2017 Reading Challenge discussion

I had honestly no idea where to start with this one. I don't attend much theatre despite a vibrant local scene, and then I found this article on Buzzfeed (yeah, I am no fan of the site, either) of 32 Plays You Need To Read. It's a really great list with depth and breadth and I will definitely be selecting one of these!

My current frontrunners are either The Pillowman or Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf (our library has the updated-for-the-2005-Broadway-run script).

That's a great article. Thankyou for sharing. It will definitely help narrow it down for this category.

I was going to choose a Shakespearean play, Coriolanus to be precise, but then I decided to pick a modern play just recently publish in book format: Dark Road by Ian Rankin and Mark Thomson.

I am a huge fan of mysteries. I feel like most of my selections for this challenge will somehow fall into that genre!

Thank you for sharing this!

I'm going for Harold Pinter myself. The Birthday Party.

Tennessee Williams - Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, A Streetcar Named Desire, The Glass Menagerie, etc.
Moliere - The Misanthrope, Tartuffe.
The Crucible, Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller. These classics most libraries should have and are fairly cheap on Amazon.

Thomas wrote: "I'm going for Harold Pinter myself. The Birthday Party."

Me too. :-)

The Imaginary Invalid by Moliere is one of my favorites. I'm going for Shakespeare's Titus Adronicus though.

My daughter in law suggested to me Same Time Next Year. I am excited to read this one since I saw the movie. I also recommend Sleuth. Great movie, and play.

I picked Streetcar for the challenge, but I also loved Rabbit Hole and Glass Menagerie.

Cheryl wrote: "I had honestly no idea where to start with this one. I don't attend much theatre despite a vibrant local scene, and then I found this article on Buzzfeed (yeah, I am no fan of the site, either) of ..."

Followed the same list and picked the first book - 'The Pillowman'. Completed it in one go and have been recommending it to everybody since.

After reading Pinter's The Birthday Party I can wholeheartedly recommend it!

I remember reading Cat on a Hot Tin Roof in school and loved it..

Hmm, I'm already going to read a Shakespeare (Romeo & Juliet is the only thing I can think of that I didn't read but was probably meant to at school) so I am still pondering this category.

I may go for Red Velvet as it is on my shelf & it was fantastic on stage. Otherwise I may actually go way back to one of the Greek plays *ponders some more*