Category Archives: Drama

Rosmersholm; The Christmas Hirelings (audio)

Posted on March 4, 2019 by Amanda

I listened to a couple short classics (one play, one novella) a couple weeks back. Since they were both short and my thoughts on them are equally so, I decided to review them both in the same post. The two … Continue reading →

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Twelve Angry Men, by Reginald Rose (audio)

Posted on February 6, 2017 by Amanda

Most people know this story already. A teen is accused of murder, and the jury must be unanimous in its decision: guilty or not guilty. It seems a slam-dunk decision, until one man votes not guilty, and sets out to … Continue reading →

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Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, by Jack Thorne

Posted on August 10, 2016 by Amanda

(based on a story by JK Rowling, and in collaboration with John Tiffany) Many years after the end of the Harry Potter series, a new story starts centered on the children of several characters of the original series. In play … Continue reading →

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Rosencrantz & Guildenstern, are Dead by Tom Stoppard

Posted on November 28, 2011 by Amanda

Hard to know what to say about this one. I saw the play about 18 months before I read it. I quite enjoyed the performance, though I felt a little lost every time they switched into Shakespeare-speak, because Shakespeare’s language … Continue reading →

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Waiting for Godot, by Samuel Beckett

Posted on September 13, 2011 by Amanda

Waiting for Godot is a French absurdist play written by an Irishman who then translated it himself into English. There is no plot. Two men, Vladimir and Estragon, meet at a tree every day and talk, while they wait for … Continue reading →

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Saint Joan, by George Bernard Shaw

Posted on April 14, 2011 by Amanda

Saint Joan is a play that explores the life, death, and canonization of Joan of Arc. Joan of Arc fascinates me and always has. She’s one of those people that I would love to go back in time to meet, … Continue reading →

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Hedda Gabbler, by Henrik Ibsen

Posted on March 9, 2011 by Amanda

Hedda Gabler has married on a whim and is now bored out of her mind. She escapes that boredom by manipulating the people around her, especially those who have loved her in the past. After reading and loving A Doll’s … Continue reading →

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Readathon: No Exit, by Jean-Paul Sartre

Posted on February 3, 2011 by Amanda

In this play, three people who have died and gone to Hell are placed together in a single room with no way out. They don’t know why they’ve been placed there, or why they’ve been put together. They slowly come … Continue reading →

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A Raisin in the Sun, by Lorraine Hansberry

Posted on January 25, 2011 by Amanda

The Younger family lives in a tiny, cockroach-infested apartment with a shared bathroom in the hall. They split two rooms between the five of them: Mama, her two children Walter and Beneatha, Walter’s wife Ruth, and Walter and Ruth’s son, … Continue reading →

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Readathon: A Doll’s House, by Henrik Ibsen

Posted on October 9, 2010 by Amanda

Nora’s very happy. Her husband has just gotten a better job with a higher salary, and soon she’ll be free of a debt she incurred many years ago (without her husband’s knowledge) to finance a trip south that saved her … Continue reading →

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