In the Bookshop with... Alistair McDowall

Join writer Alistair McDowall in the Samuel French Bookshop as he picks out some of the plays and playwrights that have inspired, moved and impacted him.
The first in our new In the Bookshop with... series, a collaboration between the Royal Court Theatre and Concord Theatricals.
A unique insight into the literary and theatrical inspirations behind Royal Court programmed playwrights.
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[@theabsurdplatypus4688]

McDowall's play picks (mentioned or selected off the shelf)... The plays of August Wilson: - 'Gem of the Ocean'. - 'Joe Turner's Come and Gone' - 'Ma Rainey's Black Bottom' - 'The Piano Lesson' - 'Seven Guitars' - 'Fences' - 'Two Trains Running' - 'Jitney' - 'King Hedley II' - 'Radio Golf' 'Boy' by Leo Butler. 'Marvin's Room' by Scott McPherson. The Plays of Alice Birch: - 'Anatomy of a Suicide' - 'Revolt, She Said, Revolt Again' The Plays of Rory Mullarkey: - 'Single Sex' - 'Tourism' - 'Cannibals' - 'The Wolf From the Door' - 'Each Slow Dusk' 'The Welkin' by Lucy Kirkwood. The plays of María Irene Fornés: - 'Mud' - 'The Danube' - 'Sarita' - 'The Conduct of Life' - 'Promenade' 'Eurydice' by Sarah Ruhl. The plays of Robert Holman: - 'Rafts and Dreams' - 'The Natural Cause' - 'Mud' - 'Other Worlds' - 'Today' - 'The Overgrown Path'

[@sulam1th]

Really enlightening. I never realised that a playwright will have read or watched so many plays. Makes me feel like such a green tenderfoot.