Here’s my list of the top 10 plays of all time:
- Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett
- King Lear by William Shakespeare
- Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by Edward Albee
- Long Day’s Journey Into Night by Eugene O’Neill
- August Osage County by Tracy Letts
- Rhinoceros by Eugene Ionesco
- A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen
- The Importance Of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde
- The Sea Gull by Anton Chekhov
- Oedipus The King by Sophocles
What is your favourite play? Feel free to comment below.
Euripides is number one for me. His 3 great themes – violence, women and God. No dramatist since has shown his clarity of mind or his courage.