Book Riot's Read Harder Challenge discussion

Does anyone know if Rosewater would qualify for this task?

No it wouldn't - there are extraterrestrial lifeforms featured, but the setting is firmly on Earth.

I never read plays to begin with AND I never know what orientation an author is. We need some lists for some of these challenges. I don't know whether I will finish them all next year or not because some of them are so narrow.

Google to the rescue.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Categor...
https://performerstuff.com/mgs/10-con...
https://sites.google.com/nyu.edu/cont...
A Raisin in the Sun is a classic and Hansberry is both black and a closeted lesbian.
Other options include: Angels in America Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Zoot Suit M. Butterfly

Sarah wrote: "Google to the rescue.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Categor...
https://performerstuff.com/mgs/10-con...
https://sites.goog..."

No shortage of gay playwrights. Off the top of my head Hamilton, The Normal Heart, Torch Song Trilogy, Boys in the Band, Bent, Love! Valor! Compassion, The Laramie Project. And there are a number of wonderful playwrights who are POC. August Wilson and Langston Hughes plays are a joy to read, For Colored Girls, In the Blood, TopDog/Underdog, Fires in the Mirror. The list is LONG!

Just to clarify for those looking to complete the LGBTQ author bonus challenge, Lin-Manuel Miranda (Hamilton) would be a playwright of color but is not gay. (At least his wife and kids probably don't think so. ;-) )

Those are all great plays!

Thank.you Sarah. I was blending my thoughts. Must learn to proofread!

Bonnie G. wrote: "Thank.you Sarah. I was blending my thoughts. Must learn to proofread!"

I'm an English teacher. I can't turn it off. :-D

Any play by Oscar Wilde will do, I think

Sarah wrote: "Google to the rescue.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Categor...
https://performerstuff.com/mgs/10-con...
https://sites.goog..."

How can you possibly know she's a lesbian if she's closeted?

Inger wrote: "Sarah wrote: "Google to the rescue.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Categor...
https://performerstuff.com/mgs/10-con...
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Its quite public https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorrain...

What the Butler Saw Is what i'm going with

I'm going to try "Neaptide" by Sarah Daniels. I simply googled "queer playwrights" and got a great list. I like the hunt and I LOVE my perspectives being stretched. A lot of these aren't things I would have reached for and while I'm resistant at times (I really am not excited about reading a romance) -I'm grateful I'm expanding my horizons!

It's hard to choose one, but I'm considering these:

Topdog/Underdog, by Suzan-Lori Parks

Fences, by August Wilson

Master Harold and the Boys, by Athol Fugard

Song of Jacob Zulu, by Tug Yourgrau

The Cherokee Night and Other Plays, by Lynn Riggs

M. Butterfly or Flower Drum Song, by David Henry Hwang

On Thrones of Gold: Three Javanese Shadow Plays, edited by James R. Brandon

Major Plays of Chikamatsu, translated by Donald Keene

Kabuki: Five Classic Plays, translated by James R. Brandon