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  • 1.  Seeking play suggestions

    Posted 02-03-2018 10:40

    I am seeking a play with serious subject matter , great characters to portray and as well written as the Crucible.  I have a small cast of 10 students and would love any suggestions you may have.

    Tatiana Breger

    BASISed Scottsdale




  • 2.  RE: Seeking play suggestions

    Posted 02-04-2018 06:39
    How about The Diviners?

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  • 3.  RE: Seeking play suggestions

    Posted 02-04-2018 07:48
    I love The Diviners. Also, Anatomy of Gray by the same author is great

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    Amanda Malo
    Drama Teacher/ Director
    Howell, MI
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  • 4.  RE: Seeking play suggestions

    Posted 02-05-2018 09:23
    Oh—and my all time favorite, Curious Savage

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  • 5.  RE: Seeking play suggestions

    Posted 02-05-2018 10:32
    I would echo "Diviners" and "Anatomy of Gray."  I love 'The Last Night of Ballyhoo" by Alfred Uhry and "The Boys Next Door" by Tom Griffin. Both are comedies that deal with serious subjects.  We are about to start production of "And a Child Shall Lead" by Michael Slade.  It deals with the children that lived in the Terezin "Jewish City" run by the Nazis in WWII.
    Josh Belk

    Director of Theatre
    Bear Necessity Theatre Company
    at Palmer Ridge High School
    (719) 867 8102



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  • 6.  RE: Seeking play suggestions

    Posted 02-04-2018 08:05
    Time on Fire by Timothy Mason.  It's a really beautiful play about young people during the American Revolutionary War.  It follows the experiences of a variety of young people as they navigate the trials of adolescence while living in a world in chaos.

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    Eric McNaughton
    Theatre Director
    Marist School
    AtlantaGA
    mcnaughtone@marist.com
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  • 7.  RE: Seeking play suggestions

    Posted 02-04-2018 09:20
    I'm not sure what your male/female breakdown is, so here is just a list of dramatic material we have found successful:

    Letters to Sala
    My Name is Asher Lev
    Laramie Project
    Terror by Gaslight
    The Good Fight
    Decision Height



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    Jessica Harms
    Theatre Director
    Acton MA
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  • 8.  RE: Seeking play suggestions

    Posted 02-05-2018 15:22
    Thank you for all of the suggestions.  This is my first foray in asking a question.  You guys are great!

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    Tatiana Ohotin
    Theater Subject Specialist Performing Arts
    Basis Scottsdale
    Scottsdale AZ
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  • 9.  RE: Seeking play suggestions

    Posted 02-04-2018 13:33
    Voices in the Dark: A Salem Story is the same basic story as the Crucible with a few clearer pathways to follow. Overall a good script in the same genre as Crucible.
    Break a Leg and may all your theatre seats be filled.

    Kelly M. Thomas
    Poteet Theatre
    Mesquite, Texas


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  • 10.  RE: Seeking play suggestions

    Posted 02-04-2018 15:32
    A Cry of Players by William Gibson.  About Will Shakespeare....

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  • 11.  RE: Seeking play suggestions

    Posted 02-05-2018 10:05
    Top Girls by Caryl Churchill - well written but definitely quirky - all women though
    Letters to Sala (Dramatists) - fun to conceive and a fascinating story and a Holocaust story that is quite hopeful
    Flowers for Algernon can be done with a smaller cast and you can be creative with staging

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    Brandon Becker
    Denver CO
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  • 12.  RE: Seeking play suggestions

    Posted 02-05-2018 10:33
    I second the Jim Leonard pieces. He's an excellent writer. You may also want to consider These Shining Lives or Triangle if you're interested in portraying some interesting history/worker's rights issues and giving a lot of performance opportunities for women.

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    Cassy Maxton-Whitacre
    Theatre Department Coordinator
    Fishersville VA
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  • 13.  RE: Seeking play suggestions

    Posted 02-06-2018 06:06
    I Never Saw Another Butterfly by Celeste Raspanti.  It's about the Jewish children who passed through Terezin, a ghetto.  It's a great script.

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    Michael Rozell
    Producer/Director
    Belle Vernon Area High School
    Belle Vernon, PA
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