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Protected: 2016 Storefront Short Shorts
Member List
Grassroots come from a few seeds
Look for this list to grow as soon as I finish Why Read Plays? and unleash this blog on the world. Meanwhile, you’re welcome to add you name to this fledgling list (see Join Colf Reads).
George Gray, founder; Charlotte, NC
Sandra Gray, Charlotte, NC
Lena Cohen, Interlochen, MI (or Los Gatos, CA?)
Michael Payne, Salt Lake City, UT
David Watkins, Marietta, GA
Plus nine WordPress Followers.
Protected: Krapp’s Last Tape
The Intruder
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The Intruder
by Maurice Maeterlinck
Upload a Play
Anyone can upload a play to the CR/I catalog. Those in the public domain (published before 1924) will be posted as submitted; CR/I explicitly restricts access to copyrighted works to a single reading by a small group of readers (no audience, no money changing hands). Since our goal is to regenerate public interest in live theatre and dramatic literature by reading plays, we hope to justify Fair Use of protected material.
By submitting a play, you agree to this condition for yourself and those with whom you read.
Please don’t abuse this privilege.
You (and we) may be liable.
Author Posts
CR/I authors can submit plays in PDF format as blog posts. Simply
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- Click the Write tab at the top right of any page to return an Add New Post screen.
- Enter the title in the Title block.
- Re-write the title in the text area, and select it.
- Click the Add (or Add Media) tab in the functions block to return the Media page.
- Click Add New (or Add Media) tab at the top. Your computer’s files appear.
- Select the the title of your play, and click Open. The Media page uploads the file.
- Click Insert (or Insert in Post). The Add New Post screen appears, with the link to your script.
- Add any descriptive information you wish to include.
- Click Publish (twice if called for). We’ll take it from there.
Visitor Posts
Anyone can email a script to coldreads01@gmail.com, SUBJECT: Script Upload. PDF format is preferred, but DOC is acceptable. We will create a post for it and include it in our catalog, and publish it pending Admin review.
Membership Application
Membership Application
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Short Plays
Short List
Cold Reads scripts are posted as they’re read, and so far almost all have been full length plays—by far the dominant form. Very few great plays last less than an hour and a half. (See A Short History of Short Plays.)
Continue reading Short PlaysStart a Group
Organization
Starting a group can be as simple as an agreement among friends (or family) to become one—to collectively decide to get together now and then to read. Any ground rules are determined by consensus and the Host of a given read.
Alternatively, someone (or a governing body, with committees) decides (among other options; see below) who hosts which plays when and where, how frequently, and who attends.
A bona fide Cold Reads group is perpetual, presuming readers keep on gathering to read, regardless of frequency or regularity, who comes and goes.
Charlotte Readers Retreat to the Hills
The following was posted on Facebook and Meetup earlier this week.

PULITZER PLAYS at SEVEN DEVILS
August 19-24
Open Invitation
Sandra and I will be reading a play a day at my brother’s vacation home in Seven Devils (near Boone), and we’d love to have the company of as many as the house will sleep (six in three bedrooms, nine in the basement dormitory).
Drive up, spend a night or five, socialize, enjoy the mountain air, see the sights, and read some Pulitzer plays. Continue reading Charlotte Readers Retreat to the Hills