The Play Readers
playreadersEvery month, Nick and Andrea discuss an unusual, or an infrequently-produced play. We share our thoughts on production requirements, including casting and set needs, and give a description of the plot. Episodes are released on the first of day of each month.
| Publishes | Monthly | Episodes | 11 | Founded | 7 years ago |
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| Categories | ArtsPerforming Arts | ||||
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Nick and Andrea break from format as they talk about how to improve your play-reading experience, from finding plays to read, acquiring plays to read, and what to look out for while reading plays.
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William Saroyan's The Cave Dwellers is a quiet play with powerful themes. It has no significant acting or technical challenges, making it a fine option for any theatre looking to produce an example of American Existentialism/Absurdism. It also featur... more
The Bat, by Mary Roberts Rinehart was first performed in 1920 and was heavily influential on murder mysteries. It also inspired Bob Kane to create comic book superhero Batman. Although generally appropriate for any theatre, there are racial stereotyp... more
The Latent Heterosexual, by Paddy Chayefsky, is a tragicomedy from 1968 about a gay man who officially becomes a corporation - for tax purposes - only to have his identity and will eroded to nothing in the process. It is a complicated play with chall... more
Percy MacKaye's The Scarecrow (1911) is an early relic of American theatre that is inspired by the Nathaniel Hawthorne short story Feathertop. There are several supernatural elements shown on stage which may prove challenging to produce, but could ot... more
Set in an inn in 1930's England, I Have Been Here Before by J.B. Priestley is a play about time and causality, examining the idea that time is circular and that our lives are repeated, over and over again. Minimal technical challenges mean that this ... more
The Holdup, by Pulitzer Prize-winner Marsha Norman, takes place at the end of America's wild west, as two young men encounter one of the last western outlaws. This period piece has few technical requirements, which will make it suitable for most thea... more
R.U.R (Rossum's Universal Robots) was written by Czech playwright Karel Čapek and first produced in 1921. This play has the distinction of introducing the word "robot" to the English language, as well as the idea of a robot apocalpyse! Any company in... more
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