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Jharry5

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Jobz said:
Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot and Tony Kushner's Angels In America are a pretty close tie for me.
I'm halfway through 'Waiting for Godot', and I don't really know whether I like it or not. It's not like any I've read before.

My favourites are probably 'Hamlet' by Shakespeare, or 'Translations' by Brian Friel. If pushed, I'd pick the latter...
 

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The only play I ever saw was "Bye Bye Birdie" played by high-school students. It was pretty good though.
 

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Jobz said:
Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot and Tony Kushner's Angels In America are a pretty close tie for me.
Seconded. I have only read waiting for Godot but it is a brilliant piece of artistry.

My favourite thaeatre performance would definitly be Land's End by Phillipe Genty though. I am not sure you could call it a play it is more experimental movement theatre. Here is a trailer http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=LVs4I8Psaqo
 

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CountFenring said:
Evil Dead: The Musical.
There's an Evil Dead musical??? Hope that heads this way at some point. I doubt it though. If C-Grade rock bands won't even come here anymore, such a production seems unlikely. :(
 

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Jaythulhu said:
CountFenring said:
Evil Dead: The Musical.
There's an Evil Dead musical??? Hope that heads this way at some point. I doubt it though. If C-Grade rock bands won't even come here anymore, such a production seems unlikely. :(
I'm not sure, but I think its ended its run. Pretty sad, I still want my school to put it on.
 

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Heh, well my performance went really well. I'm absolutely knackered now though, stage lights make you so sweaty. XD
 

PedroSteckecilo

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Jaythulhu said:
CountFenring said:
Evil Dead: The Musical.
There's an Evil Dead musical??? Hope that heads this way at some point. I doubt it though. If C-Grade rock bands won't even come here anymore, such a production seems unlikely. :(
I'll even hum you a few bars...

"Cabin in the woods wooooo, cabin in the woods yeahhh
We're five college students going on a vacation in an old abandoned cabin in the woods!
(Ash)
All my friends are here,
for the best spring break of the year,
Away from school and from S-Mart
A week way of the charts!"

or

"You must realize, we can never die!
We're already dead! We've died twice before
yet we're back for more, you can't stop the DEAD!
You can't kill the killed and you can't pass on the passed,
now we'll take that chainsaw and we'll shove it up your..."

or my favorite

"What the fuck was that? Your sister has turned into a Zombie!
What the fuck was that? Your girlfriend was a demon too!
What the fuck was that? She just ripped my preripped abercrombie
What the fuck was that? I got some Shelly on my shoe (ewww)"
 

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Tough question but I'll go with Romeo and Juliet. (I love tragedy stuff.) The Curcible is just a hare below Romeo and Juliet on my list actually.
 

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carnkhan4 said:
Deadarm said:
Tough question but I'll go with Romeo and Juliet. (I love tragedy stuff.)
Oddly that's classed as a comedy. Will Shakes must have had a dark sense of humour...
Well Mercutio (I think that was his name) was actually pretty damned funny if you ask me.
 

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Deadarm said:
carnkhan4 said:
Deadarm said:
Tough question but I'll go with Romeo and Juliet. (I love tragedy stuff.)
Oddly that's classed as a comedy. Will Shakes must have had a dark sense of humour...
Well Mercutio (I think that was his name) was actually pretty damned funny if you ask me.
When I die, I too want to go out on a lame pun! :D
 

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carnkhan4 said:
Oddly that's classed as a comedy. Will Shakes must have had a dark sense of humour...
Err, its definitely a tragedy. A comedy in Elizebethan/Jacobean times, while not having to be exactly funny, at least had to have a happy ending (usually a marriage). Not two families looking awkwardly at the bodies of a pair of lovers. The families resolve their differences, but that still doesn't make it constitute a happy ending.
 

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carnkhan4 said:
Deadarm said:
carnkhan4 said:
Deadarm said:
Tough question but I'll go with Romeo and Juliet. (I love tragedy stuff.)
Oddly that's classed as a comedy. Will Shakes must have had a dark sense of humour...
Well Mercutio (I think that was his name) was actually pretty damned funny if you ask me.
When I die, I too want to go out on a lame pun! :D
Same here.
pigeon_of_doom said:
Deadarm said:
Oddly that's classed as a comedy. Will Shakes must have had a dark sense of humour...
Err, its definitely a tragedy. A comedy in Elizebethan/Jacobean times, while not having to be exactly funny, at least had to have a happy ending (usually a marriage). Not two families looking awkwardly at the bodies of a pair of lovers. The families resolve their differences, but that still doesn't make it constitute a happy ending.
Why didn't you use the other guy's thing instead of making me look like I don't know what im talking about?