Epistemysics

Bought a few plays today, I did.  As follows, they are:

Phaedra and Other Plays by Racine
Six Plays by Contemporaries of Shakespeare
Whose Life is it Anyway? by Brian Clark
Rhinoceros/The Chairs/The Lesson by Eugene Ionesco
Three Plays by John Webster
Five Stuart Tragedies
Restoration and Eighteenth Century Comedy
Under Milk Wood by Dylan Thomas
King Oedipus, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone by Sophocles
Long Day’s Journey Into Night by Eugene O’Neill
Theophrastus, Plays and Fragments by Menander
Absurd Person Singular by Alan Ayckbourn
Nine Plays by Eugene O’Neill
The Plays of Oliver Goldsmith together with the Vicar of Wakefield by Oliver Goldsmith
Equus by Peter Shaffer
The Rope and Other Plays by Plautus
Three Comedies: Volpone, The Alchemist, Bartholomew by Ben Jonson
Three Jacobean Tragedies: The Revenger’s Tragedy, The White Devil, The Changeling
Exiles by James Joyce
Bernard Shaw Six Plays: The Doctor’s Dilemma, Pygmalion, Major Barbara, Heartbreak House, Captain Brassbound’s Conversion, Man of Destiny by Bernard Shaw
The Oresteian Trilogy: Agamemnon, The Choephori, The Eumenides by Aeschylus
Mother Courage and Her Children by Bertolt Brecht
The Bald Prima Donna by Eugene Ionesco
Stages of Classical to Contemporary Drama - Masterpieces of Theater
Plays: Ivanov, The Seagull, Uncle Vanya, Three Sisters, The Cherry Orchard, The Bear, The Proposal,  A Jubilee by Chekhov
Four Australian Plays: The Front Room Boys, Who?, White With Wire, Chicago Chicago by Alexander Buzo, Jack Hibberd, Jack Hibberd, and John Romeril
The Comedies of William Congreve by William Congreve
Prometheus Bound/The Suppliants/Seven Against Thebes/The Persians by Aeschylus
Look Back in Anger by John Osborne
The Jew of Malta by Christopher Marlowe
The Iceman Cometh by Eugene O’Neill
The Complete Plays by Christopher Marlowe
Three Plays: Six Characters in Search of an Author, Henry IV, Right You Are by Luigi Pirandello
Alcestis and Other Plays by Euripides
Plays Pleasant by Bernard Shaw
The Pot of Gold and Other Plays by Plautus
Electra and Other Plays by Sophocles
A View from the Bridge, All My Sons by Arthur Miller

And just how much, ladies and gentlemen, do you think this bounty – yes bounty – will cost you?  Five hundred dollars?  No!  Four hundred?  If you’re thinking that then you can leave right now because I am offended, ladies and gentlemen, offended that you’d think I’d give you such a bad offer as that.  Three hundred?  No, no, definitely not.  Not even two hundred, ladies and gentlemen.  What I can do for you now, for just those of you who have stayed behind right here, is sell this set to you for no more than $142.50.  Now how’s that for a bargain! 38 books no less.

Saw I’m Your Man at Belvoir again today.  Not as good as the first time, as I suspected (only the great plays don’t fade on a second viewing).  Benedict Andrews was in attendance, along with Matthew Whittet.  Can’t wait for Andrews’ production of The Marriage of Figaro next month.

Going in on the train, and having seen Thyestes twice, I took it upon myself to read Seneca’s script (I managed to find it last night, hidden away behind some other books).  Took me almost exactly the whole train ride.  Also the first proper ancient play that I’ve read in its entirety.  It was…interesting.  Very fast.  Very…what’s the word – basic?

But it is interesting that today I read my first play in quite some time, and today when I get home from the theatre I get an email from a cheap second hand book shop online store thing that tells me all the plays are 50% off.  I went through all 683 they had on the site and picked some that I thought I might like.  I doubt I would have even bothered if I hadn’t just read Thyestes.  The only problem now is, where do I put all the damn books?

I almost, when I came home from Thyestes yesterday, bought myself a ticket to ‘Tis Pity She’s a Whore at the Sydney Theatre for its final performance in Sydney at 8pm, but decided I didn’t want to pay ninety dollars for the privilege.  So it seems I bought myself some books instead.

Yesterday, I mentioned there was a play in the Atlas myth.  I meant a monologue, basically, when Atlas is holding up the heavens.  Not the story before that.

2 pages on the Thyestes review today (I started it).  0 pages on the Gross und Klein review.