Good plays to read? — Page 2

He does, but that's what I love about him.

I am loving Fat Pig (I am in the middle of it)

QMAN03 - I LOVE Fat Pig. It's so good. I bought it and read it in the same day, I couldn't put it down. I love the way LaBute writes because it's so personable and how people actually talk. I'd recommend reading anything by him. They might not be groundbreaking theater, but they're good to read, which is what you asked.

I can't get through Pillowman. It's incredibly boring for me to read. Though, my friend saw it in NYC and said it was "amazing," so I'm going to reattempt to read it.

I'd recommend THIS IS OUR YOUTH - if you're young, you might appreciate it. For some reason, it's one of my favorite plays.

Everything and anything by Albee, Kushner, Wasserstein, Ensler, O'Neill, LaBute, Mamet, Wilson and Churchill.

My favorites by LaBute are Bash and The Mercy Seat.

No woman anywhere should miss reading The Vagina Monologues.

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I actually used a monologue from Fat Pig - the one at the end of the first scene. I just changed a couple words and now it's a monologue I use for auditions. I love performing it.

Yeah, it's probably true. I would love to see it.

Sylvia by A.R.Gurney is an excellent read. It's also an excellent play. I've seen a really good production using the "clean" dialogue, and a really crappy production using the regular dialogue. Both were absorbing and fantastic. It may be both actor-proof and director-proof, if neither of these productions were able to ruin it.

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The Time of Your Life by William Saroyan is one of my favorites.

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I enjoyed reading PYGMALION. Shaw wrote it like a screenplay.

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