That play you've always wanted to do.
Tue, 29 Sept 2009, 12:05 pmgrantwatson38 posts in thread
That play you've always wanted to do.
Tue, 29 Sept 2009, 12:05 pmJust looking for people's own choices here: is there a play that you've always wanted to be involved with, but so far haven't done it? Maybe it's just too obscure or unpopular for anyone to put it on, maybe you've auditioned for it in the past but never got in, maybe you just haven't got around to staging it yet.
My pick is Shakespeare's Coriolanus - it's an awesome and, I think, deeply underrated tragedy.
What's your choice?
*clears throat*
Tue, 29 Sept 2009, 08:50 pmDirecting list:
St Joan of the Stockyards - Brecht
The Resistable Rise of Arturo Ui - Brecht
The Good Woman(person) of Setzuan - Brecht
Threepenny Opera - Brecht and Weill
The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahaghonny - Brecht and Weill
Oleanna - Mamet
Something by Neil Labute, just haven't read enough of his work yet.
The Frogs - Aristophanes
Lysistrata - Aristophanes
The Poet and the Women - Aristophanes
Oedipus Rex - Sophocles
The Plough and the Stars - Sean O'Casey
Agamemnon - Aeschylus Trans. Berkoff
Inner Voices - Louis Nowra
The Golden Age - Louis Nowra
Cosi - Louis Nowra
The Dumbwaiter - Pinter
The Caretaker - Pinter
The Birthday Party - Pinter
This Story of Yours - John Hopkins
Lear - Edward Bond
Amadeus - Peter Shaffer
Equus - Peter Shaffer
Sleuth - Anthony Shaffer (although I would love to use Harold Pinter's treatment)
Dr. Faustus - Marlow
More Light - Snoo Wilson
The Number of the Beast - Snoo Wilson
Sweeney Todd - Sondheim & Wheeler
Urinetown - Cotis & Hollowman
Oliver! - Lionel Bart
Cabaret - Kander & Ebb
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged) - The Reduced Shakespeare Company
Waiting For Godot - Beckett (Would like to do it again)
Endgame - Beckett
Happy Days - Beckett
Footfalls - Beckett
Krapp's Last Tape - Beckett
Act Without words I & II - Beckett
Shakespeare's -
Cymbeline
Macbeth (Coming March 2010)
Richard III
Henry V
Titus Andronicus
King Lear
Troilus and Cressida
Romeo and Juliet
The Tempest
The Winter's Tale
Julius Caesar
Antony and Cleopatra
Performance list
Othello - Iago (Coming November 2009)
King Lear - Edmund
Romeo and Juliet - Mercutio and Tybalt
Hamlet - Hamlet and Edmund
Titus Andronicus - Titus (one day i'll be old enough)
Midsummer Night's Dream - Bottom
Richard II - King Richard II
Henry V - King Henry
Richard III - King Richard III
Agamemnon - Agamemnon (considering I've played him in nearly every other bloody play he features in!)
Measure for Measure - Antonio
Julius Ceasar - Antony, Ceasar and Brutus
Tempest - Caliban and Prospero
Arturo Ui - Arturo Ui
Threepenny Opera - Macheath and Tiger Brown
Amadeus - Salieri and Mozart
The Birthday Party - Stanley
Dr. Faustus - Faustus and Mephistopheles
Caucasian Chalk Circle - Azdak
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead - Rosencrantz, Guildenstern and The Player
and pretty much anything else that people are willing to cast me as.
So this list should keep me busy for the next decade at least