Favorite play endings- Page 2

[ggersten]

Posted: 3/11/15 at 11:20am

Hedda Gabler: But good God! People don’t do such things!

[doodlenyc]

Posted: 3/11/15 at 11:33am

The Grapes of Wrath

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 3/11/15 at 12:13pm

An Inspector Calls

[Whatshisname]

Posted: 3/11/15 at 1:30pm

Death of a Salesman
Angels in America

[The Distinctive Baritone]

Posted: 3/11/15 at 1:47pm

A Doll's House for its historical impact.

August: Osage County for being wonderfully devastating.

[WiCkEDrOcKS]

Posted: 3/11/15 at 5:14pm

The last scene of HAND TO GOD as well as the last minute or so of LET THE RIGHT ONE IN are both particularly memorable and have stayed with me long after seeing them. Those are the two most recent ones I can recall. Updated On: 3/11/15 at 05:14 PM

[henrikegerman]

Posted: 3/11/15 at 5:34pm

Cyrano de Bergerac
The Cherry Orchard
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Long Day's Journey into Night
A Doll's House
The Lieutenant of Inishmore
A Streetcar Named Desire
Morning's at Seven
The Member of the Wedding
The Piano Lesson
The Little Foxes
Mary Stuart
Waiting for Godot
The Winter's Tale
The Importance of Being Earnest
King Lear
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Venus in Fur





 

Updated On: 8/15/16 at 05:34 PM

[The Josh]

Posted: 3/11/15 at 8:26pm

The Goat, or Who is Sylvia? by Edward Albee

[AHLiebross]

Posted: 3/11/15 at 9:19pm

After Eight, I'm often straight-laced, but even I view this board as R-rated. If you're referring to the term "b-- j--," we've all seen worse.

Audrey

[After Eight]

Posted: 3/11/15 at 9:57pm

AH,

If you feel the term in question is perfectly all right for use in a public forum, then why did you refer to it using dashes?

The fact is, neither it, nor the mentality which prompted its reference in this thread, is acceptable. Not here, not anywhere --- anywhere respectable that is.

Now to get this thread back on topic, do you have a favorite play ending?



Updated On: 3/11/15 at 09:57 PM

[GavestonPS]

Posted: 3/11/15 at 10:06pm

After 8, I find the term "blow job" far less offensive than your gushing over a trifle such as MARY, MARY. But I don't feel a need to censor your posts.

I.e., grow up.

[After Eight]

Posted: 3/11/15 at 10:08pm

^

You would.

You're crass and crude, with a mind in the gutter.

Now begone.

[jv92]

Posted: 3/11/15 at 10:10pm

Blow job, blow job, blow job!

Do any good plays end with a blow job? Mame and The Madwoman of Challiot were pretty progressive. They probably knew a thing or two about oral sex. Ya gotta admit that, After Death.

And Gigi and family DEFINITELY did! Updated On: 3/11/15 at 10:10 PM

[Fantod]

Posted: 3/11/15 at 10:22pm

I forgot a lot of Shakespeare shows. I particularly like the endings to Twelfth Night and King Lear.

[henrikegerman]

Posted: 3/12/15 at 2:21pm

Is After Eight an antic disposition?

[Younger Brother]

Posted: 8/15/16 at 9:06am

Over a year later, I come across this thread. Can someone describe the ending in the recent Raisin revival? I think the ending in The Beauty Queen of Leenane is chilling as is the ending to The Nance.

 

[Adair Haywind]

Posted: 8/15/16 at 9:33am

Death of a Salesman

Bent

[henrikegerman]

Posted: 8/15/16 at 10:07am

duplicate (and I didn't even realize)
 

Updated On: 8/15/16 at 10:07 AM

[edcrum]

Posted: 8/15/16 at 11:57am

People Places Things. 

[KnewItWhenIWasInFron]

Posted: 8/15/16 at 1:55pm

Doubt

The Heiress

 

(and, just for a point of clarification: People keep mentioning "An Inspector Calls" and it seems like maybe they're talking about the astonishing coup de theatre at the end of that most recent Broadway production, not the ending of the play itself?)

[¿Macavity?]

Posted: 8/15/16 at 2:46pm

I'm not sure what you all think of this play, but I saw a Regional production of In the Next Room (or The Vibrator Play) and I thought the ending was absolutely charming. A bit strange, but it was a fitting ending to the play. I truly enjoyed it.

 

I'm not sure how it was staged on B'way, but at the end they had the couple walk straight through "the room" into the living room, rather than having them walk through the door, as would be expected. I may have taken the ending to mean more than it did, but when they walked through the wall and the lighting changed...I got chills.

 

I was also surprised at the end because they had the winter garden revealed using an automated wall, which was surprising considering how small this theatre was (my Regional center has 3 theatres, a 2100 seat theatre, a 760 seat theatre, and a small 300 seat theatre, the show was in the smallest).

Updated On: 8/15/16 at 02:46 PM

[TotallyEffed]

Posted: 8/15/16 at 2:52pm

Venus in Fur. Major chills!

[Ranger Tom]

Posted: 8/15/16 at 6:02pm

Lots of good ones already.  Didn't see The Zoo Story or Ibsen's Ghosts.  Maybe not the play's end as much as Hamlet's final words.  The final Michael/Donald scene of Boys in the Band.   One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.

[henrikegerman]

Posted: 8/15/16 at 6:22pm

 

"(and, just for a point of clarification: People keep mentioning "An Inspector Calls" and it seems like maybe they're talking about the astonishing coup de theatre at the end of that most recent Broadway production, not the ending of the play itself?)"

The surprise and quite mysterious ending in the script of An Inspector Calls is quite famous.  Why would you assume that people aren't simply referring to that?

 

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[The Other One]

Posted: 8/15/16 at 9:45pm

Shining City has a spine-tingling ending.

Six Degrees of Separation

Don't remember if it's the very end, but the unexpected appearance of Wee Thomas in The Lieutenant of Inishmore is one of my favorite theatrical moments ever.

Updated On: 8/15/16 at 09:45 PM