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"Cold Stage Insomnia": 24 Hours of Reading
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Atlanta, GA (July 17, 2004) -
Euripides. Aristophanes. Shakespeare. Ibsen. Wilde. Beckett. Stoppard. Shepard.
Where besides a good bookstore or library can you read plays form all these spectacular playrights?
Why, CSI of course - where you can raise a little money while you are at it, too...
Cold Stage Insomnia is actors cold reading plays for 24 hours in order to raise money for the
Atlanta Coalition of Performing Arts and Atlanta Classical Theatre. Audience members were
welcomed to enjoy one series for $5 or come and go throughout the 24 hours for $10. The first
6-hour shift began at 6:00 pm Saturday, July 17 at Moving in the Spirit in Grant Park.
CSI concluded until 6:00 pm Sunday, July 18.
Local patrons that assisted and donated in this endeavor included:
Moving in the Spirit
Chick-fil-A
Dunkin Donuts
Einstein Bagels
Kroger grocery store
Piccadilly Cafeteria (Ansley Mall)
Starbuck's
Subway
the ACT Actors' Ensemble
These companies donated gifts or services as raffle items and thank you gifts for the readers:
Bajaritos
Blockbuster Video
Chin Chin Chinese Restaurant
Cold Stone Creamery
Moe's Southwest Grill
Piccadilly Cafeteria (Ansley Mall)
Dr. Jared Simon
Starbucks
Woodfire Grill Restaurant
Readings of this first CSI followed the history of theatre, from ancient texts to contemporary works.
The 24 hours was divided into four series, with each series focusing on one or more periods of
theatre history.
The four series were:
In the Beginning (6:00 pm – 12:00 midnight Saturday, July 17)
Ancient Theatre
a. Euripides’ Helen (412 BC) - Greek tragedy
b. Aristophanes’ Thesmophoriazusae (412 BC) - Greek comedy mocking Euripides
c. Seneca’s Medea – Roman tragedy; in each of his plays Seneca shows the awful consequences of a passion
d. Terence’s Phormio - Roman comedy revolving around a fictitious lawsuit; the wittiest, cleverest and most lighthearted of all of Terence's plays
The Red-eyes (12:00 midnight – 6:00 am Sunday, July 18)
Early European Drama to Renaissance
a. John Skot’s Everyman (morality play)
b. John Heywood’s A Play of Love (1533) – An Interlude
c. Shakespeare’s Richard III
d. Marlowe’s The Jew of Malta (1589)
e. Jonson’s Every Man in His Humour (1598)
The Breakfast Club (6:00 am – 12:00 noon Sunday, July 18)
Restoration through Victorian period
a. William Wycherley’s The Country Wife (1675) – English Restoration comedy
b. Cibber’s Richard III (1710)
c. Voltaire’s Merope (1744) – French tragedy (“it is not enough to conquer, one must know how to seduce”)
d. Oliver Goldsmith’s She Stoops to Conquer (1773) – Irish comedy
e. Henrik Ibsen’s The Wild Duck (1884) – Norwegian tragedy
The Home Stretch (12:00 noon – 6:00 pm Sunday, July 18)
a. Oscar Wilde's A Woman of No Importance
b. John Osborne's Look Back in Anger (1956)
c. Samuel Beckett's Come and Go
d. Woody Allen's Play It Again, Sam
e. Tom Stoppard's The Dog It Was That Died
f. Sam Shepard’s Tongues (1982)
g. Terrance McNally's Hidden Agendas
The great cast for this incredible "stamina" readingsa were:
Frank Barham (6 hours)
Brandi Carter (6 hours)
Doug Curlin (12 hours)
Pete Cutter (18 hours)
Jake Dreiling (6+ hours)
Hillari Fowlkes (12 hours)
Will Fowlkes (12 hours)
Tracy Lee Holden (12 hours)
Clint Johnson (24 hours)
Kimberly Jürgen (12 hours)
Nancy Riggs (6 hours)
Alex Riviere (12 hours)
Brad Rudy (6 hours)
Teal Sherer (6 hours)
Brian Twomey (6+ hours)
Jeff White (18 hours)
More information can be obtained about CSI by going to the official
CSI Web Site of Atlanta Classical Theatre.
A complete photo gallery exists at
http://www.sios.com/gallery/acting.
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