Project #1: Genres U.C. San Deigo

Topdog/Underdog by Suzan-Lori Parks
Fall 2009
"A darkly comic fable of brotherly love" http://www.dramatists.com/cgi-bin/db/single.asp?key=3263

"All the unsuccessful attempts at seriousness and substantive drama render this play little more than a joke itself" http://talkinbroadway.com/ob/7_26_01.html

Seven Against Thebes By Aeschylus
Spring 2010
"Aeschylus could count on his audience knowing the story depicted in the tragedy without his having to fill in a lot of details." http://www.bookrags.com/studyguide-sevenagainstthebes/intro.html

"A superb rescue of a powerful Athenian tragedy" http://www.amazon.com/Seven-Against-Thebes-Tragedy-Translations/dp/0195070070

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead by Tom Stoppard
Fall 2008
"Tom Stoppard's surreal comedy " http://www.ericdsnider.com/theater/rosencrantz-guildenstern-are-dead/

"From Shakespearean tragedy to absurdist comedy" http://www.listener.co.nz/issue/203/artsbooks/6017/a_perfect_hamlet.html;jsessionid=C8AF585D2BB0DD3D47509667F7EAEE3F

The Laramie Project by Moisés Kaufman
Fall 2008
"Superb Portrait of a Tragedy" http://www.easthamptonstar.com/dnn/Arts/LaramieProjectSuperbPortraitofaTragedy/tabid/11198/Default.aspx

"was built around the vivid onstage presence of Wilde, the central players in the tragedy" http://theater.nytimes.com/mem/theater/treview.html?res=9f0de2de143af93aa25756c0a9669c8b63

Woyzeck by Georg Büchner
Spring 2009
"Woyzeck exists almost as a genre in itself, which some have labeled 'psychological realism.'" http://www.gradesaver.com/woyzeck/study-guide/about/

"However, Woyzeck is undoubtedly a Tragedy" http://www.oppapers.com/essays/What-Is-The-Genre-Of-Woyzeck/260093

Buried Child by Sam Shepard
Fall 2007
"Pulitzer Prize-winning family drama" http://www.theatredatabase.com/20th_century/buried_child.html

"Sam Shepard’s voice in modern drama" http://www.scena.org/blog/newswire/2009/01/buried-child-at-segal-centre.html

Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare
Winter 2007
"Comedy" http://www.sparknotes.com/shakespeare/twelfthnight/facts.html

"falls under the classification of a romantic comedy" http://www.exampleessays.com/viewpaper/37376.html

Skin of Our Teeth by Thornton Wilder
Fall 2007
"as a genuine comedy should be." http://www.enotes.com/skin-our

"invaluable cornerstone of modern American drama" http://www.bookrags.com/studyguide-skinourteeth/intro.html

The Misanthrope by Molière
Winter 2009
"The Misanthrope is more subdued than in Molière's other comedies" http://www.sparknotes.com/drama/misanthrope/context.html

"One of the masterpieces of comic theatre" http://www.dramatists.com/cgi-bin/db/single.asp?key=1607

Camino Real by Tennessee Williams
Fall 2009
"A strange and disturbing drama" http://www.dramatists.com/cgi-bin/db/single.asp?key=1756

"expressionistic and allegorical drama Camino Real" http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poet.html?id=80627

Project #1: Genres Old Globe Theatre San Deigo

Boeing - Boeing by Marc Camoletti and Beverly Cross
03/2010 - 04/2010

"Marc Camoletti farce came to town in 1965" http://theater.nytimes.com/2008/05/05/theater/reviews/05boei.html

"the uproarious jet-propelled comedy" http://www.theoldglobe.org/tickets/production.aspx?performanceNumber=7301

Lost in Yonkers Written by Neil Simon
01/2010 - 02/2010

"Neil Simon’s trademark mix of comedy and drama" http://www.theoldglobe.org/tickets/production.aspx?PID=7433

"Although the play is technically labeled a comedy, it is in fact a hybrid" http://www.answers.com/topic/lost-in-yonkers

The Last Romance By Joe DiPietro
Friday, July 30 - Sunday, September 5

"The Last Romance, a new romantic comedy" http://www.playbill.com/news/article/134243-Robin-and-the-7-Hoods-Will-Premiere-at-Old-Globe-Shakespeare-DiPietro-Bennett-Also-Booked

"THE LAST ROMANCE is a heartwarming boy-meets-girl comedy" http://www.newtheatre.com/cs/cs_s17s1.html

The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare
Wednesday, June 16 - Sunday, September 26

"This comedy centers around the marriages of two sisters" http://tech.mit.edu/V119/N56/Shrew_Tame.56a.html

"The Taming of the Shrew becomes a feel good comedy" http://www.curtainup.com/tamingoftheshrew.html

The Whipping Man by Matthew Lopez
Saturday, May 8 - Sunday, June 13

"Matthew Lopez's quasi-historical drama that is receiving its world premiere here" http://theater.nytimes.com/mem/theater/treview.html?res=9407EED81E3FF934A35756C0A9609C8B63&fta=y

"A mesmerizing drama." - Peter Filichia, Newark Star-Ledger http://www.samuelfrench.com/store/product_info.php/products_id/8388

The Seagull by Chekhov
2000
"frequently reaping many of the laughs Chekhov must have wanted from his so-called 'comedy.'" http://www.theatermania.com/broadway/reviews/10-2008/the-seagull_15443.html

"a brief symbolist drama dreamed by young Konstantin Treplev" http://thephoenix.com/boston/arts/75305-seagull/

The Coast of Utopia by Tom Stoppard
2007

"historical epic on Broadway with a revolving set" http://theater.nytimes.com/2006/11/28/theater/reviews/28coas.html

"contains a fascinating lesson about the nature of drama" http://www.guardian.co.uk/stage/2002/aug/05/theatre.artsfeatures

Alive and Well by Kenny Finkle
Saturday, March 20 - Sunday, April 25, 2010
"This romantic comedy, in the spirit of The African Queen and Romancing the Stone" http://www.theoldglobe.org/tickets/production.aspx?performanceNumber=7479

"Finkle's latest comedy, ''Alive and Well'" http://hamptonroads.com/2009/09/alive-and-well-comedy-wells

Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by Edward Albee
2007
"The Action Arts Theater Company proudly presents Edward Albee's dark comedy" http://www.phillyfunguide.com/event/detail/64125

"compellingly ghastly drama" http://www.guardian.co.uk/stage/2009/mar/10/virginia-woolf-dundee-rep-review

The Unknown Soldier and His Wife by Peter Ustinov
1969
"sardonic humor and a saving sense of low comedy" http://www.samuelfrench.com/store/product_info.php/products_id/6310

"Peter Ustinov’s anti-war satire" http://www.theoldglobe.org/information/newsletter/2008/mar_april08_enewsletter.html