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Macbeth
William Shakespeare - A Scottish general's ambitious ascent to power, fueled by prophecy and murder, ultimately leading to his downfall.
The Seagull
Anton Chekhov - A play that discusses the complicated dynamics between characters grappling with unrequited love, artistic aspirations, and the clash between generations.
Fences
August Wilson - A play examining race relations and the African American experience in the 1950s through the life of Troy Maxson.
The Bald Soprano
Eugène Ionesco - An absurdist play that deconstructs language and communications through nonsensical dialogue and interactions between characters.
The Misanthrope
Molière - A comedy that critiques the hypocrisies of aristocratic society through the eyes of a man who refuses to flatter or deceive.
Arcadia
Tom Stoppard - A play that interweaves the lives of 19th-century and present-day characters as they explore themes of mathematics, landscape gardening, and literary history.
The Cherry Orchard
Anton Chekhov - A tragicomedy about an aristocratic Russian family that loses their ancestral estate as a result of their own complacency.
Endgame
Samuel Beckett - An absurdist play following the interactions between Hamm, his servant Clov, his father Nagg, and his mother Nell—all in a post-apocalyptic setting.
Waiting for Godot
Samuel Beckett - A play in which two characters, Vladimir and Estragon, wait for the arrival of someone named Godot who never arrives.
The Government Inspector
Nikolai Gogol - A satirical play highlighting human greed, stupidity, and the extensive political corruption of the Russian province.
Our Town
Thornton Wilder - A play that explores the everyday lives of people in the small town of Grover's Corners and delves into themes of life, love, and death.
Medea
Euripides - A Greek tragedy centered on Medea's calculated revenge against her unfaithful husband Jason.
The Tempest
William Shakespeare - A play involving magic, treachery, and forgiveness, where a deposed ruler uses sorcery to restore his daughter to power.
A Doll's House
Henrik Ibsen - A play about a woman's struggle for independence in a male-dominated world.
Long Day's Journey into Night
Eugene O'Neill - An autobiographical play depicting a family's painful struggles with addiction and interpersonal conflicts over the course of one day.
Antigone
Sophocles - A play centered around the conflict between civic duty and family loyalty, as Antigone defies the king to bury her brother.
Twelfth Night
William Shakespeare - A comedic tale of mistaken identity, love triangles, and jovial pranks.
Pygmalion
George Bernard Shaw - A play about a phonetics professor who makes a bet that he can train a flower girl to pass for a duchess at an ambassador's garden party.
The Importance of Being Earnest
Oscar Wilde - A comedic play that satirizes the absurdities of Victorian society, particularly concerning love and marriage.
Hamlet
William Shakespeare - A tragedy about a Danish prince seeking revenge for his father's murder.
The Crucible
Arthur Miller - A dramatized story of the Salem witch trials that serves as an allegory of McCarthyism.
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Edward Albee - A darkly comedic play depicting the caustic and intense relationship between a middle-aged couple, George and Martha.
Six Characters in Search of an Author
Luigi Pirandello - An absurdist metatheatrical play where six unfinished characters interrupt a theater rehearsal in search of an author to complete their story.
A Streetcar Named Desire
Tennessee Williams - A Southern belle's descent into madness after losing her ancestral estate to creditors.
The Glass Menagerie
Tennessee Williams - A memory play about the Wingfield family and their internal and external struggles to cope with their past and future.
No Exit
Jean-Paul Sartre - A play that explores existentialist themes through the story of three deceased characters unable to leave a room, famously concluding 'Hell is other people'.
The Phantom of the Opera
Gaston Leroux - Although known primarily as a musical, this story originated as a French novel about a deformed composer haunting the Paris Opera House and his obsession with a young soprano.
Death of a Salesman
Arthur Miller - An examination of the American dream through the life of a failing salesman, Willy Loman.
Uncle Vanya
Anton Chekhov - A dramatic play about the wasted lives of a retired professor and his family on a rural estate in Russia.
Oedipus Rex
Sophocles - A tragic Greek play about a king who inadvertently fulfills a prophecy that he would kill his father and marry his mother.
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