I show you mine, you show me yours?
Macbeth - Shakespeare
Hamlet - Shakespeare
A Doll’s House - Ibsen
Ghosts – Ibsen
Playboy of the Western World – Synge
The Crucible - Miller
Edmond – Mamet
Glengarry Glen Ross – Mamet
Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead - Stoppard
Angels In America - Kushner
What, if any, influence you?
Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead - Stoppard
Angels In America - Kushner
You got the two that first popped into my head. I've only seen the movie and read Stoppard, but I saw the first half of Angels in America at a play, read the books, and watched the movie. Angels is amazing.
Do Broadway Musicals count? Les Miserables is my favorite. I've seen it six times, and can't wait to see it again. It's the best play ever. When the priest hands the thief the rest of the silver and tells the police the stolen stuff was a gift, but he forgot the rest of the silver, I get chills. If anyone hasn't seen it, you should.
@ranch. I loved the book too. Thank you Victor Hugo! It's the story that started the whole thing, but yes I LOVE the musical. I've taken all my family and close friends to see it -- even bought tickets for some -- and I don't understand why they don't love it as much as I do. I have the sound track, the mugs and a t-shirt with that picture of Cozette. As a lover of Broadway Musicals, I have to say i did not like Phantam or CATS. I can see why those two would turn you off. I hated CATS. (I love my real kitty cats but i saw no point to the play.) Wicked is definately worth seeing. Les Miz is in a class of it's own for me. Go see it again!
Lots of good stuff in this thread already. For me, my formative years were spent reading the theater of the absurd, so I have a soft spot for Albee, Pirandello, Ionesco, and Beckett (to whatever degree the term fits their styles.)
To pick some:
Zoo Story - Albee
Six Characters in Search of an Author - Pirandello
Rhinoceros - Ionesco
Play, Endgame, Ohio Impromptu, Not I, A Piece of Monologue, Happy Days... oh, who am I kidding, almost all of them... - Beckett
I also like farce:
Lady Windermere's Fan, The Importance of Being Earnest - Wilde
Loot, What the Butler Saw - Orton
A Comedy of Errors - Shakespeare
Also, Stoppard fans should see a production of The 15-minute Hamlet, which is actually a twelve-minute version and a three-minute version back to back.
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