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Best plays threadhard mode - no Shakespeare
Tamburlaine part 1
The Spanish Tragedy
Knight of the Burning Pestle
Volpone
etc
Electra
Does /lit/ have a guide to theater guide floating around somewhere? If not someone should make one.
My favorite play is Les Mis (though I only watched the movie.) However, I also watch Glee which is basically theater in a television medium. Both are great and I recommend them.
maybe Dr. Faustus by Marlowe
end soliloquy is pretty good
>>7590662
Ah, Faustus,
Now hast thou but one bare hour to live,
And then thou must be damn’d perpetually!
Stand still, you ever-moving spheres of Heaven,
That time may cease, and midnight never come;
Fair Nature’s eye, rise, rise again and make
Perpetual day; or let this hour be but
A year, a month, a week, a natural day,
That Faustus may repent and save his soul!
O lente, lente, curite noctis equi.
The stars move still, time runs, the clock will strike,
The Devil will come, and Faustus must be damn’d.
O, I’ll leap up to my God! Who pulls me down?
See, see where Christ’s blood streams in the firmament!
One drop would save my soul—half a drop: ah, my Christ!
Ah, rend not my heart for naming of my Christ!
Yet will I call on him: O spare me, Lucifer!—
Where is it now? ’Tis gone; and see where God
Stretcheth out his arm, and bends his ireful brows!
Mountain and hills come, come and fall on me,
And hide me from the heavy wrath of God!
No! no!
...
Goethe's Faust.
The Two Gentlemen of Verona
>inb4 no one posts the Bard because they are terrified of being "conventional"
The Elizabethan playwrights rivaled the Greeks
The Iceman Cometh
Death of a Salesman
Mother Courage and Her Children
Waiting for Godot
Fiddler on the Roof
We can all agree that Tartuffe is fucking shit, right?
Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears;
I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him.
The evil that men do lives after them;
The good is oft interred with their bones;
So let it be with Caesar. The noble Brutus
Hath told you Caesar was ambitious:
If it were so, it was a grievous fault,
And grievously hath Caesar answer’d it.
Here, under leave of Brutus and the rest–
For Brutus is an honourable man;
So are they all, all honourable men–
Come I to speak in Caesar’s funeral.
He was my friend, faithful and just to me:
But Brutus says he was ambitious;
And Brutus is an honourable man.
He hath brought many captives home to Rome
Whose ransoms did the general coffers fill:
Did this in Caesar seem ambitious?
When that the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept:
Ambition should be made of sterner stuff:
Yet Brutus says he was ambitious;
And Brutus is an honourable man.
You all did see that on the Lupercal
I thrice presented him a kingly crown,
Which he did thrice refuse: was this ambition?
Yet Brutus says he was ambitious;
And, sure, he is an honourable man.
I speak not to disprove what Brutus spoke,
But here I am to speak what I do know.
You all did love him once, not without cause:
What cause withholds you then, to mourn for him?
O judgment! thou art fled to brutish beasts,
And men have lost their reason. Bear with me;
My heart is in the coffin there with Caesar,
And I must pause till it come back to me.
Fuck you no Shakespeare.
>>7592041
Have you seen it? It's a funny show
Cinna
The Misanthrope
Faust
Horace
Le Cid
Lorenzaccio
The Trojan Women
Andromache
Waiting for Godot
Britannicus
The School for Wives
Medea
I quite enjoyed the Seagull too
Arcadia - Tom Stoppard
>>7590451
I love the play etc
>>7590438
I haven't seen many plays, but Endgame was the bomb.
>>7590652
this, I am a massive drama pleb and need help
>>7590657
>he thinks that musicals are actually plays!
>>7590438
The Sunset Limited
>>7590438
I thought La Mandragola by Machiavelli was pretty funny, and +1 for Death of a Salesman. I didn't like Arcadia, but I will see it again to see if that changes anything. The Aliens by Annie Baker is heaps good.
>>7590669
This.
>>7590438
The Real Thing - Tom Stoppard
>>7590438
Tennessee Williams and Tracy Letts have never let me down when going to see a performance.
Why is nobody talking of Sophocles?
>>7592531
Sophocles is shit tier compared to Aeschylus and Euripides
>>7590438
Tommy Boy
our town
>>7592134
Obvious bait
Death of a Salesman
antigone by sophokles
antigone by anouillh
Can't believe Waiting for Godot hasn't been mentioned. Fucking hilarious play.
Oscar Wilde's Salome. That's the hottest shit.
The Crucible
>>7590669
I guess I should get to this someday
The Importance of Being Earnest
>ctrl+f Streetcar Named Desire
>ctrl+f Glass Menagerie
>No matches
Y'all Niggas is cray cray
>>7595106
Do a ctrl+f for Tennessee
South by Julian Green
>>7592119
I never see any Stoppardfags on here. Glad this one got mentioned.
>>7592119
Seconded. God Tier play.
>>7592132
Third worst in the Highlander series.
The Bacchae was p brutal and I loved it for that
>>7592133
You should read the Theban Plays by Sophocles (really easy and fun to read, and gives you a good bit of basic knowledge of Greek drama) and Aristotle's poetics.
Has anyone been to any plays recently?
Saw a moon for the misbegotten last night as my entry to O'Neill and my first play in 7 years and loved it .
Ionesco - Rhinoceros
>>7592119
so fuckingd goood
anyone read 4.48 psychosis? one of the best things i've ever read regardless of medium
>>7597756
Sarah Kane is a madman, you read anything else she's written? Blasted is great too if you haven't read that.
What's the best play by Henrik Ibsen?
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Waiting for Godot
Death of a Salesman
Faust
>>7599871
Master Builder, for sure.
>>7599871
Hedda Gabbler is my fave.
The Homecoming
>>7599871
Wild duck , Hedda Gabbler
>>7590438
>Death of a Salesman
Maybe only if you read it. But seeing it in the theater, for me, was physically painful.
