summer reading; an american play (drama)?

Question

here are the requirements for my schools summer reading; could you please give me good book titles & summaries? i am going into english II honors so i need something approprieate to that.


Read at least one drama written by an American author.

they may NOT be chosen for summer reading:

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Death of A Salesman To Kill a Mockingbird
The American A Farewell to Arms Of Mice and Men
An American Childhood The Glass Menagerie Our Town
Black Boy The Grapes of Wrath A Raisin in the Sun
The Bluest Eye The Great Gatsby The Secret Life of Bees
The Catcher in the Rye The Jungle Walden
The Crucible

Answer 1

Try reading "Feathertop" by Nathaniel Hawthorne. It's all about a witch who brings a scarecrow to life and he's passed off as a man to the daughter of a man who scorned the witch when they were younger.

Also, if you can somehow find it (and I wish you luck on doing so), try Paul Green's "The Lost Colony." The play is preformed every summer at the Fort Raliegh National Historic Site's Waterside Theater on Roanoke Island, NC and is all about the Roanoke Colony. Green, a native of North Carolina, also wrote the Pulitzer winning play "In Abraham's Bossom," which you'll probably be more likely to find a copy of.

Edit: Sorry, Percy Mackaye turned Hawthorne's "Feathertop" into the play "The Scarecrow." I keep associating the name of the short story with the play since the latter is based on the formerer. So naturally I want "Feathertop" to be the name of the play. Anyway, here's a link for the play.

Answer 2

I always loved August Wilson's Fences (story about discrimination in the South) and Arthur Miller's All My Sons (story of a salesman who sells defective parts during WW2)

Answer 3

I recommend Neil Simon's Lost in Yonkers. This is a fantastic play that not only provides a glimpse of one segment of post WWII New York, but also deals with the various ways in which a family deals with its internal dysfunction.

Answer 4

I'm a big Tennessee William's fan so I would suggest Cat on a Hot Tin Roof or Streetcar Named Desire.

Answer 5

Death of a Salesman is a classic. Check it out.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_a_Salesman

have fun!