Professor Stroot's Suggested Undergraduate Dramatic Lit List (In Alphabetical/Title Order

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Professor Stroot's Suggested Undergraduate Dramatic Lit List (In Alphabetical/Title order. * = Authored by a Woman. ** = Authored by or features POC) Agamemno (Aeschylus) The King Stag (Gozzi) Playboy of the Western World (Synge) Adding Machine (Rice) Fool for Love (Shepard) Prelude to a Kiss (Lucas) The Alchemist (B. Johnson) For Colored Girls..... (Shange)* ** Prometheus Bound (Aeschylus) All My Sons (Miller) Ghosts (Ibsen) Purgatory (Yeats) American Buffalo (Mamet) Hamlet (Shakespeare) Riders to the Sea (Synge) Angels in America (Kushner) The Hostage (Behan) Rhinoceros (Ionesco) Antigone (Sophocles) How I Learned to Drive (Vogel)* Rosen. & Guild. are Dead (Stoppard) Arms and the Man (Shaw) Inherit the Wind (Lawrence/Lee) School for Scandal (Sheriden) Awake and Sing (Odets) The Libation Bearers (Aeschylus) A Soldiers Story (Fuller)** Baby with the Bathwater (Durang) Little Foxes (Hellman)* The Seagull (Chekov) The Bacchae (Euripides) Look Back in Anger (Osborne) Servant of Two Masters (Goldoni) The Balcony (Genet) Loot (Orton) Six Characters in Search…. (Pirandello) Baltimore Waltz (Vogel)* The Lower Depths (Gorki) Skin of Our Teeth (Wilder) Blood Wedding (Alba) Lysistrada (Aristophanes) Spring Awakening (Wedekind) A Balm in Gilead (Lanford Wilson) Macbeth (Shakespeare) St. Joan (Shaw) Beirut (Alan Bowne) M. Butterfly (Hwang) Streamers (Rabe) The Birthday Party (Pinter) Machinal (Treadwell)* Streetcar Named Desire (Williams) Caucasian Chalk Circle (Brecht) The Maids (Genet) Tartuffe (Moliere) Cloud 9 (Churchill)* Major Barbara (Shaw) A Taste of Honey (Delaney)* The Cherry Orchard (Chekov) The Mandrake (Machiavelli) Threepenny Opera (Brecht) Crimes of the Heart (Henley)* Marat/Sade (Weis) Top Girls (Churchill)* Death & Kings Horseman (Soyinka)** Master Harold & the Boys (Fugard)** Top Dog/Underdog (S. Lori-Parks)* ** Death and the Maiden (Dorfman) The Mis Firecracker Contest (Henley)* The Trojan Women (Euripides) Fences (Wilson) Miss Julie (Strindberg) True West (Shepard) A Dream Play (Strindberg) Mother Courage (Brecht) Ubu Roi (Jarry) The Foreigner (Shue) ‘Night Mother (Norman)* Viet Rock (Terry)* Dr. Faustus (Marlowe) No Exit (Sartre) The Visit (Deurrenmatt) Desire Under the Elms (O’Neill) The Odd Couple (Simon) Volpone (Johnson) The Dutchman (Baraka)** Oedipus Rex (Sophocles) Waiting for Godot (Beckett) Endgame (Beckett) Oedipus at Colonus (Sophocles) The Weavers (Hauptmann) Equus (Shaffer) Our Town (Wilder) Children of a Lesser God (Medoff) The Eumenides (Aeschylus) Pantagleize (Ghelderode) Who's Afraid -Virginia Woolfe (Albee) Everyman (Anonymous) Peer Gynt (Ibsen) Woyzeck (Buchner) Faust (Goethe) Phedre (Racine) Zoo Story (Albee) Flea in her Ear (Feydeau) Picasso at the Lapin Agile (Martin) Zoot Suit (Valdez) ** The Inspector General (Gogol) The Piano Lesson (Wilson)** .

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