Favorite Plays
Favorite Plays
#0Favorite Plays
Posted: 4/3/06 at 6:39pmI am thinking about ordering a whole bunch of new plays off of an internet site, as I only have about 20 at the present time. Does anyone have any suggestions about their favorite plays to read?
"Are you sorry for civilization? I am sorry for it too." ~Coast of Utopia: Shipwreck
#1re: Favorite Plays
Posted: 4/3/06 at 6:41pm
Wit
Arsenic and Old Lace
Barefoot in the Park
Cyrano
Romeo and Juliet
Midsummer Night's Dream
Marvin's Room
#2re: Favorite Plays
Posted: 4/3/06 at 6:44pmArsenic and Old Lace? I'll check it out- I have enver heard of it. My school did Cyrano a few years back and I was in it, and I've read both of teh Shakespeare through required school reading. Thank you so much for the suggestions! I'll check them out!
"Are you sorry for civilization? I am sorry for it too." ~Coast of Utopia: Shipwreck
#3re: Favorite Plays
Posted: 4/3/06 at 6:46pmDark of the Moon, No Exit.
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#4re: Favorite Plays
Posted: 4/3/06 at 6:47pm
Death of a Salesman
A Streetcar Named Desire
The Man Who Came To Dinner
#5re: Favorite Plays
Posted: 4/3/06 at 7:02pmif you didn't see it I suggest reading Pillowman gave me chills even after seeing it.
#6re: Favorite Plays
Posted: 4/3/06 at 7:02pm
Arsenic and Old Lace is a dark comedy about two older women and their secret. It was also a WONDERFUL movie with Cary Grant that I highly recommend.
Another one: Harvey
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#7re: Favorite Plays
Posted: 4/3/06 at 8:19pm
Pillowman
The Lieutenant of Inishmore (don't get it if you are planning on seeing the show)
Frankie and Johnny
Stuff Happens (if you are into politics)
#8re: Favorite Plays
Posted: 4/3/06 at 9:26pm
Aresenic and old lace is great, I really liked it.
If you want a really good comedy, check out Lend Me a Tenor, one of my favorite plays.
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#9re: Favorite Plays
Posted: 4/3/06 at 11:05pm
Richard the Third
Hamlet
Noises off
Present Laughter
Saturday, Sunday, Monday
Keep your morals, I don't have time. Keep your lovers, I'm changing mine!
-The Likes of Us
#10re: Favorite Plays
Posted: 4/3/06 at 11:16pmAngels in America, and almost anything by Tennesee Williams.
#11re: Favorite Plays
Posted: 4/3/06 at 11:29pm
Agreed on Williams. Also...
Come Back, Little Sheba
The Pillowman
Side Man
Waiting For Godot and Endgame
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (obviously)
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#12re: Favorite Plays
Posted: 4/4/06 at 12:00am
For the tradtional, ggreat drama: Death of a Salesman
For the tradtional, ggreat comedy: Odd Couple
Less exposed great, though somewhat conventional, dramas: The Diviners, The Kentucky Cycle
Great unconventional dramas: Equus, Angels in America
Take a look at Lanford Wilson and Christopher Durang collections for some good unconventional comedies.
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#13re: Favorite Plays
Posted: 4/4/06 at 12:16amThe Skin of Our Teeth by Thornton Wilder! My favorite!
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-Edward Bond
#14re: Favorite Plays
Posted: 4/4/06 at 12:23am
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
The Visit
Ghosts
Burried Child
Equus
The Importance of Being Earnest
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Fools
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"Shut up! It's been 29 years!!!" --the incomparable Patti LuPone in her MUCH DESERVED Tony acceptance speech for Gypsy.
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"Shut up! It's been 29 years!!!" --the incomparable Patti LuPone in her MUCH DESERVED Tony acceptance speech for Gypsy.
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#15re: Favorite Plays
Posted: 4/4/06 at 12:48am
The Normal Heart
Waiting for Godot
Death of a Salesman
A Streetcar Named Desire
"It's not for sissies, contrary to popular belief." - Tommy Tune, on musical theatre.
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#16re: Favorite Plays
Posted: 4/4/06 at 2:44pm
My absolute favorite play of all time: Four Dogs & A Bone by John Patrick Shanley. I recommend all of his plays. Women of Manhattan also (great roles for 3 women and two men).
Simpatico and A Lie of the Mind by Sam Shepard - excellent
Lost in Yonkers by Neil Simon
#17re: Favorite Plays
Posted: 4/4/06 at 3:08pm
The Importance of Being Earnest
Hamlet
The Cherry Orchard
The Normal Heart
Equus
Proof
Noises Off
The Shape of Things
Angels in America
#18re: Favorite Plays
Posted: 4/4/06 at 3:23pm
The Maids - Genet
Camino Real - Williams
The Glass Menagerie - Williams
Ravenscroft - Nigro
The Illusion - Kushner
La Bete - Hirson
Dirty Blonde - Shear
Fefu and her Friends - Fornes
Everything in the Garden - Albee
Virgina Woolf - Albee
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#19re: Favorite Plays
Posted: 4/4/06 at 3:36pm
The House of Blue Leaves
The Crucible
Cloud Nine
The Glass Menagerie
Our Town
Lettice and Lovage
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#20re: Favorite Plays
Posted: 4/4/06 at 3:51pm
Riders To The Sea
He Who Gets Slapped
Pere Ubu
Winterset
Mind is Mantra.
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#22re: Favorite Plays
Posted: 4/4/06 at 4:18pm
A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry
Dogeaters by Jessica Hagedorn
A Language of Our Own by Chay Yew
These are plays with majority non-white casts.
"If my life weren't funny, it would just be true. And that would be unacceptable."
--Carrie Fisher
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#23re: Favorite Plays
Posted: 4/4/06 at 6:45pm
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? is my absolute favorite play to read, but I would also recommend
Noises Off by Michael Frayn
The Glass Menagerie
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
or something really interesting,
Suddenly Last Summer
(The last three are by Tennessee Willaims)
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#24re: Favorite Plays
Posted: 4/4/06 at 6:50pm
Shakespearean- Macbeth
Greek- Oedipus Rex
Others: Importance of Being Earnest, I Hate Hamlet (play name, not personal feelings)
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Javert: Zsah-vair, it's pronounced Zsah-vair.
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Javert: Repeat after me Zsah...Zsah....
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Percy: Sink me! If it isn't Javvurt!
Javert: Zsah-vair, it's pronounced Zsah-vair.
Pecry: But it's spelled J-A-V-E-R-T Javvurt.
Javert: Repeat after me Zsah...Zsah....
Percy: Oh! Zsa-Zsa! Like the Gabor sister! Well I personally have always prefered Eva.
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