PLAY READINGS
We generally hold one Play Reading (Stammtisch) per month, depending on impact of on-going productions and other activities. Normally these take place at The Curious Room.
Online Stammtisch instructions:
To join us you will need to download the Zoom app. You can do this by going to https://zoom.us/signup and registering. It is free to use.
Then, on the evening in question, just before 7:30pm, click the link either in the invitation email or on our homepage and follow the instructions. If you have any problems or questions, please let us know.
A PDF of the script will be available during the Stammtisch using Zoom's 'screen sharing' option, therefore a tablet or PC would be easier to use rather than a mobile phone.
Our Stammtisch events are not rehearsed readings or performances from the group. Instead, they are casual meetings where we usually sit around a table (currently via video call), and read a script together. Sometimes just for fun, and sometimes to review them as a potential production. You do not need to be a Member to participate, so if you're curious, come and join us!
2021 Play Readings
September 24th (Virtual Stammtisch) at 19:30 - TBA
August 27th (Virtual Stammtisch) at 19:30 - "Blasted" by Sarah Kane
July 13th (Virtual Stammtisch) at 19:30 - "Red" by John Logan.
June 24th (Virtual Stammtisch) at 19:30 - "The Flick" by Annie Baker
May 27th - (Virtual Stammtisch) at 19:30 - "The Monkey's Paw" by W W Jacobs & "Queens of France" by Thornton Wilder
April 29th - (Virtual Stammtisch) at 19:30 - Selected short plays by Harold Pinter
April 1st - (Virtual Stammtisch) at 19:30 - "Quelques Fleurs" by Liz Lochhead
March 4th - (Virtual Stammtisch) at 19:30 - "Gaslight" by Patrick Hamilton
February 4th - (Virtual Stammtisch) at 19:30 - "Unmute Me!" by Rich Orloff
January 7th - (Virtual Stammtisch) at 19:30 - "The Odd Couple" by Neil Simon
2020 Play Readings
December 17th - (Virtual Stammtisch) at 19:30 - "Rumors" by Neil Simon
November 26th - (Virtual Stammtisch) at 19:30 - "Dementia Dreaming" by Stuart Marlow
October 29th - (Virtual Stammtisch) at 19:30 - "Topdog/Underdog" by Suzan-Lori Parks"
October 1st - (Virtual Stammtisch) at 19:30 - second reading of "The Apple Situation" by Bruno Sousa
September 24th - (Virtual Stammtisch) at 19:30 "The Apple Situation" by Bruno Sousa
September 17th - (Virtual Stammtisch) at 19:30 - "Three Task Women" by Edward Albee
September 10th - (Virtual Stammtisch) at 19:30 - "Dinner with Friends" by Donald Margulies
September 3rd - (Virtual Stammtisch) at 19:30 - "Rabbit Hole" by David Lindsay-Abaire
August 27th - (Virtual Stammtisch) at 19:30 - "Surprise Stammtisch!"
August 6th - (Virtual Stammtisch) at 19:30 - "Fleabag" by Phoebe Waller-Bridge
July 30th - (Virtual Stammtisch) at 19:30 - "Whale Music" by Anthony Minghella
July 2nd - (Virtual Stammtisch) at 19:30 - "The Clean Room" by Sarah Ruhl
June 25th - (Virtual Stammtisch) at 19:30 - "Steel Magnolias" by Robert Harling
June 18th - (Virtual Stammtisch) at 19:30 - "Round and Round the Garden" by Alan Ayckbourn
June 11th - (Virtual Stammtisch) at 19:30 - "Splitting Issues" by Sam Bobrick.
June 4th - (Virtual Stammtisch) at 19:30 - "Living Together" by Alan Ayckbourn
May 28th - (Virtual Stammtisch) at 19:30 - "All my Sons" by Arthur Miller
May 21st - (Virtual Stammtisch) at 19:30 - Selected plays by Alan Ayckbourn
May 15th - (Virtual Stammtisch) at 19:30 - "Blood and Ice" by Liz Lochhead.
