Scary Plays
Scary Plays
#0Scary Plays
Posted: 5/29/05 at 11:16pm
Since we have Scary Musicals, how about some scary or creepy plays and why you find them frightening...I'm easily scared, so this was simple.
Macbeth scared the hell out of me for a long time. Well, it was Lady Macbeth, mostly, because I always wondered what made her so ambitious and, um, evil.
Wozzeck. It's so claustrophobic and tense, and the scene in the bar right after Wozzeck kills Marie is off-kilter and disorienting, particularly in the opera version.
The Pillowman. Everyone will say this, but it did scare me a lot, and if you can go see it (which you really should do), don't let anyone tell you anything more about it. It's best (and scariest) if you don't know what's going to happen.
These are conventional. I hope someone makes a case for The Importance of Being Earnest soon. :)
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#1re: Scary Plays
Posted: 5/29/05 at 11:20pm"The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia?" ... fu*king horrifying...
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#2re: Scary Plays
Posted: 5/29/05 at 11:22pmBobbi Boland
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Posted: 5/30/05 at 12:26amDark of the Moon...it's not even the supernatural stuff that is all that scary...it's just the ambiance...and the repression that scares me the most...especially when this show is done outside as I believe it should be.
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Posted: 5/30/05 at 12:43am
I heard Six Dance Lessons in Six Weeks had audiences running from the theatre.
Updated On: 5/30/05 at 12:43 AM
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Posted: 5/31/05 at 11:31pmI just finished reading Betty's Summer Vacation by Christopher Durang and I was horrified. I had to put it down a couple of times.
"The stage is where I live and come alive and act out all the things that go on in my life. It's not just what I do for a living, it's my shrink and my love affair. No one in my life has ever or ever will kiss me on the mouth like this lover called my relationship with my performance."
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Posted: 5/31/05 at 11:34pm
Death Trap for me too.
The whistle in Sweeney made me jump out of my seat too.
" ...the happiness in the tune convinces me that I'm not afraid."
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Posted: 5/31/05 at 11:35pm
bang bang youre dead CAN be really creepy if its done right.
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Updated On: 6/1/05 at 11:35 PM
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Posted: 6/1/05 at 12:10am
Buffy,
I played Marvin Hudgens (the tough mountain boy - HA!) a couple years back and I have to agree that "Dark of the Moon" is a very creepy show. I enjoyed it.
~Joshua
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Posted: 6/1/05 at 12:12amI've heard from people that the off-Broadway production of Bug that recently closed was beyond terrifying.
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#13re: Scary Plays
Posted: 6/1/05 at 12:17am
Just reading The Distance From Here (Neil LaBute) disturbed the hell out of me...
My friend and I held hands at one point during The Pillowman. I knew what was coming, but still!
Updated On: 6/1/05 at 12:17 AM
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Posted: 6/1/05 at 12:17am
You should have seen me in Importance of Being Earnest. I was pretty dang scary. 
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Posted: 6/1/05 at 12:19amExtremities was horrifying in the best way possible.
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Posted: 6/1/05 at 12:38amI didn't find it that scary...but we had people screaming during Ten Little Indians. And I don't think of Bang Bang so much as scary as just...i dunno what the word is..maybe chiling, but not in a OH I'M SCARED way.
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Posted: 6/1/05 at 12:40amyeah, thats why i said creepy. i was just thinking of things that could give me nightmares. and the script is really creepy and some points.
-annie
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#18re: Scary Plays
Posted: 6/1/05 at 12:42amWhat's the Pillowman about and why is it so scary? Don't worry. I can;t see it. It'll probably close before i ever make it to NY.
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Posted: 6/1/05 at 12:46am
'The Woman in Black'- bone chilling.
It's an opera but 'The Turn of the Screw' can also be unsettling.
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Posted: 6/1/05 at 1:19amSide note, can someone give me an EXTREME synopsis of Pillowman? Spoilers and all. I'm curious out of my freaking tree.
"The stage is where I live and come alive and act out all the things that go on in my life. It's not just what I do for a living, it's my shrink and my love affair. No one in my life has ever or ever will kiss me on the mouth like this lover called my relationship with my performance."
#22re: Scary Plays
Posted: 6/1/05 at 5:26pmI will try to write out a synopsis for Pillowman and PM it to you guys, Noahrp and Mynameinlights.
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Posted: 6/1/05 at 5:26pm
Double post again, dammit.
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"NOW is the winter of our discontent!"
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Updated On: 6/1/05 at 05:26 PM
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Posted: 6/1/05 at 6:07pm
The goat or, who is sylvia!!!
I never saw it but was reading the script because my friend was trying out for a role...i was like "AAAHHHHH WHHHAAAAAT?!?!" :|
he loves a what?!?!
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