{"id":132899,"date":"2017-11-10T07:28:54","date_gmt":"2017-11-10T12:28:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=132899"},"modified":"2017-11-10T08:21:45","modified_gmt":"2017-11-10T13:21:45","slug":"bookshelf-tour-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=132899","title":{"rendered":"Bookshelf Tour #6"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nMore plays! <\/p>\n

First up: the essential two volumes of Paddy Chayefsky\u2019s stuff (and there’s still more out there). The Stage Plays<\/a>\"\"<\/i> and The Collected Works of Paddy Chayefsky: The Television Plays<\/a>\"\"<\/i>. He’s so good for acting classes, both his plays, his screenplays, and his TV scripts. Great scenes throughout, high peaks of emotion, good characters to delve into. Extremely Freudian, but that’s part of the era of writing he hails from.<\/p>\n

The Paul Schmidt translation of Chekhov\u2019s plays: The Plays of Anton Chekhov<\/a>\"\"<\/i>: I prefer his translation to all the others. <\/p>\n

My battered copy of Virginia: A Play<\/a>\"\"<\/i>, which I understudied in Chicago. I understudied both female roles – Vita Sackville-West AND Virginia. I actually got to go on multiple times. Truly nerve-wracking (I went into a phone booth near Wrigley Field and called into my answering service, and heard the director calmly telling me I would be going on as Virginia in a week for a week of performances. I literally almost pissed my pants.) It was an unbelievably rewarding experience. <\/p>\n

Christopher Marlowe: The Complete Plays<\/a>\"\"<\/i>: I\u2019ve been meaning to re-read the complete works of Marlowe one of these days. Nobody like him. Last year I re-read all of Shakespeare\u2019s stuff in chronological order (my second time doing that: I highly recommend it) and it made me think it would be fun to do the same thing with Marlowe, whose plays I love but don\u2019t know as well. <\/p>\n

Arthur Miller\u2019s After the Fall<\/a>\"\"<\/i> was my thesis at The Actors Studio, put on at Circle in the Square downtown. A great experience and I\u2019m still proud of my work in that. <\/p>\n

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And Odets! Waiting for Lefty and Other Plays<\/a>\"\"<\/i> Playwright of my heart!! One of my favorite lines in any script ever is from Awake and Sing<\/i> and it\u2019s pure Odets: \u201cBaby, don\u2019t gimme ice when your heart\u2019s on fire!\u201d You MUST mean this when you say it. You can\u2019t hold back. If you hold back, you may be doing some nice acting … but you are not doing Odets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

More plays! First up: the essential two volumes of Paddy Chayefsky\u2019s stuff (and there’s still more out there). The Stage Plays and The Collected Works of Paddy Chayefsky: The Television Plays. He’s so good for acting classes, both his plays, … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15,16],"tags":[194,187,644,192,115,1450,182],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132899"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=132899"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132899\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":132987,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132899\/revisions\/132987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=132899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=132899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=132899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}