Dramatic Reading Suggestions

ChuckW · Post by **ChuckW** » July 2nd, 2013, 1:35 pm

Since there was so much enthusiasm about the last anthology of plays I posted, I figured I should go ahead and post a few more finds from Archive.org:

MODERN AMERICAN PLAYS - http://archive.org/details/modernamericanp02bakegoog
REPRESENTATIVE PLAYS BY AMERICAN DRAMATISTS - http://archive.org/details/representativep01mosegoog
THE ATLANTIC BOOK OF MODERN PLAYS - http://archive.org/details/atlanticbookofmo00leonrich

ChuckW · Post by **ChuckW** » July 2nd, 2013, 1:53 pm

Two more:

CHIEF CONTEMPORARY DRAMATISTS - http://archive.org/details/chiefcontempora03dickgoog
CONTEMPORARY SPANISH DRAMATISTS - http://archive.org/details/contemporaryspa00dicegoog

The latter book is so awesome, it almost makes me want to come out of dramatic reading retirement.

gloriana · Post by **gloriana** » July 3rd, 2013, 7:19 am

Githa Sowerby, a "lost" woman playwright who has recently been revived by the Shaw Festival and others, has one of her plays, Rutherford and Son (1912), at the Internet Archive:

http://archive.org/details/rutherfordsonpla00soweiala

And here's a recent article about her:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/stage/2009/aug/14/githa-sowerby-playwright-rutherford-son

She died in 1970, however, so the cast would have to be entirely American.

Mrparracts · Post by **Mrparracts** » July 3rd, 2013, 10:14 am

I'm new here but I would be interested in some Ibsen or some O'Neil if someone wanted to lead it.

-Shannon

ChuckW · Post by **ChuckW** » July 5th, 2013, 12:00 pm

Mrparracts wrote:I'm new here but I would be interested in some Ibsen or some O'Neil if someone wanted to lead it.

-Shannon

We've done plenty of both in the past, although I don't think that we've recorded everything by both. I've expressed some interest in doing The Emperor Jones in the past (look through this thread), but I'm afraid it's far too... ahem... problematic to really put together. I'm sure you could imagine why.

Post by **ToddHW** » July 5th, 2013, 2:58 pm

ToddHW wrote:Just saw Beaux Strategem by George Farquhar last night in Baltimore. Even though that version had been modified by Thorton Wilder from its original Restoration version, it was still a riot. I'm going to offer it shortly.

http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/21334

Thanks, Todd

Posted - over in Launch Pad!

Thanks, Todd

Done - https://librivox.org/beaux-stratagem-by-george-farquhar/

hggarrett · Post by **hggarrett** » July 9th, 2013, 11:19 pm

Just a heads up--

I'm color coding some docs to do a dramatic reading of North and South. This would be in the distant future (as in...next year perhaps?), but I've been itching to start on it

Elizabby · Post by **Elizabby** » July 10th, 2013, 3:05 am

hggarrett wrote:Just a heads up--

I'm color coding some docs to do a dramatic reading of North and South. This would be in the distant future (as in...next year perhaps?), but I've been itching to start on it

Oooh, I love North and South! Especially the BBC version with Richard Armitage! If you think of it, could you PM me when post in the launch pad? I'm not on the forum a lot at the moment (busy in real life) but I'd like to be involved in this one!

hggarrett · Post by **hggarrett** » July 10th, 2013, 9:50 am

Absolutely! But it will be a while...

LibbyG · Post by **LibbyG** » July 11th, 2013, 8:46 am

Next on my queue is Schiller's Wallenstein trilogy, and I'm looking for advice how to break it up. The first play, The Camp of Wallenstein is less than 10,000 words, and none of its characters appear in the other two plays. The Piccolomini and The Death of Wallenstein are longer, 5 act plays, where several characters appear in both plays. So, I'm trying to decide between:

1. Doing all 3 plays in one giant project.

2. Doing Camp of Wallenstein first, and once it's done (or mostly done), then do the other two concurrently, but as separate projects.

Thoughts?

Post by **ToddHW** » July 11th, 2013, 9:21 am

LibbyG wrote:Next on my queue is Schiller's Wallenstein trilogy, and I'm looking for advice how to break it up. The first play, The Camp of Wallenstein is less than 10,000 words, and none of its characters appear in the other two plays. The Piccolomini and The Death of Wallenstein are longer, 5 act plays, where several characters appear in both plays. So, I'm trying to decide between:

1. Doing all 3 plays in one giant project.

2. Doing Camp of Wallenstein first, and once it's done (or mostly done), then do the other two concurrently, but as separate projects.

Thoughts?

I'd do the three separately so as to stay sane. Perhaps give continuing characters in 2 a first-right-of-refusal for their roles in 3, but not greatly important: I bet folks will download them separately.

Thanks, Todd

alanmapstone · Post by **alanmapstone** » July 11th, 2013, 9:28 am

As the 1st play has a different translator it may have different PD status. The other 2 translation are by Coleridge so should be PD everywhere.
I think 3 projects would be more manageable. Perhaps use linked titles as with the Lulu plays and ask readers to commit to doing the same role in both plays. That worked for Lulu.

musicalheart1 · Post by **musicalheart1** » July 11th, 2013, 10:48 am

Elizabby wrote:
hggarrett wrote:Just a heads up--

I'm color coding some docs to do a dramatic reading of North and South. This would be in the distant future (as in...next year perhaps?), but I've been itching to start on it
Oooh, I love North and South! Especially the BBC version with Richard Armitage! If you think of it, could you PM me when post in the launch pad? I'm not on the forum a lot at the moment (busy in real life) but I'd like to be involved in this one!

DITTO! On all counts.

Breeze · Post by **Breeze** » July 17th, 2013, 4:43 am

Why hasn't any one done a dramatic reading of Pilgrims Progress. It's written in a format that should make the text fairly easy to prepare. If some one does do it I will probably read a part.

In progress - viewtopic.php?f=27&t=50878

GenesisMyers · Post by **GenesisMyers** » July 19th, 2013, 4:15 pm

I think it would be really nice if we could have a dramatic reading of Pride and Prejudice the play. Anybody for it?

Genesis