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Something really awesome and theatre-related. Either something weirdly specific about a show I've seen/read, or something where maybe I can elucidate something somebody doesn't understand or wants to know more about?

I would also enjoy giving play recs, especially with a theme; ie, awesome Elizabethan/Jacobean plays NOT by Shakespeare, or plays about math/science, or interesting uses of actors doubling roles.

Can you rec me one play in each of those categories? I like theatre but I feel like I should know more about it.

awesome Elizabethan/Jacobean plays NOT by Shakespeare: The Revenger's Tragedy (probably Thomas Middleton, although sometimes attributed to Cyril Tourneur; my Oxford edition hedges its bets and goes with Anonymous!). If you liked V for Vendetta or Kill Bill, meet their 17th century precursor. It has action movie pacing, some of the most accessible comedy scenes I've come across in an early modern text (shoutout to Arden of Faversham on that point too), and dysfunctional family of villains for our hero to gleefully slaughter. The emphasis is really on the revenge and less on the tragedy, so much that you kind of think they were going to let Vindice and friends get away with it and then the Master of Revels tapped the author on the shoulder and reminded him he'd better kill 'em all so as not to go about making that look so cool, man! There was a film made of it in 2002 with Christopher Eccleston as Vindice and Eddie Izzard as Lussurioso. I highly recommend it, if you're into the idea of a post-punk, SF-influenced, revenge tragedy where "Italy" looks awfully like Liverpool and the score is by Chumbawamba. God bless Alex Cox. :D

plays about math/science: Copenhagen (Michael Frayn). The obvious answer would have been Arcadia because I am F!S's resident Stoppard nerd. But I'll go with Copenhagen because it's a masterpiece and because it makes my head hurt in a good way. It is possible you will find it incredibly dull, and I can totally understand why some people would, but for me it's pretty fascinating. There's a radio version out there with Benedict Cumberbatch as Heisenberg, Simon Russell Beale as Bohr, and Greta Scacchi as Mrs. Bohr.

interesting uses of actors doubling roles: Cloud 9 (Caryl Churchill). Caryl Churchill is a mad genius. This is a play about sexual politics, where the first act takes place in Victorian Africa and the second (somehow only a single generation later) in swinging 1979 London. The actors all change roles, and the text necessitates crossdressing for at least three characters. The character of Betty is played by a man in the first act (to show how little she values herself as a woman) and by a woman in the second ("she gradually becomes real to herself"). Churchill offers two options of how the roles could be broken down between actors, but suggests companies see what works for them!

Cloud 9 sounds especially intrigueing. Thank you! /saved for reference

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