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Comedy/TragedyPlayreaders of Solivita

The Playreaders club meets monthly to read plays from scripts aloud just for fun.  No auditions, no memorization, no staging, no costumes, no previous performance experience required!  (And no dues either, though shared snacks are always welcome.)  For more information, contact Donna McIlwain at 407-738-5325 or dmc3726@yahoo.com.

Meetings are on the third Sunday evening of the month, at 7 PM in the Baltic Room (Mediterranean Rooms above the Bistro), except for Juy and August.  We always welcome new members -- to get on our mailing list for meeting reminders, please contact Donna (info above).

 

 

Schedule of dates and hosts:

  • November 15 -- Donna & Alan
  • December 20 -- personal readings

2027

  • January 17 - Andi Bartlett
  • February 21 - Doreé Kendricks
  • March 21 - Gale Boepple
  • April 18 - Alice Miller
  • May 16 - open
  • June 20 - Joan Hogarth and Nora Wheatley
  • Skip July and August
  • September 19 - Jim and Ginny
  • October 17 - open
  • November 21 - open
  • December 19 - Donna and Alan

 

Here is a list of all the scripts we have read since our founding as a club: 

  • 2026
    • "Sorry, Wrong Number" 1943 radio play by Lucille Fletcher, and "The Haunted House" 1948 Ozzie and Harriet radio play -- October 18
    • "The Jedi Doth Return" Acts III, IV and V by Ian Droescher (Star Wars Part 6 in the style of Shakespeare) -- September 20
    • The original "Toy Story" movie script, by Joss Whedon & Andrew Stanton -- June 21
    • "Head Cases", the pilot episode of the 2004-2008 TV series "Boston Legal" -- May 17
    • "Murder Is A Merry-Go-Round", an episode from the old-time radio detective series Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar -- April 19
    • "The Case of the Blonde Lipstick" by Milton Cramer, part of the old-time radio show "Crime Photographer", updated by our member Michael Zahn -- March 15
    • "Why Cupid Came to Earl's Court" by Cosmo Hamilton and Seinfeld script "The Pick" -- February 15
    • "The Blind Date" by Gerald P. Murphy -- January 18
  • 2025
    • Individual readings by attendees -- December 21
      • "T'was the night before Christmas" tech parody read by Matthew Hoffman
      • "Grand Market and Jonkonnu Parade in the Caribbean" read by Joan Hogarth
      • "Ladle Rat Rotten Hut" read by Jim Fitzpatrick
      • "A Very Spacey Holiday: The Intergalactic Potluck" read by Alan McIlwain
      • "The Holiday Dress" read by Donna McIlwain
      • AI stories "The Holiday Party Planning Committee After Dark" and "The Night Before the Holiday Pawty" read by the group
    • "The Big Bang Theory" TV scripts -- October 19
      • Season 2 Episode 5 "The Catalina Alternative"
      • Season 2 Episode 23 "The Monopolar Expedition"
      • "The Monopolar Expedition" was also performed live at the Fall Arts & Crafts Festival on November 1
    • "Too Many Detectives in the Murder Mansion" by Ian McWey -- May 18
    • "The Twilight Zone" Season 1 Episode 1 -- "The Lonely" and Season 2 Episode 6 -- "Eye of the Beholder" -- March 23
    • "The Jedi Doth Return" Acts I and II by Ian Droescher (Star Wars Part 6 in the style of Shakespeare) -- February 16
    • "Welcome to our Village, Please Invade Carefully" by Eddie Robson -- January 19
  • 2024:
    • Individual holiday readings by attendees -- December 15
      • Prologue from "The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store" by James McBride read by Donna McIlwain
      • Victor Borge on "Inflationary Language", read by Alan McIlwain (original at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEuNb0nzyvI)
      • "T'was the night before Christmas" tech parody read by Matthew Hoffman
      • "The Cremation of Sam McGee" by Rober Service read by Alice Miller
      • "Mrs. Clause has a Night Out" original skit by Dave Levine
    • Individual readings for Thanksgiving -- November 17
      • Ben Franklin's address to the Continental Congress
      • "Hunting the Deceitful Turkey", a short essay by Mark Twain
      • "Hu's Your Waiter", a novel variation on "Hu's on First"
      • An excerpt from "The Old Man and the Sea" by Ernest Hemingway
      • From "Seniors Acting Up", "Great Sentimental Value, Big Reward" by Terryl Paiste
    • "War of the Worlds" (1938 Orson Welles script) -- October 20
    • "Bewitched" original TV pilot -- June 16
    • "Finding the Sun" by Edward Albee -- May 19
    • "Modern Family" (pilot) and "The Big Bang Theory" (season 2 episode 4) -- April 28
