Modern Plays In Need Of A Revival
Modern Plays In Need Of A Revival
#1Modern Plays In Need Of A Revival
Posted: 8/14/13 at 11:31pm
I love that there's another production of THE GLASS MENAGERIE opening and that we had another production of CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF and that there will be something like three productions of MACBETH this year. But what are some modern plays that should be seen again?
For me, the top two would be SIDE MAN and THE BEAUTY QUEEN OF LEENANE.
Updated On: 8/14/13 at 11:31 PM
blaxx
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/28/05
#2Modern Plays In Need Of A Revival
Posted: 8/14/13 at 11:35pmThe Pillowman, please. I'd die to see it again.
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#2Modern Plays In Need Of A Revival
Posted: 8/14/13 at 11:51pm
THE LIEUTENANT OF INISHMORE
"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
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Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/04
#3Modern Plays In Need Of A Revival
Posted: 8/14/13 at 11:53pmI'd love for August: Osage County to come back
"Grease," the fourth revival of the season, is the worst show in the history of theater and represents an unparalleled assault on Western civilization and its values. - Michael Reidel
#4Modern Plays In Need Of A Revival
Posted: 8/14/13 at 11:57pm
There've been a number of productions of ROSENCRANTZ AND GUILDENSTERN ARE DEAD all around the world, but it's yet to be revived on Broadway (and it's been almost 20 years since Roundabout did it off-Broadway), though it is also pretty continuously done by small theatre companies.
Since we've been having fun with British actors in farces lately, I always advocate for NOISES OFF and WHAT THE BUTLER SAW as the two funniest pure farces written in the last fifty years.
I'd also definitely be interested in a full-throated revival of THE KENTUCKY CYCLE, which when I read it aloud with a class was one of the most thrilling and entertaining scripts I've ever encountered, or at least Part I was. Part II started to get old and repetitive, but man Part I packs some never-ending punches.
Words don't deserve that kind of malarkey. They're innocent, neutral, precise, standing for this, describing that, meaning the other, so if you look after them you can build bridges across incomprehension and chaos. But when they get their corners knocked off, they're no good anymore…I don't think writers are sacred, but words are. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones in the right order, you can nudge the world a little.
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Broadway Legend Joined: 7/22/03
#6Modern Plays In Need Of A Revival
Posted: 8/15/13 at 12:06am
The Intelligent Homosexual's Guide to Capitalusm and Socialism with a Key to the Scriptures
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Picasso and Einstein at the Lapine Agile
Jackie: An American Life
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Updated On: 8/15/13 at 12:06 AM
#8Modern Plays In Need Of A Revival
Posted: 8/15/13 at 12:18amThe Curious Savage.
So Lauren Bacall me, anything goes! *wink*
#9Modern Plays In Need Of A Revival
Posted: 8/15/13 at 12:36amHow was the 2002 revival of The Crucible?
#10Modern Plays In Need Of A Revival
Posted: 8/15/13 at 1:01am
I love how the first three suggestions were The Beauty Queen of Leenane, The Pillowman, and The Lieutenant of Inishmore. Martin McDonagh really is brilliant.
I personally would suggest The Pillowman and The Goat or Who is Syliva?
#11Modern Plays In Need Of A Revival
Posted: 8/15/13 at 1:26amBENT
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Broadway Legend Joined: 11/26/04
#13Modern Plays In Need Of A Revival
Posted: 8/15/13 at 1:38am
I am hoping that The Cripple of Inishmaan transfers with Radcliffe.
Other titles I'd love to see again are: Topdog/Underdog, Intimate Apparel, Two Sisters and A Piano, and countless Jose Rivera plays.
#14Modern Plays In Need Of A Revival
Posted: 8/15/13 at 8:24am
Noises Off
Deathtrap
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#15Modern Plays In Need Of A Revival
Posted: 8/15/13 at 8:24am
How about Angels in America: Milennium Approaches/Perestroika
or
The Coast of Utophia
#16Modern Plays In Need Of A Revival
Posted: 8/15/13 at 8:27amThe Kentucky Cycle
....but the world goes 'round
#17Modern Plays In Need Of A Revival
Posted: 8/15/13 at 8:38am
There've been a number of productions of ROSENCRANTZ AND GUILDENSTERN ARE DEAD all around the world, but it's yet to be revived on Broadway (and it's been almost 20 years since Roundabout did it off-Broadway), though it is also pretty continuously done by small theatre companies.
Not Broadway, but The Acting Company is doing Hamlet and Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead this season and will be in New York (at The Pearl Theatre) for basically all of January.
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#18Modern Plays In Need Of A Revival
Posted: 8/15/13 at 9:06am
I'd give a lot to see a good production of THE PILLOWMAN. I'm kicking myself for not having seen the OBC.
I'll second ROSENCRANTZ AND GUILDENSTERN, too.
Glad to see the love for McDonagh.
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Broadway Legend Joined: 7/10/04
#19Modern Plays In Need Of A Revival
Posted: 8/15/13 at 9:07amAgnes of God (with Cherry Jones as Dr. Livingstone!)
#20Modern Plays In Need Of A Revival
Posted: 8/15/13 at 9:46amI second THE BEAUTY QUEEN OF LEENANE!!!
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Broadway Legend Joined: 4/27/12
#21Modern Plays In Need Of A Revival
Posted: 8/15/13 at 9:51am
Arsenic and Old Lace
Rumors
Star-Spangled Girl
Effects of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds
I know Twelve Angry Men was just revived not too long ago, but with HLN and Casey Anthony/Jodi Arias/George Zimmerman on the TV and internet everywhere, it's interesting to look at a wonderful take on jury deliberations.
Updated On: 8/15/13 at 09:51 AM
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Broadway Legend Joined: 12/4/07
#22Modern Plays In Need Of A Revival
Posted: 8/15/13 at 9:53am
(Love the Agnes of God suggestion.)
Extremities
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#23Modern Plays In Need Of A Revival
Posted: 8/15/13 at 10:04amWith Albee being re-appraised up the wazoo, I'd like to see COUNTING THE WAYS AND LISTENING as well as EVERYTHING IN THE GARDEN.
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#24Modern Plays In Need Of A Revival
Posted: 8/15/13 at 10:07amMorosco, not too long ago I said there should be an AGNES OF GOD revival with Marcia Gay Harden & Judi Dench. If still give anything to see that!
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