Category: Drama

Review: Lysistrata by Aristophanes

Posted on April 16, 2011 by

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Lysistrata by Aristophanes Final Verdict: 3.5 out of 4.0 YTD: 19 Plot/Story:3 – Plot/Story is interesting & believable. How did I miss this one?  It had been sitting on my shelf and “TBR” list for far too long.  Lysistrata is one of the original… Continue Reading “Review: Lysistrata by Aristophanes”

Category: Ancient Greece, Aristophanes, Classics, Drama, Play

Review: Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf by Edward Albee

Posted on November 8, 2010 by

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Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? By Edward Albee Final Verdict: 4.0 out of 4.0 YTD:  59 Plot/Story:  4 – Plot/Story is interesting/believable and impactful Edward Albee’s play, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, is intoxicating – literally.  With every turn of the page, the reader… Continue Reading “Review: Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf by Edward Albee”

Category: Book Review, Comedy, Creative Non-Fiction, Drama, Edward Albee, Fiction, Madness, Marriage, Play, Psychology, Sexuality

Review: Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller

Posted on June 26, 2010 by

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Summary: Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman is a resounding cry for help for the working class. Willy Loman, the play’s main character, is a traveling salesman, always on the road and so far removed from his family (physically & emotionally) that he is… Continue Reading “Review: Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller”

Category: Arthur Miller, Book Review, Classics, Drama, Fiction

Review: The Pillowman by Martin McDonagh

Posted on June 25, 2010 by

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Summary: As New York Times columnist Ben Brantley said of McDonagh’s work here: “comedies don’t come any blacker than ‘The Pillowman.’” The vast majority of the play is set in a police station interrogation room, where a young man is being tortured into admitting… Continue Reading “Review: The Pillowman by Martin McDonagh”

Category: Drama, Fiction, Martin McDonagh, metafiction

Review: Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett

Posted on January 12, 2010 by

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If bumbling, blithering, incomprehensible, baloney is brilliance, then Waiting for Godot is a work of genius! Vladimir and Estragon (Didi and Gogo) are a pair of very close, homeless friends who have nothing better to do than wait around all day for someone or… Continue Reading “Review: Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett”

Category: Book Review, Drama, Samuel Beckett

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