Play Reading SIG |
Do you love reading plays? Our SIG gives participants a chance to read aloud and analyze scenes and characters from prize-winning plays. We meet once or twice per month for two hours, usually on a Friday afternoon, so as not to conflict with other OLLI courses. During the year we are open to suggestions as to which plays to read, while in the summer we choose plays that we can both read and view. We encourage our members to prepare and lead discussions on plays that interest them. Thriving on group participation, we allow two sessions to cover each one. Particular editions are selected that can be obtained online or through your local public library. We meet on Zoom, except in summer when we meet in-person or in a hybrid format (both in-person and Zoom. Please contact Alice Roth, Barbara Waldinger or Karel Fisher for more details or additional information about the Play Reading SIG. |
Schedule of Forthcoming Play Reading Events Except where otherwise noted, all meetings are via Zoom on Friday afternoons from 3:00 to 5:00 pm EST. Oct. 18 & 25 (3-5pm): (Facilitator: Barbara Waldinger). We’ll be reading The Fantasticks, a popular musical, and its forerunner, The Romancers, a short play by the French dramatist Edmond Rostand. The book and lyrics for Fantasticks were written by Tom Jones and the music by Harvey Schmidt. NO MEETINGS IN NOVEMBER OR DECEMBER - SEE YOU IN JANUARY! Please send your ideas for plays to read in 2025. Better yet, volunteer to be a facilitator. Getting the Scripts We will be reading from the editions listed below. The Fantasticks by Tom Jones and Harvey Schmidt. Applause Libretto Library, 2000. The paperback is available for $14.00 from Amazon here. There are many less expensive used copies as well. Edmond Rostand’s The Romancers is available for free from Project Gutenberg here. |
Theater Events Calendar Girls by Tim Firth. Oct. 28 at 1:30 pm, Berkshire Community College. A free Staged Reading that was developed by the students of the Fall 2024 OLLI Acting Class and instructors Dan Woods and Jeannie Marlin Woods. Register here. |
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