Plays and playwrights
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videoheadcleaner
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- Posted: 03/26/2011 11:31
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Being the teacher and writer that I am, I have surrounded myself with theatre and the dramatic arts for most of my life.
So this is a topic to discuss favourites or recent discoveries in the field of drama.
My favourite playwright is Harold Pinter. Really loved his screenplay for Sleuth with Michael Caine and his plays The Dumb Waiter and The Birthday Party are fantastic to see on stage.
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Mr.Music
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- Posted: 03/26/2011 12:30
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How to Explain Pictures to a Dead Hare by NO99
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purple
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I've really only read the 'canon' of drama, but my favorite genre is Greek and Roman tragedy. And out of Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, and Seneca the latter two are by far my favorite. Especially love the Bacchae and Seneca's Oedipus. However, Greek and Roman comedy is my least favorite genre of drama; I respect it, and it's got truly intellectual concepts in it, but the presentation is not to my liking.
then there's Shakespeare, and I love me some Othello (Iago is one of my favorite characters of all time), Hamlet, Macbeth, & King Lear
as far as modern stuff goes, Waiting for Godot really is essential. For funsies, there's Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, which is a great, comedic take on a different perspective of Hamlet.
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videoheadcleaner
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| purple wrote: | then there's Shakespeare, and I love me some Othello (Iago is one of my favorite characters of all time), Hamlet, Macbeth, & King Lear
as far as modern stuff goes, Waiting for Godot really is essential. For funsies, there's Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, which is a great, comedic take on a different perspective of Hamlet. |
Iago is a brilliant villain and I always wanted to play him.
I have performed Much Ado About Nothing (as Benedick) and King Lear (as Edgar) and both were a lot of fun.
Godot is an aquired taste, as with much of Beckett's work.
Just talking about this reminds me of uni work I had done. I had a tutorial presentation on the performance within cyberspace and how people wish to be portrayed through the internet compared to real life.
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Bork
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- Posted: 03/27/2011 04:56
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I don't have much experience with watching theater. I saw the obligatory Mousetrap in London but that's about it (not counting musicals).
As for reading them though, I think Oscar Wilde wrote some good stuff. An Ideal Husband was a fun read.
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Necharsian
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- Posted: 04/01/2011 23:56
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Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
I have never seen it actually performed, but it is a brilliant read.
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