A Tribute to the Great Successes in Theater and the Arts

Faricazy

all i wanna do is

BLAM BLAM BLAM

Grey Ghost

What exactly was the purpose of this thread, Fari

Monkeyfeet

My school's male a cappella group did Paper Planes. It was pretty cool

ANTVGM64

Why does that poster remind me of Ziggy Stardust?

The Geek

Grey Ghost

Those are not the Hammer

futility

god I wish theatre was still about kings and queens fighting against god

Mysst

now theater is about theater and is dumb

ANTVGM64

Aye, this is why I do not like Chorus Line one little bit.

animal companion

theater is about stealing all the toasters in the neighborhood

futility

And now the summary a new contemporary play:

Lights up
Character: AMAGAD I'm a minority... like a woman, gay, or black person. I will offer no solutions or real opinions on anything. I JUST WANT TO BITCH ABOUT MY PLIGHT AT THE TOP OF MY LUNGS! And fuck you audience, you just paid $20 to watch me bitch about all of you sitting there watching me... and here's the thing. I wrote, directed, and am staring in this bitch. This is the only way I can make money as an actor. It also serves my need to be the center of attention... and I hope some of you are talent agents because I'm totaly awesome. Oh yeah wait... bitch bitch bitch I'm am oppressed.

Thank you... for your cash

MrMonroe

futility wrote: »

And now the summary a new contemporary play:

Lights up
Character: AMAGAD I'm a minority... like a woman, gay, or black person. I will offer no solutions or real opinions on anything. I JUST WANT TO BITCH ABOUT MY PLIGHT AT THE TOP OF MY LUNGS! And fuck you audience, you just paid $20 to watch me bitch about all of you sitting there watching me... and here's the thing. I wrote, directed, and am staring in this bitch. This is the only way I can make money as an actor. It also serves my need to be the center of attention... and I hope some of you are talent agents because I'm totaly awesome. Oh yeah wait... bitch bitch bitch I'm am oppressed.

Thank you... for your cash

This is why I quit theater in college.

In my junior year, some witless fuck decided they would direct "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolfe," but of course the school couldn't pay for the rights, so they called it "The Unnamed Play," and then, then, they switched the gender roles of two of the characters. They made the main couple two men and the second couple two women. I wanted to firebomb it opening night but I was convinced instead to sit through it and then walk up to the director, shake his hand, and congratulate him on having taken the finest piece of American dramaturgy ever produced and then having raped it to death.

futility

MrMonroe wrote: »

futility wrote: »

And now the summary a new contemporary play:

Lights up
Character: AMAGAD I'm a minority... like a woman, gay, or black person. I will offer no solutions or real opinions on anything. I JUST WANT TO BITCH ABOUT MY PLIGHT AT THE TOP OF MY LUNGS! And fuck you audience, you just paid $20 to watch me bitch about all of you sitting there watching me... and here's the thing. I wrote, directed, and am staring in this bitch. This is the only way I can make money as an actor. It also serves my need to be the center of attention... and I hope some of you are talent agents because I'm totaly awesome. Oh yeah wait... bitch bitch bitch I'm am oppressed.

Thank you... for your cash

This is why I quit theater in college.

In my junior year, some witless fuck decided they would direct "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolfe," but of course the school couldn't pay for the rights, so they called it "The Unnamed Play," and then, then, they switched the gender roles of two of the characters. They made the main couple two men and the second couple two women. I wanted to firebomb it opening night but I was convinced instead to sit through it and then walk up to the director, shake his hand, and congratulate him on having taken the finest piece of American dramaturgy ever produced and then having raped it to death.

Woah woah woah... you're only supposed to do that with Shakespeare

because if everyone goes around calling his plays some of the best writing EVER they should of course be adapted to take place in space, where the roles of the men and women have been ironically switched for and then the entire cast is transgendered, and the director is a super smart marmot and the shows only happen in Starbucks training centers, only announced through twitter.

OMG ART!

MrMonroe

I think I'm having aneurysm.

"But we're trying to make a statement about gender!"

"Yeah, because you're too fucking dumb to understand what the play already says about gender!"

Monkeyfeet

I thought Who is Afraid of Virgina Woolfe always has the gender roles switched around even when people do purchase the rights to it.

Wrench N Rockets

This isn't about Wicked at all.

Centipede Damascus

this thread has a disturbing lack of Kristen Chenoweth

MrMonroe

Monkeyfeet wrote: »

I thought Who is Afraid of Virgina Woolfe always has the gender roles switched around even when people do purchase the rights to it.

IIRC, Albee is, like all great playwrights, a total dick about it and has provisions in the contract that prevent you from doing that.

Grey Ghost

I just got back from seeing an all-black production of The Glass Menagerie

it was pretty good

PiptheFair

MrMonroe wrote: »

futility wrote: »

And now the summary a new contemporary play:

Lights up
Character: AMAGAD I'm a minority... like a woman, gay, or black person. I will offer no solutions or real opinions on anything. I JUST WANT TO BITCH ABOUT MY PLIGHT AT THE TOP OF MY LUNGS! And fuck you audience, you just paid $20 to watch me bitch about all of you sitting there watching me... and here's the thing. I wrote, directed, and am staring in this bitch. This is the only way I can make money as an actor. It also serves my need to be the center of attention... and I hope some of you are talent agents because I'm totaly awesome. Oh yeah wait... bitch bitch bitch I'm am oppressed.

Thank you... for your cash

This is why I quit theater in college.

