Let's Play

I am kind of an awful. reader considering how much I love to read. I have a really short attention span and I need to be hooked on a book right away in order to be interested.For this reason I tend to shy away from long novels (I have been trying to read Les Miserables for years and I have come to terms with the fact that I will probably never read War and Peace, it will just sit on my bookshelf mocking me) and will turn to plays.

I thought that I would provide a list of some plays that I have read over the past year or so with a small summary and how I rated it out of five stars.

Spring Awakening

This play is about a group of young people in 19th century Germany. The play deals with the kids discovering themselves and deals with topics such as sexuality, abortion and suicide.

My Rating: 3.5/5 stars

Waiting for Godot

A play in which two characters wait endlessly for the arrival of someone named Godot. Was voted the most significant English language play of the 20th century.

My rating: 4/5 stars

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

Set in the plantation home in Mississippi, the play surrounds Big Daddy Pollitt, a cotton tycoon and examines the relationships among the members of Big Daddy's family, focusing mostly on his son Brick and Maggie the "cat", Brick's wife.

My Rating: 3.5/5 stars

The Normal Heart

The play focuses on the rise of the HIV/AIDS crisis in New York City between 1981 and 1984, as seen through the eyes of writer/activist Ned Weeks, the gay Jewish-American founder of a prominent HIV advocacy group.

My Rating: 4.5/5 stars