That play you've always wanted to do.

Just looking for people's own choices here: is there a play that you've always wanted to be involved with, but so far haven't done it? Maybe it's just too obscure or unpopular for anyone to put it on, maybe you've auditioned for it in the past but never got in, maybe you just haven't got around to staging it yet. My pick is Shakespeare's Coriolanus - it's an awesome and, I think, deeply underrated tragedy. What's your choice?

Robert E Lee's "Inherit The Wind". Doesn't exactly fit the criteria, as I had a small role in it as a youngster in QLD. Was my first taste of REAL theatre, and holds fond memories. I looked it up recently with a thought to directing it, but the cast is a bit large, and being relatively unknown, I think it would be difficult to cast. It's a courtroom drama set in Tennessee in 1929ish, and based on the Scopes Monkey trial. www.meltheco.org.au

It's an awesome script, from memory (been a few years).

What's the standard phrase? Too old for Hamlet, too young for Lear?

I'd come see all of those. Except maybe Sound Of Music :P www.meltheco.org.au

Directing list: St Joan of the Stockyards - Brecht The Resistable Rise of Arturo Ui - Brecht The Good Woman(person) of Setzuan - Brecht Threepenny Opera - Brecht and Weill The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahaghonny - Brecht and Weill Oleanna - Mamet Something by Neil Labute, just haven't read enough of his work yet. The Frogs - Aristophanes Lysistrata - Aristophanes The Poet and the Women - Aristophanes Oedipus Rex - Sophocles The Plough and the Stars - Sean O'Casey Agamemnon - Aeschylus Trans. Berkoff Inner Voices - Louis Nowra The Golden Age - Louis Nowra Cosi - Louis Nowra The Dumbwaiter - Pinter The Caretaker - Pinter The Birthday Party - Pinter This Story of Yours - John Hopkins Lear - Edward Bond Amadeus - Peter Shaffer Equus - Peter Shaffer Sleuth - Anthony Shaffer (although I would love to use Harold Pinter's treatment) Dr. Faustus - Marlow More Light - Snoo Wilson The Number of the Beast - Snoo Wilson Sweeney Todd - Sondheim & Wheeler Urinetown - Cotis & Hollowman Oliver! - Lionel Bart Cabaret - Kander & Ebb The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged) - The Reduced Shakespeare Company Waiting For Godot - Beckett (Would like to do it again) Endgame - Beckett Happy Days - Beckett Footfalls - Beckett Krapp's Last Tape - Beckett Act Without words I & II - Beckett Shakespeare's - Cymbeline Macbeth (Coming March 2010) Richard III Henry V Titus Andronicus King Lear Troilus and Cressida Romeo and Juliet The Tempest The Winter's Tale Julius Caesar Antony and Cleopatra Performance list Othello - Iago (Coming November 2009) King Lear - Edmund Romeo and Juliet - Mercutio and Tybalt Hamlet - Hamlet and Edmund Titus Andronicus - Titus (one day i'll be old enough) Midsummer Night's Dream - Bottom Richard II - King Richard II Henry V - King Henry Richard III - King Richard III Agamemnon - Agamemnon (considering I've played him in nearly every other bloody play he features in!) Measure for Measure - Antonio Julius Ceasar - Antony, Ceasar and Brutus Tempest - Caliban and Prospero Arturo Ui - Arturo Ui Threepenny Opera - Macheath and Tiger Brown Amadeus - Salieri and Mozart The Birthday Party - Stanley Dr. Faustus - Faustus and Mephistopheles Caucasian Chalk Circle - Azdak Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead - Rosencrantz, Guildenstern and The Player and pretty much anything else that people are willing to cast me as. So this list should keep me busy for the next decade at least

I don't act any more although I am trying puppetry for the first time,some phrase about old dogs and new tricks rings a bell here. Given my recent fascination for new work the next play I want to direct probably hasn't been written yet. I always wanted to play Arthur in Camelot and Don Quixote in La Mancha Is that all there is? Well if that's all there is my friend, then let's keep dancing. www.tonymoore.id.au

Please, Please, PLEASE, will someone let me play Miss Marple! There HAS to some reward for having looked like Margaret Rutherford all my life. Please will someone do an Agatha Christie and cast me as Miss Marple before I get too old to be able to learn lines. Everyone I've mentioned it to agrees that I would be ideal for the role, but no-one will let me DO it! Someone take pity on an old lady before its too late.

Please, Please, PLEASE, will someone let me play Miss Marple! There HAS to some reward for having looked like Margaret Rutherford all my life. Please will someone do an Agatha Christie and cast me as Miss Marple before I get too old to be able to learn lines. Everyone I've mentioned it to agrees that I would be ideal for the role, but no-one will let me DO it! Someone, take pity on an old lady before its too late. Anytime after September next year - I'm busy till then. Please?

I'm not sure if I'd prefer viola or olivia, viola is the bigger part but olivia has the better lines. 'item two, lips, indifferent red...'

