April 19, 2025 Much Ado About Nothing – William Shakespeare This is yet another interesting Shakespearean comedy. The play has one saucy and sharp tongued woman in the character of Beatrice. I’m quite new…
March 25, 2025 Othello – William Shakespeare Othello is another popular Shakespearean tragedy. The main themes are jealousy and treachery, but race, too, plays a vital role. Othello is a Moor….
March 25, 2025 Macbeth – William Shakespeare Shakespeare’s Macbeth is a dark tale of bloodshed, superstition, and doom. Macbeth, a general of King Duncan, driven by ambition and encouraged by false…
January 25, 2025 A Doll’s House – Henrik Ibsen This is a brilliant play by Henrik Ibsen which is also my first introduction to the author. The play mainly revolves around the theme…
January 25, 2025 Ghosts – Henrik Ibsen “I’m inclined to think that we are all ghosts, every one of us. It’s not just what we inherit from our mothers and fathers…
January 12, 2024 Waiting for Godot – Samuel Beckett Samuel Beckett called his playWaiting for Godot “a tragi-comedy in two acts”. It is because, through his play, he wanted to demonstrate the tragic…
July 17, 2022 No Exit – Jean-Paul Satre “You remember all we were told about the torture chambers, the fire, and brimstone, the “burning marl.” Old wives’ tales! There’s no need for…
November 23, 2021 A Midsummer Night’s Dream – William Shakespeare This is one of the most hilarious comedies of Shakespeare that I have read, even funnier than A Comedy of Errors . Combining fantasy…
November 22, 2021 The Cherry Orchard – Anton Chekhov The Cherry Orchard is a story that portrays the end of an era of landed gentry in Russia. With the fall of the nobility,…
November 22, 2021 The Misanthrope – Molière Here is an author who knows how to write a play. When it comes to comedy, none amuses me the way he does. His…