After being a member of the technical crew for a performance of this piece of drama, I was intrigued enough by what I saw to buy a copy of the script so that I could peruse the writing in a more leisurely manner. Having only read one of the Sherlock Holmes stories all the way [...]

Noted by the author himself as being a ‘trivial play for serious people’, The Importance of being Earnest embodies one of those rare occasions when the writer doesn’t seem to take themselves too seriously. The general plotline follows two men, Algernon and Jack, who both seem to lead double lives in a sort of country-mouse, [...]

Author: Samuel Beckett Okay, I’m afraid you will have to bear with me on this review, dear reader. Not because I don’t really have anything to say about the latest play I’ve been told to read during my last term as an English undergraduate, but rather because after finishing this piece, I’m still rather torn [...]

Author: Irene Elliot (Based on a novel by Anne McCaffrey) Genre: Play Plot Outline: This play tells the story of a young girl’s struggle to continue doing what she loves, even against the wishes of her parents. Menolly runs away from home and the oppressive life in order to continue playing music and find her [...]

Upon picking up this play and turning to the first page, the alarm bells in my mind went off like a klaxon when I read the words “…this first scene may be cut out…” Sorry to be presumptuous, M. Crimp…but surely this either means that the first scene is entirely superfluous, or you don’t trust [...]

Author: Thornton Wilder Genre: Play Plot Outline: Based in the small town of Grover’s Corners, the play moves through arguably the three most important stages of a person’s life. Family life, marriage, and finally death. Following the lives of the inhabitants of the town, the play proves to be an almost allegorical representation of a [...]