May 7th - (Virtual Stammtisch) at 19:30 - "Linda" by Penelope Skinner
April 30th - (Virtual Stammtisch) at 19:30 - "A Little Like Drowning" by Anthony Minghalla
April 24th - (Virtual Stammtisch) at 19:30 - "That Almost Unnameable Lust" by Rebecca Lenkiewicz
April 16th - (Virtual Stammtisch) at 19:30 - "Art" by Yasmina Raza
April 8th - (Virtual Stammtisch) at 19:30 - "The Smell of the Kill" by Michele Lowe
February 17th - (The Curious Room) at 19:00 - "You Can't Take It with You" by George S Kaufman & Moss Hart
January 16th - (The Curious Room) at 19:00 - "Proof" by David Auburn
2019 Play Readings
November 29th - (The Curious Room) at 19:00 - Selected plays by Sam Bobrick
October 21st - (The Curious Room) at 19:00 - "No Exit" by Jean-Paul Sartre
September 9th - (The Curious Room) at 19:00 - "Twelve Angry Men" by Reginald Rose, adapted by Sherman L. Sergel
August 19th - (The Curious Room) at 19:00 - "27 Short Plays" by Christopher Durang
July 15th - (The Curious Room) at 19:00 - "Aladdin" by James Barry
June 28th - (The Curious Room) at 19:00 - "French Without Tears" by Terence Rattigan
April 26th - (The Curious Room) at 19:00 - "Puss in Boots" by Angela Carter and "The Jackpot" by John Lewis
April 9th - (The Curious Room) at 19:00 - "Don't Drink the Water" by Woody Allen
March 25th (The Curious Room) at 19:00 - "The Hollow" by Agatha Christie
February 18th (The Curious Room) at 19:00 - "Sense & Sensibility" by Kate Hamill
January 17th (The Curious Room) at 19:00 - "Beyond Therapy" by Christopher Durang
2018 Play Readings
December 6th (The Curious Room) at 19:00 - "Wyrd Sisters" by Terry Pratchett
October 4th (The Curious Room) at 19:00 - "Time Flies" and "Babel's in Arms" by David Ives (spring proposals)
September 26th (The Curious Room) at 19:00 - "Family Album" by Noel Coward and "The Jackpot" by John Lewis (spring proposals)
August 28th (The Curious Room) at 19:00 - "Business Lunch at the Russian Tea Room" by Christopher Durang
July 9th (The Curious Room) at 19:00 - "Old Actors Never Die...They Simply Lose the Plot" by Lynn Brittney
June 26th (The Curious Room) at 19:00 - "The Jackpot", an original script, by John Lewis
April 20th (The Curious Room) at 19:00 - "We are Three Sisters" by Blake Morrison (autumn proposal)
March 23rd (The Curious Room) at 19:00 - "The Skin of Our Teeth" by Thornton Wilder
February 20th (The Curious Room) at 19:00 - "Closer" by Patrick Marber
2017 Play Readings
December 4th (The Curious Room) at 19:00 - "The Man Who Came to Dinner" by George S Kaufman and Moss Hart
November 30th (The Curious Room) at 19:00 - "The Ride Down Mt. Morgan" by Arthur Miller
October 27th (The Curious Room) at 19:00 - "We are Three Sisters" by Blake Morrison
August 24th (The Curous Room) at 19:00 - "Men at Arms" by Terry Pratchett
July 24th (The Curious Room) at 19:00 - "Butterflies are Free" by Leonard Gershe
June 15th (Zucker) at 19:00 - "Play it Again, Sam" by Woody Allen
April 12th (Green Sheep) at 19:00 - "Five Women Wearing the Same Dress" by Alan Ball
March 16th (Zucker) at 19:00 - "Are You Lonesome Tonight" by Alan Bleasdale
February 20th (The Curious Room) at 19:00 - "The Wisdom of Eve" by Mary Orr
2016 Play Readings
December 7th (West Side Theatre) at 19:00 - "Farndale Avenue Housing Estate Townswomen's Guild Dramatic Society's A Christmas Carol" by Charles Dickens, David McGillivray, Walter Zerlin Jr.
November 30th (West Side Theatre) at 19:00 - "Men are Beasts and Women are Cruel" by Bruno Sousa
October 12th (West Side Theatre) at 19:00 - "Cripple of Inishmaan" by Martin McDonagh
September 7th (West Side Theatre) at 19:00 - "Lysistrata" by Aristophanes
August 10th (West Side Theatre) at 19:00 - "The Underpants" by Carl Sternherim, adapted by Steve Martin.
