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Design Department Recommended Reading List____________ The following list of plays has been compiled for incoming Design Students and will figure in assignments or discussions in Design classes. Aechylus The Oresteia Gorky Lower Depths Albee The Zoo Story Summerfolk Three Tall Women Tiny Alice Gozzi Green Bird Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Love of Three Oranges Aristophanes Lysistrata Hecht & MacArthur The Birds Front Page Beckett Endgame Ibsen A Dolls House Happy Days Ghost Waiting for Godot Hedda Gabler Peer Gynt Behan The Hostage The Master Builder The Wild Duck Buchner Woyzeck Ionesco The Chairs Brecht Galileo The Lesson Mother Courage The Good Person of Setzuan Jonson The Alchemist The Caucasian Chalk Circle Volpone Brecht & The Rise and Fall of the Kleist The Prince of Homburg Weill City of Mahagonny The Threepenny Opera Koltes. Bernard-Marie The Battle of Black and Dogs Chekhov The Cherry Orchard Roberto Zucco The Sea Gull Three Sisters Kroetz, Franz Xavier Uncle Vanya Through the Leaves Churchill Cloud Nine Lorca Blood Wedding Mad Forest The House of Bernarda Alba The Skriker Yerma Top Girls Miller All My Sons Congreve The Way of the World Death of a Salesman The Crucible Dürrenmatt The Visit of the Old Lady (The Visit) A View From the Bridge Euripides Hecuba Moliere Don Juan Iphigenia at Aulis School for Wives Medea Tartuffe The Bacchae The Imaginary Invalid The Trojan Women The Misanthrope Fugard A Lesson From Aloes Nelson, Richard Principia Scriptoriae Blood Knot The Dead Boesman and Lena Master Harold and the Boys O’Casey Juno and the Paycock Genet The Balcony O’Neill A Touch of the Poet The Maids Long Day’s Journey into Night Moon For the Misbegotten Goetz The Heiress Mourning Becomes Elektra The Hairy Ape Gogol The Inspector General The Iceman Cometh Goldoni The Servant of Two Masters Parks The America Play 1 Venus Shepard Buried Child Top dog/Underdog The Curse of the Starving Class Tooth of Crime Pirandello Henry IV Six Characters in Search of an Author Sheridan The School for Scandal Pinter Betrayal The Birthday Party Sophocles Antigone The Caretaker Electra The Dumb Waiter Oedipus Rex The Homecoming Stoppard Arcadia Racine Phaedra Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead The Real Thing Rodgers/ Carousel Hammerstein Oklahoma Strindberg Dream Play South Pacific Ghost Sonata The King and I The Father Shakespeare A Midsummer Night’s Dream Vogel, Paula Baltimore Waltz Antony and Cleopatra How I Learned To Drive As You Like It Coriolanus Webster The Duchess of Malfi Cymbeline The White Devil Hamlet Henry IV (parts I & II) Wedekind Pandora’s Box Henry V Spring’s Awakening Julius Caesar King John Weiss Marat/Sade King Lear The Physicist Love's Labor's Lost Macbeth Wilde The Importance of Being Earnest Measure for Measure A Woman of No Importance Much Ado About Nothing Othello Wilder Our Town Richard II Skin of Our Teeth Richard III Romeo and Juliet Williams Cat on a Hot Tin Roof The Comedy of Errors A Glass Menagerie The Merchant of Venice A Streetcar Names Desire The Taming of the Shrew The Tempest Wilson Fences The Winter’s Tale Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom Titus Andronicus Piano Lesson Twelfth Night Wycherly The Country Wife Shaw Arms and the Man Caesar and Cleopatra Leosser & Guys & Dolls Candida Burrows Man and Superman Pygmalion Saint Joan Familiarity with the following operas is also important: Beethoven Fidelio Boito Mefistofele Bernstein Candide West Side Story Donizetti Don Pasquale Lucia di Lammermoor Berg Lulu L’Elisir d’amore Wozzek Gilbert & The Mikado Bizet Carmen Sullivan Iolanthe The Pearl Fishers 2 Giordano Andrea Chenier Johann Die Fledermaus Gounod Faust Strauss II Romeo & Juliet Richard Ariadne Auf Naxos Gluck Orfeo ed Euridice Strauss Der Rosenkavalier Electra Lerner & Brigadoon Salome Loewe My Fair Lady Jule Styne/ Gypsy Massenet Manon Sondheim Werther Mozart Cosi Fan Tutti Don Giovanni Le Nozze di Figaro Verdi Aida Magic Flute Don Carlos La Traviata Mussorgsky Boris Godunov Otello Rigoletto Offenbach The Tales of Hoffman Simon Boccanegra Un Ballo in Maschera (The Masked Ball) Puccini Gianni Schichi Wagner Der Fliegende Hollander Girl of the Golden West Lohengrin Il Tabarro The Ring of the Niebelungen La Boheme Tristan und Isolde Madame Butterfly Manon Lescaut Weill Happy End Suor Angelica Lost in the Star Tosca Turandot Weill & Lady in the Dark Gershwin Rossini The Barber of Seville Sondheim Company A Little Night Music Follies Sweeney Todd 3 .