Tuesday, October 7, 2008

Recommended Reading for Playwrights

Recommended Texts on the craft of Writing:

Ball - Backwards & Forwards
Bradbury - Zen in the Art of Writing

Brohaugh - Just Open A Vein

Cole - Playwrights on Playwriting

Keyes - The Courage to Write
King - On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

Sweet - The Dramatist's Toolkit
Spencer - Playwright's Guidebook


Recommended Texts on the craft of Acting:

Ackerman - A Natural History of the Senses
Boleslavsky - Acting: The First Six Lessons
Easty - On Method Acting

Hagen, Respect for Acting
Lewis - Method or Madness
Meisner - On Acting

Morris - No Acting Please
Shurtleff - Audition

Stanislavski - An Actor Prepares, Building A Character, Creating A Role
Strasberg - A Dream of Passion


Recommended Texts related to Theatre History:

Clurman - The Fervent Years
Hethmon - Strasberg At the Actors Studio
Jones - The Dramatic Imagination
Stanislavski - My Life in Art



Recommended Plays:


Aeschylus - Agamemnn
Albee - Who's Afraid of Virgina Woolf, The Zoo Story, A Delicate Balance, Three Tall Women
Anouilh - The Rehearsal


Beckett - Endgame, Waiting for Godot

Brecht - Mother Courage, The Caucasian Chalk Circle
Buchnet - Woyczek


Chekhov - The Seagull, Uncle Vanya, The Three Sisters, The Cherry Orchard
Churchill - Cloud Nine, Top Girls, Mad Forest

Coward - Private Lives, Blithe Spirit


Durang - Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All For You, Betty's Summer Vacation
Durrenmatt - The Visit
Euripides - Medea, The Trojan Women, Phaedra


Foote - The Young Man From Atlanta
Giradoux - The Madwoman of Chaillot
Goethe - Faust
Gorki - The Lower Depths
Gurney - The Dining Room


Hansberry - A Raisin in the Sun
Hare - Plenty
Ibsen - Peer Gynt, Ghosts, A Doll's House, The Wild Duck, Hedda Gabler
Jonson - Volpone


Kane - Blasted

Kopit - Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Momma's Locked You In the Closet…
Kushner - Angels in America
Lorca - Blood Wedding



Mamet - American Buffalo, Glengary Glen Ross, Oleana
Margulies - Sight Unseen, The Model Apartment
Marlowe - Doctor Faustus
Mee - Big Love

Miller - Death of a Salesman, The Crucible, A View From the Bridge
Moliere - Tartuffe, The Misanthrope


Norman - 'night, Mother
Odets - Waiting for Lefty, Rocket to the Moon
O'Neill - Anna Christie, The Iceman Cometh, A Moon for the Misbegotten, Long Day's Journey Into Night


Parks - Topdog/Underdog

Pinter - The Homecoming, No Man's Land, Betrayal
Rabe - Hurly Burly
Racine - Phedre
Rice - The Adding Machine

Schnitzler - La Ronde
Shakespeare - Hamlet, King Lear, Macbeth, Othello, Romeo and Juliet, Richard III, As You Like It, A Midsummer Night's Dream
Shaw - Mrs. Warren's Profession, Man and Superman, Saint Joan, Pygmalion
Shawn - The Designated Mourner



Shepard - True West, Curse of the Starving Class, Buried Child
Sophocles - Oedipus the King, Antigone
Strindberg - Dance of Death, Ghost Sonata, A Dream Play - Easter, The Stronger, Miss Julie
Vogel - How I Learned to Drive


Weiss - Marat/Sade
Weller - Moonchildren
Wilde - The Importance of Being Ernest, Salome
Wilder - Our Town
Williams - The Glass Menagerie, A Streetcar Named Desire, Cat on A Hot Tin Roof

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