A Play Reading is as simple as it sounds. Actors, with scripts in hand, using minimal movement on stage, act out plays for an audience. Plays by Arthur Miller, Eugene Ionesco, Lillian Hellman, Eugene O’Neill, Henrik Ibsen, George Bernard Shaw, Dario Fo, Clare Boothe Luce, and Harold Pinter are only a few of the possible playwrights featured in the series.

Classic Canadian plays will also be included in this series. Plays by David French, Sharon Pollock, Michel Tremblay, John Murrell, and Judith Thompson.

In addition to the great plays of the English-speaking world, we will also present play readings in French from the masters of French theatre as well as some French-Canadian classics. Plays by Moliere, Marivaux, Michel Marc Bouchard, Jean-Paul Sartre, Jean Cocteau, Jean Racine and Gratien Gélinas, to name a few.