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Posted by alexandra_k on September 13, 2004, at 20:40:11
I am a fan of Samuel Beckett. I liked 'Waiting for Godot' but my fav is 'Happy Days'. I also got into Sartre's plays, though it has been a while since I have read them.
Posted by Jai Narayan on September 13, 2004, at 22:24:05
In reply to Anyone into plays???, posted by alexandra_k on September 13, 2004, at 20:40:11
Hey how are you doing?
I posted to you on another thread.
I hope you are doing alright.
Posted by gardenergirl on September 14, 2004, at 10:10:29
In reply to Anyone into plays???, posted by alexandra_k on September 13, 2004, at 20:40:11
You know, I really need to see or read "Waiting for Godot". I love "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead" by Tom Stoppard. I've read it several times and seen it twice. I always get something new out of it. And I love reading Shakespeare. I'm weird, I know. Other faves are "Equus" and "Children of a Lesser God".
gg
Posted by alexandra_k on September 14, 2004, at 20:48:38
In reply to Re: Anyone into plays??? » alexandra_k, posted by gardenergirl on September 14, 2004, at 10:10:29
Have you got a fav. Shakespeare play? I love Titus Andronicus, though I have never seen it performed. I also am a fan of Marlowe (Faust).
Posted by gardenergirl on September 15, 2004, at 10:11:07
In reply to gg., posted by alexandra_k on September 14, 2004, at 20:48:38
Wow, that's a tough question. I love Henry V and Much Ado About Nothing. Titus Andronicus...wow, that was a bloody one! But a classic story.
gg
Posted by gardenergirl on September 15, 2004, at 10:11:38
In reply to gg., posted by alexandra_k on September 14, 2004, at 20:48:38
Posted by alexandra_k on September 15, 2004, at 16:54:14
In reply to Re: gg. » alexandra_k, posted by gardenergirl on September 15, 2004, at 10:11:07
Cool. Yeah, my favourite line is 'help to set a head on headless Rome' at the point where the royal family has (from recollection) two heads and maybe two hands between them (someone will probably need to correct my stats.)
What I really like about it is that it is a black comedy. The trouble is that people tend to think that it is supposed to be serious and that if the audience laughs at the gore then that is the sign of a bad playwrite. T.S. Eliot wrote 'it would be too highly honoured by the signature of Peele' and some critics condescend that it is 'not unworthy of the young Shakespeare'. But I think it is a black comedy and the audience is supposed to laugh in a carthartic (is that a word??) manner.
King Lear is great too, I studied that in my 2nd last year of high school. I love the clown
Posted by RosieOGrady on September 20, 2004, at 18:07:34
In reply to Anyone into plays???, posted by alexandra_k on September 13, 2004, at 20:40:11
It broke my heart when I was young and it made me afraid re therapy that the truth would destroy me that's why it takes such tremendous courage to face the truth. My Ibsen phase was the only time I read a lot of plays. Weirdly enough i love the set descriptions. I linger over them.
My favorite Shakespeare is Hamlet probly because it's the one I'm most familiar with through school classes.
O and I remember another play from high school that I liked-Man in the moon marigolds
and that play where everybod was turning into rhinos??? boy I hadn't thought of that lately
Posted by alexandra_k on September 20, 2004, at 21:12:53
In reply to Ibsen-the wild duck, posted by RosieOGrady on September 20, 2004, at 18:07:34
Hamlet is a good one. I studied it at varsity and the issue of greatest controversy in literary circles at the time (apparantly) was whether he was mad, or just pretending.
I read some Ibsen at school - though I never studied it. I remember that I didn't much like "the dolls house" but I enjoyed "Hedda Gabler" a lot. Haven't read the one you mentioned though, maybe I should give it a read.
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