JMK Award 2017 Playlist
The list in 2017 was chosen by our JMK Award alumni with the Young Vic.
The Promise – Aleksei Arbruzov
Play – Samuel Beckett (with another Beckett short of your choice)
Sore Throats – Howard Brenton
Woyzeck – Georg Büchner
Woman and Scarecrow – Marina Carr
A Taste of Honey – Shelagh Delaney
Winter – Jon Fosse
Statements After an Arrest Under the Immorality Act – Athol Fugard
Random – Debbie Tucker Green
The Lesson – Eugène Ionesco
The Chairs – Eugène Ionesco
Through the Leaves – Franz Xaver Kroetz (Anthony Vivis translation)
Penetrator – Anthony Neilson
My Name is Rachel Corrie – Alan Rickman and Katharine Viner
Ages of the Moon – Sam Shepard
The Empire Builders – Boris Vian (Simon Watson Taylor translation)
JMK Award 2016 Playlist
The list for 2016 was chosen by David Lan and colleagues from a number of key London and regional theatres.
La Ronde – Arthur Schnitzler and versions
Low Level Panic – Clare McIntyre
Penetrator – Anthony Neilson
Play – Samuel Beckett (with another Beckett short of your choice)
Small Change – Peter Gill
The Drowned World – Gary Owen
The Human Voice – Jean Cocteau
The Lesson – Eugène Ionesco
The Mountaintop – Katori Hall
The Ruffian on the Stair – Joe Orton
Through the Leaves – Franz Xaver Kroetz
Winter – Jon Fosse
Woyzeck – Georg Büchner
JMK Award 2015 Playlist
The list for 2015 was chosen by David Lan and some of JMK’s Trustees – Michael Buffong, Polly Findlay, Ben Power and Mark Rosenblatt.
Play – Samuel Beckett (with another Beckett short of your choice)
Woyzeck – Georg Büchner
The Human Voice – Jean Cocteau
Mother and Child – Jon Fosse
Someone is going to come – Jon Fosse
Born Bad – Debbie Tucker Green
Amadee – Eugene Ionesco
The Lesson – Eugene Ionesco
Dutchman – LeRoi Jones
Barbarians – Barrie Keeffe
It felt empty when the heart went at first but it’s all right now – Lucy Kirkwood
Through the Leaves – Franz Xaver Kroetz
The Ugly One – Marius von Mayenberg
Dublin Carol – Conor McPherson
Penetrator – Anthony Neilson
The Censor – Anthony Neilson
The Ruffian on the Stair – Joe Orton
La Ronde – Arthur Schnitzler and versions
Below are lists from previous years in with Michael Boyd, Nicholas Hytner, David Lan, Sam Mendes and Katie Mitchell selected their top 25 ‘classic’ plays.
Michael Boyd
A Delicate Balance – Albee
Scenes from an Execution – Barker
Victory – Howard Barker
Act Without Words 1&2 – Beckett
Endgame – Beckett
Uncle Vanya – Chekhov
The Way of the World – Congreve
The Visit – Dürrenmatt
The Suicide – Erdman
Translations – Friel
The Government Inspector – Gogol
Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme – McGuinness
The Crucible – Miller
The Shadow – Schwartz
A Midsummer Night’s Dream – Shakespeare
King Lear – Shakespeare
The Oedipus Trilogy – Sophocles
The Real World – Tremblay
Dog in a Manger – de Vega
Fuente Ovejuna – de Vega
The Importance of Being Earnest – Wilde
Camino Real – Williams
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof – Williams
The York Mystery Cycle
Nicholas Hytner
Hippolytus – Euripides
Oedipus – Seneca
The Little Clay Cart – Sudraka
Arden of Faversham – Anon
Edward II – Marlowe
A Midsummer Night’s Dream – Shakespeare
Titus Andronicus – Shakespeare
Fuente Ovejuna – de Vega
Venice Preserv’d – Otway
The Provoked Wife – Vanbrugh
Nathan the Wise – Lessing
Wolves and Sheep – Ostrovsky
Miss Julie – Strindberg
Pelleas and Melisande – Materlinck
Spring Awakening – Wedekind
The Shadow of a Gunman – O’Casey
The Queen and the Rebels – Betti
Schweik in the Second World War – Brecht
The Hairy Ape – O’Neill
Live Like Pigs – Arden
The Hostage – Behan
Epsom Downs – Brenton
Playboy of The West Indies – Matura
Mad Forest – Churchill
Our Country’s Good – Wertenbaker
David Lan
A Number – Caryl Churchill
American Buffalo – David Mamet
Blue/Orange – Joe Penhall
Far Away – Caryl Churchill
Happy Days – Samuel Beckett
Knives in Hens – David Harrower
Master Harold and the Boys – Athol Fugard
Sizwe Bansi is Dead – Athol Fugard
Miss Julie – Strindberg
Molly Sweeney – Brian Friel
Night Just Before The Forests – Bernard-Marie Koltes
Oleanna – David Mamet
Play – Samuel Beckett
Port Authority – Conor McPhearson
Quartet – Heiner Muller
Someone To Watch Over Me – Frank McGuiness
Le Ronde – Arthur Schnitzler
The Caretaker – Harold Pinter
The Censor – Anthony Neilson
The Country – Martin Crimp
The Dumb Waiter – Harold Pinter
The Lesson – Eugene Ionesco
The Maids – Jean Genet
The Zoo Story – Edward Albee
The Chairs – Eugene Ionesco
Disco Pigs – Enda Walsh
Dublin Carol – Conor McPherson
Sam Mendes
Persians – Aeschylus
Oedipus – Hughes (after Seneca)
Timon of Athens – Shakespeare
The White Devil – Webster
The Misanthrope – Moliere
Man and Superman – Shaw
Phedre – Racine
Fuente Ovejuna – Lope de Vega
Ivanov – Chekov
Ghosts – Ibsen
The Rose Tattoo – Williams
Strife – Galsworthy
Comedians – Griffiths
Mensch Meier – Kroetz
Cloud Nine – Churchill
Racing Demon – Hare
Romeo and Juliet – Shakespeare
The Deep Blue Sea – Rattigan
Man is Man – Brecht
Bingo – Bond
Six Characters in Search of an Author – Pirandello
The Balcony – Genet
Travesties – Stoppard
A Flea in her Ear – Feydeau
The Well of the Saints – Synge
Katie Mitchell
The House of Bernada Alba – Lorca
The Cherry Orchard – Chekhov
The Three Sisters – Chekhov
Hedda Gabler – Ibsen
The Dolls House – Ibsen
The Maids – Genet/Crimp
Dream Play – Strindberg
Antigone – Sophocles
Vassa Zheleznova – Gorky
Iphigenia – Euripides
The Orestia – Aeschylus
The Glass Menagerie – Williams
Footfalls/Rockaby/Not I – Beckett
Krapp’s Last Tape – Beckett
Ashes to Ashes – Pinter
Mourning Becomes Electra – O’Neill
The Jewish Wife – Brecht
A Woman Killed with Kindness – Heywood
This is a Chair – Churchill
Attempts on Her Life – Crimp
A View From The Bridge – Miller
Arden of Faversham – Anon
The Dybbuk – Ansky
Live Like Pigs – Arden
Rutherford and Son – Sowerby
