#the play is a tragicomedy . but the musical is a love letter

[july-19th-club]

erica schmidt adapting cyrano de bergerac as a musical: oh my hot little husband could fucking crush this to pieces . oh this is going to sound so good when my hot husband sings it . this is so great

[rosecorcoranwrites]

Scripts Reading List

All synopses are taken from either the Flagstaff Public Library catalog, Novelist.com, or my own fevered imagination.

Harry Potter and the Cursed Child by Jack Thorn

As an overworked employee of the Ministry of Magic, a husband, and a father, Harry Potter struggles with a past that refuses to stay where it belongs while his youngest son, Albus, finds the weight of the family legacy difficult to bear.

The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wild

Algernon and Jack have created an alter ego to make life more interesting, which wouldn’t be a problem except that they have each used the same assumed persona—Earnest—to woo two different women, who end up both coming to the same country estate for the weekend. 

Arms and the Man: A Pleasant Play by George Bernard Shaw

All’s fair in love and war, but as Shaw shows in his famous satirical comedy, the bravado of soldiers and the flowery words of romantics may not always be a fair reflection of reality. Still, real love may yet find a way. 

Murder in the Cathedral by T.S. Eliot

The Archbishop Thomas Becket speaks fatal words before he is martyred in T. S. Eliot's best-known drama, based on the real-life murder of the Archbishop of Canterbury in 1170.

A Raisin in the Sun; a Drama in Three Acts by Lorraine Hansberry

An insurance check can allow the Youngers to escape their frustrating life in a crowded Chicago apartment, but escape means different things to each family member.

Harvey: Comedy in Three Acts by Mary Chase

When Elwood P. Dowd starts to introduce his imaginary friend, Harvey, a 6-1/2 foot rabbit to guests at a society party, his sister decides to have him committed to a sanitarium. But as she explains that, after years of living with Elwood's hallucination, she has started to see Harvey also, Elwood might not be the only one who winds up being committed. 

Antigone of Sophocles: an English Version by Dudley Fitts and Robert Fitzgerald by Sophocles

In a tale of morality vs political power, the heroine Antigone pits her beliefs against a king’s law that forbids her from giving her brother a proper burial. 

King Lear by William Shakespeare

Lear, King of Britain, determines to divide his kingdom between his three daughters based on who loves him best, but can’t see what’s right before his eyes; meanwhile, an earl’s bastard son also has designs on the kingdom. 

Twelfth Night, or, What You Will by William Shakespeare

A comic tale of identical twins, crossdressing, practical joking, and love at first sight.

Hamilton by Lin-Manuel Miranda

Fusing hip-hop, pop, R&B, and the best traditions of theater, Miranda's groundbreaking musical Hamilton is as revolutionary as its subject, the poor kid from the Caribbean who fought the British, defended the Constitution, and helped to found the United States. 

The Imaginary Invalid: A Play in Three Acts by Miles Malleson

A hypochondriac, victimized by two pompous doctors, tests his daughter's loyalty and discovers the greed and contempt of his scheming wife.

Sherlock Holmes: A Comedy in Two Acts by Arthur Conan Doyle and Gillette William

Incriminating letters written by a young European prince to the English girl he betrayed are in the hands of the dead girl's sister: Holmes and Watson are on the case!

The Mousetrap: A Play in Two Acts by Agatha Christie

A group of strangers stranded in a boarding house during a snow storm discover (when one of their number is killed!) that a murderer as in their midst. 

Our Town: A Play in Three Acts by Thornton Wilder

Using the meta-narrative setting of a theater, Our Town tells the story of a small American town, Grover's Corners, through the everyday lives of its citizens.

Waiting for Godot: Tragicomedy in 2 Acts by Samuel Beckett

An absurdist play in which two men wait by a tree for a mysterious person named “Godot”