Favourite plays?

[prettybutterfly]

I've read the favourite poems thread with great pleasure and was wondering what everyone's favourite plays were.

Do you prefer to read or watch, or does it depend on the author for you?

I'm a Samuel Beckett girl, with lots of love for Tom Stoppard. I do prefer to read plays rather than see them though, as scenic wobbliness and clunkiness distress me a bit.

I quite like rude and/or silly plays too, from Aeschylus to Feydeau and beyond.

[deaconblue]

Road by Jim Cartwright is one of my all time favourites but I have yet to see anything that moved me more than Ray Fearon in Othello at the RSC many years ago.

[Stefka]

Spring Awakening by Frank Wedekind. The play though, not the musical. Also The Love of the Nightingale by Timberlake Wertenbaker.

[Stefka]

Oh and I like to see plays myself.

[Stefka]

I forgot Sarah Kane!

[prettybutterfly]

I've never heard of Timberlake Wertenbaker ... what an amazing name!

Something to add to my wish list, thanks Stefka.