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Books like The Great Wave

Explore 24 books like The Great Wave by Francis Turnly — a handpicked selection united by Playwriting, Theater, and Performing Arts.

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Top related books to The Great Wave

Read-alikes chosen for how well they continue the mood, themes, and voice of The Great Wave.

Henrik Ibsen: Nine Full-cast BBC Radio Dramatisations A Collection of Nine Full-cast Dramatisations — Henrik Ibsen

Henrik Ibsen: Nine Full-cast BBC Radio Dramatisations A Collection of Nine Full-cast Dramatisations

Themes: Playwriting • Theater • Performing Arts

Donegal — Frank McGuinness

Frank McGuinness

Themes: Playwriting • Theater • Performing Arts

Shakespeare The Man who Pays the Rent — Judi Dench

Shakespeare The Man who Pays the Rent

Themes: Playwriting • Theater • Performing Arts

Amadeus A Play by Peter Shaffer — Peter Shaffer

Themes: Playwriting • Theater • Performing Arts

Revenge Or The Novice Of San Martino A Tragedy (1818) — Brook Bridges Parlby

Revenge Or The Novice Of San Martino A Tragedy (1818)

Brook Bridges Parlby

Themes: Playwriting • Theater • Performing Arts

Rough Girls — Tara Lynne O’Neil

Rough Girls — Tara Lynne O’Neil

Tara Lynne O'Neil

Themes: Playwriting • Theater • Performing Arts

Angela — Mark Ravenhill

Themes: Playwriting • Theater • Performing Arts

The Audience — Peter Morgan

Themes: Playwriting • Theater • Performing Arts

Plays Volume Two (W. Somerset Maugham) — W. Somerset Maugham

Plays Volume Two (W. Somerset Maugham)

W. Somerset Maugham

Themes: Playwriting • Theater • Performing Arts

Lobby Hero — Kenneth Lonergan

Kenneth Lonergan

Themes: Playwriting • Theater • Performing Arts

Richard Bean Plays 6 One Man, Two Guvnors; Young Marx; The Hypocrite — Richard Bean

Richard Bean Plays 6 One Man, Two Guvnors; Young Marx; The Hypocrite

Themes: Playwriting • Theater • Performing Arts

The Scene Book A Primer for the Fiction Writer — Sandra Scofield

The Scene Book A Primer for the Fiction Writer

Sandra Scofield

Themes: Playwriting • Theater • Performing Arts

The Importance of Being Earnest — Oscar Wilde

The Importance of Being Earnest

Themes: Playwriting • Theater • Performing Arts

Howard Barker: Plays Twelve At Her Age and Hers; Landscape with Cries; Womanly; Four Dialogues; True Condition — Howard Barker

Howard Barker: Plays Twelve At Her Age and Hers; Landscape with Cries; Womanly; Four Dialogues; True Condition

Themes: Playwriting • Theater • Performing Arts

The Science of Storytelling Why Stories Make Us Human and How to Tell Them Better — Will Storr

The Science of Storytelling Why Stories Make Us Human and How to Tell Them Better

Themes: Playwriting • Theater • Performing Arts

Harper Regan — Simon Stephens

Themes: Playwriting • Theater • Performing Arts

The Spoils — Jesse Eisenberg

Jesse Eisenberg

Themes: Playwriting • Theater • Performing Arts

Human Nurture — Ryan Calais Cameron

Ryan Calais Cameron

Themes: Playwriting • Theater • Performing Arts

The Count is Home The Development of August Strindberg’s Miss Julie, from First Rehearsal to Opening Performance by the Saint Albans Repertory Theater, Washington, D.C., 1970: A Journal — David C. Newcomb

The Count is Home The Development of August Strindberg’s Miss Julie, from First Rehearsal to Opening Performance by the Saint Albans Repertory Theater, Washington, D.C., 1970: A Journal

David C. Newcomb

Themes: Playwriting • Theater • Performing Arts

Henrik Ibsen — Ivo de Figueiredo

Ivo de Figueiredo

Themes: Playwriting • Theater • Performing Arts

New Playwriting at Shakespeare’s Globe — Vera Cantoni

New Playwriting at Shakespeare’s Globe

Themes: Playwriting • Theater • Performing Arts

The Playboy of the Western World—A New Version A Critical Edition — Bisi Adigun

The Playboy of the Western World—A New Version A Critical Edition

Themes: Playwriting • Theater • Performing Arts

Black Watch — Gregory Burke

Themes: Playwriting • Theater • Performing Arts

Of Mice and Men and The Moon Is Down Two Plays — John Steinbeck

Of Mice and Men and The Moon Is Down Two Plays

Themes: Playwriting • Theater • Performing Arts

This list brings together 24 books that share meaningful common ground with The Great Wave by Francis Turnly. Connected by Playwriting, Theater, Performing Arts. Authors featured include Henrik Ibsen, Frank McGuinness, Judi Dench, Peter Shaffer, and others. Each pick was selected for thematic and literary overlap — not just genre similarity.

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