User:Taraborn/plays

Modern plays?

What are some of the most important works of twentieth century theatre? Thanks! --S.dedalus 06:09, 26 September 2007 (UTC)

Here are a few suggestions, see very sketchy list below. No doubt I'll forget some I'd have included if I'd spent longer on this. It's also worth saying that a lot of good 20th century drama was written for the screen and not the theatre. Xn4 08:59, 26 September 2007 (UTC)

• Anton Chekhov: The Cherry Orchard, Three Sisters

• W. B. Yeats: Cathleen Ní Houlihan

• T. S. Eliot: Murder in the Cathedral, The Cocktail Party

• Eugene O'Neill: Long Day's Journey Into Night, Beyond the Horizon

• Arthur Miller: Death of a Salesman

• Christopher Fry: The Lady's Not for Burning

• Edward Albee: Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Three Tall Women

• Bertolt Brecht: The Threepenny Opera , Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny, The Seven Deadly Sins, The Caucasian Chalk Circle, The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui

• Thornton Wilder: Our Town, The Skin of Our Teeth

• J. M. Synge: The Playboy of the Western World

• Joe Orton: Entertaining Mr Sloane

• Tennessee Williams: A Streetcar Named Desire, The Glass Menagerie

• Friedrich Dürrenmatt: The Visit

• Harold Pinter: The Caretaker, The Homecoming, Betrayal

• Samuel Beckett: Waiting for Godot, Endgame

• Tom Stoppard: Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead, Jumpers, The Coast of Utopia

• Jean-Paul Sartre: No Exit, Les Mains Sales

• Jean Anouilh: Antigone

• Eugène Ionesco: Rhinoceros

• Paul Zindel: The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds

• Peter Shaffer: Equus, The Royal Hunt of the Sun, Amadeus

He's a little out of fashion now, but George Bernard Shaw was also regarded as a giant among playwrights in his day. Man and Superman, Pygmalion and Saint Joan all date from the 20th century. 80.254.147.52 10:53, 26 September 2007 (UTC)

Any recommended free chess server that supports ELO rating among its users? If that's impossible, I'm willing to pay a small sum of money, too. Thanks. --Taraborn (talk) 11:41, 25 January 2008 (UTC)

All chess servers I know (www.gamecolony.com is where I'm playing this very moment, games.yahoo.com is where most people go, the ICC is a popular non-free site) have some kind of rating system that resembles the Elo (not an acronym!) rating system, but for the real thing you have to play official, over-the-board games. Other chess servers I should mention are the Playchess server (for which you need to buy a copy of Fritz) and the Free Internet Chess Server. 194.171.56.13 (talk) 14:14, 25 January 2008 (UTC)

Thanks! --Taraborn (talk) 00:34, 26 January 2008 (UTC)