Playbooks

"Eat a crocodile?"

-- Hamlet

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About two years ago, the faculty of the Theatre Department emptied their shelves of books and plays they were willing (in some cases, more than willing) to give up. They put them onto a kind of "free shelf" in the glassed-in upstairs lounge of Sage, where they sit in tight stacks, mostly forgotten. There are ancient theatre journals and plays of all kinds.

I rediscovered them just this afternoon. No one was around. These were the titles I took:

- The Good Doctor, by Neil Simon
- The Sunshine Boys, by Neil Simon
- You Can't Take It With You, by Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman
- The Yale Shakespeare Othello
- All My Sons, by Arthur Miller
- Rat in the Skull, by Ron Hutchinson
- Angel Street, a Victorian Thriller in Three Acts, by Patrick Hamilton
- Seven Famous Greek Plays (Prometheus Bound, Agamemnon, Oedipus the King, Antigone, Alcestis, Medea, and the Frogs)
- The Knack, by Ann Jellicoe
- The Dining Room, by A. R. Gurney, Jr.
- The Lion in Winter, by James Goldman
- Arms and the Man, by Bernard Shaw
- The Oresteia, by Aeschylus

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I wonder how many I'll actually read.