Your favourite plays? And what do you think of 'In Camera' ?
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Your favourite plays? And what do you think of 'In Camera' ?
Well,I don't have a favourite play per se - although I guess I enjoyed some of Brecht's plays the most.However,my taste as far as drama is concerned is quite eclectic - I like quite a few authors,spanning from Sophocles and Shakespeare,all the way to Ibsen,Strindberg,Pirandello,Ionesco,Beckett etc.Come to think of it,the only ones I didn't like were Racine and Moliere.
I loved No Exit by Jean-Paul Sartre
I'm going to have to go with The Mariage of Figaro as the best play ever. The most interesting play(s), however, would have to be Goethe's Faust I & II. Tom Stoppard's Arcadia is great and so is Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale.
And Hamlet. Someone had to say it...
My favorite plays are
From Shakespeare:
Macbeth
Antony and Cleopatra
Cymbeline
From Sophocles:
Oedipus Rex
From Shaw:
Saint Joan
And Sartre's In Camera
Classical antiquity - currently Medea and Oedipus at Colonus
Shakespeare's plays - Hamlet
Italian drama - Goldoni in general, and Pirandello's Six Characters in Search of an Author
My favorite play is "Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf?" by Edward Albee.
And I also like most of the plays by Tennessee Williams very much.
Hamlet!!!!!!!!!! is the best ever!
"Thunderstorm" by Ostrovsky
Some plays I like:
The Death of Empedokles by Fr. Hölderlin
Life is a Dream by Calderon de la Barca
Iphigenia in Tauris by J. W. von Goethe
I haven't read In Camera.
Never heard of that play, In Camera. Have heard of "I Am a Camera" but I can't recall anything about it.
Favorite play, that is difficult, because I like both serious and comic. Cyrano is a great play. Othello is a winner. Equus is a deep-meaning play experience. Some Restoration drama (again it is in the seeing of it, only if it is done well) can be rollicking funny. Burn This is a tough play with a big message.
In Camera is known by many names: No Exit, Huis Clos...
It's very good but doesn't have anything to do with cameras- 'in camera' is simply the term for 'in a closed room'. Therefore you might talk to a witness in camera.
You mean Sarte's "No Exit" with the four of them squabbling? I was once in a Sarte play "The Flies." Director expected a big crowd because it hadn't been done in NYC in 50 years. Lots of flyers went out, but nobody showed. Sarte apparently isn't much of a popular dramatist.
my father did a good play of that. would be good to do in a university
I adored Cyrano and Death of a Salesman. Generally, anything by Tennessee Williams (especially THe Glass Menagerie) and Athur Muller. Finally, I loved one about Casanova but I don't remember the exact title in Eglish or the palywright. I'll try to find it and post it :idea:
He isn't,and it's a shame...In Camera(or No Exit) is such a great play(then again,I may be a bit biased).I also really liked The Flies,maybe even more than the first one.Unfortunately,I never had the chance to actually see any of them performed.Quote:
Originally Posted by byquist
Every play by William Shakespeare and Tennessee Williams, but I really adore so so many plays that I canot really choose my absolute favorite one!