Plays Everyone Should Read- Page 2

[ClapYo'Hands]

Posted: 8/31/12 at 5:24am

It's "Macbeth", not "MacBeth".

[3bluenight]

Posted: 8/31/12 at 7:34am

Aunt Dan and Lemon, Wallace Shawn
A Day in the Death of Joe Egg, Peter Nichols
Rhinoceros, Eugene Ionesco
A Delicate Balance, Edward Albee
M Butterfly, David Henry Hwang
The Heidi Chronicles, Wendy Wasserstein
The Piano Lesson, August Wilson

[sweethoneybeeee]

Posted: 8/31/12 at 10:14am

Women and War by Jack Hilton Cunningham

[Broadway Baby8]

Posted: 9/1/12 at 9:00pm

All My Sons by Arthur Miller

[EricMontreal22]

Posted: 9/1/12 at 9:06pm

"Mister Matt: Glad you mentioned THE WEIR. The production I saw was good but the play reads even better. "

I saw the original London production of The Weir, not knowing anything about it, but it was at the cheap ticket booth, and had won some awards, so... And was pretty blown away. As they often do with plays in London, the program contains the entire script, and it does read very well (though I thought the production still played a bit better in this case).

[Jay Lerner-Z]

Posted: 9/1/12 at 9:15pm

Some plays you shouldn't read before you see the production, in my opinion. Things like A Streetcar Named Desire, Death of a Salesman etc. - it's only a matter of time before a production rolls around, so I prefer to wait. Others, like Orpheus Descending or Ressurection Blues, go ahead...but maybe that's just me.

[goldenboy]

Posted: 9/1/12 at 9:42pm

Hamlet
Oedipus Rex
Lysistrata
Julius Caeser
Classics above

Realism
A Doll's House
All My Sons
Death of a Salesman
Long Days Journey into Night
Streetcar named desire/ Cat on a hot tin roof/ Night of the Iquana

Contemporary (and not so)
Raisin in the Sun
Clybourne Park
House of Blue Leaves
Other People's Money
Best Man
Torch Song Trilogy
Boys in the Band
The Women
Inherit the Wind
Effect of Gamma Rays on Man in the Moon Marigolds
Cloud 9 (which plays better than it reads)
August Osage Country
Chinglish

[benhow2]

Posted: 5/13/24 at 9:49am

goldenboy said: "Hamlet
Oedipus Rex
Lysistrata
Julius Caeser
Classics above

Realism
A Doll's House
All My Sons
Death of a Salesman
Long Days Journey into Night
Streetcar named desire/ Cat on a hot tin roof/ Night of the Iquana

Contemporary (and not so)
Raisin in the Sun
Clybourne Park
House of Blue Leaves
Other People's Money
Best Man
Torch Song Trilogy
Boys in the Band
The Women
Inherit the Wind
Effect of Gamma Rays on Man in the Moon Marigolds
Cloud 9 (which plays better than it reads)
August Osage Country
Chinglish
"

I want to add to this list a section for short one-act plays. Works by playwrights such as Samuel Beckett, Jean-Paul Sartre, or David Mamet could be excellent additions.

[Twinkle3]

Posted: 5/13/24 at 9:54am

The collection mentioned above serves as an excellent starting point. "Oedipus" is simply one of those classic works that are worth reading to grasp the profound psychological and moral aspects of human nature. I recently came across some Oedipus essay on a website https://papersowl.com/examples/oedipus/ , and I was fascinated by this universe. After all, the play delves into the conflict between fate and free will, between the desire to avoid what is destined and what one is destined to become. This theme is intriguing to almost everyone.

Updated On: 5/16/24 at 09:54 AM