What is your favorite script? It can be an all-time favorite of your favorite for right now.



Come on gang, lets get some posts in this reading section!



I just read it but I loved "A Raisin in the Sun." Was it powerful!



Here is a sample:



Child, when do you think is the time to love somebody the most?



When he's done good and made things easy for everybody?



That ain't the time at all.



It's when he's at his lowest...



...and he can't believe in himself because the world's whipped him so!



When you starts measuring somebody...



...measure him right, child.



Measure him right.



You make sure that you done taken into account...



...the hills and the valleys he's come through...



...to get to wherever he is.

a couple of mine would be:

- The Graduate

- Brighton Beach Memoires

the shape of things - neil labute

Okay, I am going to sound like the biggest NERD in the world, but I don't care: My all-time favorite play ever is "Macbeth." I think it has EVERYTHING you could want - it has incredibly complex characters, blood and guts and action, and the poetry is Shakespeare at his most beautiful. Even when they are talking about killing each other, those words are so incredibly visual, you get vivid mental images of the carnage from the words the characters use. It takes all the beautiful poetry of Shakespeare and puts it into a story that is so dark and compelling - lust for power, revenge, greed, blood and guts, insanity, action-packed fights...what more could you want?

SAVERY!!! You said the "M" word!!!!!! Oh, my!!!

My roof just collapsed...


thanks Savery...

Great question...and Savery, you need to go out to another thread, walk around it 3 times, spit, curse and quote lines from "Midsummer" before we let you back in! (Though I completely agree with you about the play!)

Are we talking PLAYS or movies here? Since I worked in film, I always thought of scripts as for movies, and plays are just plays. As far as plays go, the aforementioned Scottish play and "The Iceman Cometh" are the ones I always cite as being just about perfect. The Kaufman/Hart plays are also wonderful reads.

For films....well, I've read about 2500 scripts in my life, and my favorites were never produced. But of the ones that were produced, I'd say "Good Will Hunting" ranks pretty high up there. By the way, I'm talking about scripts, which can be very different from the movie that is eventually made (though GWH was an excellent film).

For the unproduced stuff, for the record -- an amazing script by Tim Blake Nelson called "Seasons of Dust" and the best, best, best script I ever read was called "Broxton for Mayor" by a comic actor/film editor named Robert Watzke. A company I worked for tried to get it made for years but it's just too damn smart for movie studios to get behind (imagine Charlie Kaufman writing "The Wizard of Oz").

And I even said it ALOUD as I typed the words! MWAH HA HA HA!!! Does this forum count as a "theatre?"

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Okay, I am going to sound like the biggest NERD in the world, but I don't care: My all-time favorite play ever is "Macbeth.".... revenge, greed, blood and guts, insanity, action-packed fights...what more could you want?

It's been a long time since I've read it, but yes it is great! Savery & others -- you should check out the Billy Morrissey-directed film "Scotland, PA" if you haven't seen it yet. You can rent it on DVD. Maura Tierney and James LeGros star in it, and it's pretty funny. It's a 1970s, fast-food industry, Western Pennyslvania version of "Macbeth." check it out!!!!

Yes, it was hilarious. :grin:

I read this great play "I Have Before Me a Remarkable Document Given to Me by a Young Lady from Rwanda" by Sonja Linden. Then I saw it in Chicago at Victory Gardens Theatre and it was amazingly moving and beautiful.

Other favorites include:

Pygmalion
Angels in America
Anna in the Tropics

Ok, well maybe I am not as cultured as some, but I love "The Big Lebowski". My bf and I quote it so much that we had to stop bowling with our friends until they watched it too.
Some examples:

Maude Lebowski: What do you do for recreation?
The Dude: Oh, the usual. I bowl. Drive around. The occasional acid flashback.

The Dude: Fortunately, I'm adhering to a pretty strict, uh, drug, uh, regimen to keep my mind, you know, uh, limber.

The Dude: Let me explain something to you. Um, I am not "Mr. Lebowski". You're Mr. Lebowski. I'm the Dude. So that's what you call me. You know, that or, uh, His Dudeness, or uh, Duder, or El Duderino if you're not into the whole brevity thing.

Maude Lebowski: Do you like sex, Mr. Lebowski?
The Dude: 'Scuse me?
Maude Lebowski: Sex. The physical act of love. Coitus. Do you like it?
The Dude: I was talking about my rug.
Maude Lebowski: You're not interested in sex?
The Dude: You mean coitus?

Plays to name a JUST a few:
The Crimson Thread
Noises Off
The Glass Menagerie
.....I could go on and on and on......

I've gotta go with "The Importance of Being Earnest"

That one cracks me up everytime.

I just re-read "Six Degrees of Seperation."

What a masterful play...love it. Working on it in class.