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The host will send you an email with a link to the chat room; when you show up, you’ll get the script.
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Category Archives: B-How It Happens
Year End Report
It’s been a year since I created Cold Reads/Online—a Facebook group whose member hosts create events in which anyone, anywhere, can read plays together via video chat. In that time I’ve hosted well over a hundred such events, attended by friends (and strangers) coast to coast.
Continue reading Year End ReportZoom Set-Up Step by Step
To play Cold Reads online, you need to see both the words of the script and the faces of your fellow readers. There are three ways to do this. You can print out paper copies of the script and view the faces on your device (not recommended); or you can use two devices, whether PC/Mac desktop or lap, tablet, or phone. The third option lets you see both words and faces side by side on a single screen, as shown below.
Continue reading Zoom Set-Up Step by StepCome Read with Us
Hello Readers
For the past year, I’ve been working to develop the Facebook group Cold Reads/Online (CR/O), through which anyone can read with others anywhere via video chat rooms. I announced it it in a lengthy post here last April 19, and featured it on the home page. Since then I’ve read nearly 200 plays with 50-60 friends in nine states coast to coast, three to a dozen at a time. Continue reading Come Read with Us
Protected: ZIT (Zoom into Theatre)
Unaffiliated Groups
A few of the very few found via Google. More to come. Continue reading Unaffiliated Groups
Protected: Merle Reagle Irregulars
Meet Cold Reads/Online
The Game Changer
The purpose of this first mass missive is to promote Cold Reads as an answer to the monotony of these troubled times—thanks to my recent discovery of ONLINE VIDEO CHATS. They add a whole new dimension to the game—especially now, when all the things that usually gobble up our time are on hold. While we can’t be all together in one place, we can read face-to-(digital)-face with anybody—anywhere in the world, in the comfort of our homes. Continue reading Meet Cold Reads/Online
Cold Reads on Facebook
Starved for intelligent entertainment?
While we can’t all get together around a table, we can read face to (digital) face in a video chat room. If you’re familiar with the technology, a chat room read’s the same as any other, as described in How It Happens. Continue reading Cold Reads on Facebook
Charlotte Readers Past & Present
More Than a Hundred over a Dozen Years
Some came once or twice, others attended regularly for years. Many have moved (or passed) away (or on to other things). Our current Cold Reads/Charlotte group has nearly 300 enrolled, most of whom have (sadly) yet to read..
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Cold Reads/International 