Non-Realistic Plays (Not Musicals)- Page 2
Non-Realistic Plays (Not Musicals)
#25re: Non-Realistic Plays (Not Musicals)
Posted: 11/7/08 at 5:47pm
I meant to list Camino Real, Eric, which I know you like. I certainly wouldn't include The Glass Menagerie on such a list. Poetic realism might be a good term for it.
Caryl Churchill is another good writer for the list, I agree.
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/31/69
#27re: Non-Realistic Plays (Not Musicals)
Posted: 11/9/08 at 9:19am
CLOUD 9 is the first one that came to mind, such brilliance.
ANGELS IN AMERICA can fit this category, part of Kushner's brilliance comes from incorporating such poignant realism with the fantastic aspects to the point that sometimes I forget it's a non-realistic play.
"Some people can thrive and bloom living life in a living room, that's perfect for some people of one hundred and five. But I at least gotta try, when I think of all the sights that I gotta see, all the places I gotta play, all the things that I gotta be at"
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/31/69
#28re: Non-Realistic Plays (Not Musicals)
Posted: 11/10/08 at 4:33am
Yeah thinking about Cloud Nine made me look and find my script--I wish the Tune version had been filmed.
You're right about Angels
#29re: Non-Realistic Plays (Not Musicals)
Posted: 11/10/08 at 7:41am
Durang Durang Durang Durang Durang.
Absurd and hysterical.
Theatre is a safe place to do the unsafe things that need to be done.
-John Patrick Shanley
