Category Archives: Supplemental

Campfire, Charlotte

Down to the Wire

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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 →

Charlotte, Readers' Guide

Cold Reads Roots in Charlotte

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First, the Golden Circle

Nat Frenkel, 1928-2009

Cold Reads was inspired by the late great Nathan Frenkel who, in late 2003, encouraged me to moderate (while he facilitated) a drama group for seniors at the Jewish Community Center in Charlotte. Originally (I’d hoped and assumed) for aging actors like myself (then sixty), the group wound up being mostly raw recruits, old folks who’d always wanted to but hadn’t since their high school play.

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C Digital Scripts, Campfire, Events, j Pulitzer Prize

A COLD READS CHALLENGE: PULITZER PLAYS

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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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Acquisition, Supplemental

Upload a Play

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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.