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Carol Lakoff: The Night of the Iguana

Thanks for making these plays available. I only used one once, which was at a play-reading circle hosted by relatives. I appreciate it because I was able to participate. However, though I read a lot of fiction, I don’t often read plays. Since this event was in another city, I am not a regular member of the circle, I was just a guest. I no longer need this resource, but thank you for making it available!

Kathy Bischoping: Mr Burns, a Post-Electric Play

When I received the play script, I saw that it was for a musical and I hadn’t realized that this was the nature of the play. That made it not really feasible for our group to work with.

Last night we read The Bad Seed together, and earlier in lockdown we read an Agatha Christie and the excellent Memory of Water by Shelagh Stephenson. I do entirely agree that playreading is well-suited to these times.

Kind regards,

George Gray: Sitting for Suzie

Cold Reads/Charlotte
Every Thursday at 10:00 AM
May 28VIDEO CHAT HUGE SUCCESS!

Yesterday a dozen of us met on ZOOM to read Act One of Sitting for Suzie by local playwright (and cold reader) Albert L Dulin, and had so much fun we’re coming back next week for Act Two. We’d ask you to join us, but more than twelve gets confusing, audio garbles as conversations overlap. Eight’s ideal.

Which doesn’t mean you can’t download the play, schedule an event on the Cold Reads/Charlotte Facebook page, please?), invite eight or ten friends, and get together on ZOOM to read. Contact me if you need help, and (please) post a follow-up when you’re done.

Meanwhile, once we’ve finished moving (to Gastonia, my home town), I’ll be hosting reads at other times, on different days.

Finally, I’ve come to realize that most of you have either blocked this page or (like me), get so many notifications that you mark Cold Reads posts as read without the reading, because very, very few of our 270 members ever respond. As time goes, I’ll message each and every so-far-silent member to confirm that you’re in the loop and on board.

Comments? Questions? Attitudes?

Peter A. Philips: American Blues

Date of Read: February 7,8, 2017

Venue: Private (Home)

Number of Readers: one

How Did It Go?: ~Much appreciate receiving this collection of Williams one act plays. Particular interest in this collection is “Ten Blocks on the Camino Real” as a primer toward an anticipated production/lecture series on “Camino Real.” Am a recent elderly MA Theater graduate having choreographed Williams’ “Talk to Me Like the Rain and Let Me Listen” as a thesis project.~

George Gray: Twenty Pulitzer Plays since June

Sorry I haven’t kept up. Since my last report I’ve hosted gatherings of four or five to a dozen Cold Reads/Charlotte members, at which we read he following twenty plays. I’ll post a few reflections as time goes by.

1926: Craig’s Wife – George Kelly
1928: Strange Interlude – Eugene O’Neill
1929: Street Scene – Elmer Rice
1931: Alison’s House – Susan Glaspell
1932: Of Thee I Sing – George S. Kaufman, Morrie Ryskind, Ira Gershwin,
1933: Both Your Houses – Maxwell Anderson
1934: Men in White – Sidney Kingsley
1935: The Old Maid – Zoë Akins
1936: Idiot’s Delight – Robert E. Sherwood
1937: You Can’t Take It with You – Moss Hart, George S. Kaufman
1939: Abe Lincoln in Illinois – Robert E. Sherwood
1940: The Time of Your Life – William Saroyan
1941: There Shall Be No Night – Robert E. Sherwood
1943: The Skin of Our Teeth – Thornton Wilder
1945: Harvey – Mary Coyle Chase
1946: State of the Union – Russel Crouse, Howard Lindsay
1949: Death of a Salesman – Arthur Miller
1952: The Shrike – Joseph Kramm
1953: Picnic – William Inge