Come Back to the 5 & Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean
by
Ed Graczyk
February 2004
Director: Russell Henderson
Scene Design: Jeromy Hopgood
Costume Design: Nelson Fields
Lighting Design: Tony Hardin
UNDERGRADUATE PLAY READING LIST
Department of Theatre
The following is a list of plays all undergraduate students should read before graduation. A number of the plays on this list are used in various theatre classes for projects.
For a copy you can download, click here. (.pdf format, requires Acrobat Reader).
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Playwright |
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Greek |
Aeschylus |
The Orestia, three plays (Agamemnon,The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides) |
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Sophocles |
Oedipus Rex , Antigone |
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Euripides |
Medea |
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Aristophanes |
Lysistrata |
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Roman |
Plautus |
The Twin Menaechmi |
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Terence |
The Brothers |
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Seneca |
Agamemnon |
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Medieval |
The Second Shepard’s Play |
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Everyman |
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York Cycle |
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Elizabethan |
William Shakespeare |
Hamlet, Twelfth Night, Richard III, Romeo & Juliet |
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Ben Johnson |
Volpone |
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Christopher Marlowe |
The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus |
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Jacobean |
John Webster |
The White Devil |
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French Neo-Classical |
Racine |
Phaedra |
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Moliere |
Tartuffe, The School for Wives |
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English Restoration |
William Wicherly |
The Country Wife |
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Aphra Behn |
The Rover |
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William Congreve |
The Way of the World |
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18th Century |
Colley Cibber |
The Careless Husband |
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Susanna Centlivre |
The Busy Body |
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Richard Brinsley Sheridan |
The School for Scandal |
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19th Century |
Goethe |
Faust, Part One |
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Victor Hugo |
Hernani |
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Georg Buchner |
Woyzeck |
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Anton Chekhov |
The Cherry Orchard |
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Henrik Ibsen |
A Doll’s House (or, A Doll House), Hedda Gabler |
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Strindberg |
Miss Julie |
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Dion Boucicault |
The Octoroon |
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Oscar Wilde |
The Importance of Being Earnest |
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Alfred Jarry |
King Ubi |
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George L. Aiken |
Uncle Tom’s Cabin |
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Anna Cora Mowatt |
Fashion |
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20th Century |
John Millington Synge |
Riders to the Sea |
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Eugene O’Neill |
Long Day’s Journey into Night, Mourning Becomes Electra, three plays (Homecoming, The Hunted, The Haunted) |
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Marc Connelly |
The Green Pastures |
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George Bernard Shaw |
Pygmalion |
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Noel Coward |
Blithe Spirit |
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Maxim Gorky |
The Lower Depths |
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Luigi Pirandello |
Six Characters in Search of An Author |
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Lady Gregory |
The Workhouse Ward |
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Bertolt Brecht |
Mother Courage |
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Lillian Hellman |
The Little Foxes |
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Tennessee Williams |
The Glass Menagerie, A Streetcar Named Desire |
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Arthur Miller |
Death of a Salesman |
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Thornton Wilder |
Our Town, The Skin of Our Teeth |
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Lorraine Hansberry |
A Raisin in the Sun |
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Harold Pinter |
Homecoming |
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David Mamet |
American Buffalo |
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Sam Shepard |
Buried Child |
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Edward Albee |
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? |
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Samuel Beckett |
Waiting for Godot |
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August Wilson |
The Piano Lesson, Fences |
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Tony Kushner |
Angels in America: Millinnium Approaches |
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Suzan Lori-Parks |
In The Blood, Venus |
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Caryl Churchill |
Cloud 9 |
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Athol Fugard |
Master Harold and the Boys |
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Ntozake Shange |
for colored girls who have considered suicide when the rainbow is enuf… |
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Susan Glaspell |
Trifles | |
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Maria Irene Fornes |
Fefu & Her Friends, The Conduct of Life |
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Tom Stoppard |
Rosencrantz and Gildenstern Are Dead |
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Neil Simon |
Brighton Beach Memoirs |
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Horton Foote |
The Trip to Bountiful |
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Richard Rodgers & Oscar Hammerstein |
Oklahoma |
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Stephen Sondheim & James Lapine |
Into The Woods |
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Stephen Sondheim & Hugh Wheeler |
Sweeney Todd |
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Come Back to the 5 & Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean by Ed Graczyk February 2004 Director: Russell Henderson Scene Design: Jeromy Hopgood Costume Design: Nelson Fields Lighting Design: Tony Hardin |