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Draußen vor der Tür

by Wolfgang Borchert · published 1947 · read 2007-06-01
★★★★☆
Borchert's most famous piece – because he died the year it was published, aged 26, of a fever contracted during WW2. We lost a good one that day. This play has the subtitle "A play that no theatre wants to play and that no audience wants to
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Die Physiker

by Friedrich Dürrenmatt · published 1962 · read 2007-02-01
★★★★☆
Satirical stage play, in a Swiss asylum for the insane. The three inmates think they are Newton, Einstein and Moebius. Or so the initial story goes – there's much more to it than that. The murder mystery is just window dressing – the real
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The Visit

by Friedrich Dürrenmatt · published 1956 · read 2009-01-01
★★★★☆
Dürrenmatt will always punch you in the face. This time he's talking about corruptability and the corruption brought about by wealth. It's the terrifying story of a man sold out by his entire community for the promise of wealth. It's about
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The Threepenny Opera

by Bertolt Brecht · published 1928 · read 2011-04-01
★★★☆☆
One of the last pieces from before Brecht abandoned fun and good poems, and turned to political education.
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The Good Woman of Setzuan

by Bertolt Brecht · published 1953 · read 2011-02-01
★★★☆☆
Brecht telling you about circumstances forcing people into immoral deeds. It's peak communist Brecht, and thus unreadable and overall very annoying.
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Waiting for Godot

by Samuel Beckett · published 1952 · last read 2010-04-07
★★★☆☆
Waiting for Godot showed me how free literature was, and the things a determined author can do with and through (and arguably to) a group of actors. I like it for this learning impact, a lot.
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Iphigenie auf Tauris

by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe · published 1786 · read 2007-09-01
★★☆☆☆
Read because the title sounded so intriguing. The plot requires you to understand some of the most convoluted absurd Greek family soap drama first. Iphigenie starts out as bored and frustrated, which felt very relatable. The rest is more of
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Maria Stuart

by Friedrich Schiller · published 1800 · read 2008-02-01
★★☆☆☆
Honestly, I don't remember much of this one except that I started out interested (Mary, after all, has a quite dramatic story to her name) and ended up bored.
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Die Räuber

by Friedrich Schiller · published 1781 · read 2006-03-01
★★☆☆☆
Criticising society by telling a tale of bandits, as one does.
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Wilhelm Tell

by Friedrich Schiller · published 1804 · read 2009-12-01
★★☆☆☆
Wilhelm Tell might be Schiller's most enjoyable drama, but also his most generic one. That's probably a compliment, seeing as it wasn't generic then, and only became so due to its own popularity?
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Harry Potter and the Cursed Child

by John Tiffany · published 2016 · read 2016-08-08
★★☆☆☆
I'm very much not impressed by this bood.
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Nathan der Weise

by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing · published 1779 · read 2010-11-01
★★☆☆☆
Lessing was a good critic, but at best a middling author. His theatre is nearly Brecht-ian in its desire to hit you repeatedly over the head with the metaphor until you're sure to get it.
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Kabale und Liebe

by Friedrich Schiller · published 1784 · read 2006-02-01
★☆☆☆☆
Schiller at his worst, arguably. I had to read this in school, and I had read it beforehand, and at no point in time I could seem to care.