Read 'Til You Drop

I don't think there's any play that I could put in that category -- certainly not from just studying it in high school. I knew Stoppard's Arcadia entirely by heart, at one point, but I still would enjoy watching it. (I had it memorized because I was in it, and I have one of those weird memories when it comes to the spoken word.)

I was in a hellish production of No Exit, though, and I don't think I'd ever want to see that again. Do translated plays count?

I didn't study any plays to that level in high school, except for the ones we did in the theater club.

I did read and re-read Cyrano de Bergerac, but that was translated into English and doesn't count.

Even though I know it backwards and forwards, I still enjoy seeing "Up the Down Staircase" live.

It's the movie version, which I studied while doing my role, that I *cannot* watch any longer. Ick.

:)

The only one that pops into my head at the moment is Arthur Miller's The Crucible, though I think I didn't have to utterly tear it apart scene by scene until my college level directing class.

Cyrano de Begerac in its original French, since I did go to a French high school...

But Death of a Salesman is one of the few English plays that I remember without trying to remember.

The Importance of Being Earnest

The Crucible. Hands down, that play has been run into the ground with me, also Death of a Salesman. There are the obvious Shakespeare plays, mainly Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, and MacBeth.

I think thats about it, if i think of anymore I'll let you know.

When I went to high school, Shakespeare was the only one who had written anything yet...

Julius Caesar and Macbeth.

For reasons passing understanding, every Junior High and High School I ever attended--all four of them--had a thing about Thornton Wilder's Our Town.

Not backwards and forwards, but I studied "Death of a Salesman" and loathed it to the point that damned if I was EVER going to see it ANYWHERE. I still haven't ever seen it performed. Not that people do it much anymore. I'm not sure if it's because it hasn't aged well, or because it was done in by the educational system.

We didn't do it quite enough to know it backwards and forwards, but we studied Rosencrantz And Guildenstern Are Dead for quite a while, and watched the movie, and wrote about it... etcetera. Great stuff. Could still probably make really elitist jokes by quoting from it!

For some reason, four times a school year, my drama teacher put on a play version of The Neverending Story.

Yhese are plays I was in and did papers on them for Lit class for extra credit.

Moliere's "Imaginary Invalid"
Musical of "Li'l Abner"
"1984"

Our Country's Good, by Timberlake Wertebaker. Based on the novel The Playmaker by Thomas Keneally. It is based on a true story about a play put on by the convicts in the first British penal colony of Botany Bay, Australia. Both play and book were life changing.

We did it our junior year, January 1993. The reprised it the following year for a theatre festival.
We were the first high school on the planet to ever do it. It was considered to mature for teenagers, even though the oldest of the convicts was 23 and most were between the ages of 14 and 18.

I could still recite a lot of it today and the last time I performed it was late summer 1993. I also still have my favorite prop, Dabby's chickens from her scene in The Recruiting Officer. During that show I also proved that I could bite my own toenails. And I still get misty when anyone mentions Devonshire. Or when I hear the bagpipe version of "Amazing Grace" which was our curtain call song. *sigh*

Oh and yeah I can't ever see another performance of it without wincing because, "They're doing it wrong!!"

Summer of The Seventeenth Doll - Ray Lawler.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Summer_of_the_Seventeenth_Doll

The Crucible was done to death. Oy.

Also, Grease. After watching the movie, there was just no way a bunch of gangly high school drama geeks were going to get that right. Nor would it be done without complaints about how lewd it was from the local sticks-up-their-butts. :)

Man of La Mancha - we studied it in Grade 10 (and saw the stage play the same year). I still enjoy it though - probably because it's a musical.

Our Town is a good one - we didn't study it, but It's a play that's been quite overdone. And I've not yet managed to sit through it without falling asleep (not literally, but mentally.)

Jana

I am in agreement with everyone else, The Crucible was definitely one that was run over with the memorization truck a few times. Although we definitely had macbeth and a few other shakespearian plays thrown in for good measure over the years ;)

Kismet - it's been *cough* years since I was one of the three "babies" of the cast (at 16 years old, the other two "babies" were 11-turning-12 and 13 y.o.) in the community theater, but I can still do whole scenes in my head, a lot of the songs (mine and other cast members'). I'm not sure about the appreciating a real live production or not, I've never had the chance to see it done by anyone else. (Not exactly the world's most popular.) I suspect, though, that there would be a lot of "that's not right!" going on, even this long after.

The Crucible, The Lottery, and Our Town

Alas, it was all Shakespeare for us. I now cannot bear even the thought of Romeo and Juliet. I won't even read a novel if the critics compare it to R & J. Bleh.

Nope, Shakespeare was all they felt was appropriate to cram down our throats. Namely: Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet, and Hamlet.

I am still somehow able to appreciate Much Ado About Nothing and The Taming of the Shrew, however.

All we studied was Shakespeare and The Crucible. I'd have to say The Crucible is the only one I wouldn't care for live. I'll never get tired of anything Shakespeare! :-)

I didn't even have to think about this one. I have studied Death of a Salesman over, and over and over. Both in high school and in college. If I have to study it one more time for any class I might tear my hair out. I can't stand hearing it, reading it or seeing it in any way, shape or form.

Yup. That's my answer. Death of a Salesman.

I know a lot of Shakespeare, but I never get tired of Shakespeare on stage. Unless, you know, it's crap Shakespeare.

I did became perhaps a little too familiar with A Doll's House and Hedda Gabler in English class, and with Six Characters in Search of an Author and Everyman working costume crew for my school's productions in grade 12 (the costume shop was within easy hearing distance of the stage, and we were always in there cutting or sewing or glueing or what have you during rehearsals, not to mention having to take wardrobe notes through all the tech rehearsals and the dress rehearsal).