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 Posted: Wed Dec 08, 2004 9:46 am
the 1960's brought to the theatre an explotion of absurdism. Among the foremost absurdist playwrights was Arthur Kopit whose play with the unlikely tongue-tying title "Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mama's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Fellign so Sad" has anyone seen it or knows of any other absurd plays they like.
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Posted: Wed Dec 08, 2004 1:53 pm
We just did one in our black box...I'll have to get back to you on the title. But it had a brother and a sister, both were mentally handicapped, and they were having a child together.
It made hardly any sense, but then I thought and it was fine.
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Posted: Thu Dec 09, 2004 6:41 pm
Do you mean absurd as in something weird for the sake of weird, or absurd as in odd things happen and are funny. I guess my favorite absurdist would be Christopher Durang. All of his shows are hilarious! My favorite would be Wanda's Visit.
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Posted: Tue Apr 19, 2005 7:59 pm
Eugene Ionesco's The Chairs is a great funny play, though it has a serious theme. He also wrote The Bald Prima Donna, which is a farcical look at english manners.
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Posted: Tue Apr 19, 2005 8:47 pm
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Posted: Wed Apr 20, 2005 10:50 am
Just last night I saw Marigolds! I had read it last year for a project for theatre class, but I hadn't seen it before last night. I tell you what, when you're actually watching it it's a hell of a lot more depressing.
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Posted: Thu Apr 28, 2005 3:22 pm
I'm a major absurdist fan. I'm into Harold Pinter and Edward Albee. These guys are genuses.
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Posted: Thu Apr 28, 2005 7:46 pm
I saw a high school production of the Bald Sopranno and I loooooooooved it (despite a few sound problems)
I also like Christopher Durang plays (I had bought a whole book of short plays by him just for 'Dentity Crisis and fell in love with the other plays too [especially the Hardy Boys one])
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Posted: Fri Apr 29, 2005 1:44 pm
absurdism is fun to read and design (had to design The Balcony for a costume class) but i haven't seen any shows done well in recent memory crying
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Posted: Sat Apr 30, 2005 7:15 pm
The only absurdist play I've ever seen really is Waiting for Godot, which is partly an allegory. I didn't really get it, but then again, that was before taking theatre courses and everything.
I've heard so much about Oh Dad, Poor Dad and I want to see it so badly!
Has anybody ever heard of some series of short plays that have something to do with a correlation between people and heads of cabbage? I believe it was written by a Canadian playwright, but I'm not sure....
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