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Play Reading of Silver Wedding
Sep
11

Play Reading of Silver Wedding

We are very happy to announce that our season of play readings will commence this Friday with the play Silver Wedding by Matteo Pasquini. Matteo is a resident of Amsterdam, and has kindly allowed InPlayers to read this very funny and original play.

Due to current Corona-virus restrictions, space is very limited and will be on a first come first served basis. To reserve your slot, please email Keith (keith@inplayers.org).

We are drawing up a schedule for further readings, so if there is a play you have always wanted to look at or read through with your fellow InPlayers, please let us know

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Play Reading of Circus Girl
Mar
18

Play Reading of Circus Girl

Circus Girl takes you on a journey through America during the 1890s—from Kansas City to Chicago to Denver. It is the story a young performer who has lived in the circus her entire life. She knows very little about the outside world, and suddenly has to fend for herself in rapidly changing and precarious surroundings.

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Play Reading of Truth Hurts and So Does Love
May
26

Play Reading of Truth Hurts and So Does Love

The Truth Hurts and So Does Love is David Nicholson’s 21st century prose translation of Molière’s Le Misanthrope - the French master’s most modern play. A play of character rather than plot, it focuses on Alceste, a man principled to the point of psychological distress, and Célimène, the independent woman he loves - and the men and women who surround them: his realistic friend Philinte, bad poet Oronte, wealthy wastrels Clitandre and Acaste, prude Arsinoé, and Célimène’s sensible cousin Éliante.

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Play Reading of Travesties
Apr
7

Play Reading of Travesties

Travesties is a play by Tom Stoppard. The play centers on the figure of Henry Carr, an elderly man who reminisces about Zürich in 1917 during the First World War, and his interactions with James Joyce when he was writing Ulysses, Tristan Tzara during the rise of Dada, and Lenin leading up to the Russian Revolution, all of whom were living in Zürich at that time. 

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Play Reading of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time
Jan
27

Play Reading of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time is a play adapted by Simon Stephens from the novel of the same name by Mark Haddon. The story concerns a mystery surrounding the death of a neighbor’s dog that is investigated by young Christopher Boone, who has an autism spectrum condition, and his relationships with his parents and school mentor.

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Play Reading of La Turista
Oct
28

Play Reading of La Turista

La Turista by Sam Shepard

La Turista is a play by the American playwright Sam Shepard, first performed in New York City in 1967. The title refers to the most common illness among tourists. The two main characters are Salem and Kent, which are also the names of brands of cigarettes. It is a two-act dramatic play. The first act takes place in Mexico, and the second in the United States. Some see this play as a reference to the Vietnam war. (Wikipedia)

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