editrx's Cookbook!

[azriona]

Right, so....as some of you are aware, I've been forced volunteered to help edit the cookbook for editrx. This will be seriously entertaining, because I've never actually written a cookbook before. But I'm game to try.

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[sheerpoetry]

YAY!

This sounds like a lot of fun and I'll be going through my family recipe book for some choice selections :)

Might I suggest that, if you decide to use photographs as art, to have the recipe-testers take them if they were not included? It will kill two birds with one stone!

[azriona]

I'll be going through my family recipe book for some choice selections

Yay!

Might I suggest that, if you decide to use photographs as art, to have the recipe-testers take them if they were not included? It will kill two birds with one stone!

Yup, that's listed in the recipe tester section above - it's why I ask if the tester has a digital camera! :) Ah, the things you never knew were part of a well-stocked kitchen.....

[sheerpoetry]

Haha. Pardon me, my brain is a bit muddled from working with The Glass Menagerie today. I totally read that. :)

[azriona]

Oh, I haven't read The Glass Menagerie in ages. Not one of my faves, but not bad. And will certainly turn your brain to goo. :)

[sheerpoetry]

It was the least of the evils of my drama class, and therefore is being turned into a four page paper on the real and meta-drama and...
*headdesk*

Brain is definitely goo. Do yourself a favor and don't indulge in a re-read. I recommend something nice and cheery, like Hamlet instead. XD

[azriona]

LOL, re: Hamlet being cheery. I didn't think the trevails of Tom and Amanda were quite THAT bad.

But now I'm curious about the other evils......?

[sheerpoetry]

I adore Hamlet and anything else Shakespeare. And it's not that the story is that bad, but the writing is. Mainly the verbose stage directions.

Ah, the other evils were evil-er: Hedda Gabler, Miss Julie, Riders to the Sea, The Cherry Orchard, Major Barbara, The Hairy Ape, and The Good Woman of Setzuan. For a modern drama class, I expected Stoppard, Shepard, Mamet...NOT this. Most definitely not this. They're slowly becoming more bearable, I think. I haven't read the newest two yet. ;)

[azriona]

Eurgh. I didn't like Hedda Gabler, I preferred A Doll's House. But Major Barbara wasn't too bad. And I'm sure we did Chekov at some point, but it wasn't The Cherry Orchard. I just can't remember what it was!

But yeah...odd selection for a modern class. Angels in America? Master Harold...and the Boys? Doubt? Proof? Heck, even Waiting for Godot is more modern than most of those.

[sheerpoetry]

Of the bunch, I kind of enjoyed Hedda Gabler and Miss Julie, considering both the women committed suicide at the end. (That's kind of how I feel after reading all of these.) There was something poetic about it, in a demented nucking-futs kind of way.

Yes, modern drama! I kept making the point that it was specified as modern world drama...We are reading Master Harold later. And, thankfully, Tom Stoppard's Arcadia, which I actually read with the same professor last semester. I love Stoppard. But no Mamet!
He might end up with a revolt if all of them continue to be this bad...

But thanks for those--I love drama, so I'll have to read them!

[azriona]

I saw Proof on stage, and loved it. I saw Doubt in its recent movie version, and loved it. (Mostly for the costumes.) I'm trying to think of other modern plays, but I can only think of older ones. Cyrano de Bergerac, and Six Character in Search of an Author (LOVE LOVE LOVE this one).

Ma Rainey's Black Bottom is one of the few August Wilson plays I can stand, and it's about 25 years old, so that might works for modern. I'm sure I'll think of half a dozen more once I turn off the computer!

[sheerpoetry]

I'm a big believer in Mamet, if you ever get the chance. I read Oleanna because one of my professors liked it (and actually wrote the only book there is on it) and just absolutely fell in love. Like Stoppard, he's definitely modern--in language, topic, and everything. Buried Child by Sam Shepard is also great. And everyone's read Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead--or they should. ;)

Ooh, the author one sounds very lit crit-y! I'll have to make a visit to the library!

August Wilson is definitely different. We read The Piano Lesson in playwriting and are also reading it in the drama class. I can't say I was a fan--or of Paula Vogel's How I Learned to Drive.
I do love the freedom you have in drama, but I think there's just a point where you should stop, you know?

If you think of any other good ones, shoot me a note or something! My reading list is infinite, so suggestions are welcome! And thanks for talking drama with me for a bit while me head cleared. :D