Name A Famous Playwright And A Famous Play Title You Will Never Find At The Drama Bookshop

Oh, Calcutta: Eugene O'Neill

Christopher Marlowe: Extremities

Hellzapoppin: Arthur Miller

Jean Kerr: Glengarry Glen Ross

Mary, Mary: Cole Escola

The Children's Hour: George S. Kaufman

August Strindberg: The Ritz

A. R. Gurney / MA RAINEY'S BLACK BOTTOM

Let's not neglect the musicals. How about Jerry Herman's Hamilton?

David Mamet / LOVE! VALOR! COMPASSION!

Jerry Herman didn't write the books, r9.

What a pointless, witless exercise!

Hal Pinter: Tobacco Road

Robert O'Hara / LOVE LETTERS

How brave of R12 to visit this thread and tell us all off.

You rather missed the point, R11...

Sholem Aleichem - The Book of Mormon

The Drawer Boy by Michael Healy.

Jean Genet: 40 Carats

[quote] What a pointless, witless exercise!

I’m tempted to agree, but maybe I don’t understand the assignment. Are we simply pairing a playwright with a play he’d be unlucky to write? Like Neil Simon: Extremities?

If that’s it I agree it’s a bit pointless.

I meant UNLIKELY to write, if anyone cares.

Noel Coward: Death and the Maiden

Samuel Beckett: Barefoot In The Park

Antonin Artaud: Death Of A Salesman

Neil Simon: Waiting For Godot

Chekhov’s The Odd Couple

Kaufman & Hart: BENT

This completely idiotic thread has to be the work of just one lunatic. It's not clever, funny, nor original.

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I'm a playwright, and I don't understand the point of this thread.

Oh, come off it. The incongruity of some of these combinations is quite funny. R22 made me laugh out loud. And lord knows I'd rather see Neil Simon's Waiting For Godot than Becket's any day!

Agreed that this thread began to be worthwhile when some of the responses were actually very funny, But the fact that the three examples provided by the OP were witless got things off to a very bad start.

I invariably find posts about how dull a thread is far more boring than the thread itself. Vote with your feet, people -- what's the point of telling people that you don't like what they're talking about when no one's making you participate?

And,r33, *they're* the interlopers.

[quote]What's the point of telling people that you don't like what they're talking about when no one's making you participate?

Yes, I'm sure you follow that principal yourself and never make negative comments about anything. Right?

R35, the principle in question isn't "Don't make negative comments" but rather "It's pointless to dump on a thread that no one made you join."

But you knew that. Right?

Well, R36, I guess I don't agree that it's pointless to dump on a thread that no one made you join. And in this case, the only reason I joined the thread was that the title was unclear, so I wanted to check out exactly what was happening in it.