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Protected: Not About Nightingales
Major Barbara
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Major Barbara
by George Bernard Shaw
Protected: Dancing at Lughnasa
The Devil’s Disciple
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The Devil’s Disciple
by George Bernard Shaw
Plot Summary: The Rose Tattoo (Act One)
Act 1, Scene 1
The Rose Tattoo opens with a view of a cottage, on whose front steps three neighborhood children sit. The children’s mothers are calling them home to dinner, and the play’s main character, Serafina delle Rose, appears on stage. She is looking for her own daughter, the twelve-year-old Rosa. Continue reading Plot Summary: The Rose Tattoo (Act One)
Protected: The Rose Tattoo
Mrs. Warren’s Profession
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Mrs Warren’s Profession
by George Bernard Shaw
Greek Plays
The following titles link to translations published on the MIT
Internet Classics Archive
Works by Aeschylus
Agamemnon
The Choephori
Eumenides
The Persians
Prometheus Bound
The Seven Against Thebes
The Suppliants
Works by Sophocles
Ajax
Antigone
Electra
Oedipus at Colonus
Oedipus the King
Philoctetes
The Trachiniae
Works by Euripides
Alcestis
Andromache
The Bacchantes
The Cyclops
Electra
Hecuba
Helen
The Heracleidae
Heracles
Hippolytus
Ion
Iphigenia At Aulis
Iphigenia in Tauris
Medea
Orestes
The Phoenissae
Rhesus
The Suppliants
The Trojan Women
Works by Aristophanes
The Acharnians
The Birds
The Clouds
The Ecclesiazusae
The Frogs
The Knights
Peace
Plutus
The Thesmophoriazusae
The Wasps
To Go or Not to Go
There are many very good reasons people go to the theatre, and as may very bad ones why they don’t.
The best reason to go is to be drawn into another world from the opening line to the final curtain and walk out gratified, if not transformed, a better person. This sometimes happens when a good play is well-produced.
Good reasons not to go: it costs too much, and too often the plays are trite or trash (or trashy) or (more often still) poorly played, misinterpreted. At best we’re amused. Continue reading To Go or Not to Go
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