Play Readings
Play readings help us choose plays for future productions. They allow members to express their views about plays that are read, and influence the choice of future productions. They give potential directors an opportunity to test their ideas. Above all, they give us a chance to enjoy an evening together.
If you have a play you would like to have read, or if you would like to borrow any play from our library (members only), contact Tony O’Sullivan (061 692 3901) who will be glad to provide you with plays to read.
Alternatively Contact-Us.
Next Play Reading:
Where: Im Lohnhof
When: September 6th starting @ 19:30 (doors open @ 19:00 for a glass or two of wine)
Play: "Riverside Drive" by Woody Allen (2 males, 1 female)
Jim is a successful screenwriter with a troubled marriage. He is waiting to meet his mistress, Barbara, in a secluded spot along the Hudson River to end their affair. However he is discomfortingly interrupted by a homeless man named Fred, a surprisingly knowledgeable talker, who, it soon becomes clear, is mad but also has a keenly perturbing insight into Jim's life. Fred is bent on comforting Jim, who he considers has stolen his ideas as a writer and therefore has stolen his life. But when Fred discovers that Barbara is prepared to blackmail Jim, he decides to help him out.
This absurd comedy presents a typical Woody Allen character, a neurotic writer, engaged in a soul-searching discussion with a psychopathic down-and-out who seems to have emerged from his own imagination. What is real and what is delusional ? That is up to the audience to decide for themselves!
Written in 2003, the play was seen by SC participants at FEATS in 2009 where it won "best stage presentation" award for the American Theatre Group of Brussels.
The play reading will be led by David Cox.
Future Play Readings (all in the Lohnhof except that of December 16th):
October 4th: "Connecting Doors" by Alan Ayckbourn
November 1st: "Deathtrap" by Ira Levin
Ira Levin’s “Deathtrap” is a thrilling suspenseful murder mystery. The plot twists and turns delivering the audience one shock after another. It was filmed in 1982, staying close to the plot of the play, with Michael Caine starring as the failing playwright Sidney, and Christopher Reeve as his young lover. The Stadttheater put it on as part of the English abo in 2008. Those who went, suggest we could do a better job. Come along and stimulate some adrenal secretion.
December 16th: Christmas Readings
Location: Panto Cellar
2011: January 31st: "Ten Tiny Fingers, Nine Tiny Toes" by Sue Townsend
Location: TBA
