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rilke
27-Sep-06, 00:05

Your favorite plays
Name your favorite plays from all time?
daddysgirl
27-Sep-06, 00:14

it has to be An Inspector calls, 1st done in London, where the house falls down, spectacular.. the tension, the whole thing was very spot on. everything shatters at once.. it was just perfect 
rilke
27-Sep-06, 07:31

My plays
Othello (Shakespeare)
The Death of a Salesman (Arthur Miller)
Hamlet (Shakespeare)
The Cherry Orchid (Chekov)
The Importance of being Earnest (Oscar Wilde)
Richard the III (Shakespeare)
Henry the V (Shakespeare)
Waiting for Godot (Beckett)
Caligula (Camus)
Oedipus (Sophocles)
Antigone (Sophocles)
Agamemnon (Aeschylus)
Oresteia (Aeschylus)
Electra (Euripides)


rilke
14-Oct-06, 14:46

More Shakespeare
Richard the II
The Tempest
Julius Ceasar
King Lear
Macbeth
Henry the V
amitanandan
02-Nov-06, 23:24

Blue Murder
blue murder by kenneth lillington...a farce..one that i have read many times as it is a one act play and never get tired of
rilke
08-Nov-06, 06:53

Chekov
Uncle Vanya by Chekov.
rilke
12-Nov-06, 18:22

Caligula
Caligula by Albert Camus.
rilke
11-Mar-07, 17:51

The Tempest
Play by Shakespeare.
spygirl
12-Mar-07, 12:38

Twelfth Night
by Shakespeare

I don't know if this is considered a play, but it's theatre...I also liked The Vagina Monologues by Eve Ensler

rilke
25-Aug-07, 02:07

The Ice Cometh
Eugene O Neil. An American favorite!
tzafondakota
25-Aug-07, 09:46

Arthur Miller
No better modern playwright than Arthur Miller. My two favorites:

1) The Crucible (especially relevant in the present age of "with us or against us"/wiretapping/etc/)
2) A View From the Bridge (I once saw this on stage off Broadway about 10 years ago with Anthony LaPaglia and Brittany Murphy in the starring roles)
ribbleton
25-Aug-07, 12:30

George Bernard Shaw (26 July 1856–2 November 1950)
Buoyant Billions (1946-48),
"Why appeal to the mob when ninetyfive per cent of them do not understand politics, and can do nothing but mischief without leaders? And what sort of leaders do they vote for? For Titus Oates and Lord George Gordon with their Popish plots, for Hitlers who call on them to exterminate Jews, for Mussolinis who rally them to nationalist dreams of glory and empire in which all foreigners are enemies to be subjugated."

rilke
05-Sep-07, 07:35

Eugne O' Neil
" A Long journey into the Night"

O' Neil's best play....it is his autobiography (His family life too)
ribbleton
07-Oct-07, 06:51

Oedipus and Colonus 5th centuary B.C
In a just cause the weak o'ercome the strong.
Sophocles Greek Playwright
rilke
11-Oct-07, 07:37

A Streetcar named Desire
Tennessee Williams. The Marlon Brando performance is the best ! Stellaaaaaa!
derman53
11-Oct-07, 08:34

Musicals
I hope you can include those. I love Les mis. It has the best story. I 've seen the play at least 14 times and still get a tear during Jean ValJeans death scene.

Amother play I think is great is Death of a Salesman. I was fortunate to see the 1980's version on stage with Dustin Hoffman and John Malkovich. Doesn't get anybetter than that.

DERMAN
rilke
18-Oct-07, 00:23

The Rose Tatoo
by Tennessee Williams. The Burt Lancaster was a great one.
rilke
23-May-08, 09:30

Uncle Vanya
by Chekhov. Great playwright
epimedes
23-May-08, 22:58

Abigail's Party
by Mike Leigh. I've seen it numerous times. Wonderful dark satire.
rilke
29-Dec-08, 14:15

Hamlet
A classic by the great Shakespeare!
rilke
13-Jul-09, 11:23

Othello
One of my Shakespeare's favorite plays.
obsteve
13-Jul-09, 12:27

Ubu Roi
Alfred Jarry's MAAAAAAD 'pataphysical work. Very rude and irreverent.

Possibly the best first line of a play, too-

"Merdre!"
rilke
29-Jul-12, 09:13

The Rose Tatto
Tennessee Williams.
rilke
17-Mar-13, 23:22

Act without words
Samuel Beckett. premier was in 1957.



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