50 plays with an all-male cast of at least 8 actors

These are *really* hard to think of - I guess because only established playwrights can write for bigger casts.

50: Arthur Miller - Incident at Vichy

8 + 1 angry men?

http://www.hastypudding.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=3&Itemid=16

timon of athens is male-only iirc

I went to an all-girls HS and we did a production of 12 angry women. No joke. I was the old one.

timon of athens is also excellent and truly underrated

12 angry women is pretty common i think

i actually would have posted 12 angry men as the first reply, but i had to google it i) to work out if there were any women in it ii) to remember the title

12 angry men is good!

Timon is a good call, too. Louis what do you like abt it? Other than it being, y'know indie and Pale Fire and etc.

I don't actually remember the details too clearly, but I do remember it being extremely readable and actually pretty gripping. Its moral contention was exquisitely nuanced; it showed Timon slipping away even from the aid of people who cared for him, and how this was possible, in a very believable and melancholic manner

also dominic chad's guitar playing was exquisite throughout

More plays!

glengarry glen ross? i think it only has six or seven dudes though

first one i thought of, but yeah i don't think there's 8

four salesmen, office manager, baldwin (movie version), buyer. probably missing someone there.

are we excluding shakespeare, marlowe, etc for some reason?

eh were they in it?

In their era male actors played all the female roles too.

aren't we taking it to be "that would be currently performed with an all-male cast" etc

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Yeah - that's what I intended. Obviously Elizabethan plays with all-male roles (like Timon) are fine.

We seem stuck at, like, 3.

This movie has an all-male cast where even the (relatively minor) female roles are played by men, but I can't find any info whether it was like that in the original play too.

Must be some crap-arsed plays about male sports teams out there that do this. Or ones about prisons (e.g like Janacek's From The House Of The Dead, except that's an opera, and has one female role IIRC (a prostitute)).

The stage adaptation of The Thing would be one, I guess.

I would go see a stage adaptaion of The Thing. U should make that happen.

Do you know the thing in The Thing is male?

played by a male?

But the computer was played by a woman.

I was gonna say "That Championship Season" but there's only 5 or 6 there. Damn, this is hard!

The Boys in the Band.

Harry Hope – proprietor of a saloon and rooming house
Ed Mosher – Hope's brother-in-law, former circus man
Pat McGloin – former police lieutenant
Willie Oban – a Harvard Law School alumnus
Joe Mott – a former proprietor of a Negro gambling house
General Piet Wetjoen – former leader of a Boer commando
Captain Cecil Lewis – former Captain of British infantry
James "Jimmy Tomorrow" Cameron – former Boer War correspondent
Hugo Kalmar – former editor of anarchist periodicals
Larry Slade – former Syndicalist-Anarchist
Rocky Pioggi – night bartender
Don Parritt - teenager, son of former Anarchist
Pearl – street walker
Margie – street walker
Cora – street walker
Chuck Morello – day bartender
Theodore "Hickey" Hickman – a hardware salesman
Moran - police detective
Lieb - police detective

Make Pearl, Margie, and Cora trannies and The Iceman Cometh is in.

I think gay plays are the ringer here.

The setting is at a lakeside summer vacation house in Dutchess County, two hours north of New York City where eight gay friends spend the three major holiday weekends of one summer together for Memorial Day, the Fourth of July, and Labor Day. The house belongs to Gregory, a successful choreographer now approaching middle age, who fears he is losing his creativity; and his twenty-something lover, Bobby, a legal assistant who happens to be blind. Each of the guests at their house is connected to Gregory’s work in one way or another - Arthur and longtime partner Perry are business consultants; John Jeckyll, a sour Englishman, is a dance accompanist; die-hard musical theater fanatic Buzz Hauser is a costume designer and the most stereotypically gay man in the group. Only John's summer lover, Ramon, and John's twin brother James are outside the circle of friends. But Ramon is outgoing and eventually makes a place for himself in the group, and James is such a gentle soul that he is quickly welcomed. Infidelity, flirtations, soul-searching, AIDS, truth-telling and skinny-dipping mix monumental questions about life and death with a wacky dress rehearsal for Swan Lake performed in drag.

And Take Me Out by Richard Greenberg.

Much of the play is set in the locker room of a professional baseball team, and as such has an all-male cast and explores themes of homophobia, racism, class and masculinity in sport.

The play's main character, Darren Lemming (portrayed by Daniel Sunjata), is a popular mixed-race baseball player at the peak of his career when he decides to come out. Several of his teammates react strongly (some supportive and accepting, and some not so accepting), and the drama plays out over the course of the baseball season with tragic consequences.

While Glenn Burke was out to teammates and team owners in the 1970s and Billy Bean came out in 1999 after retiring from playing in Major League Baseball for eight seasons, at the time of the writing of this play no major-league baseball player had ever come out to the public during his career. This play is the dramatic exploration of what such an event might be like.

the boys in the band!

wait why are we talking about this?

Journey's End (WWI drama)

Tracers(Vietnam drama)

Streamers by David Rabe (great Vietnam play)

I thought that Ted Tally's Terra Nova (explorers in Antarctica) would count, but there are flashbacks with a gal.

Eazy what was the first one you listed there? Love! Valour! Compassion!?

Black Watch

Heard a Radio 3 transmission of this, it was pretty good.

Yep, that was Love! Valour! Compassion!

I was thinking Dealers Choice too, but that's only six.

Reason to have eight or more men in a room without any women:

Jury (old-fashioned)
Office (old-fashioned)
Gay
Sports
Men's Group

WWII Burmese Campaign play The Long and the Short and the Tall

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