Fw: TIME FOR REVOLUTION? WILL THE PLAY GO ON?

[dkeith]

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From: "Malcolm Page" <page at sfu.ca>
To: <dkeith at SILK.NET>
Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2002 10:31 AM
Subject: Re: TIME FOR REVOLUTION? WILL THE PLAY GO ON?


> I like the idea of high schollers this year doing an edgy, relevant play.
> Off the top of my head -
> Waiting for Lefty, Odets, the classic agitprop play, short, could do with
> some wrewriting to fit the present, perhaps excessively didactic
> The Star turns red, Sean O'Casey - his most revolutionary play, a 4-act
> monstrosity (so would take real work to cut intelligently), lots of lovely
> Irish language, educational about Dublin workers' lock-out, 1912-13
> Mystery-Bouffe, Mayakofsky, all the excitement of Russia immediately after
> the revolution, creatively all over the place stylistically, lots of scope
> for the imagination of actors
> St Joan of the Stockyards or Puntila, Brecht at his most directly
> political - both long but strong.
> Others in my head, but small cast pieces.
> Yes, do a play, but Shakespeare will still be there next year. - Malcolm
> -- Malcolm Page
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