2019-20 SUGGESTED PLAY READING LIST Fifty plays we think you should know from many centuries and countries
The Flick Annie Baker Waiting for Godot Samuel Beckett The Rover Aphra Behn Mother Courage and Her Children Bertolt Brecht The Three Sisters Anton Chekhov The Love Suicide at Sonezaki Monzaemon Chikamatsu Trouble in Mind Alice Childress Cloud 9 Caryl Churchill Snow in Midsummer Frances Ya-Chu Cowhig Anna in the Tropics Nilo Cruz The Bacchae Euripides What Would Crazy Horse Do? Larissa Fasthorse Mud María Irene Fornés Information for Foreigners Griselda Gambaro Jesus Hopped the “A” Train Stephen Adley Guirgis Eclipsed Danai Gurira A Raisin in the Sun Lorraine Hansberry Water by the Spoonful Quiara Alegria Hudes Yellow Face David Henry Hwang A Doll’s House Henrik Ibsen An Octoroon Branden Jacobs-Jenkins Dutchman Leroi Jones (Baraka) Shakuntala Kalidasa Funnyhouse of a Negro Adrienne Kennedy The Laramie Project Moises Kaufman Sagittarius Ponderosa MJ Kaufman Angels in America (Parts 1 and 2) Tony Kushner Blood Wedding Frederico García Lorca Hir Taylor Mac The Lady Aoi Yukio Mishima Tartuffe Molière Detroit '67 Dominique Morisseau The Brother/Sister Plays Tarell Alvin McCraney Vietgone Qui Nguyen Ruined Lynn Nottage Bootycandy Robert O’Hara Long Days’s Journey into Night Eugene O’Neill Topdog/Underdog Suzan-Lori Parks The Homecoming Harold Pinter Eurydice Sarah Ruhl for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf Ntozake Shange Mrs. Warren’s Profession George Bernard Shaw A Dream Play August Strindberg Machinal Sophie Treadwell Zoot Suit Luis Valdez How I Learned to Drive Paula Vogel
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One Flea Spare Naomi Wallace Mr. Burns: a Post Electric Play Anne Washburn Our Town Thornton Wilder Joe Turner’s Come and Gone August Wilson
Work by current and recent theater program faculty and artist fellows:
The Elementary Space Time Show Cesar Alvarez (Princeton Arts Fellow 2018-20) NOISE Cesar Alvarez (Princeton Arts Fellow 2018-20) FUR Migdalia Cruz (Intermediate Playwriting 2018) Nat Turner in Jerusalem Nathan Davis (Berlind Playwright in Residence 2019-) Yoga Play Dipika Guha (Hodder Fellow 2017-18) In Braunau Dipika Guha (Hodder Fellow 2017-18) Wild Goose Dreams Hansol Jung (Hodder Fellow 2019-20) Ironbound Martyna Majok (Hodder Fellow 2018-19) Cost of Living Martyna Majok (Hodder Fellow 2018-19) Peerless Jiehae Park (Intermediate Playwriting 2019) Roundelay R.N. Sandberg (Theater and English faculty) The Great Leap Lauren Yee (Hodder Fellow 2018-19) Ching Chong Chinaman Lauren Yee (Hodder Fellow 2018-19)
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