2006-07-24 10:48:51 · 27 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Theater & Acting
Macbeth for sure........
2006-07-25 12:06:45 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 18⤊ 1⤋
I don't understand plays and usually can't hear what they're saying.
Shakespeare such as The Taming of the Shrew has complex dialogue which should be a virtue for those that are listening.
I don't particularly go for social themes or ordinary progress, or glorification (from what I remember of Raisin in the Sun). By the Skin of Our Teeth made an impression, but the application was too disjointed and post-modern for me.
The sorts of plays I'd really enjoy would be intellectual, maybe surreal, making an enveloping impression without jarring the senses. At the same time I'm not very tolerant of moral viewpoints, which aren't really appropriate to dreamscapes anyhow. Yet it shouldn't be pointedly anti-moral either. The lessons learned should be experiential or transcendental. Yet it should not be ostentatious or flaunting.
Needless to say, the plays I have seen do not meet these qualifications. Maybe I'm better suited to deep reading. Yet there is part of me that believes that such a thing could be conveyed more experientially, a drama of mysteries where the intrigue is between ideas and not suspicious persons, where symbols are not always sharp or rotten.
Perhaps I've gone too far.
2006-07-24 11:16:49 · answer #2 · answered by NathanCoppedge 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Straight Plays:
1.) Angels in America
2.) The Laramie Project
3.) Love! Valour! Compassion!
4.) Bedful of Foreigners
5.) Miss Julie
Musical Plays:
1.) Passion
2.) Assassins
3.) Into the Woods
4.) The Secret Garden
5.) Ragtime
2006-07-24 21:10:17 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Straight play: The Miracle Worker, Pygmalion, The Foreigner, Much Ado About Nothing, Cyrano de Bergerac, Winter's Tale, Blithe Spirit, Taming of the Shrew.
Musical: Thoroughly Modern Millie, the 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, Jane Eyre, Pippin, Hairspray, Miss Saigon, Parade... I could go on all day.
2006-07-24 18:36:02 · answer #4 · answered by red 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
St. Lucy's Eyes - an off Broadway play that I saw at the Cherry Lane Theater in New York and starring Ruby Dee.
2006-07-24 10:51:59 · answer #5 · answered by nquizzitiv 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
How I Learned to Drive by Paula Vogel
M Butterfly by David Henry Hwang
2006-07-24 12:03:43 · answer #6 · answered by Lucy 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
"Terra Nova" is an excellent play.
I love "The Tempest", "The Misanthrope", "The Importance of Being Earnest", "Member of the Wedding", "The Lion in Winter", "Steel Magnolias", "A Man for All Seasons", "Summer and Smoke", "Harvey", "Lettice & Lovage", "12 Angry Men". All excellent plays
2006-07-24 11:27:32 · answer #7 · answered by Vatican Lokey 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Musical: 1776
Straight play: Mister Roberts
(I've directed them both.)
Shakespeare: A Midsummer Night's Dream (played Helena in that one!)
2006-07-25 07:49:23 · answer #8 · answered by motherknowsbest 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Guys and Dolls, but only because I was Harry The Horse, and that's where I met my boyfriend, where he was the lead character, Sky Masterson. I love him!!! Feelings aside, I love Into The Woods, by Stephen Sondheim.
2006-07-24 11:45:05 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Annie, Miss Firecracker Contest, and Tea at Five
2006-07-24 11:00:07 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers.
2006-07-24 10:52:22 · answer #11 · answered by moonlight_is_harmonious_1 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