Friday, January 23, 2009

Project #1: College: University of Georgia

Julius Caesar
by William Shakespeare



Agnes of God
by John Pielmeier

"Two mysteries in one"
http://www.qwipster.net/agnesofgod.htm

"philosophical murder mysteries"
http://blogcritics.org/archives/2005/08/15/103910.php


Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
by Edward Albee

"Genre: Dramas"
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/whos_afraid_of_virginia_woolf/

"Edward Albee's great marital wrestling match of a play"
http://theater2.nytimes.com/2005/03/21/theater/reviews/21wool.html

Our Town
by Thornton Wilder

"Winner of the 1938 Pulitzer Prize for Drama"
http://www.ardentheatre.org/2008/ourtown.html

"Thornton Wilder's classic play"
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/08/16/DDFARJ17U.DTL


Top Dog/Underdog

by Susan Lori Parks


"Topdog/Underdog is a funny sad portrait of two men with limited life chance"
http://www.curtainup.com/topdog.html

"Described as a darkly comic fable"
http://www.talkinbroadway.com/regional/nj/nj95.html



A Midsummer Night's Dream
by William Shakespeare


"a romantic comedy"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Midsummer_Night

"a romantic comedy primer"
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/09/05/DDCQRUP7N.DTL



Sordid Lives
by Del Shores

"comedy"
http://www.talkinbroadway.com/regional/dallas/dallas63.html

"comedy with real oomph!"
http://www.theatermania.com/touring-productions/reviews/08-2006/sordid-livessouthern-baptist-sissies_8926.html




Urinetown
by Hollman and Kotis

"raucous spoof"
http://tech.mit.edu/V126/N4/4Urinetown.html

"deliciously tawdry musical"
http://www.pegasusnews.com/news/2007/sep/24/theater-review-urinetown-has-been-sanitized/



Museum
by Tina Howe


"satire of the modern art world"
http://www.curtainup.com/museum.html

"an absurdist play"
http://www.nationalyouththeatre.com/reviews/reviews_cosa_museum.html



The Pillowman
by Martin McDonagh

"comedies don't come any blacker"
http://theater2.nytimes.com/2005/04/11/theater/reviews/11pill.html

"pitch-black comedy"
http://www.curtainup.com/pillowman.html


The Underpants
by Steve Martin

"ingenious comic invention"
http://www.curtainup.com/underpants.html

"wild sex comedy"
http://www.tdn.com/articles/2008/03/06/this_day/10142994.txt



The Changeling
by Thomas Middleton and William Rowley

"Jacobean tragedy"
http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/liverpool-life-features/liverpool-arts/2007/11/07/theatre-review-the-changeling-liverpool-playhouse-64375-20072961/

"lust-ravaged and murderous Jacobean tragedy"
http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/theatre-dance/reviews/the-changeling-barbican-london-479131.html


House of Bernarda Alba

by Ferderico Garcia Lorca

"a drama of women in the villages of Spain"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_House_of_Bernarda_Alba

"the tragedy of virginity, of rural Spanish women"
http://www.enotes.com/house-bernarda


Dangerous Liaisons (Les Liaisons Dangereuses)

by Christopher Hampton

" satin-cloaked satyr"
http://theater2.nytimes.com/2008/05/02/theater/reviews/02liai.html

"A great drama"
http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-134597071.html