Plays that are better when read. Also unperformable plays

>>8210770
>Also, are there any great "plays" that were never intended to be performed/are impossible to perform according to the stage directions?

psychosis 4:48

The Circe episode.

>>8210770
Though Shakespeare was obviously written for performance first and foremost, many of the Romantics considered his work beyond the scope of stage acting
To take an example, Hazlitt:
>We do not like to see our author's plays acted, and least of all, Hamlet. There is no play that suffers so much in being transferred to the stage. Hamlet himself seems hardly capable of being acted.

>>8210791
it's not impossible to perform it because it doesn't have stage directions

>>8210992
I think it was Samuel Johnson that particularly thought king Leer was better read than performed.

>>8210833
this lol

and also the Romantics liked the idea of a play not meant to be performed, i.e. a Closet Drama, Shelley's Prometheus Unbound being an example of that

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Non-Sequitur by Khadijah Queen isn't impossible but I think it fits the topic. The scenes can be performed out of order and there are a number of "extra" scenes that are optional. There are probably a hundred characters, each of which is a concept like pic-related. Parts of it are quite funny, in a deadpan sort of way.

>>8210791
he said great, not edgy daddy-issues tumblr posts posturing as a play

>>8210833
Someone could perform it if they wanted to badly enough. You'd need a cast and crew in the high double digits and an absurd set, but you could do it. It would be shit.

>>8211026
I'd agree with that.