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The Something Awful Forums > The Finer Arts > Creative Convention > What? No theatre thread?
 
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SlightButSteady
Sep 13, 2007

Soiled Meat

Wolfgang Pauli posted:

Does anyone have any obscure favorites? Our director's on sabbatical for the Fall semester and our TD is taking recommendations. I've already tossed The Seagull into the pot and I'm not sure about Hamlet because it's hard enough getting a consistent audience when our stuff isn't four hours long.

I'm trying to dig through the annals of history to turn up some gems that are overlooked for no reason at all. Die Burgschaft looked interesting, but it doesn't seem to have ever been translated into English.

One of my favourite plays that hardly ever gets performed is:

The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton Under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade by Peter Weiss

I've been lucky enough to see this on 16mm (my projector) performed by the Royal Shakespeare Company (Glenda Jackson's first film role, I think). It's a bazaar faux historical play within a play. Very Brecht.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marat/Sade

Also, we need a Joe Orton revival. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Orton

His plays are a cross between Carry On films and The Angry Young Man theme.

Oh and while I'm here, I just found this the other day: Orson Welles' Mercury Theatre productions can be downloaded here (mostly in mp3) http://www.mercurytheatre.info/

Includes:

  • Dracula (July 11, 1938)
  • Treasure Island (July 18, 1938)
  • A Tale of Two Cities (July 25, 1938)
  • The 39 Steps (August 1, 1938)
  • Three Short Stories: I’m a Fool, The Open Window, and My Little Boy (August 8, 1938)
  • Abraham Lincoln (August 15, 1938)
  • The Affairs of Anatol (August 22, 1938)
  • The Count of Monte Cristo (August 29, 1938)
  • The Man Who Was Thursday (September 5, 1938)
  • The Immortal Sherlock Holmes (September 25, 1938)
  • Hell on Ice (October 9, 1938)
  • Seventeen (October 16, 1938)
  • Around the World in 80 Days (October 23, 1938)
  • The War of the Worlds (October 30, 1938)
  • Heart of Darkness / Life with Father (November 6, 1938)
  • A Passenger to Bali (November 13, 1938)
  • The Pickwick Papers (November 20, 1938)
  • Rebecca (December 9, 1938)
  • A Christmas Carol (December 23, 1938)
  • Counselor-at-Law (January 6, 1939)
  • Mutiny on the Bounty (January 13, 1939)
  • I Lost My Girlish Laughter (January 27, 1939)
  • Arrowsmith (February 3, 1939)
  • The Green Goddess (February 10, 1939)
  • The Glass Key (March 10, 1939)
  • Beau Geste (March 17, 1939)
  • Showboat (March 31, 1939)
  • The Patriot (April 14, 1939)
  • Private Lives (April 21, 1939)
  • Wickford Point (May 5, 1939)
  • Our Town (May 12, 1939)
  • The Bad Man (May 19, 1939)
  • Things We Have (May 26, 1939)
  • Victoria Regina (June 2, 1939)
  • Peter Ibbetson (September 10, 1939)
  • Ah, Wilderness (September 17, 1939)
  • What Every Woman Knows (September 24, 1939)
  • The Count of Monte Cristo (October 1, 1939)
  • Algiers (October 8, 1939)
  • Escape (October 15, 1939)
  • Liliom (October 22, 1939)
  • The Magnificent Ambersons (October 29, 1939)
  • The Hurricane (November 5, 1939)
  • The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (November 12, 1939)
  • The Garden of Allah (November 19, 1939)
  • Dodsworth (November 26, 1939)
  • Lost Horizon (December 3, 1939)
  • Venessa (December 10, 1939)
  • There’s Always a Woman (December 17, 1939)
  • A Christmas Carol (December 24, 1939)
  • Vanity Fair (January 7, 1940)
  • Theodora Goes Wild (January 14, 1940)
  • The Citadel (January 21, 1940)
  • It Happened One Night (January 28, 1940)
  • Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (February 11, 1940)
  • Dinner at Eight (February 18, 1940)
  • Only Angels Have Wings (February 25, 1940)
  • Rabble in Arms (March 3, 1940)
  • Craig’s Wife (March 10, 1940)
  • Huckleberry Finn (March 17, 1940)
  • June Moon (March 24, 1940)
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