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Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf *
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The Zoo Story
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The American Dream
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Three Tall Women
DAVID AUBURN
1. Proof
SHOLEM ASCH
1. God of Vengeance *
B
AMIRI BARAKA
1. Dutchman
J.M. BARRIE
1. Peter Pan *
2. Mary Rose *
3. A Kiss for Cinderella
4. Dear Brutus *
5. A Well-Remembered Voice (a one scene play) *
6. Barbara's Wedding (a one scene play)
7. Seven Women (a one scene play)
8. Alice Sit-by-the Fire
9. The Admirable Mr. Crichton *
C
ALICE CHILDRESS
1. Florence
CARYL CHURCHILL
1. Cloud 9
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T.S. ELLIOT
1. The Cocktail Party
EVE ENSLER
1. The Vagina Monologues *
2. The Good Body
3. Necessary Targets: A Story of Women and War
F
MARIA IRENE FORNES
1. Fefu and Her Friends
G
A.R. GURNEY
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The Snow Ball
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The Dining Room
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Children *
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Later Life *
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A Cheever Evening
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Love Letters
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The Cocktail Hour
RUTH and AUGUSTUS GOETZ
1. The Heiress
H
LILLIAN HELLMAN
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The Autumn Garden *
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The Little Foxes
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Days to Come *
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The Children's Hour
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Toys in the Attic
LORRAINE HANSBERRY
1. A Raisin in the Sun
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HENRIK IBSEN
1. Hedda Gabler
2. A Doll's House *
WILLIAM INGE
1. Picnic
J
BRANDEN JACOBS-JENKINS
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Appropriate
JOSEP M. BENET I JORNET
1. Salamander *
RAJIV JOSEPH
1. Gruesome Playground Injuries
2. Guards at the Taj
K
GEORGE KAUFFMAN
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You Can't Take it With You *
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Dinner at Eight
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Stage Door *
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The Man Who Came to Dinner *
TONY KUSHNER
1. Angels in America (Part 1 and 2) *
L
KENNETH LONERGAN
1. This is Our Youth
M
DAVID MAMET
1. Sexual Perversity in Chicago
MURIEL MIGUEL
1. Hot 'n' soft
ARTHUR MILLER
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After the Fall *
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All My Sons *
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The Crucible *
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Death of a Salesman
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The Archbishop's Ceiling
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PETER NICHOLS
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Passion*
O
CLIFFORD ODETS
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Till the Day I Die
EUGENE O'NEILL
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Long Day's Journey into Night *
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Abortion (a one-scene play)
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The Great God Brown
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NICK PAYNE
1. Constellations
HAROLD PINTER
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Betrayal *
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The Homecoming
DAWN POWELL
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Jig Saw *
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Women at Four O'Clock
REYNOLDS PRICE
1. Early Dark
2. Full Moon
Q
R
SARAH RUHL
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In the Next Room, or the Vibrator Play *
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Stage Kiss
S
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE
1. No Exit *
SHAKESPEARE
1. Othello
2. Hamlet *
NTOZAKE SHANGE
1. For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow Is Enuf
SAM SHEPARD
1. Buried Child *
NEIL SIMON
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Rumors *
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Jake's Women *
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Lost in Yonkers
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Brighton Beach Memoirs
SIMON STEPHENS
1. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (was originally a novel, written by Mark Haddon)
AUGUST STRINDBERG
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Playing with Fire
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DYLAN THOMAS
1. Under Milk Wood *
LUCY THURBER
1. Where We're Born *
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Paula Vogel
1. How I Learned to Drive *
W
MAE WEST
1. The Pleasure Man
2. The Drag
3. Sex
WENDY WASSERSTEIN
1. The Heidi Chronicles *
2. Uncommon Women and Others
3. The Sisters Rosensweig
4. An American Daughter *
5. Isn't It Romantic *
MAURINE DALLAS WATKINS
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Chicago (yes, it was a play before a musical!) *
FRANK WEDEKIND
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Spring Awakening (yes, it was a play before a musical!) *
OSCAR WILDE
1. The Importance of Being Earnest
2. Vera, or the Nihilists *
THORNTON WILDER
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Our Town *
TENESSEE WILLIAMS
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A Streetcar Named Desire *
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The Glass Menagerie *
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Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
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Suddenly, Last Summer *
AUGUST WILSON
1. Fences
2. The Piano Lesson
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