What are your favourite non-Shakespeare plays?

• CYRANO DE BERGERAC have you met my tag
• Blithe Spirit especially the 1945 film with Rex Harrison it’s so really deeply delightful and spiteful
• GEORGE BERNARD SHAW
  • If you haven’t read/seen Pygmalion (as well as Shaw’s afterword to it) I very highly recommend doing so—it’s a study in consistent character development, and letting characters organically move your plot forward. Also, it makes it clear why My Fair Lady…willfully misinterpreted some things.
• As I’m sure you’ve heard from multiple people around the internet, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead is the perennial favorite of a particular type of theater-goer, who enjoys meta-theater and commentary on Shakespeare.

W;t is kind of unbearable sometimes (it can be quite cynical and pretentious) but I cried, so it counts.

• I saw an amazing performance of The Turn of the Screw in Cincinnati, with just two actors playing all the roles—it was deeply psychologically twisted and creepy, and they played it beautifully.
• You can’t go wrong with a good Oscar Wilde play, they’re frothy witty confections of social comedies and fun to watch. (There’s a couple filmed versions on Netflix if you’re interested.)
• ANGELS IN AMERICAAAAA oh god angels in america
• FAUST hey I forgot Faust. I love Faust, either from Goethe or Marlowe, doesn’t matter.
• The Greek plays are also worth mentioning—Antigone, Elektra, and Medea in particular are remarkable, despite being written by men in deeply patriarchal times