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Great Plays
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Can anyone recommend some great plays. I have read Shakespeare, Shaw & some Greek plays, but not much more recent? I have been spurred into exploring plays more since watching Cat On A Hot Tin Roof at the weekend, which I thought was exceptional.
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.I've seen the following in the past couple of years and highly recommend them.
Jane Eyre-Polly Teale
After Mrs Rochester- Polly Teale
Don Carlos- Friedrich Schiller
The House of Bernardo Alba- Federico Garcia Lorca
Hedda Gabler-Henrik Ibsen
Polly Teale is a modern writer and director. Her work is fantastic!!!
Robert Bolt's Man for All Seasons is a good read, and interesting to compare with the screen versions. The old Penguin Modern Playwrights version (long out of print, probably, but worth snapping up if seen in 2nd-hand or charity shops) also included John Whiting's The Devils, again recommendable for similar reasons.