Recommended Reading Meme

Mr. Andy Guffey tagged me to provide a reading list of books (plays) that I continually return to for inspiration... So, here is the list, and I'll update this with reasonings soon.

1. Hamlet by William Shakespeare
2. Jesus Christ Superstar by Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber
3. Angels in America by Tony Kushner
4. Mnemonic by Theatre de Complicite
5. Far Away by Caryl Churchill
6. A Day in the Death of Joe Egg by Peter Nichols
7. Urinetown: The Musical by Greg Kotis and Mark Hollmann
8. Rent by Jonathan Larson
9. Little Shop of Horrors by Howard Ashman and Alan Menken
10. On the Verge by Eric Overmyer
11. In the Blood by Suzan-Lori Parks
12. Le Nozze di Figaro (libretto) by Lorenzo da Ponte

As far as theatre theory goes:

1. The Empty Space by Peter Brook
2. The Theatre and Its Double by Antonin Artaud
3. The Poetics by Aristotle
4. Dramaturgy in American Theater: A Sourcebook, edited by Susan Jonas, Geoff Proehl, and Michael Lupu
5. On the Art of the No Drama: The Major Treatises of Zeami, edited by Masakazu Yamazaki