Book Club for Actors Archive

Elliot, A Soldier’s Fugue * – The Eliot Trilogy, Play #1 *
Water by the Spoonful * – The Eliot Trilogy, Play #2 *
The Happiest Song Plays Last * – The Eliot Trilogy, Play #3 *
Yemaya’s Belly
Lulu’s Golden Shoes
Daphne’s Dive

Venus in Fur *
All in the Timing: Six One-Act Comedies
The Liar
The Heir Apparent

Master Class *
Lips Together, Teeth Apart
Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune
Love! Valour! Compassion! – play or film
And Away We Go
It’s Only a Play (2014)

The Heidi Chronicles *
Uncommon Women and Others (play or film)
The Object of My Affection (film)
The Sisters Rosensweig
An American Daughter
Old Money
Third

Glengarry Glen Ross *
Glengarry Glen Ross (1992 film)
American Buffalo
Speed-the-Plow
Bobby Gould in Hell
Oleanna
Wag the Dog (1997 film)
The Winslow Boy (1999 film)
State and Main (2000 film)
Race

The Mountaintop * (included in Plays I)
HooDoo Love (included in Plays I)
Saturday Night/Sunday Morning (included in Plays I)
Hurt Village (included in Plays I)
Our Lady of Kibeho
Children of Killers

Doubt: A Parable *
Italian American Reconciliation
Psychopathia Sexualis
Storefront Church
Outside Mullingar
Prodigal Son

4000 Miles *
After the Revolution 
The Great God Pan
Belleville

The Misanthrope
The School for Wives
Critique of the School for Wives
Tartuffe
The Miser
The Bourgeois Gentleman

Biloxi Blues *
Brighton Beach Memoirs
Broadway Bound
Lost in Yonkers
Laughter on the 23rd Floor
The Goodbye Girl – Film
Barefoot in the Park – Film
The Out-of-Towners – Film

In historical order:

Fences (1957) *
Two Trains Running (1969)
Jitney (1977)
King Headley II (1985)
Radio Golf (1997)

In historical order:

Gem of the Ocean (1904)
Joe Turner’s Come and Gone (1911)
Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom (1927)
The Piano Lesson (1936) *
Seven Guitars (1948)

Hedda Gabler *
A Doll’s House
Ghosts
The Wild Duck
Rosmersholm

Cleaning Augean Stables: Examining Dramas Strategies

Ruined *
Crumbs from the Table of Joy
Las Meninas
Intimate Apparel
Fabulation, or the Re-Education of Undine
By the Way, Meet Vera Stark

The Flick *
Body Awareness +
Circle Mirror Transformation +
Nocturama +
The Aliens +
Uncle Vanya

+ Contained in the compilation “The Vermont Plays: Four Plays”

Dinner With Friends *
The Loman Family Picnic
Sight Unseen
Collected Stories
Brooklyn Boy
Shipwrecked! An Entertainment
Time Stands Still

The Skin of Our Teeth *
Our Town
The Matchmaker

In “Collected Short Plays of Thornton Wilder, Vol 1″:
The Long Christmas Dinner
The Happy Journey to Trenton and Camden
All plays in the cycle: The Seven Ages of Man

Serious Money *
Cloud Nine
Top Girls
Fen
Mad Forest
The Skriker
Far Away
Love and Information

The Beauty Queen of Leenane *
A Skull in Connemara
The Lonesome West
The Cripple of Inishmaan
The Lieutenant of Inishmore
The Pillowman
A Behanding in Spokane
Six Shooter – film
In Bruges – film

Book Club for Actors attendees had the opportunity to catch up on any plays covered during previous book club meetings.

Master Harold…and the Boys *
The Road to Mecca
My Children! My Africa!
Blood Knot – 1987 revision
Valley Song
The Train Driver
The Road to Mecca – 1992 film
Tsotsi – 2005 film

Thom Pain (based on nothing) *
Tragedy: a tragedy
The Fiu Season
Intermission
Oh, the Humanity and other good intentions
Middletown
The Realistic Joneses
Title and Deed

The Children’s Hour *
These Three – 1936 screenplay
Dead End – 1937 film
The Little Foxes
Watch on the Rhine
Another Part of the Forest
The Autumn Garden
Toys in the Attic
The Children’s Hour – film

What The Butler Saw *
The Ruffian on the Stair
Entertaining Mr. Sloane
Loot

Rabbit Hole * – play & film
Good People
Fuddy Meers
Kimberly Akimbo
Wonder of the World
A Devil Inside
Three One-Acts by David Lindsay-Abaire

Laughing Wild *
The Actor’s Nightmare
Sister Mary Ignatious Explains It All For You
Betty’s Summer Vacation
‘denity Crises
Baby With The Bathwater
Why Tourture Is Wrong and The People Who Love Them

Private Lives *
Fallen Angels
Hay Fever
Design for Living
Present Laughter
Blithe Spirit
Easy Virtue – 2008 film
Private Lives – 1931 film

August: Osage County*
Bug
Man From Nebraska
Killer Joe
Superior Donuts

Topdog/Underdog *
The Topdog Diaries
The America Play
The Red Letter Plays: In The Blood & Fucking A
Venus 365 Days/365 Plays

Cat on A Hot Tin Roof *
The Rose Tattoo
Vieux Carre
A Lovely Sunday for Creve Coeur
Sweet Bird of Youth
Period of Adjustment
Camino Real
In The Bar of A Tokyo Hotel
Optional: The Glass Menagarie
Optional: A Streetcar Named Desire

The Madwoman of Chaillot *
Ondine
The Enchanted
The Apollo of Bellac
Siegfried
Amphitryon 38

Arcadia *
The Real Thing
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead – play & film
Travesties  
The Invention of Love  
The Coast of Utopia

You Can’t Take It With You *  
Once In A Lifetime
Merrily We Roll Along  
The Man Who Came to Dinner
George Washington Slept Here

As Bees In Honey Drown *
Music From A Sparkling Planet
The Country Club
Mr. & Mrs. Fitch
The Little Dog Laughed
Advice From a Caterpillar
To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything, Julie Newmar – film

Long Day’s Journey into Night *
Beyond the Horizon
Anna Christie
The Hairy Ape
Desire Under the Elms
Strange Interlude
Mourning Becomes Electra
Ah, Wilderness!
The Iceman Cometh
A Moon for the Misbegotten
A Touch of the Poet

How I Learned to Drive *
Desdemona, A Play about a Handkerchief
The Oldest Profession
And Baby Makes Seven
The Baltimore Waltz
Hot ‘N Throbbing
The Mineola Twins
The Long Christmas Ride Home

In the Next Room (or The Vibrator Play) *
Melancholy Play
Passion Play
Eurydice
Late: A Cowboy Song
The Clean House
Dead Man’s Cell Phone

Death of a Salesman *
All My Sons
The Crucible
A View from the Bridge
A Memory of Two Mondays
The Price
The Ride Down Mt. Morgan
Broken Glass