In my junior year, some witless fuck decided they would direct "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolfe," but of course the school couldn't pay for the rights, so they called it "The Unnamed Play," and then, then, they switched the gender roles of two of the characters. They made the main couple two men and the second couple two women. I wanted to firebomb it opening night but I was convinced instead to sit through it and then walk up to the director, shake his hand, and congratulate him on having taken the finest piece of American dramaturgy ever produced and then having raped it to death.

nope

Bloods End

I've always wanted to see Othello starring Patrick Stewart.

iusehappymod

Pip has a point.

PiptheFair

Bloods End wrote: »

I've always wanted to see Othello starring Patrick Stewart.

isn't that the one where he's the only white guy

iusehappymod

I think it was called a "photo negative" production.

MrMonroe

Oh good. That twitch in my right eye is back after reading that, mod.

Thanks.

Also, Pip, what's your vote. I just love that play so fucking much I'm willing to act as though my opinions about it are 100% objective.

PiptheFair

streetcar

PiptheFair

or maybe rosencrantz and guildenstern are dead

but for totally different reasons

#pipe

Last time I went to London I stood in the pit to watch Hamlet at the Globe and it was one of the best things I've ever done

Centipede Damascus

that sounds like one of the best things ever to do

I want to do that

QuestionMarkMan

I saw Ian McKellen do King Lear (wherein McKellen penis is shown) and The Seagull

gonna be hard to top those

Monkeyfeet

Is The Seagull worth seeing? My school has a production going right now

#pipe

one of my biggest peeves is when people do Romeo and Juliet, only instead of just feuding families - Montagues v Capulets, it's like the Montagues are X and the Capulets are Y

where X = Black and Y = White
or X = Gays and Y = Lesbians
or X = Liberals and Y = Conservatives

and yes I have seen, or heard about productions of all of those

Hacksaw

Mysst wrote: »

now theater is about theater and is dumb

The only play I've seen that was about theatre was The Skin of Our Teeth by Thorton Wilder. It was indeed quite dumb.

Grey Ghost

#pipe wrote: »

one of my biggest peeves is when people do Romeo and Juliet, only instead of just feuding families - Montagues v Capulets, it's like the Montagues are X and the Capulets are Y

where X = Black and Y = White
or X = Gays and Y = Lesbians
or X = Liberals and Y = Conservatives

and yes I have seen, or heard about productions of all of those

Ok, the liberals/conservatives one sounds 10 kinds of retarded

MrMonroe

#pipe wrote: »

one of my biggest peeves is when people do Romeo and Juliet, only instead of just feuding families - Montagues v Capulets, it's like the Montagues are X and the Capulets are Y

where X = Black and Y = White
or X = Gays and Y = Lesbians
or X = Liberals and Y = Conservatives

and yes I have seen, or heard about productions of all of those

How would you even convey that without rewriting the script? That doesn't make any sense. In other news I'll admit I thought the film production with DiCaprio was actually quite good.

And Pip, those are both excellent choices. Have you seen the film production of "Who's?" It is really fucking good.

Monkeyfeet

So they are a family of gays and lesbians?

#pipe

Grey Ghost wrote: »

#pipe wrote: »

one of my biggest peeves is when people do Romeo and Juliet, only instead of just feuding families - Montagues v Capulets, it's like the Montagues are X and the Capulets are Y

where X = Black and Y = White
or X = Gays and Y = Lesbians
or X = Liberals and Y = Conservatives

and yes I have seen, or heard about productions of all of those

Ok, the liberals/conservatives one sounds 10 kinds of retarded

it was like Romeo and Benvolio and Mercutio were all hippies and smoked weed and shit, and Tybalt was a lawyer and oh god it was awful.

Grey Ghost

#pipe wrote: »

Grey Ghost wrote: »

#pipe wrote: »

one of my biggest peeves is when people do Romeo and Juliet, only instead of just feuding families - Montagues v Capulets, it's like the Montagues are X and the Capulets are Y

where X = Black and Y = White
or X = Gays and Y = Lesbians
or X = Liberals and Y = Conservatives

and yes I have seen, or heard about productions of all of those

Ok, the liberals/conservatives one sounds 10 kinds of retarded

it was like Romeo and Benvolio and Mercutio were all hippies and smoked weed and shit, and Tybalt was a lawyer and oh god it was awful.

Huuuuuuuuuuurgh

when we did it in high school we kinda color-coded the clothing, sorta, but that's as much delineation of the sides as we did

and even that was because we were performing it for a bunch of dumbass high-schoolers

edit: also our Benvolio was a girl but that was just cause there weren't many dudes in the drama club

QuestionMarkMan

Monkeyfeet wrote: »

Is The Seagull worth seeing? My school has a production going right now

Yes

Yes it is

MrMonroe

#pipe wrote: »

Grey Ghost wrote: »

#pipe wrote: »

one of my biggest peeves is when people do Romeo and Juliet, only instead of just feuding families - Montagues v Capulets, it's like the Montagues are X and the Capulets are Y

where X = Black and Y = White
or X = Gays and Y = Lesbians
or X = Liberals and Y = Conservatives

and yes I have seen, or heard about productions of all of those

Ok, the liberals/conservatives one sounds 10 kinds of retarded

it was like Romeo and Benvolio and Mercutio were all hippies and smoked weed and shit, and Tybalt was a lawyer and oh god it was awful.

Dee fucking colon

Grey Ghost

Hacksaw wrote: »

Mysst wrote: »

now theater is about theater and is dumb

The only play I've seen that was about theatre was The Skin of Our Teeth by Thorton Wilder. It was indeed quite dumb.

Hmm, our drama department is doing that now and I was going to go see it for an assignment in my English class

guess I won't though