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Miss Brodie
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 Posted - 21 Jun 2004 : 3:17:42 PM
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| All are invited to make suggestions for plays they would like to read with the play-reading group. I will make the weekly selection from the suggestions provided, until there is a mutiny. |
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hrhannek
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Posted - 21 Jun 2004 : 4:34:02 PM
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Paging James Grausam!!
I remember you told me a few playwrights that I need to read. Could you make a suggestion here? |
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Prosper Block
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Posted - 22 Jun 2004 : 09:22:35 AM
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| Play reading suggestion: "When The World Was Green (A Chef's Fable)" by Sam Shepard |
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Miss Brodie
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Posted - 22 Jun 2004 : 3:45:18 PM
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INDIANS by Arthur Kopit, Tony award for Best Play of 1970 - huge cast!
MORNINGS AT SEVEN by Paul Osborn - saw the 1980 revival, but I'd like to read the script.
COME BACK, LITTLE SHEBA by William Inge - because I never read it or saw a production.
ART by Yasmina Reza - because it seems to be the hot property these days. |
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Miss Brodie
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Prosper Block
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308 Posts |
Posted - 23 Jun 2004 : 3:58:23 PM
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Thanks, Catherine, for providing that information.
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Prosper Block
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308 Posts |
Posted - 23 Jun 2004 : 4:01:00 PM
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Thanks, Catherine, for providing that information.
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Don
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638 Posts |
Posted - 24 Jun 2004 : 07:58:55 AM
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Can we do No Exit?
But long after Swing Closes.
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Jgrausam
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Posted - 24 Jun 2004 : 09:48:23 AM
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"Huis Clos" - American premiere was at the Biltmore Theatre in 1946.
A little JPS never hurt no one - although for Don's sanity we should wait until Swing is over. I can't imagine delving inot "Hell is other people" while partnering to jive. That would turn the exsistentialists into absurdists."
Anne - I suggested Richard Greenberg (3 Days of Rain, Eastern Standard) Donald Margulies (Sight Unseen) or John Patrick Shanley (Beggars in the House of Plenty, Four Dogs and a Bone -which some sensible producer should present in their black box series somewhere) All three are very intellectual writers, particularly Greenberg, who handle dialogue well.
Catherine - the more recent revival of Mornings at Seven(2001?)was brilliant. I would vote for Art, which I've tried to read several times now and can't get through it. I would love to hear what others think of that one. |
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Miss Brodie
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Posted - 24 Jun 2004 : 4:12:52 PM
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James, thanks. We have ART on the schedule to discuss next week, and I'm planning to pick MORNINGS AT SEVEN for the week after.
RE: Richard Greenberg, I had the pleasure of participating in a staged reading of his AMERICAN PLAN last fall. His work is beautifully layered in that, just like an onion. |
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zadodci
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Posted - 30 Jun 2004 : 08:22:43 AM
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How about Oscar Wilde's "Lady Windemere's Fan"
David M. Cicchelli
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Wednesday
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Posted - 01 Jul 2004 : 10:53:58 AM
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For a Female Pick...
"Ladies of the Corridor" by Dorothy Parker.
Which may be revived by The Bank Street Theater come this fall.
"It's not true that I had nothing on at the time. I had the radio on." -- Marilyn Monroe |
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jheron
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Posted - 01 Jul 2004 : 11:19:16 AM
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Originally posted by Miss Brodie
All are invited to make suggestions for plays they would like to read with the play-reading group. I will make the weekly selection from the suggestions provided, until there is a mutiny.
OK, so what's next week's pick? |
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Wednesday
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Posted - 01 Jul 2004 : 12:49:58 PM
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Originally posted by jheron
OK, so what's next week's pick?
I nominate THE BOYS NEXT DOOR by Tom Griffin..
"It's not true that I had nothing on at the time. I had the radio on." -- Marilyn Monroe |
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Miss Brodie
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Posted - 01 Jul 2004 : 1:52:47 PM
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Originally posted by Wednesday
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Originally posted by jheron
OK, so what's next week's pick?
I nominate THE BOYS NEXT DOOR by Tom Griffin..
Next week's pick (for discussion July 7) is MORNINGS AT SEVEN.
The week after that I didn't decide, yet. We can make it THE BOYS NEXT DOOR, if you like.
The week of July 21 is the Sam Shepard play WHEN THE WORLD WAS GREEN (A CHEF'S FABLE) suggested by Irwin Hahn. That gives people who want to join the discussion a little time to get the script.
Then we'll just gradually work our way through all the suggestions that have been made in this string. Okay? |
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EstherC
Average Member
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Posted - 02 Jul 2004 : 09:40:36 AM
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OOOOH!!! I have some suggestions!!!
"Cloud Nine" by Caryl Churchill
"Getting Out" by Marsha Norman
"The Shape of Things" by Neil LaBute
There are so many more on my mind..... I was a dramatic lit major in college, so I'm loving this idea!!!
"I like this place and willingly could waste my time in it" - (As You Like It, Act II, Scene IV) |
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