PLAY READINGS (STAMMTISCH)
What is a Stammtisch? The literal translation is a table usually reserved in a pub or restaurant for regular meetings. Our Stammtisch events are not rehearsed readings or performances from the group. Instead, they are casual meetings where we read a script together (suggestions welcome!), 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!
We generally hold one Stammtisch per month, depending on the impact of on-going productions and other activities. Since 2020, these take place online, using Zoom. Any questions, feel free to contact us.
Online Stammtisch instructions:
To join us you will need to download the Zoom app or use Zoom on your web browser. 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 the start time, 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.
2024 Play Readings - held online
November 15th - "Almost, Maine" by John Cariani
October 11th - "A Christmas Carol" a contempary adaptation by Sarah Blake
September 27th - "Club 72" by John Lewis
August 29th - "Red" by John Logan
August 1st - "The Diaries of Adam and Eve" by Mark Twain
June 27th - "Agnes of God" by John Pielmeier
May 30th - "Skylight" by David Hare
May 1st - "Red" by John Logan
March 22nd - "The Flick" by Annie Baker
February 29th - "Scripted" by Mark Harvey Levine
January 25th - "Scripted" by Mark Harvey Levine
2023 Play Readings - held online
December 17th - "Almost, Maine" (Act 2) by John Cariani
October 19th - "Almost, Maine" (Act 1) by John Cariani
September 21st - "Life x 3" by Yasmina Reza
August 10th - "John" by Annie Baker
July 13th - "A Bold Stroke" by Sarah Blake
June 15th - "Almost, Maine" by John Cariani
April 20th - "Murder Beyond the Sundial" by Stuart Marlow
March 30th - "Copenhagen" by Michael Frayn
February 16th - "Life x 3" by Yasmina Reza
January 12th - "4000 Miles" by Amy Herzog
2022 Play Readings - held online
December 16th - "Making God laugh" by Sean Grennan
November 17th - "Art" by Yasmina Reza
October 14th - "Gidion's Knot" by Johnna Adams
September 8th - "Picasso At the Lapin Agile" by Steve Martin
August 11th - "Gladys Night" by Becky Kimsey
July 1st - "God of Carnage" by Yasmina Reza
June 2nd - "Unmute Me!" by Rich Orloff
May 5th - "Making God Laugh" by Sean Grennan
April 8th - "Art" by Yasmina Reza
March 18th - "4000 miles" by Amy Herzog
February 11th - "Dinner With Friends" by David Margulies
January 14th - "John" by Annie Baker
2021 Play Readings - held online
December 9th - "Gidion's Knot" by Johanna Adams
November 18th - "Unmute me!" by Rich Orloff
October 22nd - "Master Harold ...and the Boys" by Athol Fugard
September 24th - "Riverside Drive" by Woody Allen
August 27th - "Blasted" by Sarah Kane
July 13th - "Red" by John Logan.
June 24th - "The Flick" by Annie Baker
May 27th - "The Monkey's Paw" by W W Jacobs & "Queens of France" by Thornton Wilder
April 29th - Selected short plays by Harold Pinter
April 1st - "Quelques Fleurs" by Liz Lochhead
March 4th - "Gaslight" by Patrick Hamilton
February 4th - "Unmute Me!" by Rich Orloff
January 7th - "The Odd Couple" by Neil Simon
2020 Play Readings
December 17th - (Virtual Stammtisch) - "Rumors" by Neil Simon
November 26th - (Virtual Stammtisch) - "Dementia Dreaming" by Stuart Marlow
October 29th - (Virtual Stammtisch) - "Topdog/Underdog" by Suzan-Lori Parks"
October 1st - (Virtual Stammtisch) - second reading of "The Apple Situation" by Bruno Sousa
September 24th - (Virtual Stammtisch) - "The Apple Situation" by Bruno Sousa
September 17th - (Virtual Stammtisch) - "Three Task Women" by Edward Albee
September 10th - (Virtual Stammtisch) - "Dinner with Friends" by Donald Margulies
September 3rd - (Virtual Stammtisch) - "Rabbit Hole" by David Lindsay-Abaire
August 27th - (Virtual Stammtisch) - "Surprise Stammtisch!"
August 6th - (Virtual Stammtisch) - "Fleabag" by Phoebe Waller-Bridge
July 30th - (Virtual Stammtisch) - "Whale Music" by Anthony Minghella
July 2nd - (Virtual Stammtisch) - "The Clean Room" by Sarah Ruhl
June 25th - (Virtual Stammtisch) - "Steel Magnolias" by Robert Harling
June 18th - (Virtual Stammtisch) - "Round and Round the Garden" by Alan Ayckbourn
June 11th - (Virtual Stammtisch) - "Splitting Issues" by Sam Bobrick.
June 4th - (Virtual Stammtisch) - "Living Together" by Alan Ayckbourn
May 28th - (Virtual Stammtisch) - "All my Sons" by Arthur Miller
May 21st - (Virtual Stammtisch) - Selected plays by Alan Ayckbourn
May 15th - (Virtual Stammtisch) - "Blood and Ice" by Liz Lochhead.
May 7th - (Virtual Stammtisch) - "Linda" by Penelope Skinner
April 30th - (Virtual Stammtisch) - "A Little Like Drowning" by Anthony Minghalla
April 24th - (Virtual Stammtisch) - "That Almost Unnameable Lust" by Rebecca Lenkiewicz
April 16th - (Virtual Stammtisch) - "Art" by Yasmina Raza
April 8th - (Virtual Stammtisch) - "The Smell of the Kill" by Michele Lowe
February 17th - (The Curious Room) - "You Can't Take It with You" by George S Kaufman & Moss Hart
January 16th - (The Curious Room) - "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)
