Plays / Scenes

kristin · Post by **kristin** » January 12th, 2007, 10:39 am

I'm working on a Cagematch with Jessica that's going up in a couple of weeks and we need a large assortment of written scenes for it. Slightly obscure stuff is best.

If anybody has any plays (or books of collected scenes) that they'd be willing to lend us it'd be greatly appreciated. If you fear parting with them we could arrange just borrowing them long enough to make some photo copies.

I'm sure there's also good websites out there for this kind of thing, recommendations of that nature would be appreciated as well.

kaci_beeler · Post by **kaci_beeler** » January 12th, 2007, 12:29 pm

Get an anthology of plays.

Wesley · Post by **Wesley** » January 12th, 2007, 12:52 pm

How obscure?

There are some great speeches in many a play I've got marked at home, from Jonson's Volpone to Hellman's Little Foxes.

Maybe I can photocopy some off them.

York99 · Post by **York99** » January 12th, 2007, 12:55 pm

I have the Cliff's Notes from Hamlet, Julius Caesar, and Of Mice and Men

kristin · Post by **kristin** » January 12th, 2007, 1:00 pm

Wesley wrote:How obscure?

We're doing a format where for each scene one of us has worked on it and memorized a character from the scene while the other one is improvising. It's kind of like the short-form game of reading random lines from a play, only it's a whole scene, you focus on your character, and it's memorized and acted accordingly.

So it only needs to be obscure enough that the likelyhood of the other person (and the audience) knowing it is minimal. Having at least one of them have a long awesome speech would be fun.

sara farr · Post by **sara farr** » January 12th, 2007, 6:28 pm

I loved Arthur Miller's "The Crucible" - that's the first play that came to mind - but I don't have a copy and it's not obscure, so this post is pretty useless... accept that I got to tell you that I liked "The Crucible".

I also really liked Edgar Lee Masters' "Spoon River Anthology", Thornton Wilder's "Our Town", and John Van Druten's "I Remember Mama", but that's probably because we read those plays aloud in class in HS, and I LOVE getting to listen to tallented people read aloud (like NPR's Selected Shorts!!! <3).

I second "Little Foxes" - saw the 1940's movie and loved it!! but I haven't seen the play. My love of movies probably comes from getting to watch plays that have been turned into movies during school hours.

kaci_beeler · Post by **kaci_beeler** » January 13th, 2007, 3:30 am

I found The Little Foxes to be a bit boring. I prefer Lillian Hellman's more well-known classic, The Children's Hour.
Edward Albee is good obscure. Sam Shepard is my favorite. Oh shit! There is this one play, I can't remember the name, I'll have to look it up and get back to you. It's so awesomely fucked up - all about swapped genders.

Miggy · Post by **Miggy** » January 13th, 2007, 11:20 am

I have a copy of Tom Stoppard's 'Rosencratz & Guildenstern are Dead' that I can lend you.... It's awesome stuff.

Zach · Post by **Zach** » January 13th, 2007, 7:02 pm

Sam Shepard would be awesome for this sort of thing. I've got a couple of books, one of them is Simpatico, the other is one of those assorted one acts, one scenes, etc. I'm not sure if they're in my actual possesion or wrapped up in a box in storage somewhere. But if I can dig them out you're welcome to borrow them for a while.

Maybe I should have found them before I posted.

Jessica · Post by **Jessica** » January 14th, 2007, 9:29 am

Oooh, I'm getting excited! I already had some ideas but these are awesome! AND I actually get to memorize again, something I haven't done in quite a while - I wonder if I still can...

kristin · Post by **kristin** » January 14th, 2007, 11:03 pm

Anybody with an offer - we will take whatever you've got, via a hideout dropoff or going to wherever you are to pick them up. Send me a PM to coordinate.