Plays every big theatre fan should read?- Page 2
Plays every big theatre fan should read?
#25re: Plays every big theatre fan should read?
Posted: 5/12/09 at 4:31pm
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead - Tom Stoppard
The Seafarer - Conor McPherson
hpeabody930
Featured Actor Joined: 9/8/08
#26re: Plays every big theatre fan should read?
Posted: 5/12/09 at 6:36pmFool For Love, True West, and Buried Child by Sam Shepard
#27re: Plays every big theatre fan should read?
Posted: 5/12/09 at 7:46pmPianolin717, at first i agreed cuz i found it to be boring. Then i went back and looked at it again and after reilizing how much character work could be done and how rich the text could be given a good cast and director i found it to be much more effective.
"I am sorry but it is an unjust world and virtue is only triumphant in theatricle performances" The Mikado
Becky
Broadway Star Joined: 5/14/03
#28re: Plays every big theatre fan should read?
Posted: 5/12/09 at 11:07pm
PILLOWMAN - hands down. By far one of my favorite plays to read.
I second Yankeefan007's suggestions of PILLOWMAN and THE GOAT actually....
Perfectly Marvelous
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/16/06
#29re: Plays every big theatre fan should read?
Posted: 5/13/09 at 12:55amCamino Real and The Rimers of Eldritch.
"Yes, the brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over, men recognize that the human race has been harshly treated but it has moved forward." - Les Miserables
#30re: Plays every big theatre fan should read?
Posted: 5/13/09 at 8:45am
I agree with so many already mentioned - I'll add a few classics
The Three Sisters
Tartuffe
Tis Pity She's a Whore (everyone needs one blood tragedy)
The Caretaker
The Importance of Being Earnest
All Over
I would also add any plays by Tom Stoppard, Lanford Wilson, David Mamet,Sam Shepard, Terrance McNally
For gay plays:
Torch Song Trilogy
The Normal Heart
Love, Valour , Compassion
#31re: Plays every big theatre fan should read?
Posted: 5/13/09 at 8:53am
AGH! It's so hard for me to choose. Quick list:
Any and all Shakespeare. My top two are Macbeth and The Winter's Tale.
'Tis Pity She's a Whore by John Ford.
A Doll's House by Ibsen, because it changed theatre as we know it.
Lady Windermere's Fan by Wilde, because it was considered super scandalous in its day.
The Vortex and Blithe Spirit by Noel Coward.
Rock n' Roll and Arcadia by Tom Stoppard, because both made me laugh out loud.
The Seafarer, Shining City, and The Weir by Conor McPherson.
The Pillowman and The Lieutenant of Inishmore by Martin McDonagh.
No Exit by Sartre.
The Last Night of Ballyhoo by Alfred Uhry.
The History Boys by Alan Bennett.
And, of course, anything Arthur Miller, Eugene O'Neil, Sam Shepard, David Mamet, Edward Albee (especially The Goat), and Tennessee Williams.
#32re: Plays every big theatre fan should read?
Posted: 5/13/09 at 12:24pm
Assassins by John Weidman and Stephen Sondheim
Into the Woods by James Lapine and Stephen Sondheim
Sweeney Todd by Hugh Wheeler and Stephen Sondheim
#33re: Plays every big theatre fan should read?
Posted: 5/13/09 at 12:59pm
The Crucible (Miller)
All My Sons (Miller)
Streetcar Named Desire (Williams)
The Glass Menagerie (Williams)
Waiting for Godot (Beckett)
Play About A Baby (Albee)
Arcadia (Stoppard)
Rosencratz and Guildenstern are Dead (Stoppard)
King Lear (Shakespeare)
Much Ado About Nothing (Shakespeare)
Those are just off the top of my head. I know some of them have been listed already, but they're only being repeated because they're that good!
minicko88
Featured Actor Joined: 7/12/07
#34re: Plays every big theatre fan should read?
Posted: 5/13/09 at 1:19pmA View from the Bridge and The Crucible by Arthur Miller... nothing better!
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