This section of The Ex-Libris List reads like a syllabus for the average undergraduate theatre history course. Probably because I acquired most of these texts because they were course requisites in a class I took somewhere or another. In any case, it makes me feel like I should hurry up and get a Ph.D. Then I could (maybe) get a job teaching these classes. So I can have nice things. Like health insurance.
All you theater folks, please note: Prior to assembling this list, I checked to make sure I didn't have a copy hidden somewhere. I rummaged through the stack of plays stashed on the top shelf of my closet. I have a feeling you know the type-- Xeroxed, binder clipped and coffee stained.
For visual interest, I am offering a photo from a production during my undergraduate days. The production was of a monstrosity not worth mentioning. I dare you to play Spot the Crow.
The List, Part V
The Oresteia by Aeschylus
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by Edward Albee
Lear by Edward Bond
Four Plays by Anton Chekhov
Plays 2 by Caryl Churchill
Copenhagen by Michael Frayn
The Complete Plays by Sarah Kane
The Beauty Queen of Leenane by Martin McDonagh
Mourning Becomes Electra by Eugene O'Neill
Betrayal by Harold Pinter
A Woman Alone and Other Plays by Franca Rame and Dario Fo
Machinal by Sophie Treadwell
How I Learned to Drive by Paula Vogel
The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde
And just like that we're halfway through!
2 comments:
virgina woolfe is one on my all time favorites! Saw it in Ashland a few years ago and was blown away...
this is a great series of posts, btw. i would do one with my movies, but i am obsessive about them, and rarely lend them out. if i do, and it has been more than 2 weeks , i hunt them down, and banish the culprit to a "no rental" penalty for at least 6 months...or as long as it takes me to forget that they keep my shit for more than 2 weeks.
as for spot the crow, i say you are the one in the queen of hearts getup, standing with the preggo alien in middle.
Good idea but sometimes takes longer than 2 weeks to get through a book...
You get your birdwatching badge for successfully spotting the Crow.
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