#20BooksOfSummer 2019
by NancyElin
- I just love this photo from last years’s post #20BooksOfSummer 2018.
- I’m using it again because it always makes me smile and
- …I have the urge to make a Gin & Tonic !
- Now the hard part:
- Make a list for… #20BooksOfSummer
- hosted yearly by Cathy
- @Cathy746 Books
- I selected books about theatre and plays that
- …I REALLY REALLY want to read.
- List of Challenges 2019
- Monthly reading plan
- #20BooksOfSummer
Read:
- Glengarry Glen Ross – D. Mamet – READ
- The Glass Menagerie – Tennessee Williams – READ
- Waiting for Godot – S. Beckett – READ
- Twenty-First Century American Playwrights – C. Bigsby – READ
- The Mueller Report – READ
- Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom – D. Blight – READ
- Stamped From the Beginning – I.X. Kendi – READ
- The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke – J.C. Stewart – READ
- The Arsonist – C. Hooper – READ
- Himself – Jess Kidd – READ
- August Wilson’s Pittsburgh Cycle (13 essays) – editor S. Shannon #20BoS – READ
- Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? – E. Ablee – READ (play
- Noises Off – M. Frayn – READ (play)
- Fences – A. Wilson – READ (play)
- Streetcar Named Desire – T. Williams – READ
- Blakwork – A. Whittaker – READ
- James Tiptree, jr. The Double Life Alice Sheldon – J. Phillips – READ
- Ghosts of the Tsunami – R. L. Parry – READ
- Indecent (play) – Paula Vogel – READ
- The Heart’s Invisible Furies – J. Boyne – READ
- The Coddling of the American MInd – G. Lukianoff, J. Haidt – READ
- Astonished Dice – G. Cochrane (short stories) – READ
- We Can Make a Life – C. Henry – READ
- Seeing Yellow (poetry) – E. Bourke – READ shortlist Irish Times Poetry Award 2019
- The Weir (1997) by Conor McPherson – READ
- The First Casualty – Peter Greste – READ
- Max Havelaar – Multatuli – READ
- 100 Essays I Don’t Have Time to Write – S. Ruhl – READ
- These Truths – Jill Lepore – READ
Using this list for #20BooksOfSummer….
#Challenge read 50 Best Plays in the Past 100 Years: 13/50
- Death of a Salesman (1949) by Arthur Miller (Pulitzer 1949) – READ
- Streetcar Named Desire – T. Williams – READ
- Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? E. Albee (Pulitzer 1963 READ
- Long Day’s Journey into Night (1956) by Eugene O’Neill – READ
- Fences – A. Wilson – READ
- Angels in America: T. Kushner
- Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett – READ
- Pygmalion (1913) by George Bernard Shaw
- A Raisin in the Sun (1959) by Lorraine Hansberry – READ
- Our Town (1938) by Thornton Wilder
- Six Characters in Search of an Author (1921) by Luigi Pirandello
- The Glass Menagerie (1944) by Tennessee Williams – READ
- Glengarry Glen Ross – D. Mamet – READ
- August: Osage County (2007) by Tracy Letts
- True West (1980) by Sam Shepard – READ
- The Iceman Cometh (1946) by Eugene O’Neill
- Look Back in Anger (1956) by John Osborne
- A View from the Bridge (1955) by Arthur Miller – READ
- The Little Foxes. (1939) by Lillian Hellman
- The Real Thing (1982) by Tom Stoppard
- Master Harold and the Boys (1982) by Athol Fugard
- The Homecoming (1965) by Harold Pinter
- Ruined (2008) by Lynn Nottage (2009)
- Mother Courage and Her Children (1941) by Bertolt Brecht
- Six Degrees of Separation (1990) by John Guare
- Doubt (2004) by John Patrick Shanley
- Top Girls (1982) by Caryl Churchill
- Present Laughter (1942) by Noel Coward
- Noises Off – M. Frayn – READ
- Marat/Sade (1964) by Peter Weiss
- The Lieutenant of Inishmore (2001) by Martin McDonagh
- Machinal (1928) by Sophie Treadwell
- The Norman Conquests(1973) trilogy by Alan Ayckbourn
- The Bald Soprano (1950) by Eugene Ionesco
- M. Butterfly (1988) by David Henry Hwang
- The Dybbuk (1920) by S Ansky
- Saved (1965) by Edward Bond
- Topdog/Underdog (2002) by Suzan-Lori Parks
- The Front Page (1928) by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur
- Accidental Death of an Anarchist (1970) by Dario Fo.
- Picnic (1953) by William Inge
- Journey’s End (1928) by R.C. Sherriff
- The Odd Couple (1965) by Neil Simon
- The Orphans Home cycle – 3 one act plays by Horton Foote (masterpieces!)
- The Women. (1936) by Clare Boothe Luce
- What The Butler Saw (1969) by Joe Orton
- Awake and Sing! (1935) by Clifford Odets
- The Piano Lesson (1987) by A. Wilson
- Uncommon Women and Others (1977) by Wendy Wasserstein
- The Weir (1997) by Conor McPherson- READ
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Some great plays on there Nancy – thanks for taking part x
Summer is the best time to read a play
Research about playwright 1-2 hr…during morning coffee in the sun
Reading time: you can finish the play before your ice melts in a Gin and Tonic!
…and you don’t feel tied down to an epic novel for days on end!
I like your style!
This is quite a list of plays. I was in a School Production of ‘Our Town’ many moons ago – a load of Glaswegian kids with fake American accents all styled on Starsky and Hutch and Kodak!!!! What a joy for the poor bloody audience that must have been!!! Hope it reads better than we staged it!!!
Every theatrical performance (high-school or regional playhouse) is a delight to see.
If The Glass Menagerie is ever in your neighbour theatre….don’t miss it!
That was of course meant to say ‘Kojak’ but Apple’s autocorrect isn’t old enough to remember ‘Kojak’!!!!!
That’s a great that leaves you with some room to choose and skip. I’m too scared to commit to 20 books but it will be fun to watch others. Good luck!
I have NO opportunity to see plays in English here in NL…so I depend on scripts and try to buy a DVD of the play! Just ordered 1987 version with Joanne Woodward and John Malkovich!
Scared? “Stop being scared of the unknown and start being scared of not-knowing”! 🙂
How fun to read plays! So excited to see Noises Off listed here…I saw it when it was first on Broadway. And I am also excited to see a fellow challenge reader in NL! 🙂 Good luck with the challenge!
A kindered spirit in NL reading #20BooksOfSummer…I’m overjoyed!
Reading plays is my only way to enjoy the genre because
there are no opportunities to see great drama in English in NL.
Today I start E. Albee’s Who’s Afraid Of Virginia Woolf?
I wantto order dvd of the E. Taylor-Richard Burton iconic film version.
Thanks for your comments!
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf is fantastic, both the play and the film. And I hope you’ll enjoy the Mamet as well!
So many excellent playwrights! Hope you enjoy making your way through these. Albee’s a favorite playwright, and the film version is wonderful.
I just received the DVD with Taylor and Burton….
I’ll watch it this weekend.
Yes, I’ve decided to push through this list of 50
because there are so many more playwrights I want to read.
But first these classics!
Thanks for you comments!
I never thought about putting non-fiction on my list! A mistake 🙂
Happy Reading!