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Post by bobwinkle007 on Feb 5, 2006 21:47:09 GMT
Maybe I'm the only person in the world who actually reads plays for fun. Serious, if you're having trouble sleeping read a few pages of "Much ado about Nothing" and you'll be sleeping like a baby.
My favorite playwrite is Neil Simon. He's written some great American comedies. My favorites include "The Odd Couple", "Lost in Yonkers", "Laughter on the 23rd floor", and "Jake's Women".
I highly recommend reading Mr. Simon's works. What other plays have you guys read?
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Post by Aidan on Feb 6, 2006 20:41:26 GMT
I've listened to Arthur Miller's "The Crucible" for English class, and today we were reading his play "Death of a Salesman". I ended up with the part of Willy Loman and my teacher said that the part required a lot of swearing, but I had fun with it.
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Post by FlyingScotsman on Feb 6, 2006 23:14:28 GMT
I'm currently rehearsing 'The Revenger's Tragedy' by Thomas Middleton, which is fantastic. Other plays I recommend include:
TONY KUSHNER: Homebody/Kabul SARAH KANE: Cleansed, Blasted (not for the faint-hearted) TIMBERLAKE WERTENBAKER: Our Country's Good PETER SHAFFER: Amadeus JANE COLES: Cat With Green Violin DAVID GREIG: The Cosmonaut's Last Message to the Woman He Once Loved in the Former Soviet Union ARTHUR MILLER: The Crucible PHILIP RIDLEY: The Pitchfork Disney
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Post by Smitty on Feb 7, 2006 2:09:46 GMT
I read "Inherit the wind". That counts for something.
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Post by stepneydude on Feb 10, 2006 16:38:37 GMT
The Crucible is indeed a good play. We also got to watch the movie in school. Very interesting, and quite sad too - I felt especially sorry for George Jacobs
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Post by FlyingScotsman on Feb 12, 2006 19:09:07 GMT
I performed in a production as Judge Hathorne, and the actor playing John Proctor was fantastic- he practically had the audience crying. Playing Elizabeth Proctor was Merlyn Lowther, whose signature can be seen on the five pound note.
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Post by stepneydude on Feb 12, 2006 19:13:29 GMT
In our current drama lessons we have to choose what characters we might like having a go at. So far, I like the idea of Judge Danforth. His character is uptight and strict, but his logic (showed in his "Witchery is an invisible crime" bit) is admirable.
EDIT: Changed Hathorne to Danforth. Thanks, Tom.
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Post by FlyingScotsman on Feb 14, 2006 19:35:08 GMT
Ah, that's actually Danforth. He's a more interesting character than Hathorne, who basically shadows him.
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Post by stepneydude on Feb 14, 2006 20:15:35 GMT
Whoops. My mistake entirely. I guess it's just the names.
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Post by jake on Jun 9, 2006 4:51:11 GMT
Currently, my Summer Theatre class is working on Cinderella. It's a somewhat adaptation of the original.
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Post by FlyingScotsman on Jun 11, 2006 12:49:59 GMT
Who's the author? I think I might know it.
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Post by flourpower926 on Oct 13, 2008 15:48:54 GMT
I just finished the Crucible, and I'm now reading "Nothing But The Truth". Although it is not a real play, the story is made up of conversations between characters, notes, speeches and more, giving characters "lines" and making it very similar to a play.
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Post by PC Stratford on Oct 13, 2008 23:44:29 GMT
We were going to be performing a greek tragedy - 'Antigone', but various reasons have meant that the project has been scrapped. Instead we will be working on 'A View From a Bridge' by Arthur Miller. I haven't read all of ot yet, but having previously worked on 'The Crucible', it looks like it will be just as good.
I also recommend 'Look Back in Anger' by John Osborn and I have also read some of 'Waiting for Godot' by Samuel Beckett, again both look very interesting.
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Post by MRHloco on Oct 24, 2008 15:14:21 GMT
I'm not a massive script-reader but there's always been one great playwright from a certain era who has always stood out in the mind.
William Shakespeare
Mind you, I've studied his work for GCSEs and A-Levels so I suspect that's only natural.
Many a Shakespeare play deserves all the credit that's coming to it: Hamlet would probably come first anf foremost. Anyone seen the Kenneth Branagh version?
Measure For Measure was one of the grittier problem plays without much of a satisfaction as a conclusion.
Twelfth Night is a play I've starred in: namely at the Lowry Theatre, Salford earlier this year. It's a grand comedy too: with lovers, comedians and pompous twits like Sir Andrew Aguecheek in every corner of it, making it one of the best Shakespeare tales I've ever seen in any format.
MacBeth, too, shows a good side to our culture: Scotland is covered for the first time for a start. No sign of bad luck though - can't imagine how the bad-luck ritual in Blackadder ever took inspiration from this!
But, out of all Shakespeare's work, the play I've come to love for always simply has to be:
Romeo & Juliet
Definately an all-time classic.
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