Stoppard : R/G are Dead

pomo

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write.vtheatre.net
2008 -- 2007 SHOWS : see PLAYS

suggested scenes : Glass Menageries, Mikado, Oleanna, etc.

.... see SHOWS

concept


dramaturgy page

Winter Shorts (analysis-review)

... Part 4. Show (Public) * Part 5. Showcase (Hamlet) -- and you! To start from the very end. Personal "Why". Art vs. Craft.

How to cover all the classics?

Postmodern titles (...)


script and director: homework

wikipedia.org/wiki/Plotline

[ I ] Part 1 SCRIPT ANALYSIS [ script.vtheatre.net ]

1. Part I. Playscript

Director & Script

scenes and scene study (take 1)
list(s)

The Greeks : (Oedipus)

Shakespeare (Tragedy vs. Comedy)

Chekhov : 3 Sisters + Farces

Beckett : Godot

Postmodern

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Repertory Classics

Oedipus Rex by Sophocles (425 B.C.)

Hamlet by William Shakespeare (c. 1601)

Le Malade imaginaire (The Imaginary Invalid) by Molière (1673)

The Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekhov (1904)

En attendant Godot (Waiting for Godot) by Samuel Beckett (1953)

Le Cid by Pierre Corneille (1637)

Andromaque by Jean Racine (1667)

La Locandiera (The Mistress of the Inn / Mine Hostess) by Carlo Goldoni (1753)

Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (I: 1808; II: 1831)

Miss Julie by August Strindberg (1888)

Le Jeu de l’amour et du hasard (The Game of Love and Chance) by Marivaux (1730)

La Vida es Sueño (Life is a Dream) by Pedro Calderón de la Barca (1635)

Die Räuber (The Robbers) by Friedrich von Schiller (1781)

Hedda Gabler by Henrik Ibsen (1890)

Ubu Roi (King Ubu) by Alfred Jarry (1896)

Six Characters in Search of an Author by Luigi Pirandello (1921)

Der gute Mensch von Sezuan (The Good Woman of Setzuan) by Bertolt Brecht (1938-42)

A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennesse Williams (1947) La Cantatrice chauve (The Bald Soprano) by Eugène Ionesco (1950) Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller (1949)

National Arts Centre CA

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Season 2007-2008 Theatre UAF

Why do I want to direct this play?

google.com/group/directing/web

online resources for playscripts:
Dramatic Publishing Company (IL) http://www.dramaticpublishing.com
Dramatists Play Service, Inc. (New York) http://www.dramatists.com
Electronic texts http://www.stetson.edu/departments/csata/thr_guid.html 
Play and monologue collection http://www.perspicacity.com/elactheatre/ 
Playscripts, Inc. http://www.playscripts.com 
Samuel French (NY, LA) http://www.samuelfrench.com 
WWW Virtual Library Theatre and Drama http://vl-theatre.com
Online Script Archive http://www.theatrehistory.com/plays/oneact.html
Play Database.com http://www.playdatabase.com/