 | The Reduced Shakespeare Co. presentsThe Compleat Works of Wllm Shkspr (abridged) by William Shakespeare
Buy new: $7.90 / Used from: $4.41 Hysterical and inspired, this play can be adjusted for more actors, but really works best with just the three. You have to read this!
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 | Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead by Tom Stoppard
Buy new: $10.08 / Used from: $2.99 I have a bit of a unhealthy obsession with Tom Stoppard. I love everything he has ever written for its wit, cleverness and general brilliance. Probably not best for a younger group but wonderful!
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 | Art: A Play by Yasmina Reza
Buy new: $11.05 / Used from: $0.93 This play is fantastic. I saw it on Broadway and it has stayed with me for years. Very funny and thought provoking.
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 | The Love of Three Oranges: a play for the theatre that takes the commedia dell'arte of Carlo Gozzi and updates it for the new millennium by Carlo Gozzi
Buy new: $12.99 / Used from: $12.00 I love this play for high schools or any teaching theatre. The cast size of a musical, but its a very funny straight play
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 | Joined at the Head. by Catherine Butterfield
Buy new: $7.50 / Used from: $4.50 This play is amazing! Touching, funny, clever, I cannot say enough about it. You must read it, even if you don't think you will get to perform it
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 | The Heidi Chronicles: Uncommon Women and Others & Isn't It Romantic by Wendy Wasserstein
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $0.37 I have always loved the Heidi Chronicles. I unfortunately have only see one performance of it and it was terrible, but the play it self is fantastic!
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 | The Madwoman of Chaillot. by Jean Giraudoux
Buy new: $7.50 / Used from: $3.72 This play is lovely, so deliciously bizarre and fun. My updated it to the modern day when we did it at a local high school, but it works great all the same.
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| Rumors: A farce by Neil Simon
Buy new: $6.00 / Used from: $2.95 After #1, definately one of my favorite comedies of all time. Great ensemble cast and very very fun!
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 | The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays (Oxford World's Classics) by Oscar Wilde
Buy used from: $0.01 How can you not love this priceless classic? No movie to date has done the text justice.
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 | All in the Timing: Fourteen Plays by David Ives
Buy new: $10.85 / Used from: $4.49 This playwright had the ability to completely absorb an audience and make them really really think and really really laugh all at the same time. Seems to be a theme of this list. :-)
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| Artist Descending a Staircase by Tom Stoppard
Buy used from: $10.26 Just one more Stoppard, I promise. ;-) This radio play is fantastic and I also saw a performance of it as a stage play. Blew me away!
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 | The Real Inspector Hound and Other Plays by Tom Stoppard
Buy new: $10.55 / Used from: $3.89 I couldn't resist adding another Stoppard. This play within a play is amazing, esp with how it plays with the levels of story telling.
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| Information for Foreigners by Griselda Gambaro
Buy new: $48.00 / Used from: $41.18 This play is so innovative and interesting. It is staged throughout a house and the scenes are all viewed in a different order. I have never seen it performed. Perform it so I can come see! :-)
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 | Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All for You and the Actor's Nightmare: Two Plays by Christopher Durang
Buy new: $7.50 / Used from: $2.99 You have to have a little fun with the Catholic religion (I am Catholic, so its all good). This play is very funny and also rather sick/twisted.
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| God's Favorite by Neil Simon
Buy used from: $7.00 while we are in the spirit of religious mockery, it thought I would throw this classic retelling of Job in....
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 | Edward Albee's the Zoo Story and the Sandbox by Edward Albee
Buy used from: $3.39 I have not read the Sandbox, but Zoo Story is one of the most powerful plays I have ever read. You really have to read it.
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| Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett
Buy used from: $0.01 I am not sure if i am qualified to review Beckett so let's just say "Brilliant" and leave it at that. ;-)
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 | No Exit and Three Other Plays: Dirty Hands, The Flies, The Respectful Prostitute by Jean-Paul Sartre
Buy used from: $0.01 No Exit is also brilliant Twilight Zone kind of funny but make you think stuff. Three people who hate each other stuck in hell. Good stuff....
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 | Blithe Spirit (Methuen Modern Plays) by Noël Coward
Buy new: $11.66 / Used from: $6.29 This play is funny and very true in many ways. The ghosts of a man's ex-wives haunt him, birthplace of Elvira!
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 | Sam Shepard : Seven Plays (Buried Child, Curse of the Starving Class, The Tooth of Crime, La Turista, Tongues, Savage Love, True West) by Sam Shepard
Buy new: $10.88 / Used from: $3.50 Sam Shepard is an amazing writer so anyone of his plays are great. True West is the best of this as its the facinating fight of two halves of a man's mind displayed as two brothers who become each ot
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