“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
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by Paul Green
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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)
Celebrate Shakespeare’s Birthday, for example, with famous scenes at a local pub, either among yourselves or public—anyone who buys a drink can read.
Attract attention. Read in public and encourage those nearby to join. passers-by to join in. Pick the right play. Continue reading Occasions
COMING SOON
George & Martha
cordially invite you to join them in reading aloud and dissecting
Hamlet, by William Shakespeare
Cold Reads/International 