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THEATRE DIVISION – READING LISTS 2008-2009 Recommended Reading for ALL Theatre Division Students Please Have Material Read by the End of Fall 2008 THEATRE DIVISION – READING LISTS 2008-2009 Recommended reading for ALL Theatre Division students Please have material read by the end of Fall 2008. Please see below the line for a list of plays and books to be read by the first day of classes. Oresteia Aeschylus Angels in America Tony Kushner Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf Edward Albee Fuente Ovejuna Lope de Vega Everyman Anonymous American Buffalo David Mamet Lysistrata Aristophanes Doctor Faustus Christopher Marlowe The Spurt of Blood Antonin Artaud Death of a Salesman, The Crucible Arthur Miller Dutchman Amiri Baraka (Le Roi Jones) The Misanthrope, Tartuffe Jean-Baptiste Moliere Waiting for Godot Samuel Beckett Hamletmachine Heiner Mueller The Rover Aphra Behn Waiting for Lefty Clifford Odets Saved Edward Bond Long Day's Journey Into Night, The Hairy Ape Eugene O'Neill The Octoroon Dion Boucicault Metamorphosis Ovid (*tales of your Threepenny Opera, Mother Courage Bertolt Brecht choosing) Woyzeck Georg Buchner The American Play Susan Lori-Parks Life Is a Dream Pedro Calderon The Homecoming Harold Pinter The Cherry Orchard, Three Sisters Anton Chekhov Six Characters in Search of and Author Luigi Pirandello The Seagull, Uncle Vanya Anton Chekhov Phaedra Jean Racine Cloud Nine Caryl Churchill The Adding Machine Elmer Rice The Way of the World William Congreve The Time of Your Life William Saroyan The Cid Pierre Corneille La Ronde Arthur Schnitzler Anna in the Tropics Nilo Cruz A Midsummer Night's Dream, Hamlet, Othello William Shakespeare Medea, The Bacchae, The Trojan Women Euripides King Lear, The Tempest, Macbeth, Twelfth Night William Shakespeare A Flea in Her Ear Georges Feydeau Henry IV Parts 1 & 2 William Shakespeare Sizwe Bansi is Dead Fugard, Kani and Ntshona Man and Superman, Heartbreak House George Bernard Shaw The Balcony, The Maids Jean Genet Curse of the Starving Class Sam Shepard Trifles Susan Glaspell The School for Scandal Richard Brinsley Sheridan Faust J. Wolfgang von Goethe Fires in the Mirror Anna Deavere Smith The Inspector Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol Oedipus, Antigone, Philoctetes Sophocles She Stoops to Conquer Oliver Goldsmith Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead Tom Stoppard Six Degrees of Separation John Guare Miss Julie, A Dream Play August Strindberg Act One Moss Hart Playboy of the Western World J.M. Synge A Raisin in the Sun Lorraine Hansberry The Baltimore Waltz Paula Vogel The Little Foxes Lillian Hellman The Sisters Rosensweig Wendy Wasserstein A Doll's House, Hedda Gabler, Peer Gynt Henrik Ibsen The Duchess of Malfi John Webster Picnic William Inge The Importance of Being Earnest Oscar Wilde Ubu Roi Alfred Jarry Our Town Thornton Wilder Phaedra’s Love Sarah Kane A Streetcar Named Desire, The Glass Menagerie Tennessee Williams You Can't Take It With You George Kaufman/Moss Hart The Piano Lesson August Wilson Funnyhouse of a Negro Adrienne Kennedy Music and the Art of Theatre Adolphe Appia The Fervent Years Harold Clurman The Poetics Aristotle The Theatre of the Absurd Martin Esslin The Theatre and Its Double Antonin Artaud Towards a Poor Theatre Jerzy Grotowski Theatre of the Oppressed Augusto Boal The Dramatic Imagination Robert Edmund Jones Brecht on Theatre Bertolt Brecht True and False David Mamet The Empty Space Peter Brook The Birth of Tragedy Friedrich Nietzsche The Presence of the Actor Joseph Chaikin Meyerhold on Theatre V. Meyerhold Actors on Acting Cole and Chinoy (actors only) An Actor Prepares, My Life in Art Konstantin Stanislavsky On the Art of Theatre Edward Gordon Craig - Required reading for DIRECTORS, DRAMATURGS, PLAYWRIGHTS and STAGE MANAGERS. Everyone should have familiarity with these texts prior to first day of classes, though a cover–to-cover read is not necessary: The Oxford Illustrated History of the Theatre by John Russell Brown OR The History of the Theatre by Oscar Brockett Hamburg Dramaturgy by G. E. Lessing (for dramaturgs) - Additional recommended reading: A Sourcebook in Theatrical History by Alois Nagler - Required reading for PLAYWRIGHTS. Please complete for first day of classes. An Actor Prepares Konstantin Stanislavsky Agamemnon Aeschylus .
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