(Part 2) Reddit mentions: The best regional & cultural dramas & plays books

Your local library might have it and if they don't, they might be able to order it through interlibrary loan. https://www.worldcat.org/ is an excellent way to find the book closest to you, so you might be able to just go out and read it at a different library if it's close.
Here are some online copies:
https://archive.org/details/threeplaysbybrie00brierich
http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/gutbook/lookup?num=46992 (project gutenberg)

Amazon link: http://www.amazon.com/Three-Plays-Brieux-Maternity-Daughters/dp/1162795638
http://www.amazon.com/Three-Plays-Brieux-Eug%C3%A8ne-Brieux/dp/B002Q4U9WM

Recently finished The Road Trip, a litfic account of a 5,000 km road trip I took with friends down the East Coast of Australia. Spoiler alert: Living in a van with four people is a fucking nightmare.

https://www.amazon.com/Road-Trip-Kyle-David-Iverson-ebook/dp/B07T2RDRQD

I'll echo the other redditor that said The Forever War.

I read it for a comparitive literature class I took and it was the only book besides R.U.R. that I really enjoyed.

And speaking of that, R.U.R.. This is the book that made the word "Robot" into a science fiction staple. And it's a short read too.

Walter Kaufmann's translation of Goethe's Faust is presented in such a way. Best translation I've read. Currently on Amazon. Would link but I'm on mobile

EDIT: Here it is

http://www.amazon.com/Bel-Canto-LP-A-Novel/dp/0061719862/ref=cm_cr_pr_product_top

the book lol

Augusto Boal - Theatre of the Oppressed

Jerzy Grotkowski - Towards a Poor Theatre

Alfred Jarry - Ubu Roi - but this version is better if your local library has it.

Diary of a Taxi Driver: True Stories From Singapore's Most Educated Cabdriver

Are you into classics, or could you enjoy some modern, punchy, gritty and sometimes downright nasty fiction, by the author of Trainspotting, Irvine Welsh?

He writes with a Scottish accent in places, and is not afraid of violence and - well - adult content, but if you are ok with all that malarkey, then might I suggest The Bedroom Secrets of the Master Chefs?

Adult content warning.

If you prefer the classics with a dark twist, then perhaps you should try Goethe's Faust and/or Matthew Lewis' The Monk.


Edit: Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter is another book that I found intriguing - for being introduced to the way of life, and how to cope with sociological issues, in the 17th Century, in Boston.

Why don't you read the play and decide for yourself?

EDIT:

https://smile.amazon.co.uk/dp/1472566572/ref=cm_sw_em_r_mt_dp_U_rQh5Cb5YFB739

Rossini's Il Barbiere di Siviglia is based on a play by the French playwright Pierre Beaumarchais.

The "sequel" to it, Mozart's "Le Nozze di Figaro" too.

https://www.amazon.com/Figaro-Trilogy-Seville-Marriage-Classics-ebook/dp/B006GODTMK/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1525319904&sr=8-1

all schoolchildren on planet earth should be required to read The Investigation, by Peter Weiss.

Just looked at the book on Amazon (http://www.amazon.com/Lost-Pages-Twisted-Makers-Diary/dp/1481153730)

Boring. Tries too hard to be shocking as if it were written by a 15-year-old boy. (Of course, if the target audience is 15-year-old boys, ZYO Entertainment (the copyright holder) knows their stuff.)

It's also a self-published book which is always a pig in a poke (http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/a-pig-in-a-poke.html). So, I wouldn't fork over $30+ for it.

The playwright is Daniil Kharms, and Elizabeth Bam appears in the book A Failed Performance: Short Plays & Scenes by Daniil Kharms.

in English translation there’s this volume https://www.amazon.com/Spinoza-Conversations-Between-Lessing-Jacobi/dp/081917016X/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?keywords=jacobi+lessing&qid=1556091847&s=gateway&sr=8-1. It’s expensive and last time i check there’s no pdf of it :(