Friday, January 23, 2009

Project #1 Academic: University of Missouri at Kansas City

The Heidi Chronicles
by Wendy Wasserstein

"Wasserstein's wise and witty comedy of manners, The Heidi Chronicles."
http://www.busbarn.org/shows/reviews.php?id=34

"This made-for-television drama"

"Political drama and a metaphor for the seeming piety in our present public life."
http://talkingbroadway.org/regional/minn/minn170.html

Cloud Nine
by Caryl Churchill

"''Cloud Nine,'' an imaginative comedy by the British playwright Caryl Churchill."

"CLOUD NINE is...Caryl Churchill's audacious assault on gender, racial discrimination and social oppression."

"Our Town," a classic staple of theatrical literature by Thornton Wilder

"The timeless classic Our Town, a three-act play by Thornton Wilder"

Three Sisters
by Anton Chekhov

"''Three Sisters,'' which is being presented at the Pearl Theater Company, is one of the saddest and most haunting dramas written in this century or any other."

"Chekhov described the play as a comedy."
Wendy MacLeod's dark comedy "The House of Yes."

"The House of Yes is knowingly overripe, a kitsch melodrama"

Noises Off
by Michael Frayn

"Noises Off, the classic farce by the Tony Award--winning author of Copenhagen."

Michael Frayn's hysterical British farce Noises Off.

Dancing at Lughnasa
by Brian Friel

Dancing at Lughnasa could almost be considered an "anti-melodrama."

"Dancing at Lughnasa, Friel's 1990 memory play"

Goodnight Children Everywhere
by Richard Nelson

" It is possible for all the characters in a comedy to be mad."

Richard Nelson’s Olivier Award winning drama Goodnight Children Everywhere at the Geary Theater

The Country Wife
by William Wycherly

"Wycherley's comedy of marriage and infidelity"

"The Country Wife is one of the most frequently read and performed examples of a type of drama known as Restoration comedy..."
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