    • "The Ugly Duckling" by A.A. Milne and "Dear Daniella" by Earl J. Dias -- March 24
    • "Send Me No Flowers" by Norman Barasch and Carroll Moore, Acts II and III -- February 18
    • "Send Me No Flowers" by Norman Barasch and Carroll Moore, Act I -- January 21
  • 2023:
    • Individual holiday readings by attendees -- December 17
    • "I Love Lucy" episode "Men Are Messy" -- November 19
    • Individual readings by attendees -- October 15
      • "The Congressmen came out to see Bull Run" from Stephen Vincent Benet's John Brown's Body, read by Matthew Hoffman
      • "Invictus " by William Ernest Henley, read by Brenda "BJ" King
      • “Shribble” by Joseph Arnone from monologueblogger.com, performed by Becky and Mark Silverstein
    • Skits from "Seniors Acting Up" -- May 21
      • “Welcome to Acceptance” by Terryl Paiste
      • “Parcel Pickup” by Paula Schwartz
      • “Fruitcakes” by Judith S. Offer
      • “Safeguard” by Harold Cohen
      • “Sunday School Revelations” by Ted Fuller
    • Original TV pilot for "The Big Bang Theory" -- April 16
    • "It Runs in the Family" by Ray Cooney -- March 19
    • Gunsmoke radio plays "Start of a Legend" and "The Guitar" -- February 19
    • Skits from "Seniors Acting Up" -- January 15:
      • "Ladies At Lunch"
      • "The Revenge of Sacajawea"
      • "Interview With Dan Cupid"
      • "Modern Technology"
      • "A Medicare Affaire"
      • "That's All You Need to Know"
  •  2022:
    • Holiday plays "The Christmas Nutcracker" by Odele Thane and "A Real Old English Christmas" by Claire Boiko -- December 18
    • Pilot script of HBO's "Superman and Lois" -- October 16
    • Original TV pilot for "The Gilmore Girls" -- September 19
    • "A Dish of Green Peas" by Aileen Fisher and "Dear Daniella" by Earl J. Dias -- August 21
    • Original TV pilot for "Gilligan's Island" -- July 17
    • "Bad Auditions, On Camera" -- June 19
    • Original TV pilot for "Bewitched" and original TV pilot for UK version of "Ghosts" -- May 15
    • "Last Stop" by Harold Cable and "Cup of Tea" by Katherine Mansfield -- April 3
    • Sherlock Holmes radio play "Silver Blaze", and "Adventures of the Thin Man" radio play, Valentine's Day episode (February 10, 1942) -- March 6
    • "Live from Transylvania" and "Unlucky Cinderella" -- January 16
  • 2021:
    • Three holiday plays: "A Christmas Crisis", "The 13th Cookie", and "Santa's Cookie Problem" -- December 12
    • "Saving Grace" -- November 21
    • "Murder Is a Merry Go Round" and "The Clever Chemist Matter" -- October 17
    • "Welcome to our Village, Please Invade Carefully" by Eddie Robson -- September 19
    • "The Days and Nights of Sophia Petrillo" (Golden Girls episode) -- May 16
    • A "Cheers" script -- March 21
    • Pilot episode of "Friends" -- February 14
    • Original pilot scripts from "Frasier" and "Parks & Recreation" -- January 10
  • 2020:
    • "It's a Wonderful Life" -- December 13
    • "Dick Tracy Radio Event" -- November 8
    • Two Jack Benny scripts -- October 18
    • "Barely Proper" -- September 14
    • "Princess O'Hara" by Damon Runyon, and "Life of Riley Mother in Law" -- August 11
    • "Before the Flood" by A.A. Milne -- July 6
  • 2019:
    • "A Wolf by the Ears" (Irish one act play) -- March 6
    • "The Princess Bride" -- February 13
    • "Servant of Two Masters" by Carlo Goldini -- January 17
  • 2018:
    • "It's a Wonderful Life" -- December 12
    • "Lady Windemere's Fan" by Oscar Wilde -- October 18
    • Two episodes of the British radio play "The Goon Show": "The Affair of the Lone Banana" and "The Jet-Propelled Guided NAAFI" -- September 20
    • "Charley's Aunt" -- May 4
    • "Enchanted April" -- April 6
    • "A Raisin in the Sun" by Lorraine Hansberry -- February 23
  •  2017:   
    • "Airplane" -- October 25
    • "The Martian" -- September 13
    • TV scripts "Our Miss Brooks" episode "A Plaque for Mr Conklin", "Gunsmoke" episode "The Guitar", and "Sam Spade" episode "The Dead Duck" -- May 24
    • "Arms and the Man" by George Bernard Shaw -- April 12
    • Original plays by Solivita residents -- March 12
    • A Groucho-and-Chico radio comedy from 1933, and a 1946 romantic radio play that was performed by Orson Welles' Mercury Theatre -- February 19
    • "All in the Mind" and "Consequences" -- January 10

 

  • 2016:
    • "The Philadelphia Story" -- December 14
    • "The Importance of Being Ernest" by Oscar Wilde -- October 5
    • "The Apartment" by Billy Wilder -- September 7  

  
 
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