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Mission Accomplished!
Thanks to everyone who everyone who gathered with us now and then, Sandra and I have read aloud, with others, all the plays that won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama during its Centennial year, from last May’s Why Marry? to last night’s Hamilton. Hooray for Us!
Down to the Wire
60 Down, 25 to Go
Last May I vowed to read—aloud, with other people—every play to win the Pulitzer Prize for Drama during 100th year of its first presentation (on May 16, 1918) and challenged the world to do likewise. Not a soul signed up, for which I take the blame; I can’t convey the concept. Fortunately, a few dozen members of Cold Reads/Charlotte enjoy reading when it suits their schedules, even if they don’t join the blog. Without them I’d never finish. It’s going to be close as it is. Continue reading Down to the Wire
54 Down, 31 to Go
Pulitzer Plays We’ve Read
Since May 16, 2016 (54)
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
Pulitzer Challenge Makes the News
Pulitzer News
JULY 14, 2016
Groups gather with goal of reading every Pulitzer-winning play aloud
As part of the ‘Cold Reads’ Pulitzer Centennial Campfires Initiative, one man in North Carolina encourages citizens to pick up scripts and start reading,
Add your name to the Pledge List
Transcribe (or copy and paste) the following in the Comment box below:
“I pledge to read at least one Pulitzer Prize-winning play—aloud, with other people—before May 16, 2017.”
Then browse the List of Pulitzer Prize Plays and download one, invite some friends to do the same. (Copyrighted works require a password, issued upon request.)
Once you’ve done, post a follow-up comment on the Feedback page, and we’ll add you (and your fellow readers) to our honor roll. Read more plays and we’ll keep track.
See our Cold Reads Challenge page for details.
Three Pulitzer Reads in Charlotte This Week
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
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
List of Pulitzer Prize Plays
Click Pulitzer Play List
for a 1-page printout.
Underlined titles link to currently available scripts, with more to come as we acquire, scan, and upload them. YOU CAN HELP by posting any of your own (PDF or DOC) to this blog; we’ll link to your link.
Titles in green are in the public domain; red ones are copyright protected, and require a password. Before you select a protected play, follow the Password Request link in the left sidebar and fill out the form. We’ll respond in a day or three.
1917: no award
1918: Why Marry? – Jesse Lynch Williams
1919: no award
1920: Beyond the Horizon – Eugene O’Neill
Continue reading List of Pulitzer Prize Plays
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