All posts by George Gray
Protected: The American Dream
In Abraham’s Bosom
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In Abraham’s Bosom
by Paul Green
Protected: An Inspector Calls
Moderate a Group
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It’s a Game
This post (when it happens) will explain how cold reads are like theatre games actors and psychologists use to develop characters and personalities, imagination, spontaneity, … and so on
Like Talk Show. We listen and react, ad lib, extemporize
Compares cold reads to theatre games, all games, activities
Compare read to debate (the play the topic)
Occasions
Celebrate Shakespeare’s Birthday, for example, with famous scenes at a local pub, either among yourselves or public—anyone who buys a drink can read.
Attract attention. Read in public and encourage those nearby to join. passers-by to join in. Pick the right play. Continue reading Occasions
Invitations
COMING SOON
George & Martha
cordially invite you to join them in reading aloud and dissecting
Hamlet, by William Shakespeare
Riders to the Sea
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My One True Faith in the Willing Suspension of Disbelief
WORK IN PROGRESS (ALWAYS)
Comments Encouraged
When prehistoric people had no answers for natural forces that controlled their existence, they attributed them to the supernatural—super-human forces, beings—and began to search for ways to influence them, from sacrifice to poetry and music, acting out their hopes and histories, theatrics, evolving into rituals performed by priests. So popular were these rites that they continued to be played even after the mysteries were solved, at which point theater emerged as a separate entity. Continue reading My One True Faith in the Willing Suspension of Disbelief