/lit/ - Literature

Anything starring the Chuckle Brothers

>>1405874
to me.. to you..
i'm actually fairly sure i've seen them in a pantomime when i was little.

I loved Hamlet, but then again I never read any plays besides the ones from high school English class.

Philadelphia, Here I Come
The Caretaker
Othello

>>1405871

Hamlet
The Flies
Waiting for Godot
Faust

I don't go to a lot of plays, those are my favorites from reading them.

Zoo Story, Hamlet, Long Days Journey into Night.

>>1405881

I saw them in Snow White. They threw chocolate into the crowd, it was amazing. I love the theatre!

The Misanthrope.

<3 Molière

Urinetown, bitches. Hail Malthus!

>>1405887
The Flies is so good :)
I like:
The Infernal Machine by Jean Cocteau
The Threepenny Opera by Brecht
Ubu Roi by Alfred Jarry
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof by Williams

i have severe anxiety going outdoors into public places.

i wonder if you can just book a single pantomime ticket & then come in just after the play has started & cry in a dark corner?

I don't read enough plays. Really I've only read Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth, Hamlet, No Exit, The Flies, and Death of a Salesman. I liked No Exit and Death of a Salesman a lot, Shakespeare I honestly wasn't crazy about, interesting truisms but I could only really appreciate it in retrospect. Which out of the ones mentioned in the thread, or in the image, should I go for?
Philadelphia, Here I Come! looks pretty interesting according to Wiki, is it a great one to read, D&E? Some plays I've tried to read and stopped because I felt like the dramatic element was necessary, ya know? I remember trying to read Sister Ignatius Explains It All For You or whatever it was called and just gave up out of boredom.

>>1405970
BEE is one of D&E's favourite novelists. Somehow I don't think he's any more of an authority on Theatre....

>>1405977
BEE isn't as terrible as /lit/ likes to make him out to be. Glamorama was hilarious, Lunar Park was damn scary at parts, American Psycho was fascinating and well-written with more to say (even if it was self-professed ranting; cathartic =/= lazy or stupid) than DFW liked to give credit for or il/lit/erates like to claim, Less Than Zero was a pretty damn good debut for a novelist.
I'm not saying the guy's a genius, but people are way too negative on here.

>>1405970
>is it a great one to read, D&E?
It's a play that is steeped in Irish culture so maybe some of its charms will be lost for people who aren't familiar with mid-20th century Irish culture and concerns. Besides that it does have the whole split character thing going on which I find very interesting, you can do a lot with that in terms of psychoanalysis and so on. I think it is a decent play that has strong existential concerns regardless of its cultural context, a bit like The Field

>>1405977
>Somehow I don't think he's any more of an authority on Theatre
I read The Poetics you son of a bitch

To Moscow by Karen Sunde is one of my favorite plays. I performed a scene from this play for an acting class I took last year and Sunde is fantastic at dialogue and subtext.

It's not a very well-known play sadly but if you ever have the chance to read it, I highly recommend it.

>>1406002
That's exactly what got me about it, the idea of "Private" and "Public" reminded me of the almost-orgy scene (amongst others noting difference in self when observed) in No Exit, or that weird part in Being and Nothingness where Sartre's talking about he can _feel_ the guy behind him in the cafe staring at him.

>>1405926
Did you read the imaginary invalid?
Its also really good

A Doll's House.
If only to have a feminist and some other girl have a fight about whether or not women should be unjustly treated for the majority of the class in English last year.

I usta love to read the book of plays, but somewhere in the mid-80s all the plays went gay (somewhere around "Angels in America"). Know it's not politically correct to say that, and I personally don't care what someone's orientation is, but it was a drag when nearly every one was about only that.

Before then, though, I really liked:
- Wings by Arthur Kopit
- The Elephant Man by Bernard Pomerance
- Tribute by Bernard Slade

>>1406041
queer lit is best lit

i h8 going back to purely straight stuff after reading or watching something with gay characters 8)

Anything by Wilde
Anything by Chekhov
Othello

Pic related.

waiting for godot

>>1406055
If yer serious, why?

Now, I'm not saying "has gay characters" but "is primarily about being gay". (Not that that's much better, I'll admit.)

Hamlet

the homecoming
the caretaker
waiting for godot
hamlet
macbeth
faustus

actor master race over here

>>1406550
>>1406550

also gonna throw out
Fences
The Reisitable Rise of Arturo Ui
Luther
Look back in Anger
Galelio

The best American play ever made is "Long Day's Journey into Night."

The shit they make now, it'll probably be the best for years to come.

>>1406554
August Wilson is a personal favourite of mine. "Seven Guitars" is heartwrenching.

>>1406559
>>1406559

he's on my too read more of list this year, must hit that up, loved Fences

Gabriel is so care-free <3

I bet clownbear hasn't even read The Poetics

>sitting in a quiet little cinema off Leicester Square
>it's Bad Lieutenant, haven't seen it yet
>film about to start
>all alone in cinema, pretty cool
>doors creak open
>couple; inevitable niggers
>that's still cool: it's London, what are the chances?
>hooting and hollering. Popcorn rustling, she-boon shrieking
>try not to be racist
>sterotypes so true
>fucking niggers

>>1406581
>>1406581


you'd be wrong

>>1406581
Because giving a shit about what Aristotle thought about drama 200 years ago makes your opinions about theatre more valid, right?

You are such a silly faggot.

>>1406602
you completely forgot me silly bear

>>1406615
Within the system of literary criticism, yes.

Forgot an 0

>>1406616
>>1406616

you're offline

;_;

>>1406621
I'm very sure you like to think so.

You don't look smart mentioning the unities when discussing theatre. You just look like an outdated, irrelevant jerk off.

>>1406648
Oldest is best. See Freud, Frye, Jung et co.

I saw Faust while I was an exchange student in Germany. I didn't even know what the fuck it was until about halfway through. It was pretty trippy. Could've been the fact that I had 5 beers while on the train.

>>1406725
Please, to God nonetheless, tell me you are a fat troll.

The Sunshine Ltd, by Cormac McCarthy

The Country Wife by William Wycherley is probably my favorite

Mourning Becomes Electra

>Ctrl+F
>The Crucible
>No results

On another note, I have a beautiful, 1930s hardcover complete collection of all of Bernard Shaw's plays. It's my pride and joy

>>1407247
That would have to be several volumes.

Nigger wrote like 60 mufuggas.

>>1407256
It's got 49 plays. 1,400 pages (so about as long as Atlas Shrugged...)
Got it for $25 at a Uni second hand bookstore.