Thanks to Gabrielle Johansen for hosting Thursday mornings while Sandra and I belatedly celebrated our 50th wedding anniversary, with Hallie, in Paris, Mont Saint Michel, and Amsterdam. Wonderful weather, fabulous time.
Now back to the business of reading plays.
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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
#17: Zoe Akins’ The Old Maid, Thursday. July 28, at Julia’s
Pulitzer Play #16: Sidney Kingsley’s Men in White, Monday, August 15, at the Cotswold IHOP
THREE EVENTS THIS WEEK
Pick One (or two, or three).
ICEBOUND, by Owen Davis, Tuesday evening, at Starbuck’s on Providence (click below)
THEY KNEW WHAT THEY WANTED, by Sydney Howard, Wednesday evening, at the home of Joyce Fischer in Matthews
ANNA CHRISTIE, by Eugene O’Neill (continued), Thursday morning at Julia’s
“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
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
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/International 