Superior Donuts

5 best books like Superior Donuts (Tracy Letts): Danton's Death, Leonce and Lena, Woyzeck, The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, Kaspar and Other Plays, The Portable Arthur Miller, Indecent

AuthorGeorg Büchner
ISBN0192836501
Buchner's special quality, and that which makes him seem more contemporary than almost anything written today, is his total, uncompromising honesty of emotion and intellect. The German writer Georg Buchner, who died in 1837 aged 23, left only three works for the theatre. Danton's Death, his great...
The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui
AuthorBertolt Brecht
ISBN1559705434
The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, (Der aufhaltsame Aufstieg des Arturo Ui) was written by the great German dramatist Bertolt Brecht over the course of 3 furious weeks in 1941, while a refugee in Helsinki, Finland. A dizzyingly intelligent political satire on the (ir)resistibleness of political thuggery,...
AuthorPeter Handke
ISBN0374508240
This play is the story of an autistic adolescent who finds himself at a complete existential loss on the stage, with but a single sentence to call his own. Drilled by prompters who use terrifyingly funny logical and alogical language-sequences, Kaspar learns to speak "normally" and eventually becomes...
AuthorArthur Miller
ISBN0142437557
This classic collection—the only one-volume selection of Arthur Miller's work available—presents a rich cross section of writing from one of our most influential and humane playwrights, containing in full his masterpieces The Crucible and Death of a Salesman. This essential collection also...
Indecent
AuthorPaula Vogel
ISBN1559365471
“Indecent reminds us of the power of art to tell us truths long before we are able to recognize them as such.” — Los Angeles Times

“Indecent sheds an eye-opening light on a little-known time when theatrical history, Jewish culture, and the frank depiction of homosexuality intersected,...
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