Project #1 Academic

Indiana University- Bloomington

Dead Man Walking
By Tim Robbins

"this is hard-hitting drama that neither accepts nor offers quarter."
http://www.reelviews.net/movies/d/dead_man.html

"it’s a commentary and not a parody"
http://www.heraldtimesonline.com/stories/2008/10/15/scene.qp-1515177.sto

Hamlet
By William Shakespeare

"...Shakespeare's great tragedy"
http://www.musicomh.com/theatre/hamlet.htm

"...stock characteristics of the revenge drama genre... [with] elements of the metadrama and the mystery play..."
http://www.hamlethaven.com/genre.html

Marisol
By José Rivera

"The play is a thought-provoking, dramatic commentary."
http://www.siue.edu/ALESTLE/library/SPRING2001/apr19/marisol.html

"The play strings along a merry absurdist plotline..."
http://www.fresnobeehive.com/archives/2007/04/theater_review_4.html

The Boys Next Door
By Tom Griffin

"Griffin's play is a comedy..."
http://www.charlestoncitypaper.com/gyrobase/PrintFriendly?oid=29344

"There is devious power in Griffin’s dextrous mingling of outrageous comedy and this sort of sobering drama."
http://www.stageloft.com/Reviews/boysnextdoor.htm

Same Time Next Year
By Bernard Slade

"Romantic comedies don’t come any slicker than this one."
http://www.blogtheberkshires.com/theater/2008/07/same_time_next_year.html

"Bernard Slade's racy comedy opened in 1975, right in the midst of the sexual revolution."
http://www.goldfishpublishers.com/SameTimeNextYear_TLT.html

How the Other Half Loves
By Alan Ayckbourn

"How the Other Half Loves is a direct descendant of the drawing room farces of Oscar Wilde..."
http://www.culturevulture.net/Theater/HowtheOtherHalfLoves.htm

"How the Other Half Loves cemented Ayckbourn’s reputation as a master of the situation comedy genre."
http://www.malvern-theatres.co.uk/events/45

The Seagull
By Anton Checkhov

"Chekhov described "The Seagull" as a comedy which past productions often failed to bring out."
http://www.ny1.com/content/ny1_living/86704/ny1-theater-review---the-seagull-/Default.aspx

"If you are in the mood for a dark comedy, you won't find a better option."
http://www.talkinbroadway.com/regional/minn/minn25.html

Metamorphoses
By Zimmerman

"...a synthesis of drama, myth, and archetypal psychology."
http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/performing_arts_journal/v025/25.1garwood.html

"Metamorphoses acts as a hyrid by containing elements of various genres including comedy, classic tragedy, and drama, but not necessarily limited to any of them."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metamorphoses_(play)#Genre

An Ideal Husband
By Oscar Wilde

"Over here, amid a swirl of “beautiful idiots,” as Wilde calls them, is broad, silly comedy..."
http://www.theaterdogs.net/2008/07/06/review-an-ideal-husband%E2%80%99/An

"Ideal Husband is Wilde's most earnest social satire."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/stage/2007/dec/19/theatre

Stop Kiss
By Diana Son

"What we have then is a seriocomedy -- a thoroughly modern story that uses a gay love story to point out the unexpected places to which love can take us."
http://www.curtainup.com/stopkiss.html

"In this delicately balanced comic drama..."
http://theater2.nytimes.com/mem/theater/treview.html?res=9502EFDC163AF934A35751C1A96E958260