Top-Notch Tuesday - Favorite Plays

Today's Top-Notch Tuesday is dedicated to my favorite plays. To clarify, this is the list of the best plays I've read. The list of my favorite plays I've seen would be completely different.

I read plays when I'm hungry for dialogue. Plays are a nice change of pace in my reading, and I can usually finish them more quickly than novels. In some ways, plays give me more to think about than novels do. Here are some favorites.

A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry

"Seem like God didn’t see fit to give the black man nothing but dreams – but He 

did give us children to make them dreams seem worth while." (1.1.206)

As You Like It by William Shakespeare

All the world's a stage,

And all the men and women merely players:
They have their exits and their entrances;
And one man in his time plays many parts,
(2.7.139) 

Fences by August Wilson

"I love this woman. I love this woman so much it hurts. 

I love her so much...I done run out of ways of loving her." (1.1.173)

Our Town by Thornton Wilder

"My, wasn't life awful--and wonderful."

Inherit the Wind by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee

"Yes. The individual human mind. In a child's power to master the multiplication table, 

there is more sanctity than in all your shouted "amens" and "holy holies" and "hosannas." 

An idea is a greater monument than a cathedral."

Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett

"We're all born mad. Some remain so."

"Master Harold"...and the boys by Athol Fugard

“It was a “Whites Only” bench. You were too young, too excited to notice then. 

But not anymore. You don’t have to sit up there by yourself. You know what that 

bench means now, and you can leave it any time you choose."

Brighton Beach Memoirs by Neil Simon

 

"Puberty is OVER! Onward and upward"

A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams

"Stellaaa!"

The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde

"I never travel without my diary. One should always have 

something sensational to read in the train."- Act 2

Henry IV, Part 1 by William Shakespeare

"Art thou to break into this woman's mood,

Tying thine ear to no tongue but thine own!" (1.3.9)

And the ones I want to read next....

 for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf by Ntozake Shange

The Mountaintop by Katori Hall

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead by Tom Stoppard