Good plays to read?- Page 2

[Fiction Writer]

Posted: 5/31/06 at 7:10pm

Not all plays by Neil LaBute are great. My two favorites are The Shape of Things and This is How it Goes.

He has a weird way of dramatising things, in my opinion.

[QMAN03]

Posted: 5/31/06 at 9:22pm

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

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

[Yankeefan007]

Posted: 5/31/06 at 9:26pm

This is How it Goes
Hitchcock Blonde
Three Days of Rain
The Pillowman
Doubt
Festen

[RentBoy86]

Posted: 5/31/06 at 9:32pm

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.

[GYPSY1527]

Posted: 5/31/06 at 9:32pm

Seascape
The Cherry Tree
(those previously mentioned)

[Buddy Kiss]

Posted: 5/31/06 at 9:57pm

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.

[QMAN03]

Posted: 5/31/06 at 10:23pm

RENTBOY, I saw Pillowman before I read it and I still consider it one of the most electric nights of theatre in my life. Then I read it and enjoyed the show even more. Maybe it's just a show you need to see.

Yeah, and I can wait to finish Fat Pig (I seemed to have misplaced it).

[RentBoy86]

Posted: 5/31/06 at 10:33pm

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.

[QMAN03]

Posted: 5/31/06 at 10:35pm

Actually, the one I am going to perform next year (my acting class makes us perform one monologue every two weeks) is the one where Carter (i think that's his name) is describing his mother. I love that one because he goes through so many emotions.

[wonderwaiter]

Posted: 5/31/06 at 10:52pm

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.

[RentBoy86]

Posted: 5/31/06 at 11:11pm

Yeah, I'm in the processing of trying to locate "Syliva" - it's on my "PLAYS TO READ" bulletin on my board.

What monologue Q-Man? I'm going to try and find it. I have to perform a monologue every couple of weeks/days in my acting class as well.

[RENTingFAME]

Posted: 6/1/06 at 12:19am

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

[zzannahk]

Posted: 6/1/06 at 12:24am

Oh dad, poor dad, mamas hung you in the closet and I'm feeling so sad.

[StageManager2]

Posted: 6/1/06 at 2:11am

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