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10 best books like Faith Healer (Brian Friel): Frost/Nixon, The Clean House, Rock 'n' Roll, The Winslow Boy, The Cure at Troy: A Version of Sophocles' Philoctetes, Walk the Blue Fields: Stories, The Doctor's Dilemma, Ghosts and Other Plays (Ghosts; A Public Enemy; When We Dead Awake), The Collected Stories, Hobson's Choice

Frost/Nixon
AuthorPeter Morgan
ISBN0571235417
In 1972, a break-in was foiled at the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee at the Watergate Hotel in Washington DC. Within days a connection had been made with the White House and President Nixon's closest aides. It unleashed one of the greatest scandals in modern American politics and...
The Clean House
AuthorSarah Ruhl
ISBN0573633983
The play takes place in what the author describes as "metaphysical Connecticut," mostly in the home of a married couple who are both doctors. They have hired a housekeeper named Matilde, an aspiring comedian from Brazil who's more interested in coming up with the perfect joke than in house-cleaning....
Rock 'n' Roll
AuthorTom Stoppard
ISBN0802143075
Rock ’n’ Roll is an electrifying collision of the romantic and the revolutionary. It is 1968 and the world is ablaze with rebellion, accompanied by a sound track of the Rolling Stones and Bob Dylan. Clutching his prized collection of rock albums, Jan, a Cambridge graduate student, returns to his...
The Winslow Boy
AuthorTerence Rattigan
ISBN1854594672
In 1908, a British boy of about 14, George Archer Shee [a double last name, and pronounced "Shay"], from a respectable but not rich family, was expelled from the Osborne Naval College after being falsely accused of stealing a five-shilling postal money order from a fellow cadet. (The administrators...
The Cure at Troy: A Version of Sophocles' Philoctetes
AuthorSeamus Heaney
ISBN0374522898
The Cure at Troy is Seamus Heaney's version of Sophocles' Philoctetes. Written in the fifth century BC, this play concerns the predicament of the outcast hero, Philoctetes, whom the Greeks marooned on the island of Lemnos and forgot about until the closing stages of the Siege of Troy. Abandoned because...
Walk the Blue Fields: Stories
AuthorClaire Keegan
ISBN0802170498
Claire Keegan’s brilliant debut collection, Antarctica, was a Los Angeles Times Book of the Year, and earned her resounding accolades on both sides of the Atlantic. Now she has delivered her next, much-anticipated book, Walk the Blue Fields, an unforgettable array of quietly wrenching stories...
The Doctor's Dilemma
AuthorGeorge Bernard Shaw
ISBN0140480013
Most of this play is, to be honest, nothing special, but it has one of the best death scenes I know. Louis Dubedat, a talented but morally bankrupt artist, is about to breathe his last:

LOUIS. Don't grieve, Walpole. I'm perfectly happy. I'm not in pain. I don't want to live. I've escaped from myself....
Ghosts and Other Plays (Ghosts; A Public Enemy; When We Dead Awake)
AuthorHenrik Ibsen
Of the three plays in this volume, Ghosts and A Public Enemy are social dramas of his middle period; and the former, described by one London critic as "an open sewer," raised the greatest outcry of all Ibsen's attacks on convention. When We Dead Wake, his last play, handles in a symbolic manner the individual's...
The Collected Stories
AuthorJohn McGahern
ISBN0679744010
This is the first set of short stories I've read by McGahern. Most were excellent. One dragged ("Peaches"), one was extremely disturbing ("Lavin") but many others left you wanting more, like a good short story should.
While McGahern was a great writer in general, I love the way the guy wrote about...
Hobson's Choice
AuthorHarold Brighouse
ISBN0435232800
When trying to find something about this play that takes place in England c.1880, I came upon a certain reference to the name of the story:
A Hobson's choice is a free choice in which only one thing is offered. Because a person may refuse to accept what is offered, the two options are taking it or taking...
Last Summer
AuthorEvan Hunter
ISBN0583117171
Last summer was a vacation island, beachgrass and plum, sunshine and sand...Last summer was a million laughs...Last summer a pretty blonde girl and two carefree, suntanned youths nursed an injured seagull back to health...Last summer, too, they befriended Rhoda, a shy young girl with trusting eyes......
Yellow Face
AuthorDavid Henry Hwang
ISBN1559363401
"It's about our country, about public image, about "face,"" says David Henry Hwang about his latest work, a mock documentary that puts Hwang himself center stage as it explores both Asian identity as well as race in America. The play begins with the 1990s controversy over color-blind casting for "Miss...
The Complete Dramatic Works
AuthorSamuel Beckett
ISBN0571144861
I am somewhat tempted, at the risk of being highly pretentious, to right a Beckett-style to review to this Beckett compendium. Fortunately, I'm not sure I really have the knack, thus sparing me from the absurdity.

I have given this two stars. I'm not sure why because I absolutely love Beckett,...
Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme
AuthorFrank McGuinness
ISBN0571146112
'This powerful and subtle play... follows the experience of eight men who volunteer to serve in the 36th (Ulster) Division at the beginning of the First World War. It reaches a climax at the start of the terrible battle of the Somme on July 1, 1916, the actual anniversary of the battle of the Boyne in 1690....
Solace
AuthorBelinda McKeon
ISBN0330529846
Mark Casey has left home, the rural Irish community where his family has farmed the same land for generations, to study for a doctorate in Dublin, a vibrant, contemporary city full of possibility. To his father, Tom, who needs help baling the hay and ploughing the fields, Mark's pursuit isn't work at...
The Complete Plays
AuthorJ.M. Synge
I read this collection as part of a class on Irish Revival Literature. Out of the five assigned plays (we didn't do Tinker's Wedding, though I did read it on my own), I'd have to say "Playboy of the Western World" and "Well of the Saints" were my favorites; they just struck me as more interesting than some...
Connemara: Listening to the Wind
AuthorTim Robinson
ISBN1844880656
In 1999, Tim Robinson established himself as one of Ireland's most brilliant nonfiction writers with the two-volume Stones of Aran, a tribute to the unspoiled wild of Ireland's Aran Islands. With Connemara, he creates an indelible portrait of a small corner of the world. From the unmarked graves of...
Jerusalem
AuthorJez Butterworth
ISBN1848420501
Notgettingenough and I went to this critically acclaimed play a couple of nights ago at the West End. I watched the whole thing with rapt attention; Not, as she sometimes does, took a short nap halfway through. I imagined this would give me an advantage during the post-mortem, but I should have known better.

"So...
Talley's Folly
AuthorLanford Wilson
ISBN0374521573
Winner of 1980 Pulitzer Prize for Drama
The scene is the ornate, deserted Victorian boathouse on the Talley place in Lebanon, Missouri; the time 1944. Matt Friedman, an accountant from St. Louis, has arrived to plead his love to Sally Talley, the susceptible, but uncertain daughter of the family....
Beauty, Disrupted: A Memoir
AuthorCarre Otis
ISBN0062024450
Teen runaway, supermodel, and actress Carré Otis found herself in the public eye from a very tender age. Millions of people gazed at provocative images of her in magazine and billboard ads from Guess and Calvin Klein as well as in features on the pages of Playboy and the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition....
Whoredom In Kimmage: The Private Lives of Irish Women
AuthorRosemary Mahoney
ISBN0385474504
Written with the art of a skilled fiction writer whose ear for Irish bluster is pitch-perfect, Whoredom in Kimmage tells the tale of contemporary Irish women through a series of brilliantly animated scenes that take the reader from Dillon's tiny pub in rural Corofin to the heart of Dublin. This beguiling...
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