Ultimate Popsugar Reading Challenge discussion

What books are you reading in this category? What recommendations do you have?

I am going to read 'Rosengrantz and Guildenstern are Dead' by Tom Stoppard. I've seen the play before (live and as a film) and really liked it. I figured as with books turned into movies, plays are often edited for time and/or content. I just want to see what I may have missed.

I'm going to read The Mousetrap and Other Plays by Agatha Christie. The Mousetrap is the longest running play and I hope to see it one day.

Inherit the Wind-Jerome Lawrence

I don't know what I plan on reading yet, but I absolutely love the playwright Paul Zindel, so I might try to find a play of his I haven't read.

If you're looking for something quirky, The Effect of Gamma-Rays on Man in the Moon Marigolds is great!

I'm going with The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde - his collected plays have been on my coffee table for the last six months!

Finished: Twelve Angry Men by Reginald Rose.

Would Wicked count as a play? I want to read it but I don't know what other categories I could fit it in, every other category it could possibly be suitable for are full..

Emily Wicked isn't written as a play but I think all of these prompts can be tweaked by the reader to their choosing! It's about fun! Wicked does have non human characters (the great Doctor Dillmond is a Goat and of course the Scarecrow, Cowardly Lion and Tin Man make appearances). Have you fulfilled that prompt? I highly recommend this book to everyone I meet so you could use it for the prompt "a book a friend recommended" I suppose :) There is also more than one love triangle in it so it could fulfill #34 as well. I also think it could be used for a book "set in a different country" even though Oz is fictional. It is a country complete with government etc in "Wicked". Are all of those prompts filled? If so I think using this one as your play is totally your call!

Ann, thanks so much!!! I filled all my prompts yesterday but I am definitely willing to move some around to fit Wicked into a different category. Thank you for the suggestions!

Emma wrote: "I'm going with The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde - his collected plays have been on my coffee table for the last six months!"

Yeees, The Importance of Being Earnest is one of my favorite plays! Probably the funniest play I've ever read! You are going to love it! (:

I read "'Night Mother" by Marsha Norman and did not enjoy it.

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Nicole wrote: "Emma wrote: "I'm going with The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde - his collected plays have been on my coffee table for the last six months!"

Yeees, The Importance of Being Earnest is on..."

A HANDBAG!

I would recommend A Street Car Named Desire or The Glass Menagerie both by Tennessee Williams for the prompt. I love both of them.

Sweeney Todd was originally written as a play, so I will go with that one.

I just finished reading Cyrano de Bergerac and I really enjoyed it.

The Normal Heart

The Shape of Things by Neil Labute is a great read, it is also a movie with Paul Rudd. Highly recommended if you need ideas.

I read The Importance of Being Earnest for mine also and it was hilarious. I can't believe I had never read it before. I would so love to see it performed in the theater.

I read The Importance of Being Earnest. Love it!

I plan on reading the play The Laramie Project by Moisés Kaufman. I am from Laramie, Wyoming (lived there for almost 35 years before moving several times elsewhere in Wyoming and Utah. I was going to use it for a book that takes place in my home town, but I felt it important to read this book as a play (especially for the content of what happened in my home town), and there are several other books that either take place in Laramie or in Cody Wyoming where I live now.

I read The Crucible by Arthur Miller for this one.

I listened to the audiobook of Mansfield Park dramatized for this one.

Thanks for the tip on Oscar Wilde! I'm not a big fan of plays, but I'll give this one a go. I love Wilde's sense of humour, so I'm hoping for a great read.

I considered "The Importance of Being Earnest" for this prompt but then I settled on "Pygmalion". I will get to the former once this challenge is over.

I read Long Day's Journey Into Night by Eugene O'Neill. A very difficult piece to read, about the pain a family suffers due to addiction. Act 4 is particularly good, with honesty like an open wound, it is absolutely heart rending.

The Importance of Being Earnest is such a great read! Incredibly witty and funny, well worth a read.

just finished Paul Zindel's the effect of gamma rays on man in the moon marigolds. it was a great quick read.

I've chosen the crucible but haven't read it yet. Lysistrata is one of my favourite plays if anyone is looking for one :) Pygmalion is great too!

I've chosen the crucible but haven't read it yet. Lysistrata is one of my favourite plays if anyone is looking for one :) Pygmalion is great too!

I chose "Othello" by Shakespeare.

My boyfriend is an actor. Most of his work is on screen, but he did a one act play a couple months ago, Road Trip by Jason Milligan. I never saw him perform it, but I ran lines with him enough times that I'm not sure I'll ever be able to forget this play. EVER.

At least I get to count it towards this challenge.

Kerri wrote: "I'm going to read The Mousetrap and Other Plays by Agatha Christie. The Mousetrap is the longest running play and I hope to see it one day."

Oh, good idea! I might read this one, too.