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What are some of the best non-Anglo theatre plays?

>> No.13100526

Death of a Salesman

>> No.13100532

>>13100526
that's an English-language play...

>> No.13100541

There are non. Theatre slept under the tomb of old Greece, only to be awoken, briefly, by the pounding of Anglo hearts.

>> No.13100548

>>13100541
>I don't know any, therefore, there are none.
Bravo, Anglofag.

>> No.13100556

>>13100548
OP did not ask for "any" he asked for "best". I answered truthfully, but feel free to post some sub-par French swill.

>> No.13100575
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>>13100556
OP's simply asking for the best non-Anglo theatre plays, if you have nothing to contribute then why come here like a butthurt Anglo philistine?

>> No.13100585

>>13100575
>using angsty meme words
>posting TLDR memes
>addressing only me and not OP

Yes, is clearly I who is butthurt.

>> No.13100591

"The Council of Love. Author is Spanish but I forget his name

>> No.13100595

>>13100591
Wait no he's German I'm tarded

>> No.13100599

>>13100500
School for Wives
I'm surprised it;s not more popular with the /r9k/ crossposters.

>> No.13100606

>>13100532

Written by a Jew.

>> No.13100618

>>13100500
I enjoyed Wole S*yinka's Death and the King's Horseman.

>> No.13100620

>>13100500
Euripides Trojan Women was my favorite Greek play. Especially when Cassandra starts talking.

>> No.13100626

Oedipus Rex by Sophocles
Tartuffe by Molière
Hedda Gabler by Henrik Ibsen
Ubu Roi by Alfred Jarry
The Mandrake by Noccolò Machiavelli
The Game We All Play by Alejandro Jodorowsky
Woyzeck by Georg Büchner
The Bald Soprano by Eugene Ionesco

>> No.13100630

thefather, ghost sonata

>> No.13100638

>>13100500
Death and the King's Horseman was written by an exiled Nigerian, but in England and in English.

>> No.13100643

I won't lie and say that I've read it yet but Faust is obviously a big one.

>> No.13100647
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>>13100626
>no Jean Racine

>> No.13100649

>>13100500
are the major greek tragedians worth it? I saw a big volume with many if not all their plays

>> No.13100663

>>13100647
You can make your own recommendations, too, pal.

>> No.13100700

The King of the Dark Chamber (Indian), there's a lot of secondary literature about it and it's significance to Wittgenstein

>> No.13100736

Life is a Dream by Calderon de la Barca
Don Juan Tenorio by Zorilla
Anything from the pen of Lope de Vega

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>>13100647
>tfw you will never have a near-native level understanding of Racine's language
why even live bros

>> No.13101047

>>13100500
Accidental death of an anarchist
Marat/Sade
Trotsky in Exile.

>> No.13101061

>>13100500
The Ring

and yes I said it

>> No.13101073

>theatre plays

>> No.13102604

>>13101073
?

>> No.13102810

Waiting for Godot