June 2016 Reading

I've started this thread because as a semi-retired actor and aspiring playwright I read a lot of plays. I try to read 1 per week more if I'm doing a reading or auditioning for something. So this would be the place for like-minded individuals to mention what they are reading and possibly provoke a discussion.

I'm starting the month with Those the River Keeps by David Rabe. I have it in a collection with Hurlyburly which I have previously read. I wasn't too enamoured with Hurlyburly, I found the characters unrelentingly unlikeable but it was an undoubtably a powerful play.

Finished Those the River Keeps. The play runs parallel to Hurlyburly and concerns Phil the character who dies at the end of Hurlyburly. Very repetitive, sort of a bad Scorsese film (if that's possible).

Finished The Mai by Marina Carr. This is the second play I've read by her and another excellent one.

(No touchstone, I'm afraid.

Kvetch by Steven Berkoff. He calls it his American Play, should of stuck to British ones.