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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
It’s a Game
This post (when it happens) will explain how cold reads are like theatre games actors and psychologists use to develop characters and personalities, imagination, spontaneity, … and so on
Like Talk Show. We listen and react, ad lib, extemporize
Compares cold reads to theatre games, all games, activities
Compare read to debate (the play the topic)
Invitations
COMING SOON
George & Martha
cordially invite you to join them in reading aloud and dissecting
Hamlet, by William Shakespeare
Mass Appeal
When it happens, this post will be for those who prefer traditional advertising methods.
Misreads
Soon to come. Sorry.
Unfamiliar words that are reiterated.
Unfamiliar character names.
Printing Tips
Most PDF files in the Cold Reads collection are formatted for e-readers in either portrait or (2- or 3-column) landscape orientation. Printing these full-size can mean over a hundred pages, which is costly and wasteful.
To save ink and paper, try setting printer preferences for two-sided copies, two pages per sheet, and (for portrait files) landscape orientation; for landscape, portrait. The print will be small, but readable.
NOTE: Some scripts will download at a 90-degree angle. Rotate the orientation before you print.
Some scripts are also available by request as editable DOC files, in which case readers can save ink and paper by reducing the font size, using landscape orientation and two (or three) columns, and printing two-sided copies.
Stage Directions
Soon to come. Sorry.
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