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Cold Reads Mountain Retreat

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FREE WEEK IN THE MOUNTAINS
July 19-24

Sandra and I will be reading a play a day at my brother’s vacation home in Seven Devils, and we’d love to have the company of as many friends (and friends of friends) as the house will sleep (fifteen beds, I think).

Drive up (bring a friend), spend a night or three, socialize, enjoy the mountain air, see the sights, and read a play.
(Sorry it’s mid-week, but that’s when it’s free. Maybe, if this works, we can do a weekend in the fall.)

IF YOU’RE COMING
Please JOIN on Facebook or Meetup, and add a comment indicating which night(s) you plan to stay, so we can plan.

Everybody gathers for the daily read (Monday evening, Tuesday-Thursday brunchtime). Otherwise, there’s no commitment; we’re all on our own to come and go, do as we will.

Everyone feeds themselves; we share the kitchen. It’s a ways down the mountain to the convenience store and the Grandview Restaurant. If we’re more than eight or ten (not likely) we’ll fight for hot water.

Be aware that fellow readers may be strangers from other walks of life. If that makes you nervous, bring a friend.

The plays are:

Dancing at Lughnasa, by Brian Friel
Not About Nightingales, by Tennessee Williams
Tartuffe,by Miliere
Major Barbara, by G B Shaw

Download them here:

Scripts: Mountain Retreat

Supplemental

Facebook Survey Results

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Some months ago we asked for suggestions of plays readers would like to have read. Here are the results.I

Contemporary British/Irish Playwrights: Brian Friel (Dancing at Lughnasa?)
Conor McPherson (The Seafarer?)

Look Back in Anger (2)

A good production of any Chekov (The Seagull?)

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
The Dog Logs

That Championship Season
Mass Appeal
Tru
Full Gallop

Kindertransport
Taming of the Shrew
The Little Foxes

The Kentucky Cycle
The Immoralist

The Boys Next Door

Fuddy Meers
True West.

Tartuffe
The only worst thing you could have told me was….
Uncommon Women and Others
Forever Yours Marie Louie.
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter

Midsummer Nights Dream
The Little Prince

Sex, Drugs, and Rock & Roll

Copenhagen
Rebecca
Turn of the Screw
Dark of the Moon
The Rainmaker
Kennedy’s Children
Savage in Limbo
Mamet’s Faustus
Accidental Death of an Anarchist

The Curious Savage

Traveler Without Luggage, Jean Anouilh;
Something Singing, Christian Hamilton