Hallie Martenson, Peter Chenot, Steve Scarpa and Hilary Brown following the reading of Lou Harry's play Clutter at the Institute Library July 21, 2012.
The play reading I helped set up at the Institute Libarary July 21 went very well, thanks. The audience was bigger than we’d expected, for a reading of a new play on a balmy Saturday in New Haven during summer break. The listeners were not only attentive but full of constructive comments which the playwright, Lou Harry from Indiana, says he will take to heart.
The play, Clutter, had not been read in public before. The cast—Hilary Brown, Peter Chenot, Hallie Martenson and Steve Scarpa, all from New Haven Theater Co.—did an extraordinary job of embodying the Clutter characters Eddy, Bev, Barbara and Bobby. In the first few minutes of the single rehearsal we had beforethe audience arrived, I knew everything would be OK.
In fact, the whole afternoon was so satisfying and encouraging that I’m eager to keep going with more readings, and so happily is the Institute Library. One of the attendees actually brought a script, suggesting there are plenty of other new works out there to explore. But I’m also happy to do older plays, especially ones which don’t get much exposure because of the size of their casts or other uncommercial concerns.
If you’d like to get involved in the planning and presentation of more playreadings at the Institute Library, please contact me at chris@scribblers.us.
Thanks again to the Institute Library, the NHTC, Lou Harry and everyone who attended Clutter.
You are my breathing in, I own few web logs and rarely run out from brand . “Never mistake motion for action.” by Ernest Hemingway.