Reading path
Theatre of Cruelty and Comedy
The stage as a place where we go to be undone. From ancient tragedy through modern absurdity, this path moves through rage and laughter in equal measure, often in the same breath. Theatre strips away the distance that prose allows. Every flaw is performed without mercy, every truth spoken aloud in a room full of witnesses. There is nowhere to hide, for the characters or the audience.
In the app a path keeps your place, marks what you have read, and hands you the next work when you are ready for it.
The first button needs the app on this device; the second gets it there.
The route
- 1. Oedipus RexSophocles, 429 BCE
- 2. AntigoneSophocles, 441 BCE
- 3. MedeaEuripides, 431 BCE
- 4. The BacchaeEuripides, 405 BCE
- 5. LysistrataAristophanes, 411 BCE
- 6. OresteiaAeschylus, 458 BCE
- 7. Doctor FaustusChristopher Marlowe, 1592
- 8. The MisanthropeMolière, 1666
- 9. King LearWilliam Shakespeare, 1606
- 10. HamletWilliam Shakespeare, 1601
- 11. MacbethWilliam Shakespeare, 1606
- 12. PhèdreJean Racine, 1677
- 13. Hedda GablerHenrik Ibsen, 1891
- 14. A Doll's HouseHenrik Ibsen, 1879
- 15. Miss JulieAugust Strindberg, 1888
- 16. The Cherry OrchardAnton Chekhov, 1904
- 17. Six Characters in Search of an AuthorLuigi Pirandello, 1921
- 18. The Threepenny OperaBertolt Brecht, 1928
- 19. Long Day's Journey into NightEugene O'Neill, 1956
- 20. Death of a SalesmanArthur Miller, 1949
- 21. A Streetcar Named DesireTennessee Williams, 1947
- 22. Waiting for GodotSamuel Beckett, 1953
- 23. EndgameSamuel Beckett, 1957
- 24. RhinocerosEugène Ionesco, 1959
- 25. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?Edward Albee, 1962
- 26. ArcadiaTom Stoppard, 1993
- 27. Celestina Or The Tragic-Comedy Of Calisto And MelibeaFernando de Rojas, 1499
- 28. Romeo and JulietWilliam Shakespeare, 1597
- 29. PhiloctetesSophocles, 409 BCE
- 30. HippolytusEuripides, 428 BCE
- 31. The CenciPercy Bysshe Shelley, 1819
- 32. The VisitFriedrich Dürrenmatt, 1956