";s:4:"text";s:10779:"Yet it was spellbinding and probably the best concert I attended this year, thanks to mesmerizing accompaniment provided by world-class percussionists. Apart from its touching evocation of frustrated desire, the play also offered a passionate defence of movies shot on 35mm film stock in a digitised age. Dealing with the rise and fall of an overextended Texan energy company that started trading in the internet and even the weather, Prebble’s play was an exhilarating mix of political satire, modern morality and – in Rupert Goold’s production – Citizen Kane-like spectacle. The language of theater—not in the stagecraft sense, but in the actual dialogue sense—became something new with this lacerating 1962 drama. Wade Bradford. Here Mama Nadi and her “girls”, each an orphan of war, entertain soldiers on both sides, flirting for their lives. There's sublime poetry, rich psychology for characters of both sexes, a hefty dose of comedy to leaven the mood, and, depending on a director's interpretation, a crackling good mystery lying underneath the tale of "The Melancholy Dane." The Caretaker 36. “I’m a ‘black playwright’. Meanwhile, one periodically cuts through the chat to offer a vision, in seven monologues, of a world of flood, fire, thirst and starvation. Sherriff, 44. Yes, Kobo Abe, Lorca, Soyinka, and many more belong on this list, but for an EW article? The show opened in 2017 and closes on Dec. 15, when Netflix will premiere a filmed version of the show — so fans can see it without paying $800-plus per ticket for front-row seats. Even if it eventually flirts with melodrama, Elmina’s Kitchen is a work of surging vitality that takes on board gun control, the battle between books and consumerism, and the maelstrom of life in a Hackney eatery. Hall’s play was fundamentally about the relationship between art and socialism and suggested that society had to be measured by its capacity for political change rather than by personal progress. Other than 90-minute plays with no intermission, the staged concert is one of Broadway’s best recent inventions. (Racks of guns ominously cover an entire wall of the set.) (The print edition includes a brief description and explanation for each selection. The Great Work Begins: Scenes from Angels in America. Flare Path 34. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time. My Fair Lady is on the list. Barking in Essex, 51. Billie Piper’s blistering performance as a woman who goes mad and destroys her perfect life because she can’t get pregnant dazzled London, then rocked New York City audiences to the core. Beautiful Thing 43. For WOS100 we asked you to name your favourite musical and play of all time. The Glass Menagerie (1944) by Tennessee Williams, 13. Caryl Churchill’s play hinged on a powerful juxtaposition. Twelve Angry Men 94. The true star of the show is the seamless stagecraft, which leaves the audience gasping in wonder — and terror — at the magic of it all. The 39 Steps 13. August: Osage County (2007) by Tracy Letts, 16. Coriolanus 33. Death and the Maiden 99. She asked playwright Gregory Burke and director John Tiffany to devise a soldier’s eye view of the battalion’s history right up to the still topical war in Iraq. (That’s for another time.) But the abiding image of Bijan Sheibani’s production, which incorporated uplifting music and dance, was of the barber shop as a place where you shed your locks but discover your identity. But that is only one aspect of a richly diverse comedy that deals with the covert eroticism of the teacher-pupil relationship, the overt elitism of the educational system and the debasement of culture by flashy presentation. An intertwined retelling of two Greek myths, Hadestown ran the table at the 2019 Tony Awards with 14 nominations; it ultimately won eight, including best musical, best original score, and best featured actor in a musical for standout star André De Shields. But it’s this show’s prescience that will stick with you, as summed up in its lyrics: “We build the wall to keep us free … The wall keeps out the enemy … The enemy is poverty.”. Nottage’s play never sanitises this violence, but it argues, via beautifully complicated characters, that survival, compassion and even love remain possible. Gay Pride. But your basic point, and your example of Brecht, strike a chord. Stones in His Pockets 53. Thanks for subscribing! It seems fairly well-read for EW. MB Read the review. The Front Page (1928) by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur. Yet Angels is made newly relevant by a sitting President who was tutored early on by the real-life lawyer Roy Cohn (diabolically played in this production by Nathan Lane). It is an adaptation of a 1934 play by Federico García Lorca, it is not an adaptation of a poem. Theater to See This Weekend October 10-11. With a score by Jeanine Tesori and book and lyrics by Tony Kushner, this was a genuine musical game-changer. Sadly, with violent crime on the rise, the play is as powerful and relevant as ever. MB Read the review. Let the debates begin! But Büchner also pioneers objectifying characters by using only their titles to identify them and commandingly sets a standard for dramatizing fever dreams and his central character's fragile grasp on reality. Brilliantly collapsing time and space, the Team’s dissection of US capitalism is one of the most theatrically ambitious shows of recent years. The Piano Lesson ( 1987 ) by Dario Fo be channelled through one performer the countless of! 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