Sorry ignore the Edmund in Hamlet... Dunno what happened there

For soome bizarre reason I've always wanted to play Gloucester (?) in Lear, the one that gets his eyes put out... That has to say something that this role has ALWAYS fascinated me! Have also always wanted to play Lady Bracknell in Earnest... Thank the Gods there is a tradition of her played by blokes! Actually always wanted to play Lady M in an all-male production of MickyB as well... One of these days I will also get to direct Nine and Hal V And the Gods help me if I get my hands on Les Miz or Phantom - I have two BRILLIANT regietheater productions in my head that would probably get me lynched :-)

I said play not plays!!!! I've always had a keen interest in playing Edmund in Lear as well. I actually got cast in the role once, but then the production was cancelled after the first readthrough.

but Alex in A Clockwork Orange for me

Gloucester's an awesome part.

And I hope you had a very special special day today, btw.

I've always wanted to play Joan (Saint Joan - Bernard Shaw)

I'm sorry Grant, I'm just not a one play kind of guy.

Always wanted to perform as Rosencrantz in "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead" by Tom Stoppard. Keep being told I should direct it but I don't have enough idea developed to scope the entire play. . .yet! Otherwise I'm hunting for a decent juicy evil female role. . . the roles I generally fall in love with are male (as you can see from Ros mentioned above) . . . MY psych friends tell me I suffer from the dramatic version of Freud's penis envy, which for some reason I can agree with, don't watn to be a man they just get such awesome roles! Recently fell in love with the classic female role of Hedda from Ibsen's "Hedda Gabler" but again want to play Judge Brack in that also. Inside every adult is the child that was and inside every child is the adult that will be. (John Connolly)

Lady Macscottishplay, The Wicked Witch of the West...nope can't think of any more that aren't shakespearean or pantomime...but other, more educated thespians, help me out? Who are the villanous women in theatre?

Ever since high school I wanted to do The Crucible. I'm devastated that I missed it at Roleystone this year. Oh well, those interfering holidays to Europe are a decent substitute!

You're so unfaithful.

I have a monologue ive been doing for years from Angels in America...my absolute dream role would be to play Harper in that

Not that I'm an opera singer... But I would love to play Dr. P in Michael Nyman's "The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat" (Have just been listening to it in the car and remembered how much i love it)

"Women Beware Women" by Middleton, Medea, Mother Courage is neither villain nor hero in my opinion, "The Personal Enquiry Officer" in Scapegoat (One of mine, I couldn't resist.) Abigail in The Crucible (I think she's a villain) Also take a read of Strindbergs "The Stronger" and "The Father" and "Miss Julie". I'm not sure about any of those characters. "The Maids" is an interestingly ambiguous performance for two women. What about "Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf." is the central character villain or victim? Seriously there aren't enough good evil roles for women that don't become stereotypes. Is that all there is? Well if that's all there is my friend, then let's keep dancing. www.tonymoore.id.au

I recently saw a film called "The Moon is Blue" on ABC2, it was originally a play by Herbert somebody rather and I think they shot the film in the 50s. It was so witty, nobody writes stuff like that anymore!! The other one is 'The Weir' by Conor McPherson. I did a monologue from it in year 12. It has a really sedate pace and gets really spooky sometimes. One of those plays where everything and nothing happens. Love it. "I have two giraffes... the State requires me to learn the Harmonica..."

There's a great little black comedy titled Dead Guilty written by Richard Harris. The role of the widow (I think the character's name is Mrs. Hadril, but don't quote me on that) is deliciously evil at heart. And the play only needs four actors on one set... "Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep." Scott Adams

Well, if I could narrow it down, I would love to produce and direct Crave (Sarah Kane) in conjunction with mental health week. I already have a whole portfolio prepared but I don't think I'll be able to handle such a project for a while :P As for roles I would like to play... the shortlist (at the moment) would be: Baker's Wife (Into the Woods), Cathy (The Last Five Years), Eponine (Les Miserables), Ruth (Pirates of Penzance), Kate/Lucy the Slut (Avenue Q), Cordelia (King Lear), Lady Anne (Richard III), Martha or Honey (Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf), and Algernon (The Importance of Being Earnest) and I know he's a boy but I'm sure I would be awesome :D While on the subject of being a man, I would love to play Volpone in Jonson's Volpone or the Fox. Ah... I know there are so many more than that but they are fresh in my memory

Young enough, Jeff dear, it's awefully clever. . . Sorry thought I'd join in. Returning to my hovel now. ~ Bec Inside every adult is the child that was and inside every child is the adult that will be. (John Connolly)

Precisely my point. . but I was cast as Abigail Williams a litle while back but had to withdraw from the show after first rehearsal because of family stuff. I'm just a sucker for side kick sort of roles. . Inside every adult is the child that was and inside every child is the adult that will be. (John Connolly)

It is heartening to see young local writers seem to be getting this message. In Grant Watson's CRY HAVOC (currently playing at the Blue Room in Northbridge), based on Shakespeare's JULIUS CAESAR, the "lean and hungry" conspirator is congresswoman Cassandra Ford, chillingly portrayed by acclaimed Perth actress Mia Martin. Mia reports that when she walks into the bar after the play, she gets many a cold glare from the patrons - a response she takes as a compliment - and she is relishing the role of villain rather than victim this time around. Ssstinger>>>