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What Is Your Favourite Play (non-musical)???

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Posted: Mon Apr 14, 2008 4:31 am

Hi fellow thespians and FOT...(friends of thespians)

I'm Just starting this thread to find out what everybody's favourite play is... But I'd like to limit it ti exclude musicals (book or otherwise) No offence, but I really want to know what plays touch people here... I am not against musicals.

I'm sure there has already been a thread about this, and there are probably about a million more for Musicals...

I'm also aware that the poll is limited in choices... if you picked 'other' please specify in your post what the 'other' is smile

My favourite play is "Someone Who'll Watch Over Me" By Frank McGuiness.

It is about three men in a cell in Lebanon, and the way they deal with being POW's. It is incredibly touching, Based on a true story and the only think I don't like about it, is the fact that I will never be able to perform any of the roles, since I'm a woman. crying . I have stage managed this for Ami theatre, and our show won a fair few awards for our efforts smile

Posted: Fri May 16, 2008 2:47 pm

I like Cyrano de Bergerac and Fahrenheit 451 (though that was originally a book).

Briella Alwing

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Posted: Fri May 16, 2008 9:51 pm

mitsuneko

My favourite play is "Someone Who'll Watch Over Me" By Frank McGuiness.

I actually recently saw a production of "Carthaginians" by Frank McGuinness, about people waiting for the dead to rise on Bloody Sunday. It was a pretty good script.

This is an extremely hard question to answer. There are so SO many good plays out there. I'm going to have to go with "Waiting for Godot" by Samuel Beckett. It's a very difficult play to understand (let alone act in or direct...trust me, I know) but it's so brilliant. Everytime I read it again or everytime we went through it when I was in it, I got something more out of it.

That was hard...took a while to decide. I might have to find a copy of "Someone Who'll Watch Over Me" and read it!

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