Straight Play Suggestions

[now_later_soon]

Posted: 4/20/07 at 5:12pm

Does anyone here have any suggestions for a play which would work well in a black box setting?

Thanks

[husk_charmer]

Posted: 4/20/07 at 5:15pm

Shape of Things - Neil LaBute
Goat or Who is Sylvia - Edward Albee
Zoo Story - Edward Albee
Three Viewings
Blood Wedding - Lorca
Greater Tuna
Good Doctor
Love, Valour, Compassion
Laraime Project

[Dollypop]

Posted: 4/20/07 at 5:20pm

THE SHADOW BOX

THE GOOD DOCTOR

OUR TOWN

[ABSteel]

Posted: 4/20/07 at 5:20pm

I directed HIGH WINDOW in a black box setting. Look for it on Sam French.

Very good play. Great fun to direct, too!

[Piercemn]

Posted: 4/20/07 at 8:06pm

Try anything by Agatha Christie or Neil Simon.

[Elphie3]

Posted: 4/20/07 at 8:20pm

Our Town!

The Maids

Possibly "The Beauty Queen Of Leenaan" or "The Cripple of Innishman" depending on your access to set pieces.

[Caroline-Q-or-TBoo]

Posted: 4/20/07 at 8:23pm

it's the Lieutenant of Inishmore.

[emg_sound]

Posted: 4/20/07 at 9:40pm

Six Characters in Search of an Author, The Island by Athol Fugard, The House of Bernarda Albe (The original Lorca, not the Lachuisa Musical adaptation), hey why not those classic old Greek chestnuts... Medea, The Persians, Oedepus Rex, The Bacchae? The advantage of these texts is that almost anything goes. In essence, what I'm trying to say is that any Straight Play text can be finessed into a black box, and classic texts practically beg for that subversion. (As a caveat, I'm a grad student in theatre, and I just finished a semester where we had to "create a performance volume" a week for a wide variety of texts, so if you need more suggestions, pm me.)

[Gothampc]

Posted: 4/20/07 at 10:12pm

Frankie & Johnny in the Claire de Lune

Crimes of the Heart

Deathtrap

[ABSteel]

Posted: 4/20/07 at 10:13pm

The Mousetrap is a great play.

[Elphie3]

Posted: 4/20/07 at 10:49pm

No, "The Cripple of Innishman" is another of McDonaugh's plays

[Caroline-Q-or-TBoo]

Posted: 4/20/07 at 11:10pm

i stand corrected.

[ashbash1990]

Posted: 4/20/07 at 11:59pm

something absurdist... Waiting for Godot, or maybe a Brecht...
ETA: the Rhinoceros

Updated On: 4/21/07 at 11:59 PM