Friday, January 23, 2009

Project # 1 Harvard University

Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes
By Tony Kushner

"At center stage, "Angels" is a domestic drama"
http://theater2.nytimes.com/mem/theater/treview.html?res=9F0CE2DC1431F936A35756C0A965958260

"modern American play"
http://www.curtainup.com/angelsinamericalond.html

Les Liaisons Dangereuses
by Christopher Hampton

"French drama"
http://www.curtainup.com/liaisonsdangereuses.html

"nasty drama"
http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/05/05/arts/hampton.php

The History Boys
by Alan Bennett

"comic drama"
http://theater2.nytimes.com/2006/04/24/theater/reviews/24boys.html

"classroom dramas"
http://www.complete-review.com/reviews/bennetta/history.htm

The Birthday Party
by Harold Pinter

"workaday thriller"
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/theatre/drama/3673347/Review-Harold-Pinter

"comedy of menace."
http://www.curtainup.com/birthdaypartynj.html

Lysistrata
by Aristophanes

"old comedy"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lysistrata

"classic comedy"
http://www.untitledtheater.com/Lysistrata.htm

The Vagina Monologues

by Eve Ensler


"episodic play"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Vagina_Monologues

"pioneering play"

http://www.worldpress.org/Americas/606.cfm


'Tis Pity She's A Whore
by John Ford

"Revenge Tragedy"

http://www.answers.com/topic/tis-pity-she-s-a-whore-play-4



"Jacobean revenge tragedy"

http://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=8367

The Gondoliers

by Arthur Sullivan and libretto by W. S. Gilbert.

"Savoy Opera"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gondoliers

"comic opera"
http://www.wfu.edu/news/release/2008.03.17.g.php

Assassins
music & lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, book by John Weidman

"revusical"
http://www.theatermirror.com/TAautri.htm

"oft-maligned musical"
http://www.centerstagechicago.com/theatre/articles/assassins.html

Hamlet
by William Shakespeare

"tragedy"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamlet

"revenge play"
http://www.sparknotes.com/shakespeare/hamlet/themes.html

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