When prehistoric people had no answers for natural forces that controlled their existence, they attributed them to the supernatural—super-human forces, beings—and began to search for ways to influence them, from sacrifice to poetry and music, acting out their hopes and histories, theatrics, evolving into rituals performed by priests. So popular were these rites that they continued to be played even after the mysteries were solved, at which point theater emerged as a separate entity. Continue reading My One True Faith in the Willing Suspension of Disbelief→
All the many lame excuses for not reading plays, from “Plays are written for the stage” to “I simply don’t have time,” “I don’t read well (I’m not an actor),” “Nobody I know does it,” “I’d rather do a thousand other things,” are posted and debunked in Category: Why Not?
I’ll update this post as time allows. For now, you’ll find a lot of scripts in the public domain the Gutenberg Project web site. These can be read on line or downloaded—or you can copy the text to an editable document and format it to save ink and paper.
124 random plays in PDF from Aeschylus to John Van Druten under Drama at Fadedpages.com .
Select from a list of 441 works of classical literature (poetry, prose, and drama) by 59 different authors at MIT’s Internet Classics Archives.
Cold Reads/International 