#comedy plays

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Shoutout to The Importance of Being Earnest for being a feminist play a CENTURY before feminism was officially a thing.

Think about it: the women hold all the cards and all the power in that play, and the men are just running around trying to please them. Jack needs to find a way to get Gwendolen’s MOTHER’s approval of their union; her father doesn’t even show up. Algernon submits wholeheartedly to spending the rest of his life fulfilling Cecily’s fantasy and being the dream man she’s imagined in her head for years. The two protagonists are literally willing to CHANGE THEIR NAMES so they’ll have the name their girlfriends want them to have. And ultimately it’s Miss Prism - the unmarried older woman - who holds the answer to the entire play’s central mystery.

Yes, it’s a comedy, but still, those guys let their ladies wear the pants in their relationships and it is GLORIOUS to see in a play written in the 1890s. Praise Oscar Wilde.

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Publishers’ Binding Thursday

For this week’s Publishers’ Binding Thursday post we’ve got more Shakespeare! This is As You Like It: A Pleasant Comedy by William Shakespeare. This edition was published in 1900 by Dodd, Mead, & Company in New York and is “newly embellished with sundry decorations by Will H. Low.” 

Will Hicok Low (1853-1932) was an artist, muralist, and writer. He also did decorative murals and design work, providing large-scale work for places like New York’s Waldorf Astoria Hotel and the rotunda of the New York State Education Building. 

The binding is a green bookcloth with a gold stamped sweeping floral design. There is a flowery bit at the middle of the cover stamped in white and outlined in gold. The title is stamped in gold. 

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-- Alice, Special Collections Department Manager

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Okay I dot. Really as for personal things here but I kinda need help. I'm auditioning for my fall play this year and since we have a new theater teacher she says we'll be doing our auditions IN class. But out auditions starts Tuesday (September 12) and I'm really not good at looking for monologues. Are requirements is that is has to be from a play from either the 1960 - present. I'm looking for female monologues from comedies (but if you knew any drama monologues for females I'd be happy as well) I'm just having a hard time finding anything so any help at all would be appreciated!!!!!

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Shorter, Faster, Funnier: Comic Plays and Monologues

Edited By: Eric Lane and Nina Shengold

Call #: 812 SHORTER 2011

ISBN: 978-0-307-47664-7

This cornucopia of comedy showcases works by major playwrights and emerging young writers, with casts of all sizes and diverse and challenging roles for actors of every age and type. You’ll discover such colorful characters as a businessman free-falling from a plane, an embittered sword swallower, a punkish girl skateboarder, and retirees in post-apocalyptic Siberia, alongside plays that unleash the humor in high school reunions, alien invasions, office cubicle farms, and even post-Katrina New Orleans. Perfect for actors, students, theater lovers, and comedy fans, Shorter, Faster, Funnier covers the spectrum of humor, from slyly witty to over-the-top outrageous.

●Rob Ackerman ● Billy Aronson ● John Augustine ● Pete Barry ● Dan Berkowitz ● Adam Bock ● Eric Coble ● Philip Dawkins ● Anton Dudley ● Christopher Durang ● Liz Ellison ● Halley Feiffer ● Peter Handy ● Jeffrey Hatcher ● Amy Herzog ● Mikhail Horowitz ● David Ives ● Caleen Sinnette Jennings ● Ean Miles Kessler ● Dan Kois ● Eric Lane ● Drew Larimore ● Warren Leight ● Mark Harvey Levine ● Elizabeth Meriwether ● Michael Mitnick ● Megan Mostyn-Brown ● Mark O’Donnell ● Nicole Quinn ● Wayne Rawley ● Theresa Rebeck ● Jacqueline Reingold ● Laura Shaine ● Nina Shengold ● Jane Shepard ● Edwin Sanchez ● Samara Siskind ● Daryl Watson ● Barbara Wiechmann ● Mary Louise Wilson ● Garth Wingfield ● Gary Winter ● Elizabeth Wong ● Dana Yeaton

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DEFENDING THE CAVEMAN OPENS IN TORONTO TO NEAR-CAPACITY HOUSE!

DEFENDING THE CAVEMAN OPENS IN TORONTO TO NEAR-CAPACITY HOUSE!

Bravo, Andrew Chapman, who owned the stage last night when Defending the Cavemen opened at Toronto’s Alumnae Theatre. The Toronto-based TV host, comedian and actor shared comedic insights into how men’s and women’s brains work when it comes to communicating, negotiating and collaborating….oh what a tricky minefield we walk!Broadway’s longest running solo show has been brought to town by I Love It…

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