Drama Discussion

[kelby_lake]

Your favourite plays? And what do you think of 'In Camera' ?

[johann cruyff]

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.

[Dark Muse]

I loved No Exit by Jean-Paul Sartre

[Nikolai Fomich]

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...

[believin]

My favorite plays are

From Shakespeare:
Macbeth
Antony and Cleopatra
Cymbeline

From Sophocles:
Oedipus Rex

From Shaw:
Saint Joan

And Sartre's In Camera

[aabbcc]

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

[loe]

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.

[Mockingbird_z]

Hamlet!!!!!!!!!! is the best ever!
"Thunderstorm" by Ostrovsky

[Erichtho]

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.

[byquist]

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.

[kelby_lake]

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.

[byquist]

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.

[kelby_lake]

my father did a good play of that. would be good to do in a university

[valleyjune]

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

[johann cruyff]

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.

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.