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Under the Sunlight of Summer by Katsuaki Shoda

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What Do You Read As an Ivy League Theatre Major

ZenHere is a non-comprehensive list of plays and artistic pieces assigned to me as a theatre major at a prestigious Ivy league school in...ahem...Manhattan. This was not every play I read over the course of my Bachelor’s degree, as I transferred (my community college assignments maybe added at a later date if it becomes possible to compile them) and is not a comprehensive list of everything assigned (ie: articles, textbooks, and academic criticism.) I might do a list of that later if there’s enough interest.

1 Henry IV - William Shakespeare

2 Henry IV - William Shakespeare

Abyss - Maria Milisavljevic

A Number - Caryl Churchill

A Rasin in the Sun - Lorraine Hansberry

A Streetcar Named Desire - Tennessee Williams

As You Like It - William Shakespeare

All’s Well That Ends Well - William Shakespeare

The Amen Corner - James Baldwin

The America Play - Suzan-Lori Parks

Antony and Cleopatra - William Shakespeare

The Balcony - Jean Genet

Betrayl - Harold Pinter

The Black Doctor - Ira Aldridge

Blue-Eyed Black Boy - Georgia Douglas Johnson

The Book of Margery Kempe (selections) - Margery Kempe

By the Way, Meet Vera Stark - Lynn Nottage

Caught - Christopher Chen 

The Cherry Orchard - Anton Chekhov

Clybourne Park - Bruce Norris

Comedy of Errors - William Shakespeare

Cymbeline - William Shakespeare

Death and the King’s Horseman - Wole Soyinka

Dojoji - Kanami 

The Downfall of justice; and the farmer just return'd from meeting on Thanksgiving Day. A comedy, lately acted in Connecticut. - Anonymous/E. Russell

The Dutchman - Amiri Baraka

Embers - Samuel Beckett

Enjoy - Toshiki Okada

The Escape; or, A Leap for Freedom - William Wells Brown

Fences - August Wilson

Fires in the Mirror - Anna Devere Smith

For Colored Girls who have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Enuf - Ntozake Shange

Funnyhouse of the Negro - Adrienne Kennedy

Galileo - Bertolt Brecht

The Gelede Spectacle - Babatunde Lawal

Ghosts - Henrik Ibsen

The Golden Dragon - Roland Schimmelpfennig

The Good Person of Szechwan - Bertolt Brecht

Hamlet - William Shakespeare

Henry V - William Shakespeare

The Homecoming - Harold Pinter

The House of Bernarda Alba - Frederico Garcia Lorca

In Dahomey - Jesse A. Shipp Paul Laurence Dunbar

Invasion! - Jonas Hassen Khemiri

Journey's End - R.C. Sherriff

Kichaka Vadha in The Mahabharata - Nagendra K. Singh

King Lear - William Shakespeare

Krapp's Last Tape - Samuel Beckett

Le Morte D'Arthur - Thomas Mallory

Life is a Dream - Calderón de la Barca

Loa to The Divine Narcissus - Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz

Lysistrata - Aristophanes 

Made in Poland - Przemyslaw Wojcieszek

M.Butterfly - David Henry Hwang

Macbeth - William Shakespeare

Machinal - Sophie Treadwell

The Maids - Jean Genet

Marat/Sade or The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton Under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade - Peter Weiss

The Masque of Queens - Ben Jonson

Measure for Measure - William Shakespeare

Medea - Euripides 

Miss Julie - August Strindberg

Much Ado About Nothing - William Shakespeare

Mulatto - Langston Hughes

Murderer, the Hope of Women and Sphinx and Strawman - Oskar Kokoschka

Native Son - Richard Wright Paul Green

Natural Man - Theodore Browne

Oedipus the King - Sophocles, Trans. Robert Fagles

Oedipus the King - Sophocles, Trans. Stephen Berg, Diskin Clay

Oedipus the King - Sophocles, Trans. Bernard Knox

Oedipus Rex - Sophocles, Trans. David Mulroy

Oh What a Lovely War - Charles Chilton

Old Times - Harold Pinter

Othello - William Shakespeare

Pericles - William Shakespeare

Phaedra - Jean Racine

The Piano Lesson - August Wilson

Plumes - Georgia Douglas Johnson

Pygmalion - George Bernard Shaw

Rachel - Angelina Grimke

Rainbow Kiss - Simon Farquhar

Revelation of Love (selections) - Julian of Norwich

Richard II - William Shakespeare

The Rover - Aphra Behn

Safe - Georgia Douglas Johnson

Shunkan - Unknown; Possibly Zeami, Zenchiku, or Motomasa

Soul Gone Home - Langston Hughes

Star of Ethiopia - W.E.B. Dubois

Tamburlaine - Christopher Marlowe

Tartuffe - Jean-Baptiste Molière

The Tempest - William Shakespeare

The Testament of Cresseid - Robert Henryson

Top Girls - Caryl Churchill

Trial of Dr. Beck - Hughes Allison

Trifles - Susan Glaspell

Troilus and Cressida - William Shakespeare

Troilus and Criseyde - Geoffrey Chaucer

Twelfth Night - William Shakespeare

The Two Noble Kinsmen - William Shakespeare and John Fletcher

Ubu the King - Alfred Jarry

Uncle Tom’s Cabin - George Aiken

Venus - Suzan-Lori Parks

Waiting for Godot - Samuel Beckett

White Snake - Tien Han

The Winter's Tale - William Shakespeare

Woyzeck - Georg Büchner

York Mystery Plays - Beadle and King Edition

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Summer Vibes by Katsuaki Shoda