COMING SOON
George & Martha
cordially invite you to join them in reading aloud and dissecting
Hamlet, by William Shakespeare
Riders to the Sea
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(laptop, tablet, smart phone), or print it out.
My One True Faith in the Willing Suspension of Disbelief
WORK IN PROGRESS (ALWAYS)
Comments Encouraged
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
Lame Excuses
UNDER CONSTRUCTION
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?
Playboy of the Western World
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Playboy of the Western World
by John Millington Synge
Protected: Glengarry Glen Ross
Simply Scripts
Here’s a web site with several hundred plays in the public domain, from ancient Greeks to the Complete Works to originals by people nobody knows.
Protected: Death of a Salesman
Mass Appeal
When it happens, this post will be for those who prefer traditional advertising methods.
Cold Reads/International 