It’s bad enough that only one American in twelve sees a single play a year. Much worse by far is our overwhelming ignorance of dramatic literature.
Category Archives: Supplemental
Upload a Play
Anyone can upload a play to the CR/I catalog. Those in the public domain (published before 1924) will be posted as submitted; CR/I explicitly restricts access to copyrighted works to a single reading by a small group of readers (no audience, no money changing hands). Since our goal is to regenerate public interest in live theatre and dramatic literature by reading plays, we hope to justify Fair Use of protected material.
By submitting a play, you agree to this condition for yourself and those with whom you read.
Please don’t abuse this privilege.
You (and we) may be liable.
Author Posts
CR/I authors can submit plays in PDF format as blog posts. Simply
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- Click the Write tab at the top right of any page to return an Add New Post screen.
- Enter the title in the Title block.
- Re-write the title in the text area, and select it.
- Click the Add (or Add Media) tab in the functions block to return the Media page.
- Click Add New (or Add Media) tab at the top. Your computer’s files appear.
- Select the the title of your play, and click Open. The Media page uploads the file.
- Click Insert (or Insert in Post). The Add New Post screen appears, with the link to your script.
- Add any descriptive information you wish to include.
- Click Publish (twice if called for). We’ll take it from there.
Visitor Posts
Anyone can email a script to coldreads@earthlink.net, SUBJECT: Script Upload. PDF format is preferred, but DOC is acceptable. We will create a post for it and include it in our catalog, and publish it pending Admin review.
Group Calendars
Anyone with Google Calendar for Cold Reads can embed it into a post on this blog. Simply add a post and follow these instructions. Continue reading Group Calendars
Printing Tips
Most PDF files in the Cold Reads collection are formatted for e-readers in either portrait or (2- or 3-column) landscape orientation. Printing these full-size can mean over a hundred pages, which is costly and wasteful.
To save ink and paper, try setting printer preferences for two-sided copies, two pages per sheet, and (for portrait files) landscape orientation; for landscape, portrait. The print will be small, but readable.
NOTE: Some scripts will download at a 90-degree angle. Rotate the orientation before you print.
Some scripts are also available by request as editable DOC files, in which case readers can save ink and paper by reducing the font size, using landscape orientation and two (or three) columns, and printing two-sided copies.
Conference Calls and Skype
Just a thought to be explored, for distant friends or isolated readers, why not?
List of Pulitzer Prize Plays
Click Pulitzer Play List
for a 1-page printout.
Underlined titles link to currently available scripts, with more to come as we acquire, scan, and upload them. YOU CAN HELP by posting any of your own (PDF or DOC) to this blog; we’ll link to your link.
Titles in green are in the public domain; red ones are copyright protected, and require a password. Before you select a protected play, follow the Password Request link in the left sidebar and fill out the form. We’ll respond in a day or three.
1917: no award
1918: Why Marry? – Jesse Lynch Williams
1919: no award
1920: Beyond the Horizon – Eugene O’Neill
Continue reading List of Pulitzer Prize Plays
Protected: Scripts for Mountain Retreat
Facebook Survey Results
Some months ago we asked for suggestions of plays readers would like to have read. Here are the results.I
Contemporary British/Irish Playwrights: Brian Friel (Dancing at Lughnasa?)
Conor McPherson (The Seafarer?)
Look Back in Anger (2)
A good production of any Chekov (The Seagull?)
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
The Dog Logs
That Championship Season
Mass Appeal
Tru
Full Gallop
Kindertransport
Taming of the Shrew
The Little Foxes
The Kentucky Cycle
The Immoralist
The Boys Next Door
Fuddy Meers
True West.
Tartuffe
The only worst thing you could have told me was….
Uncommon Women and Others
Forever Yours Marie Louie.
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
Midsummer Nights Dream
The Little Prince
Sex, Drugs, and Rock & Roll
Copenhagen
Rebecca
Turn of the Screw
Dark of the Moon
The Rainmaker
Kennedy’s Children
Savage in Limbo
Mamet’s Faustus
Accidental Death of an Anarchist
The Curious Savage
Traveler Without Luggage, Jean Anouilh;
Something Singing, Christian Hamilton
Cold Reads/International 