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tristanrobin
Celebrity Joined: 4/25/05 Location: United States Online Status: Offline Posts: 704 |
Posted: 10/26/05 at 9:55pm |
oooh! "The Woolgatherer!" What a WONDERFUL play.
I love this subject thread - all of these plays that I love but had forgotten all about! |
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haredirector
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Posted: 10/31/05 at 1:00am |
I recently directed Dario Fo's "Abducting Diana". It went well and was a lot of fun to do. I'd recommend it, along with Fo's "Accidental Death of an Anarchist". I'd also recommend Paula Vogel's "How I Learned to Drive" and anything by Steven Dietz. |
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"Power cannot put up with laughter from those without power." -- Dario Fo
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Colin
Player Joined: 4/01/05 Location: United States Online Status: Offline Posts: 24 |
Posted: 10/31/05 at 1:28pm |
I would strongly suggest any of Joe Orton's plays, but most particularly
"What the Butler Saw" and "Loot" are fantastic as well as edgy. They are hilarious and irreverant and guaranteed to provoke someone in your audience. Also, both shows have roles for actors of all ages. Colin |
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bernster74
Star Joined: 10/20/05 Location: United States Online Status: Offline Posts: 51 |
Posted: 11/08/05 at 1:44pm |
No one has yet mentioned Three Viewings - this is a wonderful script that has a dramatic edge to it, but also very funny. A real crowd pleaser. Also, I would recommend looking at Line. This is very weird, very edgy, and your audiences will leave saying, "What the hell was that?" Down the Road by Lee Blessing is edgy - about a serial killer and a couple who is writing a book about him. And I would second votes for Stop Kiss. |
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tristanrobin
Celebrity Joined: 4/25/05 Location: United States Online Status: Offline Posts: 704 |
Posted: 11/08/05 at 6:04pm |
Lee BLessing - I remember a play I saw YEARS ago by him at CIrcle
Rep in NYC It was the first ever play (and last for that matter, I think) that was pro-homosexual rape. Very very strange play. |
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puck
Player Joined: 4/12/06 Online Status: Offline Posts: 0 |
Posted: 4/17/06 at 6:44pm |
There's a version of Electra that was written in the 40's, some french fellow. I know I sound like a fool or something, but it's edgey, but in that subtle sort of way, I mean, you know, incest is pretty edgy.
There's also The Laramie Project, and while Moises Kauffman's work is usually just him masturbating on stage... it's an amazing, amazing, amazing piece of approachable theatre. Wit is edgey, having done it myself, I'd LOVE LOVE LOVE to design that play again, with probably one of the strongest scripts I've come across in a long time. |
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red diva
Celebrity Joined: 5/15/06 Online Status: Offline Posts: 199 |
Posted: 5/15/06 at 7:53pm |
At our theatre, I'm known as the queen (no, I'm a female) of edgy shows, and have directed my fair share including (all of which I love): Early One Evening at the Rainbow Bar and Grill Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean My all-time favorite musical: Assassins (sorry, Marty) Agnes of God Cuckoo's Nest That Championship Season (directing that next season) And those I still want to do: 'Night, Mother Death and the Maiden Someone to Watch Over Me All are great shows, very challenging for the actors and director, and really help to stretch participants and audiences alike. |
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"I've worked long and hard to earn the right to be called Diva!"
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John Luzaich
Celebrity Joined: 2/24/08 Location: United States Online Status: Offline Posts: 174 |
Posted: 3/07/08 at 12:24pm |
I think many great "edgy" plays started, or ran only, Off-Broadway. Slab Boys (with Kevin Bacon/Sean Penn), American Buffalo (with Al Pacino), Sam Shepard's True West, Extremities (with Karen Allen).
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John
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John Luzaich
Celebrity Joined: 2/24/08 Location: United States Online Status: Offline Posts: 174 |
Posted: 3/07/08 at 12:45pm |
Oh, another play I forgot about, talk about edgy! A friend of mine, Larry Gold, from NYU (now lives in L.A.) wrote a play about racism called The Sons of Lincoln. I saw it in a small theatre in L.A. with Bill Fagerbakke (Dauber on "Coach"), Chad Allen ("Dr. Quinn - Medicine Woman"), Jonathon Avildsen (his dad directed "Rocky"), Glynn Turman (A Raisin in the Sun - Broadway). The show was directed by Valerie Landsburg (TV show "Fame").
Fagerbakke played a guy that was racist and got guys to follow him and become a group and by the end of the play the energy of the group takes over and they become bigger/meaner and take on a life of their own. It becomes more of a problem than Fagerbakke would realize.
I don't know how it would play in a smaller market area. It was a great play to see on stage somewhere else, but I know we won't be producing it.
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John
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