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    Posted: 9/30/05 at 11:17am

I am looking for plays that are kinda "edgy" .... Something like Christopher Durang's Laughing Wild or Beyond Therapy. Any suggestions?

 

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bullet Posted: 9/30/05 at 12:14pm
Any of Havey Fierstein's plays - especially the Safe Sex trilogy

Terrence McNally's "Lisbon Traviata" or
"Love!Valour!Compassion!"

Any of the Charles Bush plays (we loved doing "Psycho Beach
Party")

Any of Charles Ludlam's plays (especially "Mystery of Irma
Vep" or "The Artificial Jungle")

...there's a billion of 'em LOL

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bullet Posted: 9/30/05 at 2:40pm

Some "edgy" (postmodern) authors to consider (in addition to those already mentioned)

 Dario Fo (Pulitzer winner) and Franca Rame (Italian husband/wife team)

Samuel Beckett

Caryl Churchill

Susan Lori Parks

Edward Albee

Maria Irene Fornes

Allthese folks are a good read, so enjoy!

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bullet Posted: 9/30/05 at 4:01pm

more authors to look at:

David Mamet--my fave Glengary Glenross

John Guare--House of Blue Leaves

Sam Sheapard--

John Patrick Shanley--Danny and The Deep Blue Sea

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bullet Posted: 9/30/05 at 4:21pm
wow

reading these posts with lists of these astounding playwrites
takes me back to college - when the play really was the
thing!

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bullet Posted: 9/30/05 at 4:25pm
Ahh I miss the college theatre when we could do edgy plays and not have to worry about making money!!!! If only we could all just do the plays we love rather than plays that are a sure bet. those were the days...
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bullet Posted: 10/01/05 at 5:51am
Hi Moonlight,

We have a full length play in our catalogue which might fit your needs ...

'The Audition' (2f)
Lauren is like most wannabe actresses - she wants to be famous, and to be famous you have to suffer the audition process.

So when she attends an audition for a 'must-have', career-building part, little does she know that the Director, Stella, has very strong views about how an audition should be conducted; about how the person auditioning should be tested and what should and should not be said. Stella is about to push Lauren to her mental, physical, emotional and ethical limits.

Close to her breaking point, Lauren is subjected to alcohol, drugs and mind games as part of the audition process, all so that Stella can find out the answer to one question. How far will an actress go to get the part?

This powerful new drama is hard-hitting and spiky, both suggestive and revealing; an insight into the mindsets of the examiner and the examined.

More details are on our website www.playsandmusicals.co.uk where you can download a preview script and also buy scripts safely online. It has not been performed in the USA, so you could be staging a premiere!

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bullet Posted: 10/05/05 at 12:58am
I don't know if it is edgy enough, but you could always try One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest.  That is one of my favorite plays.
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bullet Posted: 10/05/05 at 11:46am
You might think of an evening of one act plays.  Here are three I have seen or looked at:  On Tidy Endings from Harvey Firestein's Safe Sex Trilogy, The Tiger by Murray Schisgal and Final Placement by Ara Watson.

You might also look at Three Viewings for something offbeat but maybe not too edgy.  It came in second in the AACT competition two years ago.  We did it here and it was so popular we had to do it again for everyone who missed it the first time.
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bullet Posted: 10/05/05 at 5:36pm
I've always liked "Veronica's Room" by Ira Levin (who
also wrote the often-produced "Deathtrap.")

Not only is its subject matter edgy, but the whole
thing is really creepy.

"None of us really grow up. All we ever do is learn how to behave in public." -- Keith Johnstone
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