Category Archives: B-How It Happens

Four More Pulitzer Plays in Charlotte

Anyone in the Charlotte area is always welcome whenever it’s convenient.
The following events have all been posted on Facebook. RSVP if you can join us for any or all. 
5:00 pm Sunday at the Costwold IHOP

Oct 23: You Can’t Take It With You
Oct 30: The Teahouse of the August Moon

10:00 am Thursdays at Julia’s Cafe & Books

Oct 20 & 27: The Shrike

6:00 pm Mondays at the IHOP

Oct 20 & 27: The Skin of Our Teeth

Future events will be posted on our Calendar.

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

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Marietta Cold Reads: Year One

Plays Read in Our First Year

The Seagull, by Anton Chekhov
Uncle Vanya, by Anton Chekhov
Oleanna, by David Mamet
The Importance of Being Earnest, by Oscar Wilde
Hamlet, by William Shakespeare
Rosencrantz and Guildensterna are Dead, by Tom Stoppard
Tartuffe, by Moliere
Waiting for Godot, by Samuel Beckett
The Cocktail Party, by T. S. Eliot
The Sunset Limited, by Cormac McCarthy
A Life in the Theatre, by David Mamet

Hedda Gabler, by Henrik Ibsen
The Piano Lesson, by August Wilson
The Birthday Party, by Harold Pinter
By the Skin of Our Teeth, by Thornton Wilder
Mrs. Warren’s Profession, by George Bernard Shaw

Member List

Grassroots come from a few seeds

Look for this list to grow as soon as I finish Why Read Plays? and unleash this blog on the world. Meanwhile, you’re welcome to add you name to this fledgling list (see Join Colf Reads).

George Gray, founder; Charlotte, NC
Sandra Gray, Charlotte, NC
Lena Cohen, Interlochen, MI (or Los Gatos, CA?)
Michael Payne, Salt Lake City, UT
David Watkins, Marietta, GA

Plus nine WordPress Followers.

Upload a Play

Anyone can upload a play to the CR/I catalog. Those in the public domain (published before 1924) will be posted as submitted; CR/I explicitly restricts access to copyrighted works to a single reading by a small group of readers (no audience, no money changing hands). Since our goal is to regenerate public interest in live theatre and dramatic literature by reading plays, we hope to justify Fair Use of protected material.

By submitting a play, you agree to this condition for yourself and those with whom you read.

Please don’t abuse this privilege.
You (and we) may be liable.

Author Posts

CR/I authors can submit plays in PDF format as blog posts.  Simply

    1. Click the Write tab at the top right of any page to return an Add New  Post screen.
    2. Enter the title in the Title block.
    3. Re-write the title in the text area, and select it.
    4. Click the Add (or Add Media) tab in the functions block to return the Media page.
    5. Click Add New (or Add Media) tab at the top. Your computer’s files appear.
    6. Select the the title of your play, and click Open. The Media page uploads the file.
    7. Click Insert (or Insert in Post). The Add New Post screen appears, with the link to your script.
    8. Add any descriptive information you wish to include.
    9. Click Publish (twice if called for). We’ll take it from there.

Visitor Posts

Anyone can email a script to coldreads01@gmail.com, SUBJECT: Script Upload. PDF format is preferred, but DOC is acceptable. We will create a post for it and include it in our catalog, and publish it pending Admin review.

Membership Application

Membership Application

Fill out and submit the form below and you’ll receive a formal invitation to join this blog as an Author, approved to publish and edit your own posts, upload media files, and keep up with other groups. To accept, you will be prompted to register for a FREE, no obligation WordPress blog. Continue reading Membership Application

Start a Group

Organization

Starting a group can be as simple as an agreement among friends (or family) to become one—to collectively decide to get together now and then to read.  Any ground rules are determined by consensus and the Host of a given read.

Alternatively, someone (or a governing body, with committees) decides (among other options; see below) who hosts which plays when and where, how frequently, and who attends.

A bona fide Cold Reads group is perpetual, presuming readers keep on gathering to read, regardless of frequency or regularity, who comes and goes.

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Charlotte Readers Retreat to the Hills

The following was posted on Facebook and Meetup earlier this week.

Mountain Retreat 2016a

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