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8666024 No.8666024 [Reply] [Original]

Who are some good contemporary Playwrights?

>> No.8666078

None. If they're good enough they become authors or screen writers. Live theater is a dead medium

>> No.8666096

>>8666078
Insufferable cunt detected

>> No.8666112

>>8666096
So prove me wrong, which playwrights are worth paying attention to today?

>> No.8666144

>>8666112
Go to your local theater and prove yourself wrong.

>> No.8666145

>>8666024
I like some of Tom Stoppard's stuff.

>> No.8666152
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8666152

>>8666144
>go to the theatres in my city
>they're exclusively showing musicals and classical plays

>> No.8666156
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8666156

>>8666112

>> No.8666162

>>8666156
Thank you, this is great

>> No.8666359

>>8666156
>pick one of the contemporary ones at random to check out what it's about

>The play chronicles the adult lives of two African American brothers, Lincoln and Booth, as they cope with women, work, poverty, gambling, racism, and their troubled upbringings.

I'm with this guy >>8666078

>> No.8666386

>>8666024
Read some Peter Shaffer

>> No.8666389

>>8666359
>Its about niggers so it must be bad