I've read a few at school, the only scripts I've read unprompted have been on DA. Generally I prefer seeing plays to reading them, though.

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What plays have you seen recently? Anything stood out or made you consider the writing of it?

What scripts did you read at school?

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As a general rule, I only read plays for class. I've become a bit jaded because most of them, I don't like - which I'm sure is the fault of my teachers rather than the playwriting world as a whole.

Ones I have enjoyed have been A Taste of Honey by Shelagh Delaney, The Country Wife by William Wycherley and Accidental Death of an Anarchist by Dario Fo. There was also one called The Memory of Water which wasn't bad. It was written by a woman, but I can't remember her name.

There's nothing to stop me going to Waterstone's, finding plays I would enjoy and reading them for pleasure; but to be honest, I much prefer to read novels so if I want to read for pleasure, that's what I do. I find them so much easier to read than playscript.

With that said, I do have a soft spot for Shakespeare, and will occasionally read one of his for pleasure. The problem is that all our Shakespeare is in this huge, really old book with tiny print and no bibliography or footnotes - so if I want to read one of the plays I have to research it a bit first to gain an understanding, whether that be watching an adaptation or looking it up on Wikipedia.

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I always find a lot of people seem to dislike what they studied. Maybe the in depth study of something can actually null the story aspect of it and the entertainment. I know this is why I have a dislike for Ted Hughes, Seamus Heany and Carol Ann Duffy!

However saying that, my sister is a huge fan of 'A Taste of Honey' after studying it at university. I also remember my mother being excited about her studying it. Personally I have yet to read it. I have read Accidental Death or an Anarchist, which is rather interesting as I think it is the only italian book I have read!

I am a huge fan of Shakespeare, with a personal favorite being 'Twelfth Night.

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I have only read plays in school, many, many years ago. But when I started screenwriting, I started reading screenplays left and right! My faves from those are Pulp Fiction, Mr & Mrs Smith and Serenity, oh and Crash.

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I've only read scripts for shows that I've worked on, or that my wife wants thoughts on for her one-act play competitions, etc. I don't usually read them for pleasure, unless I liked a peformance so much that I want to know more.

I love seeing plays, though. The last was a community college production of Dancing at Lughnasa. Good story, but the performances were uneven. I also saw our local community theatre do Wind in the Willows, in which my 8-year-old stepson spoke his first lines on stage. He's doomed, now.

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The Pulp Fiction script is a really good reflection of why the film is such a quality one I feel. One of my favourite films actually

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I did Twelfth Night for GCSE, and I enjoyed it. I have to say, as it's a comedy, it isn't one of the deepest plays he ever wrote - it was one of those ones that were just for fun.

When I was in year seven, they introduced us to Shakespeare with A Midsummer Night's Dream. Then in year eight we did MacBeth, and in our first lesson on that the teacher asked, 'What are the three kinds of play Shakespeare wrote?' Most people knew tragedies and comedies, but I was the only one who managed to answer histories. God, I was a nerd. Anyway, I enjoyed that one more than A Midsummer Night's Dream.

We did Romeo and Juliet in year nine for SATS, and we knew we were getting a question on Act III scene v, so we had to read it over and over and over again. So, in accordance with your theory, I hate that scene now. GCSE was Twelfth Night, like I said - then in year twelve I did King Lear, and Othello in year thirteen. I enjoyed all of them. At university I studied a couple of the same ones again, and two new ones: The Tempest and The Winter's Tale. I enjoyed the former, but the latter was my first experience of not liking a play by Shakespeare.

I enjoyed A Taste of Honey, but I didn't think it was as fabulous as your family seems to. Enjoyable, I'd say - although I noticed the male stereotypes before the lecturer pointed them out in class, and I don't think they're a good idea in a feminist play.

Incidentally, there have been writers I fell in love with because I was introduced to them in a class. Most noteable is Melvin Burgess, and second most noteable is Carol Ann Duffy. I guess Shakespeare falls into that category, as my first real experience of him was at school, but interestingly he is the only playwright on that list (I'll never understand why it isn't spelt playwrite! ).

By the way, all this is certainly getting me in the mood for scriptwriting month!

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