52 Plays in 52 Weeks

The plan was to embark on a Foundation Degree in Performance this coming academic year. Unfortunately however, due to funding issues, that is not going to happen until next year now. So, in order to flex my mental muscles in preparation for this return to study, I am going to immerse myself in a world of plays, one a week in fact and follow this up with a 500 word (ish) review, which will be posted on this blog!

So here is the list (compiled by my wonderful girlfriend Elizabeth), which will be either read, listened to in audio book form or, where possible, viewed:

1. Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? - Edward Albee
2. Communicating Doors - Alan Ayckbourn
3. Antigone - Sophocles
4. The Foxhole - Eric Ferguson
5. Closer - Patrick Marber
6. The Taming of the Shrew - William Shakespeare
7. Caucasian Chalk Circle - Bertolt Brecht
8. An Inspector Calls - JB Priestley
9. Look Back in Anger - John Osborne
10. Blithe Spirit - Noël Coward
11. Three Sisters - Anton Chekov
12. Yerma - Federico García Lorca
13. A View from the Bridge - Arthur Miller
14. Educating Rita - Willy Russell
15. Glengarry Glen Ross - David Mamet
16. The Importance of Being Earnest - Oscar Wilde
17. Jerusalem - Jez Butterworth
18. Doctor Faustus - Christopher Marlowe
19. Sleuth - Anthony Shaffer
20. Arms and the Man - George Bernard Shaw
21. ENRON - Lucy Prebble
22. Saved - Edward Bond
23. How I Learned to Drive - Paula Vogel
24. The Misanthrope - Molière
25. Under the Blue Sky - David Eldridge
26. A Doll’s House - Henrik Ibsen
27. Six Characters in Search of an Author - Luigi Pirandello
28. Shopping and F*cking - Mark Ravenhill
29. Lloyd George Knew My Father - William Douglas-Home
30. The Nature and Purpose of the Universe - Christopher Durang
31. The Government Inspector / The Inspector General - Nikolai Gogol
32. Blasted - Sarah Kane
33. The Unexpected Guest - Agatha Christie
34. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead - Tom Stoppard
35. The Country Wife - William Wycherley
36. Beyond the Horizon - Eugene O'Neill
37. The Birthday Party - Harold Pinter
38. Macbeth - William Shakespeare
39. Bloody Poetry - Howard Brenton
40. East - Steven Berkoff
41. Juno and the Paycock - Sean O'Casey
42. Richard the Third – William Shakespeare
43. A Streetcar Named Desire - Tennessee Williams
44. The Killer - Eugène Ionesco
45. The Modern Husband - Henry Fielding
46. Barefoot in the Park - Neil Simon
47. The Alchemist - Ben Jonson
48. The Admirable Crichton - J. M. Barrie
49. Mahomet – Voltaire
50. A Man for All Seasons - Robert Bolt
51. Midas - John Lyly
52. The Pillowman - Martin McDonagh