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From: jfh@browngr.UUCP (John F. Hughes)
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Subject: Good Plays
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Date: Wed, 27-Mar-85 20:33:44 EST
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Posted: Wed Mar 27 20:33:44 1985
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Reply-To: jfh@browngr.UUCP (John (Spike) Hughes)
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    It may seem silly to suggest this, but try re-reading The Tempest, by
W. Shakespeare. It's a remarkable play, and you will find yourself discovering
the origin of any number of familiar phrases (does 'brave new world' ring a
bell?).
    It's also fun to see the movie "The Forbidden Planet" (Walter Pidgeon and
Ann Margaret, I think) after reading it...

    While I'm on the subject of plays, I also recommend "After Magritte", by
Tom Stoppard (it's pretty light stuff, but with some terrific humor--he has
a nice style of using everything twice) and
Under Milk Wood, by Dylan Thomas. This latter is wonderful to see, as well,
especially if the production is mostly done as a reading rather than as
theatre (i.e. if only a few scenes are *acted* and the rest presented merely
as dramatic reading).
   -jfh