Category Archives: Readers’ Guide

B-How It Happens, Readers' Guide, Social Media, Supplemental

Cold Reads on Facebook

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While we can’t all get together around a table, we can read face to (digital) face in a video chat room.  If you’re familiar with the technology, a chat room read’s the same as any other, as described in How It Happens. Continue reading Cold Reads on Facebook →

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COLD READS: the Film

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Check out a short film by Cold Reader Albert L Dulin about why everyone in the Universe should read plays aloud, together!

COLD READS: THE FILM

To show our thanks, we’re happy to post Albert, to introduce you to him and promote his various livelihoods—playwright, artist, musician, photographer, video producer, author of a recently published novel (Billie Heartwing).

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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It’s a Game

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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)