um...what are some sad or depressing or really psychologically messed up plays??? i like to read that kind. no overall happy ones please...so what are some??? i don't care if they be modern plays or like shakespeare stuff...anything! please answer this for me...thanks, much appreciated!!!!
2007-08-04 08:15:25 · 6 answers · asked by julie h 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Theater & Acting
You'd probably like Antigone
2007-08-04 09:26:11 · answer #1 · answered by Marianne D 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Start with the greatest playwright of all time. Mr Shakespeare.
The obvious ones being King Lear, Titus Andronicus, Othello and of course Hamlet.
Try Doctor Faustus by Marlowe, The White Devil and The Duchess of Malfi both by John Webster and The Changeling by Thomas Middleton.
Check out Maxim Gorky especially Lower Depths and Barbarians. Also some Chekhov especially Ivanov.
2007-08-04 12:42:58 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
*Definitely check out plays by Joe Orton, especially 'Entertaining Mr. Sloane' and 'What the Butler Saw.'
*John Osborne's 'Look Back in Anger.' I saw a revival in London back in 1999; I think I was actually shaking when I left the theatre.
*'Equus', 'Gift of the Gorgon', and even 'Amadeus' by Peter Schaffer.
*'M. Butterfly' by David Henry Hwang (there's also a film version. Both are equally--and brilliantly--messed-up).
*Some absurdist comedies are actually very depressing. After studying Alfred Jarry's 'Ubu Roi'in college, I was about ready to drink hemlock.
*'Angels in America', both parts. So beautiful; so sad.
*Pretty much anything by Sam Shepard (ah, how I love that man...!).
*Paula Vogel's 'How I Learned to Drive,' and 'The Baltimore Waltz'
*Lanford Wilson, 'Balm in Gilead'
*JB Priestley. Most Americans have never heard of 'An Inspector Calls', let alone any of his other work. 'Johnson Over Jordan' was one of the most bizarre evenings I've ever spent in the theatre (the play starts with the main character dying).
*'Beirut' by Alan Bowne. It may be a little dated now, but was still extremely powerful when friends of mine did it in college.
Also see the collected works of Edward Albee, Arthur Miller, Tennessee Williams, and Eugene O'Neill.
2007-08-04 13:50:11 · answer #3 · answered by briteyes 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Equus and Death of a Salesman
also Action by Sam Shepard is not really 'messed-up' it's a post-apocolypse play
2007-08-05 17:53:50 · answer #4 · answered by Melate T 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
1) Cat On a Hot Tin Roor --
2) Glass Menagarie --
3) Death of a Salesman --
4) Duet for One -- This one is really my favorite. It might be harder to find than the other three, but in my opinion well worth it.
2007-08-04 08:38:21 · answer #5 · answered by actingbkpr 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Equus.
2007-08-04 11:25:22 · answer #6 · answered by s_brown 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