Catching Up On Plays...
Catching Up On Plays...
#0Catching Up On Plays...
Posted: 5/15/05 at 3:05pm
This summer I want to catch up on all the plays I never read.
I want to read plays with good male monologues, so I will have some options ready for next year.
I WILL be reading Dearly Departed, A Midsummer's Night Dream, and Private Lives.
Any plays, that are "required" reading, that have male monologues, in which I need to add to my list for this summer?
Thanks!
So far, I have read only:
A Doll's House
A Raisin In The Sun
Cat On A Hot Tin Roof
Death Of A Salesman
Desire Under The Elms
Hamlet
Julius Caesar
Macbeth
Moon For The Misbegotten
Picnic
Prelude To A Kiss
Oedipus Rex
Oleanna
Riders To The Sea
The Cherry Orchard
The Glass Menagerie
The Heidi Chronicles
The Man In A Case
The Zoo Story
To Kill A Mockingbird
"The Spectacle has, indeed, an emotional attraction of its own, but, of all the parts, it is the least artistic, and connected least with the art of poetry. For the power of Tragedy, we may be sure, is felt even apart from representation and actors. Besides, the production of spectacular effects depends more on the art of the stage machinist than on that of the poet."
--Aristotle
--Aristotle
#1re: Catching Up On Plays...
Posted: 5/15/05 at 3:20pmif you don't mind new classics, "Doubt" it has a brilliantly funny male monologue in it
#2re: Catching Up On Plays...
Posted: 5/15/05 at 5:41pmHmm. Wonder if the script is available for purchase.
"The Spectacle has, indeed, an emotional attraction of its own, but, of all the parts, it is the least artistic, and connected least with the art of poetry. For the power of Tragedy, we may be sure, is felt even apart from representation and actors. Besides, the production of spectacular effects depends more on the art of the stage machinist than on that of the poet."
--Aristotle
--Aristotle
Joshua488
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/29/04
#3re: Catching Up On Plays...
Posted: 5/15/05 at 5:44pmAngels in America: Millenium Approaches and Angels in America: Perestroika. Two of my favorites.
#4re: Catching Up On Plays...
Posted: 5/15/05 at 5:56pm
"Hmm. Wonder if the script is available for purchase."
Doubt
"Smart! And into all those exotic mystiques -- The Kama Sutra and Chinese techniques. I hear she knows more than seventy-five. Call me tomorrow if you're still alive!"
#5re: Catching Up On Plays...
Posted: 5/15/05 at 6:10pmThe Importance of Being Earnest has two lead male roles and is amusing to read, I read it this year and did a literary analysis on it, it's a great play.
A most ingenious paradox.
#6re: Catching Up On Plays...
Posted: 5/15/05 at 6:13pmAnything Shakespeare catches my attention. Not necessarily for the acting or play aspect of it, just the brilliance of the writing.
http://medialiciousmusings.blogspot.com/
Beergoggles
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/30/05
#7re: Catching Up On Plays...
Posted: 5/15/05 at 6:15pm
ROAD by Jim Cartwright has loads but it's very very heavy
BOUNCERS by John Godber is an all male cast
Little Voice by Jim Cartwright has a few
Jesus Loves You... Everybody else thinks you're an idiot!
itstheM
Featured Actor Joined: 10/17/03
#9re: Catching Up On Plays...
Posted: 5/15/05 at 7:41pmAlbee has some great things.....
Baby, dream your dream
Close your eyes and try it!
romanov
Stand-by Joined: 5/6/05
#10re: Catching Up On Plays...
Posted: 5/15/05 at 7:48pmRecently appeared in Wilder's The Matchmaker. Several wonderful monologues in that show. Especially for Malachi. He has a wonderful speech to the audience about vice. God, it was fun to do.
#11re: Catching Up On Plays...
Posted: 5/15/05 at 11:01pmIf you want to read a great play, read proof. Just amazing.
"At the opening night party, they had clowns on stilts, jugglers, a chocolate fountain, popcorn, hot dogs. [My son] looked at me like I had been holding back. Like, 'This is what you do?' I had to tell him, 'No, no, darling. Opening nights don't usually look like this.' It's usually a dark bar with a bottle of vodka." ?Chitty Chitty Bang Bang's Jan Maxwell
plus i proudly share the title of the shortest member over the age of 10 with wickedrentq!
#12re: Catching Up On Plays...
Posted: 5/15/05 at 11:40pmI did think of these because they are currently being revived (with varying degrees of success), but you must read Streetcar Named Desire and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?. Both have male monologues, particularly's George's (I believe Act II, the really famous one) in the latter. And you should watch the film versions, both of which are superb.
"WHEN is the winter of our discontent?"
"NOW is the winter of our discontent!"
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