Video Game Forums

How many plays have you been to?
What are your favourites?

Let's see. Back when Milwaukee Shakespeare was still around, we saw King Lear and Cymbeline (favourite Shakespeare play bar none). We also went to 'Pirates of Penzance', 'HMS Pinafore', 'Lion in Winter', 'Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead', 'Cyrano de Bergerac', the Oedipus cycle, and 'Man of La Mancha'. Those were the really good ones.

...I mean, there were some crummy ones, too (I swear, if I never have to see 'Our Town' again it'll be too soon), but mostly we've lucked out.

I wouldn't mind seeing more live Shakespeare. Even before the pandemic, the Shakespeare scene locally had kind of petered out. Macbeth would be cool.

They showed a really gnarly version of Macbeth on PBS a few years back, starring Patrick Stewart. It was really well done and creative---------they kind of set it in pseudo-Soviet Russia, with Macbeth as ersatz Stalin. Juicy stuff.

^I've never seen Our Town all the way through, but the excerpts I have seen make it look like one of the most boring shows imaginable.

I've been to a ton of plays. Some of my favorites include The Good Doctor, The Skin of Out Teeth, Avenue Q, Spamalot, A Midsummer Night's Dream, & Total Nonsense.
I would absolutely love to someday see E.E. Cummings's play Him produced.

And remember, "I'm-a Luigi, number one!"

^Yeah, that's frustrating, when something you want to see just isn't available.

'Our Town' stinks. It'd be bad enough if it were merely boring, but then it ends on a huge down note with the girl dying young. And her ghost is just then in the graveyard, talking to other dead people. So does she use her ghost powers to possess people? chase crying children around whilst laughing malevolently? maybe visit her grieving husband and give him comfort and closure? No--------instead of those interesting things, she revisits moments from her past and reflects on how dumb and oblivious people are. Wow. Pretty lame.