swap_horiz True West Alternatives

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The Seagull

The Seagull is a play by Anton Chekhov about writers, actors, artistic ambition, and unreturned love on a Russian countr...

Russian Realism Art Chekhov

9.2 Excellent

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Antigone

Antigone is an ancient Greek tragedy by Sophocles, first performed in Athens around 441 BCE. After a civil war in Thebes...

Tragedy Ancient Greek Sophocles

9.2 Excellent

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The Oresteia

The Oresteia is a trilogy of Greek tragedies by Aeschylus, first performed in Athens in 458 BCE. Comprising Agamemnon, T...

Ancient Greek Trilogy Aeschylus

9.2 Excellent

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The Bacchae

The Bacchae is an ancient Greek tragedy by Euripides, produced posthumously around 405 BCE. Dionysus returns to Thebes t...

Ancient Greek Euripides Dionysus

9.2 Excellent

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Phèdre

Phèdre is a French neoclassical tragedy by Jean Racine, first performed in 1677 and based on stories from Greek mytholog...

French Tragedy 17TH Century Racine

9.2 Excellent

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Buried Child

Buried Child is a 1978 play by American dramatist Sam Shepard and the winner of the 1979 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Set i...

American Family Pulitzer Sam Shepard

8.6 Great

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Philadelphia, Here I Come!

Philadelphia, Here I Come! is a play by Irish dramatist Brian Friel, first staged in 1964. On the eve of Gar O'Donnell's...

Identity Irish Brian Friel Emigration

8.3 Great

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Sizwe Banzi is Dead

Sizwe Banzi Is Dead is an apartheid-era South African play created by Athol Fugard with actors John Kani and Winston Nts...

Identity South African Apartheid Athol Fugard

8.3 Great

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American Buffalo

American Buffalo is a play by David Mamet, first produced in 1975 and set almost entirely inside a Chicago junk shop. Do...

American Crime Loyalty David Mamet

8.3 Great

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Mourning Becomes Electra

Mourning Becomes Electra is a 1931 dramatic trilogy by Eugene O'Neill that adapts the Oresteia of Aeschylus to a prosper...

Epic American Greek Tragedy Eugene Oneill

8.1 Great

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Curse of the Starving Class

Curse of the Starving Class is a 1977 play by American dramatist Sam Shepard and the first work commonly grouped within...

American Family Dark Sam Shepard

8.1 Great

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A Number

A Number is a 2002 play by British playwright Caryl Churchill about a father who encounters multiple genetically identic...

Identity British Cloning Caryl Churchill

8.1 Great

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The Maids

The Maids is a 1947 play by French writer Jean Genet centered on two sisters, Claire and Solange, who work as domestic s...

French Identity Class Jean Genet

8.1 Great

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What the Constitution Means to Me

What the Constitution Means to Me is an autobiographical play by American playwright and performer Heidi Schreck. It dra...

American Feminist Autobiographical Heidi Schreck

8.1 Great

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Fool for Love

Fool for Love is a one-act play by American dramatist Sam Shepard, first produced in 1983. Set in a motel room on the ed...

American One Act Obsession Sam Shepard

8.0 Great

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Disgraced

Disgraced is a play by Ayad Akhtar that premiered in 2012 and received the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. It centers on...

Identity Pulitzer Islam Ayad Akhtar

7.8 Good

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Ah, Wilderness!

Ah, Wilderness! is a comedy by American playwright Eugene O'Neill, first produced in 1933. Set in a small Connecticut to...

American Comedy Nostalgic Eugene Oneill

7.7 Good

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Yellow Face

David Henry Hwang's 2007 semi-autobiographical play explores the complexities of racial identity politics and representa...

Identity Asian American Metatheatrical David Henry Hwang

7.5 Good

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Getting Out

Getting Out is a 1977 play by Marsha Norman that marks her professional debut as a playwright. The story centers on a wo...

Identity Prison Women Marsha Norman

7.4 Good

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The Last Night of Ballyhoo

Alfred Uhry's play *The Last Night of Ballyhoo* is a dramatic comedy set in Atlanta, Georgia, in December 1939. It explo...

Identity Tony Winner Alfred Uhry Jewish Southern

7.2 Good