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 We have planned in-person events for June and July. Please contact Alice Roth for directions if you are interested in attending. Tues., June 24, 9:30am - 12:30pm: Madame Mozart, The Lacrimosa by Anne Undeland. IN-PERSON EVENT at BCC, Room G-12. (If there is interest, we will arrange for access via Zoom). Berkshires-based playwright Anne Undeland’s new play will open at the Great Barrington Public Theater on Bard’s Simon Rock campus on July 10. We will be meeting with the playwright to read the play, ask questions, and discuss. From the website: "Constanze Mozart, wife of the great composer, struggles mightily in the wake of his too-early death in 1791 — to feed her children, to survive her own shattering grief, and to secure her husband’s astonishing musical legacy by completing his great unfinished masterwork, the Requiem in D Minor. ... the perennially-underestimated Constanze Mozart digs deep to find a way to not only prevail but to triumph—in the end, she’s the last woman standing, smarter and braver than everyone else in her story. Fri., July 18 3-5pm & Sat., July 26, 10am - Noon: (Facilitator: Mara Winn). IN-PERSON EVENT. A Case for the Existence of God by Samuel D. Hunter. We will meet at a member's home. Please contact Alice Roth for directions. This play won the 2022 New York Drama Critics’ Circle Award for Best Play and will be performed at the Chester Theatre in July and August. OLLI members can register and pay for tickets to the July 24 matinee and lunch at the Chester Railway Museum. Click here to register. From the theater website: "Somewhere in the middle of America, Keith, a mortgage broker, and Ryan, a yogurt plant worker, unexpectedly let each other into their own fragile worlds. Negotiations of bank loans transform into talk of financial insecurity and the precariousness of parenthood, as the two realize they share a 'specific kind of sadness.’” Getting the Scripts Madame Mozart by Anne Undeland. If you plan to attend, please contact Alice Roth for a copy of the draft script. A Case for the Existence of God by Samuel D. Hunter, Theatre Communications Group, 2024. Available from Amazon here as a $15 paperback and on Kindle. |
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