Hello all,
The plays the thing....where you'll catch Charles reading.
Not surprisingly, most of my reading nowadays is for my job and that is reading plays.
Currently on my list:
Dead Man's Cell Phone by Sarah Ruhl
An incessantly ringing cell phone in a quiet café. A stranger at the
next table who has had enough. And a dead man—with a lot of loose ends.
So begins
Dead Man's Cell Phone, a wildly imaginative new comedy by MacArthur "Genius" Grant recipient and Pulitzer Prize finalist, Sarah Ruhl, author of
The Clean House and
Eurydice.
A work about how we memorialize the dead—and how that remembering
changes us—it is the odyssey of a woman forced to confront her own
assumptions about morality, redemption, and the need to connect in a
technologically obsessed world.
Our Town by Thornton Wilder
In an important publishing event, Samuel French, in cooperation with the
Thornton Wilder estate is pleased to release the playwright's
definitive version of
Our Town. This edition of the play differs only slightly from previous acting editions, yet it presents
Our Town
as Thornton Wilder wished it to be performed. Described by Edward Albee
as "...the greatest American play ever written," the story follows the
small town of Grover's Corners through three acts: "Daily Life," "Love
and Marriage," and "Death and Eternity." Narrated by a stage manager and
performed with minimal props and sets, audiences follow the Webb and
Gibbs families as their children fall in love, marry, and eventually—in
one of the most famous scenes in American theatre—die. Thornton Wilder's
final word on how he wanted his play performed is an invaluable
addition to the American stage and to the libraries of theatre lovers
internationally.
The Odd Couple [Female Version] by Neil Simon
Unger and Madison are at it again! Florence Unger and Olive Madison,
that is, in Neil Simon's hilarious contemporary comic classic: the
female version of
The Odd Couple. Instead of the poker party
that begins the original version, Ms. Madison has invited the girls over
for an evening of Trivial Pursuit. The Pidgeon sisters have been
replaced by the two Constanzuela brothers. But the hilarity remains the
same.
Almost, Maine by John Cariani
Welcome to Almost, Maine, a town that’s so far north, it’s almost not
in the United States—it’s almost in Canada. And it almost doesn’t
exist. Because its residents never got around to getting organized. So
it’s just…Almost.
One cold, clear Friday night in the middle of winter, while the
northern lights hover in the sky above, Almost’s residents find
themselves falling in and out of love in the strangest ways. Knees are
bruised. Hearts are broken. Love is lost, found, and confounded. And
life for the people of Almost, Maine will never be the same.
ALMOST, MAINE: It’s love. But not quite.
So that's what I'm reading for the next couple of months. Fun stuff.
Love to all.
Charles
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