Friday, January 23, 2009

Project #1 Lajolla Playhouse

School Theatre
UC San Diego

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
by Tom Shepard
"Present a view of a classical tragedy".
www.ntsmedia.net/pages/rosen.html
"Tragic irony".
http://www.sff.net/people/mberry/rosen.htp
As You Like It
by William Shakespeare
"Pastoral Comedy".
http://www.sheffieldtheatres.co.uk/creativedevelopmentprogramme/productions/asyoulikeit/comedy.shtml
"Dramatic Comedy".
http://records.viu.ca/~johnstoi/eng366/lectures/Ayl.htm
The Misanthrope
by Molie`re
"Sophisticated comic drama".
www.amazon.com/Misanthrope-Moliere/dp/0848816552-305k-Cached
"Is a comedy of social manners".
www.juilliard.edu/journal/2008-2009/0810/articles/0810_misanthrope.html
Danton's Death
by Georg Buchner
"Lyric tragedy, a work of great and expressive beauty".
www.nybooks.com/article-preview?article_id=12675
" Best judged as German Romanticism rather than docu-drama".
The Mistake Madeline Made
by Elizabeth Meriwether
"A dry, quirky comedy".
"Twisted and hilarious coming-of-age story"
1001
by Jason Grote
"Makes an entertaining, often witty case for the significance of the Arabian Nights tales".
"Rollicking storytelling,a touch of magic realism".
Woyzeck
by Georg Buchner
"As a modernist classic, posing an intriguing challenge for every director who approaches it".
"Dramatic work in modern theatre history."
Medea
by Euripides
"Is an ancient Greek tragedy".
"Greek drama".
Skin of Our Teeth
by Thorton Wilder
"Dramatic".
"Is his weirdest play, a chaos of vaudeville skits".
Buried Child
by Sam Shepard
"Drama, Original, Broadway Setting."
"A bona fide classic"
Professional Theatre
Lajolla Playhouse
33 Variations
Written by Moise`s Kaufman
"Intellectual Mystery".
www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08/24/AR2007082400536.html
"Story is told in parallel with the tale of an aging musicologist".
The Nigh Watcher
Written by Charlayne Woodard
"Woodard beautifully weaves together stories of the ordinary and extraordinary ways she's mentored the children in her life".
"Comedic story".
The Third Story
Written by Starring Charles Busch
"Collection of B-movie scenarios -- spinning melodramatic plates, really -- that crash in a wacky fictional heap".
www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/arts/la-et-third24-2008sep24,0,5636232.story
"Actually comprised of three overlapping tales woven together into a fast and funny play".
After the Quake
by Haruki Murakami
"Resulting in a surprisingly funny and heartwarming tale of loss, alienation, fear and courage".
"An adaptation of two short stories".
The Adding Machine
by Elmer Rice
"Is generally considered to be the first American Expressionist play".
"Play that invites a film-noir style of production".
Xanadu
by Douglas Carter Beane
"Outlandishly enjoyable stage spoof of the outrageously bad movie from 1980".
"Broadway musical".
Continuous City
Written Harry Sinclair
"Is a multimedia theatrical".
"A meditation on how contemporary experiences of location and dislocation stretch" ...
The Deception
by Pierre Marivaux
"Beneficiary both for the comedy and for the tragedy".
"Especially a talky classical one".
Peter and the Starcatchers
Written by Rick Elice
"Comedy"
"Drama".
Tobacco Road
by Jack Kirkland
"Domestic Comedy".
"Drama"


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