July 27th (West Side Theatre) at 19:00 - "Guards! Guards!" by Terry Pratchett
May 18th (West Side Theatre) at 19:00 - "The 39 Steps" by Patrick Barlow (proposed for the November production)
April 27th (West Side Theatre) at 19:00 - "The Day They Kidnapped the Pope" by Joao Bethencourt (proposed for the November production)
April 6th (West Side Theatre) at 19:00 - 'God of Carnage' by Yasmina Reza
2015 Play Readings
December 2nd (West Side Theatre) at 19:00 - "William Shakespeare’s STAR WARS" by Ian Doescher
October 14th (West Side Theatre) at 19:00 - "Harvey" by Mary Chase
September 9th (West Side Theatre) at 19:00 - "The Farndale Avenue Housing Estate Townswomen's Guild Dramatic Society's Production of Macbeth" by David McGillivray & Walter Zerlin
August 19th (West Side Theatre) at 19:00 - "Quatermass and the Pit" by Nigel Kneale
July 15th (West Side Theatre) at 19:00 - "Beyond Therapy" by Christopher Durang
June 24th (ESOC) at 19:00 - "The Shadow Box" by Michael Cristofer
June 17th (West Side Theatre) at 19:00 - "The day they kidnapped the Pope" by Joao Bethencourt
May 12th (West Side Theatre) at 19:00 - "The Visit" by Friedrich Dürrenmatt
March 7th (West Side Theatre) from 9:45-15:45 - Play reading day for selection of November 2015 production
2014 Play Readings
December 3rd (West Side Theatre) at 18:00 - "Season's Greetings" by Alan Ayckbourn
November 5th (West Side Theatre) at 19:00 - "The Wisdom of Eve" by Mary Orr - cancelled
October 15th (West Side Theatre) at 19:00 - "The BFG" by Roald Dahl
September 10th (West Side Theatre) at 19:00 - "A friend of a friend" by Bruno Sousa and "For Whom the Southern Belle Tolls" by Christopher Durang
July 16th (Wet Side Theatre) at 19:00 - "Who is afraid of Virginia Woolf?" by Edward Albee
June 18th (West Side Theatre) at 18:00 - "Accidental Death of an Anarchist" by Dario Fo
May 14th (West Side Theatre) at 18:00 - "A friend of a friend" by Bruno Sousa / "The visit" by Friedrich Dürrenmatt
April 9th (Restaurant Sardegna) at 18:00 - "A view from the bridge" by Arthur Miller
March 12th (West Side Theatre) at 18:45 - "Art" by Yasmina Reza
February 5th (Hotel Restaurant Bockshaut) at 18:45 - "Waiting for Godot" by Samuel Beckett
2013 Play Readings
November 20th ("Glasschrank") at 18:00 - "Bouncers & Shakers! by John Godber and Jane Thornton
October 2nd ("Glasschrank") at 18:00 - "Frankenstein the Pantomine" by Martin Hailey
August 8th ("Glasschrank") at 18:00 - tbd
July 10th ("Glasschrank") at 18:00 - "Blythe Spirit" by Noël Coward
June 5th ("Glasschrank") at 18:00 - "Black Comedy" be Peter Shaffer and "Frankenstein the Panto" by David Swan
May 8th ("Glasschrank") at 18:00 - "39 steps" by John Buchan
April 3rd ("Glasschrank") at 18:00 - "The Lion in Winter" by James Goldman
March 13th ("Glasschrank") at 18:00 - "The Haunted Through Lounge and Recessed Dining Nook at Farndale Castle" by David McGillivray and Walter Zerlin Jnr.
February 13th ("Glasschrank") at 18:30 - "Trail of Stones" by Gwen Strauss
2012 Play Readings
November 27 (ESOC Room K112) at 18:00 - "Black Horse" by Bruno Sousa
April 4th ("Glasschrank")
March 6th ("Glasschrank") at 18:30 - "Allo. Allo!"
February 2nd (ESOC, HVI)
January 24th ("Glasschrank") at 18:30
2011 Play Readings
December 20th ("Glasschrank", Pützerstrasse 6, 64287 Darmstadt at 18:30)
August 16th ("The Sea" at the new venue "Glasschrank")
June 21st (ESOC) - starting at 18:00
June 19th (ESOC)
June 7th (The Wyrd Sisters)
April 27th (The Whole Shebang)
March 23rd (The Disorderly Women)
February (Revenge)
2010 Play Readings
December (The Physicists)
November - 9th (The man of la Mancha)
October - 12th (The Physicists, Merry Lynch)
July - 6th (The Opposite Sex)
June - 8th (A Matter Of Husbands, A Question Of Sex, King Arthur's Socks and The Judgement of Paris)
April - 21st (Inherit the Wind)
March - 3rd (The Farndale Avenue Housing Estate Townswomen's Guild Dramatic Society's Production of Macbeth)
February - 16th (Wyrd Sisters)
January - 19th (One for the Road)
2009 Play Readings
December - 17th (Revenge, White Liars)
September - 30th (The Tragedy of..., Elephant Man, a Night Out)
August - 18th (The Opposite Sex)
July - 22nd (Our Country's Good)
May - 20th (sketches David Ives, Pulp Fiction)
April - 28th (no reading, just a lot of talking)
