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bill mobley
Understudy Joined: 2/28/05
#25re: favorite play
Posted: 7/27/05 at 7:31pm
A Raisin in the sun (It's a Mama-on-the-sofa play. But the actress that plays the role in the old movie version has more fun with it than all of the criticism suggest).
Fences
Streetcar Named Desire (Although I don't sympathize with Stanley Kowalski as many college professors wants us to).
"A Doll's House" (An ending just as effective today as it probably was way back when)
I know you didn't ask for a short story. But Harold Bloom once said that people don't read short stories nowadays, yet they are so much better than novels. He's right. Read Joyce Carol Oates story, "The Goose Girl," a story that touched me deeply, especially the final sentence.
#26re: favorite play
Posted: 7/27/05 at 7:33pm
The Crucible
Macbeth
"The opposite of war isn't peace, it's creation."
#27re: favorite play
Posted: 7/27/05 at 7:37pm
"The Normal Heart"
"Noises Off"
"Equus"
"Angels in America"
#28re: favorite play
Posted: 7/27/05 at 7:40pm
The Pillowman is a great read!
Angels in America all time favorite.
Oedipus Rex a great classic.
Six Characters in Search of an Author fun fun fun and sad.
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allamarane
Stand-by Joined: 12/15/04
#29re: favorite play
Posted: 7/27/05 at 7:44pm
So many good ones on these lists! I feel the library calling to me...
On the more serious side:
Arcadia (Tom Stoppard)
Inherit the Wind (Jerome Lawrence and Robert E Lee)
The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail (also Lawrence and Lee)
The Guys (Anne Nelson)
On a lighter note:
Charley's Aunt (Brandon Thomas)
Harvey (Mary Chase)
The Foreigner (Larry Shue)
Blithe Spirit (Noel Coward)
Inspecting Carol (Daniel Sullivan et al)
Noon (Terrence McNally)
Any of Stephen Wadsworth's Marivaux adaptations (Changes of Heart; The Game of Love and Chance; Triumph of Love)
"I know what the sunlight can be"
#30re: favorite play
Posted: 7/27/05 at 7:50pm
I'm glad someone mentioned Arcadia, which I love. The whole thing is great, but the ending in particular is absolutely perfect. It has some vague structural and subject similarities with one of my favorite novels, Possession, by A. S. Byatt.
The Importance of Being Earnest, Copenhagen, and Macbeth are a few more of my favorites. It would be very hard to choose one.
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#31re: favorite play
Posted: 7/27/05 at 8:31pmI'm currently reading Angels in America.
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Chorus Member Joined: 12/22/04
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tagiunagi
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/27/05
#35re: favorite play
Posted: 7/27/05 at 10:32pmTwo Pianos, Four Hands
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#36re: favorite play
Posted: 7/27/05 at 10:44pm
I've acted in a lot of Irish plays lately -- two of my faves in that vein are "Dancing at Lughnasa" and "The Weir." I also liked "Lilies of the Field" (even though no parts in that one for me).
Ditto to all who said "Angels in America."
For some old-time fun, pick up "Arsenic and Old Lace" or "The Philadelphia Story."
insomniak
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/7/04
#38re: favorite play
Posted: 7/27/05 at 11:07pm
Angels in America, Cat On A Hot Tin Roof, Long Day's Journey Into Night, A Raisin In The Sun.
Updated On: 7/27/05 at 11:07 PM
#39re: favorite play
Posted: 7/27/05 at 11:12pm
Angels in America - at the top.
Bang, Bang, You're Dead<- also incredible.
Noises Off
A Raisin in the Sun
nomdeplume
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/20/05
#40re: favorite play
Posted: 7/27/05 at 11:18pm
A Long Day's Journey Into Night
Rip my heart out, Eugene.
Updated On: 7/28/05 at 11:18 PM
#41re: favorite play
Posted: 7/28/05 at 1:58am
almostxfamous: VERY surprised to hear Bang Bang, You're Dead (pleasantly surprised, that is). I love that play, but it needs to be done more! Very emotional...
others include:
Torch Song Trilogy
Noises Off
The Normal Heart
Rumors
Charlie's Aunt
Don't Drink the Water
Laughter on the 23rd Floor
The Man Who Came to Dinner
Blithe Spirit
Private Lives
I was rather unpleasantly surprised by "Brighton Beach Memoirs" though, I don't think it was Simon's best work. I could go for Rumors, Fools, or Laughter on the 23rd Floor any day though :)
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aegeusrocks
Featured Actor Joined: 3/20/05
#42re: favorite play
Posted: 7/28/05 at 2:22am
Of the aforementioned: Angels in America, Rumors, A Long Day's Journey Into Night, Metamorphoses, anything by Arthur Miller.
Extremely surprised that no one has mentioned Homebody/Kabul, so, yay, I get to. Plus the following:
Arabian Nights by Zimmerman
I Am My Own Wife by Doug Wright
Unwrap Your Candy by Doug Wright
Well, just anything by Doug Wright and Mary Zimmerman!
#43re: favorite play
Posted: 7/28/05 at 2:38am
I really love "Inherit the Wind" by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E Lee.
It's beautiful, and still so relevant in today's world.
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jam_man
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/25/05
#44re: favorite play
Posted: 7/28/05 at 3:37amYes, add Inherit the Wind to my list, too. Can't beleive I forgot that one!
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