What do you want to see at the theatre?
Posted by: SarahEC
12th Dec 2010 03:59pm
I work with a community theatre group and each year we select plays we think will appeal to the general community. We're always looking to broaden our appeal, though. What would you guys want to see? Great modern classics like Eugene O'Neill & Tennessee Williams? Classics like Shakespeare and Jacobean comedy? Great translated playwrights like Chekhov? Comic farces like those by Michael Frayn and Ray Cooney? Musicals? New and/or experimental works? Australian playwrights? And if you don't actually go to the theatre much, what sort of thing would tempt you to get there?
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Hilary
musicals, operettas, comedy.
Amanda
I really enjoyed Wicked and Phantom of the Opera. Funny thing is I enjoyed wicked more because there was some humour in it. Good music is important to me though. I guess I would go and watch a slightly modernised Romeo and Juliet or in contrast if it was true to original I great costumes and scenery would really make it shine.
RainbowC
I love a good classic done well. Such as Wuthering Heights, Jane Eyre, Little Women. Even kids ones like Peter Rabbit stories would draw me and even encourage me to take my kids to the theatre. It's been soooo long since people have stopped trying to "put a new spin on the classics", it would just be nice to see them they way they were intended!
Anonymous
Fantasy and imagination, positivity and excitment, thats what draws me in. I love performances thats transport me to an alternate reality. Current issues/realities are just depressing and full of negativity and besides, we live in it everyday. Would also be nice to have something to take children along to see.
Anonymous
I would really like to see Kiwi take on "who's afraid of Virginia Wolf?" :P
suzieq
I really like good comedy acts, ones that touch base with everyday life, but make it humorous. Menopause was such a great show, I don't think I stopped laughing all the way through. But please make sure they come over to Perth, coz we usually miss out on these things...
dint
Group devised ,improvisational shows are always fun. Particularly if audience participate.