Exciting news (for me)!! I'm being given a special gift: I was told to choose 20 plays and they're mine. So I need to choose 20 plays that are in print (and must be available on Amazon.com).
Here's what I'm looking for:
-Non-musicals -Written in the past 5 years -Not over-produced, such as DOUBT -Preferably more obscure titles -American plays (meaning written in English and not a translation)
Thanks in advance!!!
"The Spectacle has, indeed, an emotional attraction of its own, but, of all the parts, it is the least artistic, and connected least with the art of poetry. For the power of Tragedy, we may be sure, is felt even apart from representation and actors. Besides, the production of spectacular effects depends more on the art of the stage machinist than on that of the poet."
--Aristotle
I won a directing award which is 20 single plays of my choosing, up to a value no greater than $250. They must be purchased all at one online location, such as Amazon.com or BN.com.
"The Spectacle has, indeed, an emotional attraction of its own, but, of all the parts, it is the least artistic, and connected least with the art of poetry. For the power of Tragedy, we may be sure, is felt even apart from representation and actors. Besides, the production of spectacular effects depends more on the art of the stage machinist than on that of the poet."
--Aristotle
Man from Nebraska by Tracy Letts 356 Play/365 Days by Suzan Lori Parks Rabbit Hole by David Lindsay Abaire Well by Lisa Kron The Clean House and Other Plays by Sarah Ruhl The Arabian Nights by Mary Zimmerman
Read LETTERS TO A YOUNG ARTIST by Anna Deavere Smith!
Add Martin McDonagh's work. Don't limit yourself to Americans.
"If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about the answers." Thomas Pynchon, GRAVITY'S RAINBOW
"Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away." Philip K. Dick
My blog: http://www.roscoewrites.blogspot.com/
Roscoe -- thanks for catching that. That isn't what I meant to type, I corrected it.
Here's my potential list so far:
Rabbit Hole by David Lindsay-Abaire Blackbird by David Harrower Well by Lisa Kron August: Osage County by Tracy Letts The Pillowman by Martin McDonagh The Pain and the Itch by Bruce Norris Essential Self-Defense by Adam Rapp The Scene by Theresa Rebeck The Coast of Utopia by Tom Stoppard
"The Spectacle has, indeed, an emotional attraction of its own, but, of all the parts, it is the least artistic, and connected least with the art of poetry. For the power of Tragedy, we may be sure, is felt even apart from representation and actors. Besides, the production of spectacular effects depends more on the art of the stage machinist than on that of the poet."
--Aristotle
Don't forget McDonagh's LIEUTENANT OF INISHMORE, or Albee's THE GOAT.
"If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about the answers." Thomas Pynchon, GRAVITY'S RAINBOW
"Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away." Philip K. Dick
My blog: http://www.roscoewrites.blogspot.com/
"The Spectacle has, indeed, an emotional attraction of its own, but, of all the parts, it is the least artistic, and connected least with the art of poetry. For the power of Tragedy, we may be sure, is felt even apart from representation and actors. Besides, the production of spectacular effects depends more on the art of the stage machinist than on that of the poet."
--Aristotle
im going to put in another vote for Lisa Kron's Well. I'm going to recommend a british playwright named Fin Kennedy - he's written this really incredible play that's NEVER produced. Called "How to Disappear Completely and never be Found." I saw him speak a little while ago, thought he was great. And i love that play of his. His website is http://www.finkennedy.co.uk