Books Read
1. The Write to Write by Julia Cameron – Jan
2. Await Your Reply by Dan Chaon – Feb
3. Changing My Mind: Occasional Essays by Zadie
Smith – Feb
4. Prayer Book (poems) by Matt Mauch – March
5. Reality Hunger, A Manifesto by David Shields –
March
6. Backwards and Forwards by David Ball – March
7. Bossypants by Tina Fey – April
8. An Actor’s Work (a fusion of An Actor
Prepares and Building a Character) by Stanislavski – May
9. Advice to the Players by Robert Lewis – May
10. Method or Madness? By Robert Lewis – May
11. Creating a Role by Stanislavski – May
12. The Open Door by Peter Brook – May
13. Acting the First Six Lessons by Boleslavsky –
May
14. Audition by Michael Shurtleff – May
15. The Empty Space by Peter Brook – May
16. Acting Power by Robert Cohen – June
17. Acting Professionally by Robert Cohen - June
18. Acting is Believing by Charles McGaw – June
19. True and False by David Mamet – June
20. Writing in Restaurants by David Mamet – June
21. Impro by Keith Johnstone – June
22. Improvisation for the Theatre by Viola Spolin
– July
23. The Shifting Point by Peter Brook – July
24. The Craft of Comedy by Athene Seyler – July
25. Respect for Acting by Uta Hagen – July
26. The Craftsmen of Dionysius by Jerome Rockwood
– July
27. My Life in Art by Stanislavski - August (I honestly did read this entire beast...)
28. Zen in the Art of Archery by Eugene Herrigel –
August
29. A Visit From the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan - December
Plays Read
1.
Beyond
the Horizon by Eugene O’Neill – Jan
2.
Metamorphoses
by Mary Zimmerman – Feb
3.
An Enemy
of the People (Jeffrey Hatcher/Ibsen) - Feb
4.
Summer
and Smoke by Tennessee Williams – March
5.
Ghosts
by Ibsen – March
6.
Anna
Christie by Eugene O’Neill – March
7.
Hedda
Gabler by Ibsen – March
8.
The
Master Builder by Ibsen – March
9.
Desire
Under the Elms by Eugene O’Neill – March
10.
The
Homecoming (Mourning Becomes Electra) by Eugene O’Neill – March
11.
The
Hunted (Mourning Becomes Electra) by Eugene O’Neill – April
12.
The
Haunted (Mourning Becomes Electra) by Eugene O’Neill – April
13.
A Touch
of the Poet by Eugene O’Neill – April
14.
A Moon
for the Misbegotten by Eugene O’Neill – April
15.
Orpheus
Descending by Tennessee Williams – April
16.
Cat on a
Hot Tin Roof by Tennessee Williams - April
17.
Sweet
Bird of Youth by Tennessee Williams – April
18.
The
Night of the Iguana by Tennessee Williams – April
19.
The
Eccentricities of a Nightingale by Tennessee Williams – April
20.
Parfumerie
by E. Dowdall – April
21.
Penelope
by Enda Walsh – May
22.
The Hot
L Baltimore by Lanford Wilson – May
23.
Some
Girl(s) by Neil LaBute – May
24.
Our Lady
of 121st Street by Stephen Adly Guirgis – May
25.
The
Pillowman by Martin McDonagh – May
26.
Julius
Caesar by Shakespeare – May
27.
Leonce
and Lena by Buchner – May
28.
Don Juan
by Moliere – May
29.
The
Unmentionables by Bruce Norris – June
30.
Blue /
Orange by Joe Penhall – June
31.
The
Country Club by Douglas Carter Beane – June
32.
The
Shape of Things by Neil LaBute – June
33.
Toronto,
Mississippi by Joan MacLeod – June
34.
Pterodactyls
by Nicky Silver – June
35.
Dissocia
by Anthony Neilson – June
36.
The Lion
in Winter by James Goldman – June
37.
Come
Blow Your Horn by Neil Simon – June
38.
Red by
John Logan – July
39.
My Zinc
Bed by David Hare – July
40.
Cymbeline
by Shakespeare – July
41.
Deathtrap
by Ira Levin – July
42.
Clybourne
Park by Bruce Norris – July
43.
Look
Back In Anger by John Osborne – July
44.
The
Cripple of Inishmaan by Martin McDonagh – July
45.
Bug by
Tracy Letts – July
46.
Richard
III by Shakespeare – August
47.
Twelfth
Night by Shakespeare – August
48.
Troilus
and Cressida by Shakespeare – August
49.
Fortinbras
by Lee Blessing – August
50.
Scenes
From An Execution by Howard Baker – October
51.
The
Crucible by Arthur Miller – October
52.
Woyzeck
by Buchner – October
53.
Defiance
by John Patrick Shanley - October
54.
Doubt by John Patrick Shanley – October
55.
Misalliance
by Shaw – October
56.
Candida
by Shaw – October
57.
In a
Dark Dark House by Neil LaBute – November
58.
Two
Rooms by Lee Blessing – November
59.
Art by
Yasmina Reza – November
60.
Ruined
by Lynn Nottage – December
61.
Noises
Off by Michael Frayn – December
62.
The
Glass Menagerie by Tenneessee Williams – December
SOME THOUGHTS:
I only read 2 novels in 2011. There was a huge gap of reading any kind of books during the second half of the year, because...well...I'm in grad school. I am halfway through Lev Grossman's The Magician King, but it's not gripping me as much as I'd thought. It probably doesn't help that I was using it to put me to asleep at night. I was more just reading it to digest something that wasn't acting theory or a play. That's probably not the best way to enjoy a book, but there you go.
The amount of plays I've devoured this year has tripled from the other years, which you can examine in the links below.
I'll provide a list of movies and plays I attended next.
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