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Plays w/ Mother-and-Son Connection
#25Plays w/ Mother-and-Son Connection
Posted: 10/31/12 at 4:04am
Good choices (though I think Things That Go Bump, in particular, still is controversial with audiences).
Bosoms and Neglect is a great choice I completely forgot about.
#26Plays w/ Mother-and-Son Connection
Posted: 10/31/12 at 7:24am
^^^^^That's why the tribe no longer abandons its elders to die on ice floes...
...so that we can be around to remember old John Guare plays.
Updated On: 10/31/12 at 07:24 AM
henrikegerman
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/29/05
#27Plays w/ Mother-and-Son Connection
Posted: 10/31/12 at 10:25am
Eric, Oh, Dad, Poor Dad is Kopit, not McNalley.
The Seagull, Fences, Broadway Bound/Brighton Beach Memoirs, Hamlet, Coriolanus, King John, All's Well That Ends Well, Henry VI(1-3) - Richard III, Other Desert Cities, The Lyons, The Subject was Roses (IIII), Death of a Salesman, The Lion in Winter, Ghosts, Long Day's Journey, Butterflies are Free, Garbo Talks (I think there might be a stage version but I could be wrong), Oedipus Rex, The Oresteia/Mourning Becomes Electra, Phaedre (step mother), The Glass Menagerie, August: Osage County (Mattie Fae and Little Charles), All My Sons, Another Part of the Forest, Angels in America, Nicholas Nickleby, The Little Foxes (Birdie and Leo).
Minnie's Boys, My Favorite Year, The King and I
I"m sure it's only a season or two until we see Psycho, the Musical
Although Sebastian doesn't appear on stage, let's not forget Suddenly, Last Summer.
Albee: The Goat, Three Tall Women, The Play About the Baby (?), The Lady From Dubuque ("mother-in-law"?) lAnd, although this is not a responsive answer for OP's purposes, there is perhaps no stronger mother son connection in American drama than in Who's Afraid of Viginia Woolf?
Updated On: 10/31/12 at 10:25 AM
#28Plays w/ Mother-and-Son Connection
Posted: 10/31/12 at 2:04pm
Sorry if I wasn't clear--for the sake of my (limited) reputation, I know Oh Dad was Kopit. Bump in the Night is McNally, but my wording was prob off (both plays of course came up a lot in those 1960s articles about the horrible homosexualization of the American theatre, as examples of how negative Williams and Albee's influence had been).
This doesn't fit into the OP's questions really, as the ages are too old (I think the son is meant to be in his forties), but William Inge's near perfect one act play, Boy in the Basement keeps coming up in my head when I see this thread (which, though I guess it wasn't performed until the mid or late 60s, 15 years after it was written, due to its gay subject matter, actually seems to me like it must have been an influence on Six Feet Under, and not just because of the family house/funeral home setting). It's collected in Eleven Short Plays by Inge.
#29Plays w/ Mother-and-Son Connection
Posted: 10/31/12 at 2:07pmGaveston, is that why you moved to the desert? :P I know Bosoms and Neglect was not a success originally in New York, until it was revised--I suspect some people find the abrupt change from comedy to near tragedy between the two parts of the play a bit hard to take (of course Guare had already mixed the two, Blue Leaves is famous for it, but not in quite as realistic a fashion).
#30Plays w/ Mother-and-Son Connection
Posted: 10/31/12 at 5:18pmThere is a stage adaptation of The Manchurian Candidate.
"What can you expect from a bunch of seitan worshippers?" - Reginald Tresilian
Phyllis Rogers Stone
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/16/07
#31Plays w/ Mother-and-Son Connection
Posted: 10/31/12 at 5:28pmI'm gonna go out on limb and suggest the OP not do Fences.
#32Plays w/ Mother-and-Son Connection
Posted: 10/31/12 at 5:42pmI think it's time for an all-white Fences! Or perhaps Raisin in the Sun.
"What can you expect from a bunch of seitan worshippers?" - Reginald Tresilian
#33Plays w/ Mother-and-Son Connection
Posted: 10/31/12 at 5:54pm
Eric, I do love my comedy mixed with tragedy, so that's probably why I loved the play. Also a wonderful performance by Frances Bey, whom I later met in line at the bank, of all places. Remember when people still went to the bank?
I think henrikegerman proves my point about putting elders out to sea on ice floes. Look at the lore we might have lost!
henrikegerman
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/29/05
#34Plays w/ Mother-and-Son Connection
Posted: 10/31/12 at 6:15pm
"I think it's time for an all-white Fences! Or perhaps Raisin in the Sun."
Did OP say he was white or are you simply assuming that he is?
Phyllis Rogers Stone
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/16/07
#35Plays w/ Mother-and-Son Connection
Posted: 10/31/12 at 6:20pmI took a wild guess that that's him in his avatar.
henrikegerman
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/29/05
#36Plays w/ Mother-and-Son Connection
Posted: 10/31/12 at 6:40pmCool. Just to be clear, though, I was not suggesting an all white Fences. Nor would I do so.
#37Plays w/ Mother-and-Son Connection
Posted: 10/31/12 at 6:45pmNot to worry, henrik. Your question was clear.
#38Plays w/ Mother-and-Son Connection
Posted: 10/31/12 at 8:42pmHenrik, I think you made it pretty clear that you were listing off plays with important mother/son connections, in general. (Speaking of musicals, would Road Show count?)
henrikegerman
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/29/05
#39Plays w/ Mother-and-Son Connection
Posted: 10/31/12 at 11:39pm
"I think henrikegerman proves my point about putting elders out to sea on ice floes. Look at the lore we might have lost!"
Thanks. I think.
redmustang
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henrikegerman
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#41Plays w/ Mother-and-Son Connection
Posted: 11/1/12 at 11:08am
Come Blow Your Horn, All The Way Home and
and Juno and the Paycock. And, yes, Road Show and Into the Woods.
Updated On: 11/1/12 at 11:08 AM
henrikegerman
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/29/05
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