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Come 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
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Please Note: This schedule is subject to change. Check posted events on our Facebook group page for current reads. Continue reading Calendar of Events
A COLD READS CHALLENGE: PULITZER PLAYS
Pulitzer Prize Centennial
2016 is the 100th Anniversary of the Pulitzer Prize, Columbia University has launched the Centennial Campfires Initiative “to ignite broad engagement with the journalistic, literary, and artistic values” the Prizes represent. The project hopes to generate grassroots events and conversations across the country about the impact of journalism and the humanities on our lives and times, illuminating their value to public life today and imagining their future.
This Challenge is presented as a Campfire project
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
COLD READS/CHARLOTTE GETS THE BALL ROLLING
“LOVED tonight’s kickoff for the Cold Reads Pulitzer Play Reading Challenge! The place was humming with enthusiasm, conversation & laughter! Lovely way to end the day.”
So wrote Ealy Lim, one of the twenty-some who were there to read Act One of WHY MARRY?, the first play to win the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Continue reading COLD READS/CHARLOTTE GETS THE BALL ROLLING
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
Current Weekly Series: Williams & Shaw
Tuesday Evenings: Tennessee Williams
Sep 1: Orpheus Descending (Conclusion)
Sep 8: Suddenly Last Summer
Sep 15: Period of Adjustment
Sep 29 & Oct 6: Sweet Bird of Youth
Oct 13 & 20: The Milk Train Doesn’t Stop Here AnymoreWe read Camino Real and The Night of the Iguana last year in other contexts. Whether we read them again is up to you readers. If no one says yes, we won’t.
Thursday Mornings: G B Shaw
Sep 17: Man and Superman (Conclusion)
Sep 24 & Oct 1: John Bull’s Other Island
Oct 8 & 15: Heartbreak House
Oct 22 & 29: Caesar and Cleopatra
Nov 5-???: Back to Methuselah
…(a Bible-based pentalogy)
Cold Reads Mountain Retreat
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
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