#20BooksOfSummer 2019

• I just love this photo from last years’s post #20BooksOfSummer 2018.
• I’m using it again because it always makes me smile and
• …I have the urge to make a  Gin & Tonic !

• Now the hard part:
• Make a list for… #20BooksOfSummer
• hosted yearly by Cathy
• @Cathy746 Books
• I selected books about theatre and plays that
• …I REALLY REALLY want to read.
• List of Challenges 2019
• Monthly reading plan
• #20BooksOfSummer
  

Read:

1. Glengarry Glen Ross – D. Mamet – READ
   
2. The Glass Menagerie – Tennessee Williams – READ
   
3. Waiting for Godot – S. Beckett – READ
   
4. Twenty-First Century American Playwrights – C. Bigsby – READ
   
5. The Mueller Report – READ
   
6. Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom – D. Blight – READ
   
7. Stamped From the Beginning – I.X. Kendi – READ
   
8. The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke – J.C. Stewart  – READ
   
9. The Arsonist – C. Hooper – READ
   
10. Himself – Jess Kidd – READ
    
11. August Wilson’s Pittsburgh Cycle (13 essays) – editor S. Shannon #20BoS – READ
12. Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?  – E. Ablee – READ  (play
13. Noises Off – M. Frayn – READ  (play)
14. Fences – A. Wilson – READ  (play)
15. Streetcar Named Desire – T. Williams – READ
    
16. Blakwork – A. Whittaker – READ
    
17. James Tiptree, jr. The Double Life Alice Sheldon – J. Phillips – READ 
18. Ghosts of the Tsunami – R. L. Parry – READ
19. Indecent (play) – Paula Vogel – READ
20. The Heart’s Invisible Furies – J. Boyne – READ
21. The Coddling of the American MInd – G. Lukianoff, J. Haidt – READ
22. Astonished Dice – G. Cochrane (short stories) – READ
23. We Can Make a Life – C. Henry – READ
    
24. Seeing Yellow (poetry) – E. Bourke – READ  shortlist Irish Times Poetry Award 2019
25. The Weir (1997) by Conor McPherson – READ
26. The First Casualty – Peter Greste – READ
27. Max Havelaar – Multatuli – READ
28. 100 Essays I Don’t Have Time to Write – S. Ruhl – READ
29. These Truths – Jill Lepore – READ

Using this list for #20BooksOfSummer….

#Challenge read 50 Best Plays in the Past 100 Years:     15/50

1.  Death of a Salesman (1949) by Arthur Miller (Pulitzer 1949) – READ 
   
2.  Streetcar Named Desire – T. Williams – READ
   
3. Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? E. Albee (Pulitzer 1963 READ
   
4.  Long Day’s Journey into Night (1956) by Eugene O’Neill  – READ
   
5. Fences – A. Wilson – READ 
   
6. Angels in America: T. Kushner –
   
7. Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett – READ 
   
8.  Pygmalion (1913) by George Bernard Shaw
9.  A Raisin in the Sun (1959) by Lorraine Hansberry – READ 
   
10.  Our Town (1938) by Thornton Wilder – READ
    
11.  Six Characters in Search of an Author (1921) by Luigi Pirandello
12. The Glass Menagerie (1944) by Tennessee Williams – READ
    
13. Glengarry Glen Ross – D. Mamet – READ
    
14. August: Osage County (2007) by Tracy Letts
    
15.  True West (1980) by Sam Shepard – READ 
    
16.  The Iceman Cometh (1946) by Eugene O’Neill
17.  Look Back in Anger (1956) by John Osborne
18.  A View from the Bridge (1955) by Arthur Miller – READ
19.  The Little Foxes. (1939) by Lillian Hellman
20.  The Real Thing (1982) by Tom Stoppard
21.  Master Harold and the Boys (1982) by Athol Fugard
22.  The Homecoming (1965) by Harold Pinter
23.  Ruined (2008) by Lynn Nottage (2009) – READ
    
24.  Mother Courage and Her Children (1941) by Bertolt Brecht
25.  Six Degrees of Separation (1990) by John Guare
26.  Doubt (2004) by John Patrick Shanley
    
27.  Top Girls (1982) by Caryl Churchill
28.  Present Laughter (1942) by Noel Coward
29. Noises Off – M. Frayn – READ 
    
30. Marat/Sade (1964) by Peter Weiss
31.  The Lieutenant of Inishmore (2001) by Martin McDonagh
32.  Machinal (1928) by Sophie Treadwell
33.  The Norman Conquests(1973) trilogy by Alan Ayckbourn
34.  The Bald Soprano (1950) by Eugene Ionesco
35.  M. Butterfly (1988) by David Henry Hwang
36.  The Dybbuk (1920) by S Ansky
37.  Saved (1965) by Edward Bond
38. Topdog/Underdog (2002) by Suzan-Lori Parks 
39. The Front Page (1928) by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur
40. Accidental Death of an Anarchist (1970) by Dario Fo.
41. Picnic (1953) by William Inge
42. Journey’s End (1928) by R.C. Sherriff
43. The Odd Couple (1965) by Neil Simon
44. The Orphans Home cycle – 3 one act plays by Horton Foote (masterpieces!)
45. The Women. (1936) by Clare Boothe Luce
46. What The Butler Saw (1969) by Joe Orton
47. Awake and Sing! (1935) by Clifford Odets
48. The Piano Lesson (1987) by A. Wilson
    
49. Uncommon Women and Others (1977) by Wendy Wasserstein
50. The Weir (1997) by Conor McPherson- READ