Just to be awkward...Why has it got to be post-Shakespeare? As for my actual answer, I suppose I'll have to let you know when I've read every play written. Either that or I'll opt for the "I would have most like to have written the winning play" answer.
-Every rose has its thorns. Mine are all sticking in my side.
Serjeant Musgrave's Dance by John Arden; if you ever get a chance to see it, do so - it manages to be hugely entertaining, visually dramatic, mysteriously thrilling, puzzling and deeply moving all in one. An anti-war play that doesn't ram it down your throat OR
Humble Boy by Charlotte Jones. I played George Pye in HB last May - a great role!. The play has the most fantastic Second Act comic build up to an emotionally charged final scene that I've ever had the privilege of acting!
I wish I'd written Dr Faustus (I don't know whether that was post Shakespeare - from what I remember, Marlowe was a contemporary of his but I couldn't put an exact date on it). I just think it was an awesome play.
But if I'm allowed to ignore the post Shakespeare thing, I wish I'd written one of the Greek tragedies like Oedipus or Hippolytus.
Wow, I've just remembered an idea for a play I had ages ago and realised that it's much more 'West Endy' than what I submitted.
"Serjeant Musgrave's Dance" yes, certainly... Ben Traver's "Plunder" one of the funniest plays ever written... Pinter's "No Man's Land" I saw the Gielgud/Richardson version way back in the last century and the revival with Pinter and Paul Eddington-moving and dazzlin' What else? Oh yes...I'd quite like to have written the winning entry to "the play's the thing"
Hi Adman, yes, I entered... I've had this idea but needed the incentive of the comp. to get me going. I've tried with a stage play before...when an Engl & drama student
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